Professor Catriona Macleod is to receive the 10th Psychology and Social Change Award from Rhodes University. Initiated in 2008, the Award is given to psychologists who have extended themselves beyond the mainstream boundaries of the discipline of psychology and sought to contribute their knowledge to social change. Previous recepients of the Award include Professors Noel … Continue reading
Have you ever considered the meaning and peculiarity of the debates on African psychology in African countries? The debate in and about psychology in Africa and as African is part of the same cloth with debates within other disciplines as they get taken up in African universities where intellectuals have grappled with the issue of … Continue reading
The journal PSYCHOLOGY IN SOCIETY (PINS) calls for articles for a Special Issue on “African Psychologies for the World.” The introductory paragraph of the call reads thus: “Contestations around what is African psychology and how psychologists might better theoretically situate themselves in African realities are not new. In his contribution to the debate, Dawes (1998) contended … Continue reading
How is Africa defined, studied, and experienced within Community Psychologies and how are local communities mapped, theorised and engaged in African Psychologies? Are Community Psychologies as understood and advanced in South Africa – where the idea of trans-racial, nonpoor, or white community remains under question, given that community is conflated with ethnicity, race and class … Continue reading
a psychology concerned with the well-being of all people, not just the mental health of those who can pay or live in American suburbs or their imitations. Continue reading
Here is a wide-ranging interview with Kopano Ratele on African psychology by Mike Siluma of Kaya FM. Continue reading
Why African Psychology? Because I was surprised that I have not come across one blog with that name. And I have been searching for a while now, trust me, there is not one single blog. That’s one simple answer I could give for starting a blog called African Psychology. There is, as entreprenuers would say, … Continue reading
