Six theses on African psychology for the world is an editorial published in the journal PINS (Psychology in Society). Among other procative questions it asks is, could the anglophile Jan Christiaan Smuts (pictured), be regarded as the first father of African psychology? While a student at Oxford University, Smuts is said to have completed a … Continue reading
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Decolonisation, Pluriversality, and African-situatedness in sexuality and sexuality-related violence research and advocacy
Colonisation, said Aimé Césaire, the anti-colonial Martiniquan poet and politician, equals “thingification”. To us this suggests that sexual thingification – including sexual entitlement, rape and femicide – equates sexual and gendered colonisation. What is needed to truly decolonise – that’s one question. In Decolonising the mind, the Kenyan writer Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o argued for African … Continue reading
Centring Africa in Health and Social Sciences Research and Teaching: Programme
The colloquium Centring Africa in Health and Social Sciences Research and Teaching is on tomorrow at the South African Medical Research Council. Here is the final Programme (Centring Africa in Health and Social Sciences Research and Teaching Colloquium – Programme). I should let you know that am experiencing some anxiety. One usually has some anxiety as a … Continue reading
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Centring Africa in Health and Social Sciences Research and Teaching: Colloquium
How is Africa situated in health and social science research and teaching? In light of student demands for the decolonisation of knowledge as well as the positive sentiment about colonialism from the premier of the Western Cape, the aim of this colloquium is to bring together researchers, teachers, practitioners, and students to dialogue on challenges … Continue reading
Four (African) Psychologies
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
Liberating African masculinities
Liberating masculinities is a new book by Kopano Ratele. This is what he says in the chapter, “We black men”. In ‘The fact of blackness’, Fanon (1967: 113) wailed: ‘I wanted to be a man, nothing but a man.’ As Fanon well knew, the fact of being a man, like being black, is a political … Continue reading
A Conversation on Critical and Cultural African Psychologies between Ratele and Collins
A lunchtime conversation between Kopano Ratele and Anthony Collins, May 2016, International Community Psychology Conference, Durban, South Africa. Continue reading
To Go Along With Community Psychology or Build African Psychology: That is the Question
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
Stop Wasting Time on Academic Fads like Postmodern Psychology and Build a World-Centred African Psychology
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
Talk presented at the University of Pretoria’s Conference on Curriculum Transformation: Pioneering transformative curriculum experiments in African-centred psychology
Here are the first 1000 words or so of a talk presented at a conference hosted by the University of Pretoria on January 28 2016. The talk, with the title Pioneering transformative curriculum experiments in African-centred psychology, was given by Kopano Ratele of the University of South Africa. The conference was on curriculum transformation. … Continue reading
