The genealogy of African psychology can only be contested. The question of this genealogy, which is a question of history, triggers these other questions: who can be part of it? What is it for? Who is it for? But above all, asking about progenitors cues the issue of definition. In relation to knowledge, lineage instantiates authority, and the problematic of what kind of psychology flows from such origins. As such, the spectre of definition cannot but haunt the history, and therefore the future, of African psychology.