Does African psychology refer to studies conducted and healing techniques practised on Africans? Not necessarily. African psychology can study non-Africans. We are obligated to ensure that it does so. It will never be enough to stop at Africans, if it is Euroamerican psychology that shapes how we think about Africa and the world. The world has to be remade in our image, to make space for all of us, if we are to feel at home wherever we might be.

It is true that you come across some academics and practitioners who mistakenly reduce African psychology to a psychology that studies only Africans. However, a vast literature indicates that African psychology is – and must be – the study of all forms of behaviours and relationships, including behaviours of and relationships between non-Africans and Africans, as well as between humans and animals.

An even more crucial point that bears repeating: all of psychology done in and for Africa, by and about Africans, by Africans and non-Africans (working on questions related to Africa and Africans) is African psychology.