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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 October 2019
In ‘What is African psychology the psychology of?’ Augustine Nwoye (2015) asks several questions, including the title question, which could be seen as mischievous, as they appear to dismiss decades of substantial work by black scholars in the US on the same question, as well as their efforts to develop African psychology. These questions include:
What constitutes the major phases in the evolution of African psychology; in what ways can African psychology be defined and conceptualized; what are the principal goals of African psychology; in what ways can African psychology be distinguished from Western psychology; what constitutes the epistemological foundations of African psychology; and what constitutes the subject-matter of African psychology? (2015: 97)
However, what Nwoye may also be understood to be arguing is that the raison d’être, status and delineation of African psychology for and within African countries should be considered.
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