African Psychology
The Emergence of a Tradition
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc
Published:9th Nov '23
Should be back in stock very soon
This book aims to serve as a foundational text in the emerging field of African psychology, which centers the knowledge and experience of continental African realities and postcolonial concerns in psychology. Drawing from the author's key essays as a leading thinker in the field, African Psychology: The Emergence of a Tradition describes this discipline's meaning and scope, as well as its epistemological and theoretical perspectives. Part I presents the theoretical context for the book, proposing the Madiban tradition as a framework of inclusion for the study of psychology in African universities. Part 2 focuses on the epistemological, methodological, and theoretical perspectives in African psychology. Part 3 of the book introduces the reader to the field of African therapeutics, and Part 4 highlights the healing rituals and practices provided to the traumatised in contemporary Africa. The ultimate objective of the book is to give postcolonial Africans a fresh vision of themselves and their psychology and culture.
The volume certainly provides valuable insight into the complexity of reconstructing psychology as a postcolonial enterprise. * Choice *
African Psychology: The Emergence of a Tradition is an important contribution that can inform current practice and education, enhance understanding, and spur further research and theoretical development. It is the product of insightful, earnest, and reasoned reflection on the ethical, political, cultural, and societal realities and complexities of developing psychological theory and practice in African contexts. It is likely to generate discussion and debate, not only among psychologists who work, teach, and study in Africa, but also among all of us who are committed to the ongoing, multifaceted project of thinking through the decolonization and reconstruction of local and global psychologies. * Suzanne R. Kirschner, Theory & Psychology *
African Psychology: The Emergence of a Tradition is a ground-breaking foundational text for the new field of African psychology by one of the field's principal spokespersons. Augustine Nwoye has mapped the contours of this emerging field, assigning it a definition, and unravelling its scope and contents. * Eunice Njeri Mvungu, Journal of Psychology in Africa *
ISBN: 9780190932497
Dimensions: 163mm x 238mm x 36mm
Weight: 853g
520 pages