On the Africanization of psychology

Abstract

With the current discourse on decolonization, it is likely that universities around South Africa will intensify their efforts - if not their rhetoric - to Africanize their respective curricula. For one discipline in particular, however, such efforts have been foundering for more than 30 years. This brief essay reflects on the hitherto failed attempt to Africanize psychology and suggests a possible route out of the current malaise.