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About the Author
Dr. Augustine Nwoye's work focuses on African Psychology as a postcolonial discipline. Professor Nwoye has held distinguished teaching positions in several universities in Africa, along with visiting fellowships and lectures at many international universities including the Universities of Cambridge, Toronto, Stockholm, Howard, and the Holy Cross.
Reviews
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 *
Book Information
ISBN 9780190932497
Author Augustine Nwoye
Format Hardback
Page Count 520
Imprint Oxford University Press Inc
Publisher Oxford University Press Inc
Weight(grams) 853g
Dimensions(mm) 163mm * 238mm * 36mm