A Critical Analysis of African-Centered Psychology: From Ism to Praxis

Ebede-Ndi, A.

doi:10.24972/ijts.2016.35.1.65

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“…Although thick, rich data was documented, other important explanatory factors may have been neglected. For example, African-centered theoretical and methodological approaches routinely find religion to be a significant variable in the traumatic coping processes of African descent people throughout the African Diaspora (Bangura, 2011; Ebede-Ndi, 2016; Sharpe, 2015). However, religion did not organically emerge as a central theme in this project.…”

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confidence: 99%

Rape Appraisals: Class Mobility, Social Geography, and Sexual Morality Tales in Ghana, South Africa, and Rwanda

McGuffey

2021

Journal of Black Psychology

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Interdisciplinary scholarship in violence and trauma studies suggest that a person’s interpretation of stressful events contours how the person will respond. It is through the two-part appraisal process that survivors determine how they will cope. This project utilizes an identity-based approach to demonstrate that survivors use group-based ideologies such as social class, geography, gender, sexuality, and, for some, race to appraise their accounts of violence, assess their coping strategies, and manage traumatic events. Using the cross-cultural accounts of 146 Black Ghanaian, South African, and Rwandan women rape survivors, the findings extend the appraisal approach by highlighting how survivors in this study utilized sexual morality tales to construct a variety of appraisal accounts to interpret their assaults and to justify their coping strategies. I call these appraisals opportunities, possibilities, limitations, and solidarities. These differing appraisals demonstrated that social milieu contours the psychological experience of violence and can engender both parallel and divergent interpretations across social class and cultural contexts. Last, the implications of these findings for comparative sexual assault studies, theories of traumatic coping, gender and development, and intersectionality are discussed.

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Rape Appraisals: Class Mobility, Social Geography, and Sexual Morality Tales in Ghana, South Africa, and Rwanda

McGuffey

2021

Journal of Black Psychology

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“…Translated crudely; “ One cannot sleep peacefully in someone else's house.” Our approach is based on botho/ubuntu paradigm and aligns with Painter's (2015, p. 366) “worlding” of epistemic relevance of local knowledge systems without epistemic neocolonialism. We are encouraged by Ebede-Ndi’s (2016) approach that: “… African-centered psychology and mode of transcendence should: (a) move beyond discussions on ideologies and identities, (b) concentrate on developing practical applications of its guiding principles, and (c) reclaim the relevance of an African history, memory, and past” (p. 65). We perceive botho/ubuntu as containing a rich heritage that can provide practical applications and guiding principles.…”

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Botho/Ubuntu paradigm as cognitive justice in psychology

Sefotho,

Letseka

2024

School Psychology International

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The concept of Botho/ Ubuntu emerges as a balancing paradigm poised to drive cognitive justice in psychological discourses. A paradigm is a universally recognized scientific model that represents a worldview of the nature of the world. There are enduring concerns about the privileging of Western European paradigms, ontologies, epistemologies, and axiologies over their African counterparts. In this article, we present the Botho/ Ubuntu paradigm as a strong contender for the promotion, and humanization of epistemologies in psychology. The 59th annual conference of the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) in Washington, DC in 2015, whose theme was “ Ubuntu! Imagining a Humanist Education Globally,” as well as the World Council of Comparative Education Societies’ (WCCES) recent book, Comparative Education for Global Citizenship, Peace and Shared Living through Ubuntu, are examples through which Ubuntu began to emerge as a paradigm poised to deliver cognitive and epistemic justice in the area such as psychology. We use Critical African Psychology as a lens through which we interrogate cognitive injustice. We conclude by demonstrating that Botho/Ubuntu paradigm might serve as a driver of cognitive justice in psychology and makes inroads into major discourses driven by African scholars.

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“…There is, however, one African-centered theory of human development, OCT, that is grounded specifically in the wisdom tradition of African deep thought traceable from classical African civilization in the Nile Valley through West Africa to America (Myers & Anderson, 2013; Myers et al, 2018; Myers & Speight, 2010). African-centered theories carry a few common principles including the prominence of spirituality, interconnectedness, collectivism, and self-knowledge (Ebede-Ndi, 2016; Myers, 1985).…”

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The Necessity of an Emic Paradigm in Psychology

Myers

Lodge

Speight

et al. 2021

Journal of Humanistic Psychology

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This article provides an overview of developments in the field of Black/Africana/Pan African psychology over the past 50 years. It has evolved toward production of psychological knowledge grounded in an emic cultural paradigm consistent with the understandings emerging from classical African civilization and across the Diaspora. The historical context for the development of a Black/Africana cultural paradigm is discussed, including an analysis of the failure of Eurowestern psychology to effectively address the mental health needs of people of African ancestry, particularly as exemplified in the experience of Non-immigrant Africans in the Americas (NIAAs). Readers are introduced to the rise of African-centered cultural frames of reference, values, and psychological models, practices, and strategies. The development of Optimal Psychology or Optimal Conceptual Theory (OCT) is highlighted. OCT is a comprehensive theory successfully implemented, utilized, and researched for more than 40 years. The production of psychological knowledge built upon a cultural paradigm rooted in the wisdom tradition of African deep thought traceable to the birthplace of all humankind is essential to a comprehensive understanding of humanity and will be described.

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A Critical Analysis of African-Centered Psychology: From Ism to Praxis

Cited by 9 publications

References 17 publications

Rape Appraisals: Class Mobility, Social Geography, and Sexual Morality Tales in Ghana, South Africa, and Rwanda

Rape Appraisals: Class Mobility, Social Geography, and Sexual Morality Tales in Ghana, South Africa, and Rwanda

Botho/Ubuntu paradigm as cognitive justice in psychology

The Necessity of an Emic Paradigm in Psychology

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