Is there one Science, Western Science?

Frequently asked questions about African psychology: another view

“…Belief in the existence of pluralistic and standpoint epistemology. This means that, first, in the African worldview, there is an affirmation that all human knowledge is fundamentally situated, ‘culturally moulded and historically conditioned’ (Schafer, 1974, p. 459); and second, that there are many ways of knowing: including sensory and extrasensory (spiritual) knowing, or the kind of knowing that comes through the third eye or facilitated perception (Mkhize et al, 2016; Nwoye, 2006b, 2017c; Okere, 2005; Okere et al, 2005). Following this understanding, scholars in African psychology reject the hegemonic perspective of the Eurocentric tradition and believe that there are alternative ways of knowing other than that propagated by Eurocentrism.…”

“…Analysis (to be underlined like the rest: Although a nascent academic discipline, African psychology has inherited and recently developed a body of accumulated specialist knowledge referring to its object of research as identified above. Most of these accumulated specialist knowledge in the field of African psychology and related disciplines arises from the research and writings of its leading scholars and predecessors (both in continental Africa and in the diaspora), such as Bynum (1999/2012), Holdstock (1979, 1981, 1999, 2000), Baloyi and Ramose (2016), Berg (2003), Biko (1978), Bradbury-Jones, Ogik, Betts, Taylor, and Lund (2018), Césaire (1972), Fanon (1963, 1967), Jahn and Wilhelm-Solomon (2015), Jamison (2018), Kalu (1978), Long (2016, 2017), Mbiti (1969), Mkhize (2003, 2004a, 2004b, 2008), Mpofu (2013, 2014), Nobles, Baloyi and Sodi (2016), Nwoye (2002, 2006a, 2006b, 2013, 2014, 2015a, 2015b, 2017a, 2017b, 2017c, 2018), Nyamnjoh (2017a, 2017b), Okere, Njoku and Devisch (2005), Okere (2005), Ratele (2017a, 2017b), Zamora and Faris (1995) and Matoane (2012).…”

“…But even here much is already being done in the literature to suggest that African psychology is a promising academic discipline. Among the major theories and concepts are those by Bynum (1999, 2012), Nwoye (2000, 2002a, 2006b, 2013, 2017b, 2017c), Okere (2005), Nyamnjoh (2017b) and Segalo (2014, 2018)…”

Looking back to launch forward: a self-reflexive approach to decolonising science education and communication in Africa

“…Not surprisingly, the systems of education and knowledge production that have crystallised in postcolonial societies over time are an amalgam of sorts in which traditional knowledge and communication systems feature little, if at all [Calvente, Calafell & Chávez, 2020;Okere, 2011]. According to Okere, Njoku and Devisch [2011], what we are left with are "inherited" and "alien" systems that are not efficacious by virtue of their being disconnected from the pre-colonial histories and postcolonial realities of African societies.…”