Akbar Papers in African Psychology – December 30, 2004 by Na'im Akbar

"African Psychology is not a thing, but a place- a view, a perspective, a way of observing." African Psychology does not claim to be an exclusive body of knowledge, though a body of knowledge has and will continue to be generated from the place.

It is a perspective that is lodged in the historical primacy of the human view from the land that is known as Africa. It is not limited to a geographical place, neither a particular ethnicity nor an identifiable ideology. It is the view that led to the very dawning of human consciousness and it is the substratum of all that is uniquely human on this planet.

From the "Introduction" to Akbar Papers in African Psychology.