Psychology carries a dark past: how the discipline can be Africanised
IT'S well documented by many scholars that psychological warfare took place for a long time as part of the colonial conquest. The colonialists laboured to ensure that black people’s minds were colonised. And to this end, many theories were developed (by white psychologists) to prove the inferiority of the black mind. PULENG SEGALO, Professor of Psychology, University of South Africa JULIA SIMANGO, Lecturer, University of South Africa One of the consequences of this is that, in colonial and post-colonial settings, psychology didn’t speak – or respond – to the lived realities of black people. The writer and scholar Chabani Manganyi…