ABSTRACT
There are two ways to apprehend and entrench a cultural (African) psychology. The first way turns around actors, subjects or identities, but, for the precise reason of being identitarian, can essentialize and, as a corollary, isolate those who seek to contribute to global cultural psychology from Africa. In the second way, cultural (African) psychology is realizable by asking about its intentions, technê, epistēmē, shortcomings and possibilities. Aimed at elaborating the latter way of seeing cultural psychology, this chapter works toward deepening an appreciation of a cultural (African-centered) psychological orientation as one among a set of positions within the broader African psychology. It is posited that an appreciation of cultural (African-centric) psychology demands full recognition of African psychology as a plural enterprise rather than a unified discipline. The chapter allocates more weight to cultural (African-centered) psychology, however for completeness it presents all the positions within African psychology in order to surface links and contradictions between the former and both US- and European-centered (cultural) psychology.
