Augustine Nwoye
Biographic Data
| ID | 629829 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Augustine Nwoye |
| GIVEN NAMES | Augustine |
| FAMILY NAME | Nwoye |
| SIGNATURE | NWOYE A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of KwaZulu-Natal |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2880-832X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 19 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
A paradigmatic “inoutsider” scholar in African psychology
This comment aims to memorialize Professor Thomas Len Holdstock (1934–2022). Professor Holdstock was an eminent foundational scholar in the fledgling field of African psychology. His pioneer contributions in African-centred psychology demonstrate that scholarship and excellence in African psychology is not a preserve of native Africans but rightly belongs to any scholar from any culture who could take up the “inoutsider” identity to study and und…
Decolonizing moral injury studies and treatment approaches
This article draws from an Africentric perspective to engage the ways in which the notion of moral injury is approached within psychology. The paper argues for the need to interrogate dominant Eurocentric approaches to moral injury and calls for more openness towards non-Western belief systems. The paper attempts to show how rituals that are perceived in the African context to be healing and transformative continue to be absent in the mainstream …
African psychology
Over the past 5 or 6 years, it has consistently been argued that African psychology should be recognised as an emerging tradition and a counter-canonical and insurgent postcolonial discipline fitting to be classified in the same category as other postcolonial disciplines in African humanities such as African literature, African philosophy, African religion, African anthropology, African history, African archaeology, African music, and African art…
Frequently asked questions about African psychology
The South African Journal of Psychology, in pages 273–279, of 2017, published a very important and commendable editorial by Kopano Ratele aimed at re-igniting the debate on issues surrounding ‘decades-old confusion about the definition, scope, impetus for, and ultimate aims of an African psychology within South Africa (SA)’. His incisive contribution in response to these issues was submitted under the title: Frequently asked questions about Afric…
African psychology and the emergence of the Madiban tradition
The recent welcome inclusion of the study of African psychology within the psychology degree curriculum of some forward-thinking African universities has been lauded as a great positive drive in the right direction. In the past, the practices that prevailed were those of mainstream Western psychology imported to Africa. This awkward situation originated during the period of colonialism and the emergence of missionary Christianity in Africa. This …
Black South African caregivers’ understanding and responses to their children with autism spectrum disorder symptoms
The purpose of this study was to investigate Black South African caregivers’ understanding and approaches to securing a cure for their children with autistic spectrum disorder symptoms. Qualitative data were collected focusing on exploring caregivers’ narratives. A purposive sampling technique was used to draw study participants who were of Black South African background and had a child with a diagnosis of an autistic spectrum disorder. Thematic …
A postcolonial theory of African Psychology
This article explores Kopano Ratele’s paper entitled “Four (African) Psychologies” published in Theory & Psychology, and written largely as a response to my recent article entitled “What is African Psychology the Psychology of?” A postcolonial theory of African Psychology is offered to serve as a background for this exploration. The paper concludes by suggesting that Ratele’s article, although a thoughtful contribution to the debate provoked by m…
The Psychology and Content of Dreaming in Africa
As understood in mainstream Western psychology, people dream for themselves and are essentially self-contained in their overall mechanism of dreaming. This article argues that although this Eurocentric perspective on dreaming is largely universal and not to be ignored, it needs to be recognized alongside other dream perspectives. The article examines the concept of dreaming from an African perspective. Its aim is to demonstrate that dreaming from…
What is African Psychology the psychology of
Throughout the past half-century, the formal study of psychology in African universities has been colonized by mainstream Western psychology. This situation was inimical to any early efforts to entrench African Psychology as an academic discipline in African universities. However, this negative state of affairs did not last indefinitely. But with the recent emergence of African Psychology it soon became necessary to trace the history of its emerg…
African psychology and the Africentric paradigm to clinical diagnosis and treatment
The notion of clinical or psychological diagnosis in African psychology is used, at times, to refer to the redressive action that is taken to determine the source of a difficult/abnormal illness. The need for such an interventive action arises in the face of a sudden or ‘strange’ illness that befalls a family member and refuses to abate after all medicines (including Western psychiatric hospitalization) have been administered. Under such a situat…
The Practice of Interventive Polygamy in Two Regions of Africa
“Remapping the Fabric of the African Self
Memory and Narrative Healing Processes in HIV Counseling
A Narrative Approach to Child and Family Therapy in Africa
Theory and Method of Marriage Therapy in Contemporary Africa
Decision-Making Therapy in HIV/Aids
The Shattered Microcosm
Hope-Healing Communities in Contemporary Africa
This article reports on the hope-healing communities organized by religious ministers in two regions of Africa. The author gives narrative accounts of the key hope-generating processes incorporated into the eight-stage structure of their practice, presenting new concepts and highlighting the healing factors in these communities intended to help people cope with the devastating conditions in today’s Africa
Guidance and Counselling in the Schools
African psychology and the Africentric paradigm to clinical diagnosis and treatment
The notion of clinical or psychological diagnosis in African psychology is used, at times, to refer to the redressive action that is taken to determine the source of a difficult/abnormal illness. The need for such an interventive action arises in the face of a sudden or ‘strange’ illness that befalls a family member and refuses to abate after all medicines (including Western psychiatric hospitalization) have been administered. Under such a situat…
The Psychology and Content of Dreaming in Africa
As understood in mainstream Western psychology, people dream for themselves and are essentially self-contained in their overall mechanism of dreaming. This article argues that although this Eurocentric perspective on dreaming is largely universal and not to be ignored, it needs to be recognized alongside other dream perspectives. The article examines the concept of dreaming from an African perspective. Its aim is to demonstrate that dreaming from…
A Narrative Approach to Child and Family Therapy in Africa
The Shattered Microcosm
Hope-Healing Communities in Contemporary Africa
This article reports on the hope-healing communities organized by religious ministers in two regions of Africa. The author gives narrative accounts of the key hope-generating processes incorporated into the eight-stage structure of their practice, presenting new concepts and highlighting the healing factors in these communities intended to help people cope with the devastating conditions in today’s Africa
Theory and Method of Marriage Therapy in Contemporary Africa
Frequently asked questions about African psychology
The South African Journal of Psychology, in pages 273–279, of 2017, published a very important and commendable editorial by Kopano Ratele aimed at re-igniting the debate on issues surrounding ‘decades-old confusion about the definition, scope, impetus for, and ultimate aims of an African psychology within South Africa (SA)’. His incisive contribution in response to these issues was submitted under the title: Frequently asked questions about Afric…
Memory and Narrative Healing Processes in HIV Counseling
Guidance and Counselling in the Schools
Hope-Healing Communities in Contemporary Africa
This article reports on the hope-healing communities organized by religious ministers in two regions of Africa. The author gives narrative accounts of the key hope-generating processes incorporated into the eight-stage structure of their practice, presenting new concepts and highlighting the healing factors in these communities intended to help people cope with the devastating conditions in today’s Africa
Decision-Making Therapy in HIV/Aids
The Shattered Microcosm
A Narrative Approach to Child and Family Therapy in Africa
Theory and Method of Marriage Therapy in Contemporary Africa
The Practice of Interventive Polygamy in Two Regions of Africa
“Remapping the Fabric of the African Self
Memory and Narrative Healing Processes in HIV Counseling
What is African Psychology the psychology of
Throughout the past half-century, the formal study of psychology in African universities has been colonized by mainstream Western psychology. This situation was inimical to any early efforts to entrench African Psychology as an academic discipline in African universities. However, this negative state of affairs did not last indefinitely. But with the recent emergence of African Psychology it soon became necessary to trace the history of its emerg…
African psychology and the Africentric paradigm to clinical diagnosis and treatment
The notion of clinical or psychological diagnosis in African psychology is used, at times, to refer to the redressive action that is taken to determine the source of a difficult/abnormal illness. The need for such an interventive action arises in the face of a sudden or ‘strange’ illness that befalls a family member and refuses to abate after all medicines (including Western psychiatric hospitalization) have been administered. Under such a situat…
A postcolonial theory of African Psychology
This article explores Kopano Ratele’s paper entitled “Four (African) Psychologies” published in Theory & Psychology, and written largely as a response to my recent article entitled “What is African Psychology the Psychology of?” A postcolonial theory of African Psychology is offered to serve as a background for this exploration. The paper concludes by suggesting that Ratele’s article, although a thoughtful contribution to the debate provoked by m…
The Psychology and Content of Dreaming in Africa
As understood in mainstream Western psychology, people dream for themselves and are essentially self-contained in their overall mechanism of dreaming. This article argues that although this Eurocentric perspective on dreaming is largely universal and not to be ignored, it needs to be recognized alongside other dream perspectives. The article examines the concept of dreaming from an African perspective. Its aim is to demonstrate that dreaming from…
African psychology and the emergence of the Madiban tradition
The recent welcome inclusion of the study of African psychology within the psychology degree curriculum of some forward-thinking African universities has been lauded as a great positive drive in the right direction. In the past, the practices that prevailed were those of mainstream Western psychology imported to Africa. This awkward situation originated during the period of colonialism and the emergence of missionary Christianity in Africa. This …
Black South African caregivers’ understanding and responses to their children with autism spectrum disorder symptoms
The purpose of this study was to investigate Black South African caregivers’ understanding and approaches to securing a cure for their children with autistic spectrum disorder symptoms. Qualitative data were collected focusing on exploring caregivers’ narratives. A purposive sampling technique was used to draw study participants who were of Black South African background and had a child with a diagnosis of an autistic spectrum disorder. Thematic …
Decolonizing moral injury studies and treatment approaches
This article draws from an Africentric perspective to engage the ways in which the notion of moral injury is approached within psychology. The paper argues for the need to interrogate dominant Eurocentric approaches to moral injury and calls for more openness towards non-Western belief systems. The paper attempts to show how rituals that are perceived in the African context to be healing and transformative continue to be absent in the mainstream …
African psychology
Over the past 5 or 6 years, it has consistently been argued that African psychology should be recognised as an emerging tradition and a counter-canonical and insurgent postcolonial discipline fitting to be classified in the same category as other postcolonial disciplines in African humanities such as African literature, African philosophy, African religion, African anthropology, African history, African archaeology, African music, and African art…
Frequently asked questions about African psychology
The South African Journal of Psychology, in pages 273–279, of 2017, published a very important and commendable editorial by Kopano Ratele aimed at re-igniting the debate on issues surrounding ‘decades-old confusion about the definition, scope, impetus for, and ultimate aims of an African psychology within South Africa (SA)’. His incisive contribution in response to these issues was submitted under the title: Frequently asked questions about Afric…
A paradigmatic “inoutsider” scholar in African psychology
This comment aims to memorialize Professor Thomas Len Holdstock (1934–2022). Professor Holdstock was an eminent foundational scholar in the fledgling field of African psychology. His pioneer contributions in African-centred psychology demonstrate that scholarship and excellence in African psychology is not a preserve of native Africans but rightly belongs to any scholar from any culture who could take up the “inoutsider” identity to study and und…
Psychology (16 works) · Political science (14 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Epistemology (10 works) · African cultural and philosophical studies (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Psychotherapist (8 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Community Health and Development (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works)