Daudi Ajani Ya Azibo
Biographic Data
| ID | 83367 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daudi Ajani Ya Azibo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daudi Ajani Ya |
| FAMILY NAME | Azibo |
| SIGNATURE | AZIBO D A Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3111-7036 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 94 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
What If Race Was For Real For Real Real? How I Would Teach It
A Critical Perspective on James Cone and US Black Liberation Theology: Exploring the Greatest Debate for Global Africana Religions That Never Happened
There is an important debate which never took place among United States Black Liberation Theology (BLT) practitioners, including James Cone: about whether or not Black Liberation Theology should continue to be delimited in canon to that handed down from the lineage initiated by Constantine versus developing canon from historical and cultural deep thought of African civiliations. In this article it is argued that this is pivotal for its future. Th…
Introducing a new interdisciplinary subfield of counseling studies incident to the education of African descent students: Centered African mental health on campus
Containing 55 mental disorders derived from the centered African framework of personality and drawing on the works of 22 mental health scholars spanning over 60 years, the Azibo Nosology II (Azibo, D. 2014a). The Azibo Nosology II: Epexegesis and 25th anniversary update: 55 culture-focused mental disorders suffered by African descent people. The Journal of Pan African Studies applied to college students of African descent is suggested for a new i…
Nepenthe Theory of Defense Mechanism Functioning and Defensive Behavior in African-U.S. People With Replication and Extension to Psychological Africanity (Racial Identity)
Ego mechanisms of defense were studied in a sample of 140 African-U.S. college students using for theoretical approaches Michael Bond’s defense style hierarchy and Daudi Ajani ya Azibo’s nepenthe theory. Each framework was supported in the data. Also, previous findings from an earlier exploratory study were replicated including greater defense style scoring compared to Caucasian norms and association between defense style scores and depression. I…
Moving Forward with the Legitimation of the Azibo Nosology II
Thomas Szasz on Psychiatric Slavery Vis-à-Vis Restoring the African Personality: Exposing and Clarifying Ethical Clashing
Thomas Szasz was peerless in criticism of psychiatric establishmentarianism, particularly its embracing of “psychiatric slavery” (interventions imposed on persons by force). Selected from his matchless oeuvre, some fundamental points in his thinking—Szaszian thought—were scrutinized to evaluate whether they jibe with dictates from centered African Psychology which mandate setting afoot a new African descent person, particularly as depicted in Dau…
An Empirically Supported Reconceptualization of African-U.S. Racial Identity Development as an Abnormal Process
Transformational, developmental process theories of African-U.S. racial identity development are flawed because they conceptualize ontogenetic experience without embedding it in phylogenetic dictates. As a result, culminating psychological states are not depicting identity progression but actually mask a sophisticated regression to a “deracinated,” psychologically misoriented orientation. Therefore, African-U.S. racial identity development is rec…
Some reflections on my interactions with the late Dr. W. Curtis banks
African Self-Consciousness, Misorientation Behavior, and a Self-Destructive Disorder: African American Male Crack-Cocaine Users
Addiction to substances is among the self-destructive disordersfound in the Azibo nosology. It is theorized that underlying these disorders is psychological misorientation that results from a distortion in African Self-Consciousness (ASC). To explore ASC and the relationship between it and misorientation behavior for a population of 101 African American males suffering from crack-cocaine addiction, the ASC scale and a background questionnaire mea…
The Theoretical Relationship Between Materialistic Depression and Depression: Preliminary Data and Implications for the Azibo Nosology
Materialistic depression is a culture-specific disorder of the African (Black) personality construct. Housed in the Azibo nosology, it is defined as a condition in which material goods or the lack of them serve as one's criteria for judging oneself and/or others. It is felt to be a major way that depression in contemporary Africans is expressed. A positive correlation between materialistic depression and general depression was hypothesized. Resul…
Guest Editor's Remarks
The Kindred Fields of Black Liberation Theology and Liberation Psychology: A Critical Essay on their Conceptual Base and Destiny
The field of liberation psychology, an appellation for one of the more salient aspects of African (Black) psychology, is discussed in light of its theoretical and actual kindredness with the field of Black liberation theology. These two fields are so strikingly similar in their origin, essence, and contemporary unfolding that analogizing them yielded 15 points of comparison that are nontrivial to the establishment of each one. Because it is argue…
Towards a Metatheory of the African Personality
A metatheory is one way of organizing theories on a given subject in a coherent conceptual framework. The theories usually are separate, distinct, and sometimes disparate. Organization of the given field is thereby achieved. This article specifies the minimum requisites that are necessary for a metatheory of the African (Black) personality construct. Through application of the metatheory idea, it is argued that an African persondality metatheory …
Diagnosing Personality Disorder in Africans (Blacks) Using the Azibo Nosology: Two Case Studies
A nosology is an organized system for diagnosing diseases, disorders, or pathologies, as opposed to their mere enumeration. The present study compared clinical diagnoses of two African (Black) clients using two distinct diagnostic systems, the Eurocentric DSM-III-R nosology and the Africentric Azibo Nosology. The theoretical and paradigmatic importance of the com- parison is that in Eurocentric psychology and psychiatry the DSM-III-R nosology is …
African-Centered Theses on Mental Health and a Nosology of Black/African Personality Disorder
Mental health is defined and a diagnostic system of ordered and disordered African (Black) personality functioning is discussed. The discussion first is grounded in the backdrop of briefly stated but fundamental "Advances in Black Personality Theory." Mental health is then shown to be rooted in the original human's biogenetic nature, and, hence, the natural order. Both ordered and disordered personality functioning are considered in this context.…
Understanding the Proper and Improper Usage of the Comparative Research Framework
The comparative research framework, contrasting distinct groups by statistical significance tests, is examined for major epistemological and practical problems inherent in its usage with African-European (Black-White) groups. Three axioms are given regarding the proper and improper usage of this approach in the context of epistemological soundness. Published examples of proper and improper usage are presented. Three kinds of proper usage are iden…
African-Centered Theses on Mental Health and a Nosology of Black/African Personality Disorder
Mental health is defined and a diagnostic system of ordered and disordered African (Black) personality functioning is discussed. The discussion first is grounded in the backdrop of briefly stated but fundamental "Advances in Black Personality Theory." Mental health is then shown to be rooted in the original human's biogenetic nature, and, hence, the natural order. Both ordered and disordered personality functioning are considered in this context.…
Understanding the Proper and Improper Usage of the Comparative Research Framework
The comparative research framework, contrasting distinct groups by statistical significance tests, is examined for major epistemological and practical problems inherent in its usage with African-European (Black-White) groups. Three axioms are given regarding the proper and improper usage of this approach in the context of epistemological soundness. Published examples of proper and improper usage are presented. Three kinds of proper usage are iden…
Diagnosing Personality Disorder in Africans (Blacks) Using the Azibo Nosology: Two Case Studies
A nosology is an organized system for diagnosing diseases, disorders, or pathologies, as opposed to their mere enumeration. The present study compared clinical diagnoses of two African (Black) clients using two distinct diagnostic systems, the Eurocentric DSM-III-R nosology and the Africentric Azibo Nosology. The theoretical and paradigmatic importance of the com- parison is that in Eurocentric psychology and psychiatry the DSM-III-R nosology is …
An Empirically Supported Reconceptualization of African-U.S. Racial Identity Development as an Abnormal Process
Transformational, developmental process theories of African-U.S. racial identity development are flawed because they conceptualize ontogenetic experience without embedding it in phylogenetic dictates. As a result, culminating psychological states are not depicting identity progression but actually mask a sophisticated regression to a “deracinated,” psychologically misoriented orientation. Therefore, African-U.S. racial identity development is rec…
Towards a Metatheory of the African Personality
A metatheory is one way of organizing theories on a given subject in a coherent conceptual framework. The theories usually are separate, distinct, and sometimes disparate. Organization of the given field is thereby achieved. This article specifies the minimum requisites that are necessary for a metatheory of the African (Black) personality construct. Through application of the metatheory idea, it is argued that an African persondality metatheory …
The Kindred Fields of Black Liberation Theology and Liberation Psychology: A Critical Essay on their Conceptual Base and Destiny
The field of liberation psychology, an appellation for one of the more salient aspects of African (Black) psychology, is discussed in light of its theoretical and actual kindredness with the field of Black liberation theology. These two fields are so strikingly similar in their origin, essence, and contemporary unfolding that analogizing them yielded 15 points of comparison that are nontrivial to the establishment of each one. Because it is argue…
Moving Forward with the Legitimation of the Azibo Nosology II
African Self-Consciousness, Misorientation Behavior, and a Self-Destructive Disorder: African American Male Crack-Cocaine Users
Addiction to substances is among the self-destructive disordersfound in the Azibo nosology. It is theorized that underlying these disorders is psychological misorientation that results from a distortion in African Self-Consciousness (ASC). To explore ASC and the relationship between it and misorientation behavior for a population of 101 African American males suffering from crack-cocaine addiction, the ASC scale and a background questionnaire mea…
The Theoretical Relationship Between Materialistic Depression and Depression: Preliminary Data and Implications for the Azibo Nosology
Materialistic depression is a culture-specific disorder of the African (Black) personality construct. Housed in the Azibo nosology, it is defined as a condition in which material goods or the lack of them serve as one's criteria for judging oneself and/or others. It is felt to be a major way that depression in contemporary Africans is expressed. A positive correlation between materialistic depression and general depression was hypothesized. Resul…
Guest Editor's Remarks
Some reflections on my interactions with the late Dr. W. Curtis banks
Understanding the Proper and Improper Usage of the Comparative Research Framework
The comparative research framework, contrasting distinct groups by statistical significance tests, is examined for major epistemological and practical problems inherent in its usage with African-European (Black-White) groups. Three axioms are given regarding the proper and improper usage of this approach in the context of epistemological soundness. Published examples of proper and improper usage are presented. Three kinds of proper usage are iden…
African-Centered Theses on Mental Health and a Nosology of Black/African Personality Disorder
Mental health is defined and a diagnostic system of ordered and disordered African (Black) personality functioning is discussed. The discussion first is grounded in the backdrop of briefly stated but fundamental "Advances in Black Personality Theory." Mental health is then shown to be rooted in the original human's biogenetic nature, and, hence, the natural order. Both ordered and disordered personality functioning are considered in this context.…
Towards a Metatheory of the African Personality
A metatheory is one way of organizing theories on a given subject in a coherent conceptual framework. The theories usually are separate, distinct, and sometimes disparate. Organization of the given field is thereby achieved. This article specifies the minimum requisites that are necessary for a metatheory of the African (Black) personality construct. Through application of the metatheory idea, it is argued that an African persondality metatheory …
Diagnosing Personality Disorder in Africans (Blacks) Using the Azibo Nosology: Two Case Studies
A nosology is an organized system for diagnosing diseases, disorders, or pathologies, as opposed to their mere enumeration. The present study compared clinical diagnoses of two African (Black) clients using two distinct diagnostic systems, the Eurocentric DSM-III-R nosology and the Africentric Azibo Nosology. The theoretical and paradigmatic importance of the com- parison is that in Eurocentric psychology and psychiatry the DSM-III-R nosology is …
The Kindred Fields of Black Liberation Theology and Liberation Psychology: A Critical Essay on their Conceptual Base and Destiny
The field of liberation psychology, an appellation for one of the more salient aspects of African (Black) psychology, is discussed in light of its theoretical and actual kindredness with the field of Black liberation theology. These two fields are so strikingly similar in their origin, essence, and contemporary unfolding that analogizing them yielded 15 points of comparison that are nontrivial to the establishment of each one. Because it is argue…
African Self-Consciousness, Misorientation Behavior, and a Self-Destructive Disorder: African American Male Crack-Cocaine Users
Addiction to substances is among the self-destructive disordersfound in the Azibo nosology. It is theorized that underlying these disorders is psychological misorientation that results from a distortion in African Self-Consciousness (ASC). To explore ASC and the relationship between it and misorientation behavior for a population of 101 African American males suffering from crack-cocaine addiction, the ASC scale and a background questionnaire mea…
The Theoretical Relationship Between Materialistic Depression and Depression: Preliminary Data and Implications for the Azibo Nosology
Materialistic depression is a culture-specific disorder of the African (Black) personality construct. Housed in the Azibo nosology, it is defined as a condition in which material goods or the lack of them serve as one's criteria for judging oneself and/or others. It is felt to be a major way that depression in contemporary Africans is expressed. A positive correlation between materialistic depression and general depression was hypothesized. Resul…
Guest Editor's Remarks
Some reflections on my interactions with the late Dr. W. Curtis banks
An Empirically Supported Reconceptualization of African-U.S. Racial Identity Development as an Abnormal Process
Transformational, developmental process theories of African-U.S. racial identity development are flawed because they conceptualize ontogenetic experience without embedding it in phylogenetic dictates. As a result, culminating psychological states are not depicting identity progression but actually mask a sophisticated regression to a “deracinated,” psychologically misoriented orientation. Therefore, African-U.S. racial identity development is rec…
Nepenthe Theory of Defense Mechanism Functioning and Defensive Behavior in African-U.S. People With Replication and Extension to Psychological Africanity (Racial Identity)
Ego mechanisms of defense were studied in a sample of 140 African-U.S. college students using for theoretical approaches Michael Bond’s defense style hierarchy and Daudi Ajani ya Azibo’s nepenthe theory. Each framework was supported in the data. Also, previous findings from an earlier exploratory study were replicated including greater defense style scoring compared to Caucasian norms and association between defense style scores and depression. I…
Moving Forward with the Legitimation of the Azibo Nosology II
Thomas Szasz on Psychiatric Slavery Vis-à-Vis Restoring the African Personality: Exposing and Clarifying Ethical Clashing
Thomas Szasz was peerless in criticism of psychiatric establishmentarianism, particularly its embracing of “psychiatric slavery” (interventions imposed on persons by force). Selected from his matchless oeuvre, some fundamental points in his thinking—Szaszian thought—were scrutinized to evaluate whether they jibe with dictates from centered African Psychology which mandate setting afoot a new African descent person, particularly as depicted in Dau…
Introducing a new interdisciplinary subfield of counseling studies incident to the education of African descent students: Centered African mental health on campus
Containing 55 mental disorders derived from the centered African framework of personality and drawing on the works of 22 mental health scholars spanning over 60 years, the Azibo Nosology II (Azibo, D. 2014a). The Azibo Nosology II: Epexegesis and 25th anniversary update: 55 culture-focused mental disorders suffered by African descent people. The Journal of Pan African Studies applied to college students of African descent is suggested for a new i…
A Critical Perspective on James Cone and US Black Liberation Theology: Exploring the Greatest Debate for Global Africana Religions That Never Happened
There is an important debate which never took place among United States Black Liberation Theology (BLT) practitioners, including James Cone: about whether or not Black Liberation Theology should continue to be delimited in canon to that handed down from the lineage initiated by Constantine versus developing canon from historical and cultural deep thought of African civiliations. In this article it is argued that this is pivotal for its future. Th…
What If Race Was For Real For Real Real? How I Would Teach It
Psychology (12 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Psychiatry (7 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (6 works) · Clinical Psychology (5 works) · Clinical Psychology (5 works) · Nosology (5 works) · Personality (5 works) · Anthropology (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works)