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Psychology in Africa (Paperback)
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Psychology in Africa (Paperback)
Series: Psychology Revivals
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Loot Price R537
Discovery Miles 5 370
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It is now well over a hundred and fifty years since the first
celebrated geographical explorations of Africa took place. However,
it was many years before there began quests of a different kind -
the investigation of behaviour, personality, attitude and ability
among Africa's people. Originally published in 1975, this book is
an account of that work: the first explorations in Africa of
psychology. In an exhaustive and well-documented report the author,
a psychologist who had himself done research in Nigeria, Uganda and
who had lectured at Makerere University, drew together the main
threads of the research carried out so far, putting the issues in
an African perspective but anchoring them firmly within the
framework of modern psychological thinking and technique of the
time. Are there any common personality and intellectual
characteristics among Africans? How does weaning affect African
child development? How have Africans' feelings developed about city
life and industrial work? The questions the author considers range
from the broad-based to the specific. The challenges which lay
ahead for African investigators then moving into the mainstream of
the work are also discussed. But perhaps above all the book made a
convincing case for psychology becoming a relevant and finely honed
discipline in Black Africa, characterised by practical application
to Black African society. Each chapter covers a defined area of
modern psychology of the time and presents a comprehensive survey
in a language no more technical that the subject warrants. At the
time is was felt this book would be invaluable to students of
Africa secondary education whose course included a psychology
component and to African students beginning a degree course in
psychology. It would also have provided an informative supplement
to courses in medicine, development studies, political science,
sociology and anthropology.
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