Conceptual disagreement remains rife with regard to African psychology with some scholars mistakenly equating it to, for example, ethnotheorizing and traditional healing, while others confound African psychology with Africanization and racialization. Using writing as inquiry, this article aims to clear up some of the conceptual confusion on African psychology while engaging with the issue of a decolonizing African psychology. Accordingly, questions such as ‘What is the main dispute between Africa(n)-centred psychology and Euro-American-centric psychology in Africa?’; ‘Does Africa(n)-centred psychology not homogenize Africans?’; ‘What can be gained from imbricating decolonizing perspectives and feminist Africa(n)-centred psychology?’; and ‘What would a decolonizing Africa(n)-centred community psychology look like?’ are pertinent in the clarification of the conceptual confusion. Arising from an inventive dialogical and collaborative method, the aim of this article is not only to illuminate some basic misunderstandings on (a) decolonizing African psychology but also to generate further dialogue on how to work towards African psychology as situated decolonizing practice and knowledge.

In conceptualizing culture as a kind of adjunctive that is to be conquered, managed, and/or comprehensively outlined, psychologists have, for the most part, done little to harness culture's emancipatory capacities. In this article, I attempt to delineate how we might begin to articulate psychologies that are able to activate radical, collective, and materialist conceptions of, and approaches to, culture. Psychologies of this kind, referred to here as liberation psychologies of culture, lie at an intersection of critical cultural studies, psychologies of culture, and liberation psychology. Three pathways through which to enact liberation psychologies of culture are developed, namely, cultural re-membering, cross-cultural anamnesis, and radical political culture. Read together, these pathways provide us with nascent, politicized, and reflexive ways by which to unlock, reprogram, dismiss, resist, contest, recover, interrogate, redeem, and coconstruct issues of culture within broader struggles for psycho-social liberation. Public Significance StatementHistorically, psychologists in the main have approached culture as a stable idea that is to be colonized, fully explained, and/or controlled. This article explores how "liberation psychologies of culture" are able to engage with critical and politicized conceptions of culture for the purposes of psycho-social emancipation. The article describes how cultural re-membering, cross-cultural anamnesis, and radical political culture are able to attune the discipline of psychology to broader currents of cultural domination as well as actual and potential cultural resistances.

Coloniality represents the contemporary patterns of power and domination that emerged in the late 15th century during the so-called classic era of colonialism. Although much of psychology and psychological thought has adhered to the logic of coloniality, there is also a considerable body of work that has sought to decolonize psychology. It is within this latter tradition of decolonizing psychology—which seems to have gained increasing attention in recent years—that we situate this article and its attempt to articulate a decolonial Africa(n)-centered psychology that addresses itself to antiracism. While we concede that there are myriad ways by which to practice and theorize such a psychology, we focus specifically on collective antiracist struggle and everyday antiracist resistance. We conclude by considering questions of universalism and epistemology as they relate to a decolonial Africa(n)-centered psychology of antiracism.