| Abstrakt: |
This paper examines the role of African Psychology in healing the trauma caused by the 'lie' of White superiority and Black inferiority, the root cause of the devaluing of Black lives and the underdevelopment of Black communities around the world. It introduces the global grassroots movement for emotional emancipation, led by Community Healing Network, in collaboration with the Association of Black Psychologists, which is mobilizing Africans on the Continent and throughout the Diaspora to heal from, and extinguish, the lie. It describes the movement's leading strategy: the Emotional Emancipation Circle, a self-help support group process, informed by the principles of African psychology, designed to help Africans and people of African ancestry escape the European narrative, driven by the lie of Black inferiority, and create a renewed African narrative, defined by the truth of Black humanity. The paper focuses on the central role of African Psychology in defining and developing the Emotional Emancipation Circle model and argues for African Psychology as the appropriate disciplinary grounding for complete liberation from the lie. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
