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Black psychology (African psychology) is defined as "system of knowledge (philosophy, definitions, concepts, models, procedure and practice) concerning the nature of the social universe from the perspectives of African cosmology." In recent years the emergence of community psychology as a distinctive field, as well as the increasing focus on issues of race, gender and ethnicity have indicated the impact of the relevance of this form of ...

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