Theoretical Analyses History of Psychology in Ghana Since 989 AD
@inproceedings{Oppong2017TheoreticalAH, title={Theoretical Analyses History of Psychology in Ghana Since 989 AD}, author={Seth Oppong}, year={2017} }
Psychology as taught in Ghanaian universities is largely Eurocentric and imported. Calls have been made to indigenize psychology in Ghana. In response to this call, this paper attempts to construct a history of psychology in Ghana so as to provide a background for the study of the content and process of what psychology would and/or ought to become in Ghana. It does so by going as far back as the University of Sankore, Timbuktu established in 989AD where intellectual development flourished in…
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