African Psychology

Black Consciousness has been defined as an attitude of the mind and a way of life. Therefore, the purpose of teaching Black Consciousness was to conquer feelings of black inferiority and replace it with a new solid social identity which encouraged black pride and independence from white oppression. Africans should reject the myths from which Apartheid was conceived, where blacks were depicted as inferior, savage, simple and having a primitive culture which needed to be …

…diverse cultural backgrounds, there is actually no way to test both out on an even scale as long as a single race dominates how the tests are made. African philosophy highly believes that the point of life is a search for identity and that the search has been corrupted by those who would find it beneficial to have results that cause public opinion to look down on those who fall behind others on the test.