04/05/2026
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"Reading psychology textbooks and finding women absent, not just underrepresented but structurally invisible โ was, for someone raised by a village of women, a kind of intellectual violence. โWomenโs stories and contributions were absent, yet I had been shaped by women,โ she recalls. From there, the decolonial question became unavoidable. Why, thirty years into democracy, are Black South Africans still struggling with belonging? With identity? With the psychological wound of being told, for generations, that they were less than human? โColonialismโ, she explains, was not only a physical conquest. It was a psychological one. It entered the mind, hollowed out the sense of self and replaced indigenous knowledge, including indigenous ways of understanding the psyche, with European frameworks that named African peopleโs experiences in foreign languages, using foreign tools, through a foreign lens. โIf you donโt know yourself, others will define you on your behalf,โ she explains."
https://mauabiomagazine.com/puleng-segalo-needle-wound-decolonial-psychology/
- UNISA Chief Albert Luthuli Research Chair
Professor Puleng Segalo is stitching back what colonialism unravelled, one thread, one story, one woman at a time. There is
