Augustine Nwoye
Professor
University of KwaZulu-Natal
South Africa
Biography
Augustine Nwoye is a Professor of Psychology at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa and a Member of the School of Applied Human Sciences. Through his research and writings, he has made original and unique contributions to the definition and study of African Psychology as an emerging specialization very much in demand in the curriculum of many departments of psychology in the South and other regions of Africa. He has held distinguished teaching positions in several universities in Africa, including: The University of Jos, Nigeria; Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Kenya, The University of Dodoma, Tanzania and Covenant University, Lagos, Nigeria. He has also won several visiting fellowships and given public lectures in many universities in continental Africa, Asia, Europe and North America. He has received his PhD from the University of Nigeria and was recently in the United States as a Fulbright Scholar at Howard University and the College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts.
Research Interest
African Psychology and Bifocal Ideologies; African Identity and Cultural Orphanhood; African Femininity and Womanhood; Models of Fertility Management; African Indigenous Knowledge Systems; African Epistemologies; Psychology of Skin Bleaching.