چکیده (انگلیسی):

This paper draws primarily on my own scholarship, supplemented by the limited academic resources available in the “peripheries”
of the world where I live and work (namely , Somali society and Darfur, Sudan), to consider the relationship between colonialism
and psychology . I first consider the history of psychology in justifying and bolstering oppression and colonialism. I then consider
the ongoing intersection of colonialism and psychology in the form of metacolonialism (or coloniality). I end with thoughts about
decolonizing psychological science in teaching, social, and clinical practice. T o decolonize psychological science, it is necessary
to transform its focus from promotion of individual happiness to cultivation of collective well-being, from a concern with instinct
to promotion of human needs, from prescriptions for adjustment to affordances for empowerment, from treatment of passive
victims to creation of self-determining actors, and from globalizing, top-down approaches to context-sensitive, bottom-up
approaches. Only then will the field realize its potential to advance Frantz Fanon’s call for humane and just social order.