Indigenous Psychology is an intellectual movement across the
globe, based on the following factors: - A reaction against the
colonization/hegemony of Western psychology. - The need for non-
Western cultures to solve their local problems through
indigenous practices and applications. - The need for a non-
Western culture to recognize itself in the constructs and
practices of psychology. - The need to use indigenous
philosophies and concepts to generate theories of global
discourse. Psychology, like any other language game, is a living
conversation, for which translation is the key to the
perpetuation and permutation of the discourse. As Western
psychology is translated into other cultures, the more we make
sure that the influence is going both ways, and the more we
allow conflicting voices to inhabit the terms we use in
psychology, the more likely it is that alternative ways of doing
psychological science will emerge. Thus, inherent in the
Indigenous Psychology movement is a global surge of the creative
energy a