Zulu Traditional Healing, Afrikan Worldview and the Practice of Ubuntu: Deep Thought for Afrikan/Black Psychology

Abstract

This paper focuses on the Zulu people of South Afrika (Azania) and its perspective can be generalized to aspects of an Afrikan worldview with respect to Afrikan/Black Psychology. More specifically, this paper examines the role the Zulu traditional concept of spiritual wholeness (psychology) has played in maintaining a sense of beingness for the Zulu people throughout the Apartheid era and how this notion can become a part of Afrikan Centered Psychology. A move towards an Ubuntu Psychology is also explicated. Zulu nomenclature for the classification of psycho-spiritual (mental) disorders is presented with a special attenuation towards mental health diagnosis and treatment within the Afrikan context on the continent of Afrika as well as throughout the Afrikan Diaspora. Much of the Zulu wisdom was gathered as the author traveled throughout South Afrika on a Fulbright Fellowship seeking to elucidate the power of Afrikan Traditional Healing and the Zulu worldview in Post-Apartheid South Afrika.

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