Azibo's Metatheory of African Personality should be at the heart of all efforts to set afoot in the 2020s the new African person. It is a deep dive providing concepts, definitions and strategies for fixing the mental maladies set upon African descent people (ADP) globally. It actually provides an answer to the African-U.S. colloquial quip "What's your major maladjustment?" This book is a no holds barred, no tiptoeing appraisal of existing formulations about ADP's personality inclusive of racial identity and psychological Africanity/psychological Blackness. Dr. Azibo's own theory and research are highlighted. A few takeaways are:
- Location in African-centered worldview/asili/cultural deep structure
- Meshing the philosophy of African personhood, "Black" racial identity theory, and African personality theory in a single all-encompassing model
- Dr. Azibo's theory as a metatheory which best organizes all other theories on the topic
- Distinction between racially phylogenetic versus individual ontogenetic aspects of personality and how they work together within the individual
- Plumbing the biogenetic base of personality as situated in spiritual energy
- Rethinking the concept of rhythm
- Explanation of mental health for ADP in the context of evolutionary race maintenance
- Provision of a culture-specific templet for the psychological assessment of ADP's mental health
- Guidance in clinical assessment and diagnosis of ADP using the Azibo Nosology II-apart from or in conjunction with DSMs or ICDs
- Explanation of contradictions in African personality/psychological functioning as inherent potentialities
- Provision of African-centered nomenclature and definitions for personality, mental health and associated psychological phenomena
- Demystification and explanation of the multidimensionality zeitgeist in the racial identity literature
- Explanation of when racial identity progression is actually racial identity regression
- Explanation of the impossibility of construct validity for regnant racial identity models of ADP
- Provision of prototypical profiles of abnormal and normalcy-based African personality
- Easy to follow affliction models for ADP, throughout the world, given in formula
- Explanation of "healing" as inseparable from sovereignty, land, and power
- And much more