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  1. the Psychology Department, Florida A&M University, 32307, Tallahassee, Florida

    Daudi Ajani Ya Azibo Ph.D. (full professor of psychology)

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His specialty is African-centered psychology. He is the author of the Azibo Nosology (Journal of Black Psychology, Spring 1989), the only diagnostic system of mental disorders directly linked to African-centered personality theory, African-centered psychology: Culture-focusing for multicultural competence (Carolina Academic Press), African American psychology (Sage), African psychology in historical perspective & related commentary (Africa World Press), and the author of the privately-published Liberation Psychology.

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Azibo, D.A.Y. Some reflections on my interactions with the late Dr. W. Curtis banks. Journal of African American Men 6, 61–81 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12111-002-1003-0

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