Events in Africa
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0406 - Augustine finished Confessions
0426 - Augustine finished City of God
1918 - South Africa’s first chair and department of psychology
1949 - First University of Ghana course in psychology
1955 - Psychology introduced in the Sudan
1955 - South-African psychiatrist David Cooper arrives in England
1958 - Pattern Completion Test (PATCO) developed
1959 - CCTA/CSA Meeting of Specialists of the Basic Psychology of African and Madagascan Populations
1962 - Psychological Institute of the Republic of South Africa (PIRSA) founded
1962 - Tunisian Society of Psychology founded
1964 - First psychology department in Nigeria established at the University of Nigeria
1965 - First laboratory of experimental psychology in Zambia
1967 - Department of Psychology at the University of Ghana
1968 - Department of psychology established in the University of Zambia
1970 - First volume of the South African Journal of Psychology published
1971 - Psychological Practices Act governs the psychological practice in Zimbabwe
1971 - Zimbabwe Psychological Association founded
1973 - The University of Zimbabwe established the country’s first chair of professional psychology
1974 - Profession of psychology governed in South Africa
1975 - The African Conference on Child Rearing
1975 - The first Psychology Psychological Medical Department was established at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda
1982 - O Erinosho and N W Bell's Mental Health in Africa published in Ibadan, Nigeria
1983 - Psychological Association of South Africa (PASA) established
1984 - Nigerian Psychological Association formed
1992 - Ethopian Psychologists' Association founded
1994 - Inaugural Congress Psychological Society of South Africa
1997 - Kenya Psychological Association (KPsyA) founded
1998 - First psychology conference in Kenya
1999 - Establishment of prescriptive rights in South Africa
1999 - First African Regional Congress of Psychology
2000 - Ghana Psychological Foundation founded.
2003 - First psychology meeting held in Sudan
2009 - Tanzanian Psychological Association (TAPA) founded