2022 PsySSA Presidents Lecture

Engaging the Congress theme

Tending to the Seeds of Crisis: Looking to a New Horizon of African-centred Psychology

Meet our Presenter

Sisonke Msimang is an experienced public speaker and storyteller, and the author of Always Another Country: A Memoir of Exile and Home (2017) and The Resurrection of Winnie Mandela (2018). Sisonke’s work is focussed on race, gender and democracy. She has written for a range of international publications, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, The Guardian, Newsweek, Bloomberg, and Al Jazeera. Sisonke has held fellowships at Yale University, the Aspen Institute and the Bellagio Centre. She is currently a fellow at the the WISER Institute, at the University of the Witswatersrand.