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African-American psychologist (1943–2018)

Kobi Kazembe Kambon (a.k.a. Joseph A. Baldwin; November 29, 1943 - December 31, 2018) was a black educator and psychologist.

His research has been particularly influential in areas relating to African (Black) Psychology, cultural survival in the face of cultural oppression, and mental health. A former National President of the Association of Black Psychologists (ABPsi), Kambon published over 60 scholarly articles, and wrote five books, including two textbooks that are frequently used in Psychology and Black Studies courses across the country.^[1]

In many of his published works, Kambon took an Afrocentric approach to the study of African Americans, suggesting that while Black personalities are biogenetic in origin, they are still subject to environmental variables that, when alien (not African), can serve to inhibit and interfere with normal development of the Black personality.^[2] He developed various to