What is a person to do with the pain, anger, fear, frustration, and dismay of Black defamation and demise due to White supremacy’s racism and anti-Blackness? Even more, how does one celebrate the triumph of surviving and escaping enslavement, establishing civil rights, and creating and promulgating renaissance after renaissance as social movements while inspiring the world to take note? Wonder no more. Dr. Molefi K. Asante has eloquently penned an emotional spectrum of poems truly reflecting the spirit, soul, and humanity of Black people in 400 Years of Witnessing: A Memoir of a People, 1619-2019. The substantive and meaningful reflections on and about Black life, and the social conditions it has encountered and often endured over 400 years, fosters a compelling need for readers to journey page-by-page through each poem. With effortless ease to read, Dr. Asante weaves a tapestry of Black strength, vulnerability, and resolve unlike any other collection of Black poetic expressions through what is likely to become a literary favorite though the brilliance of 400 Years of Witnessing: A Memoir of a People, 1619-2019.
A propos de l’auteur
Molefi Kete Asante is an activist intellectual who is currently Professor and Chair, Department of Africology and African American Studies at Temple University and founder of the Molefi Kete Asante Institute for Afrocentric Studies. Asante has written 85 books, among the most recent are The American Demagogue, Revolutionary Pedagogy, The History of Africa, Classical Africa, An Afrocentric Manifesto, The Afrocentric Idea, As I Run Toward Africa; African Pyramids of Knowledge; Facing South: An African Orientation to Knowledge. Recognized as one of the 10 most widely cited African scholars, Asante is the founder of the theory of Afrocentricity. Asante was born in Valdosta, Georgia, of Sudanese (Nubian) and Nigerian (Yoruba) heritage.
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