लेखक: Molefi Asante

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.