Molefi Kete Asante 
An Afrocentric Manifesto [PDF ebook] 
Toward an African Renaissance

Molefi Kete Asante’s Afrocentric philosophy has become one of the
most persistent influences in the social sciences and humanities
over the past three decades. It strives to create new forms of
discourse about Africa and the African Diaspora, impact on
education through expanding curricula to be more inclusive, change
the language of social institutions to reflect a more holistic
universe, and revitalize conversations in Africa, Europe, and
America, about an African renaissance based on commitment to
fundamental ideas of agency, centeredness, and cultural location.

In An Afrocentric Manifesto, Molefi Kete Asante examines
and explores the cultural perspective closest to the existential
reality of African people in order to present an innovative
interpretation on the modern issues confronting contemporary
society.

Thus, this book engages the major critiques of Afrocentricity,
defends the necessity for African people to view themselves as
agents instead of as objects on the fringes of Europe, and proposes
a more democratic framework for human relationships.

An Afrocentric Manifesto completes Asante’s quartet on
Afrocentric theory. It is at the cutting edge of this new paradigm
with implications for all disciplines and fields of study. It will
be essential reading for urban studies, philosophy, African and
African American Studies, social work, sociology, political
science, and communication.

Tabela de Conteúdo

1 Introduction 1

2 Ama Mazama and Paradigmatic Discourse 9

3 Afrocentricity: Notes on a Disciplinary Position 31

4 In Search of an Afrocentric Historiography 55

5 Kemetic Bases: The Africanness of Ancient Egypt 68

6 The Afrocentric Idea in Education 78

7 Sustaining a Relationship to Black Studies 93

8 Afrocentricity and History 105

9 The Black Nationalist Question 122

10 Race, Brutality, and Hegemony 132

11 Blackness as an Ethical Trope: Toward a Post-Western Manifesto 153

References 167

Index 174

Sobre o autor

Molefi Kete Asante is Professor of African American Studies at Temple University.