Afrocentrism

AFROCENTRISM

AFROCENTRISM
 emphasizes the importance of African people around the world in terms of culture, philosophy, and history.  considers African peoples, their cultures, histories,collective struggles, needs and aspirations, to be central to the interpretation and utilization of data.  is centered or focused on Africa or African peoples, especially in relation to historical orcultural influence.

THE THEORY OF AFROCENTRICITY
Dr. Molefi Kete Asante is the founder of the theory of Afrocentricity. Professor of African American Studies at Temple University. He haspublished several books such as “An Afrocentric Manifesto,” “The History of Africa,” and “Encyclopedia of Black Studies.”  He has also written more than 400 articles and essays for journals, books, andmagazines.

Dr. Molefi Kete Asante

THE THEORY OF SOCIAL CHANGE
 Because of slave trade, Africans have been taken off of cultural, economic, religious, political, and social terms.  Africans knowlittle about our their classical heritage and nothing about their contributions to world knowledge.  They have lost their own cultural footing and become other than their cultural and politicalorigins, so they are dis-located and dis-oriented.  They need to return to the source in order to free their minds.

AFROCENTRICITY AS THE THEORY OF SOCIAL CHANGE
intends to re-locate the Africanperson as subject, wants to destroy the notion of being objects in the Western project of domination. becomes the key to the proper education of children and is the essence of an African culturalrevival and, indeed, survival.

AFROCENTRICITY AS BASIS FOR AFRICAN CIVIL SOCIETY
 Promotion of African culture as determined by symbols, motifs, rituals, education, scripts, proverbs, andceremonies.  A commitment to finding the subject place of Africans in any social, political, economic, literary or religious phenomenon with implications for gender and class consideration.  Defense of...