Ebook: An Afrocentric Manifesto Toward an African Renaissance
Author: Asante Molefi Kete
- Tags: (BISAC Subject Heading)SOC000000, (Produktform)Electronic book text, (VLB-Produktgruppen)TN000, (VLB-WN)9727: Nonbooks PBS / Soziologie/Sozialstrukturforschung
- Year: 2013
- Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
- City: New York;NY
- Edition: 1., Auflage
- Language: English
- epub
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...