MOLEFI KETE ASANTE ON AFROCENTRICITY, HOW ITS DETRACTORS HAVE WARPED ITS MEANING, AND HOW EVERYDAY EUROCENTRICITY WARPS REALITY (MF GALAXY 065)
AUTHOR OF AFROCENTRICITY ON HOW KNOWLEDGE OF SELF IS LIBERATORY, HOW AFROCENTRICITY IS NOT THE ANALOGUE TO EUROCENTRICITY, AND THE MASSIVE DIVERSITY OF THE CONTINENT LISTEN/DOWNLOAD Few people have done as much to promote the Africentric perspective as Molefi Kete Asante, the scholar, editor, and activist who wrote the seminal work Afrocentricity and furthered the intellectual movement for an African-centered scholarship and world-view that employs research for political liberation through the academic resuscitation of smothered history. Asante has published over 400 articles, and has authored more than seventy books, among them Afrocentricity, African Pyramids of Knowledge, Ancient Egyptian Philosophers , and the memoir As I Run Toward Africa . The Utne Reader called him one of the “100 Leading Thinkers” in the United States, and he has appeared on Nightline, The MacNeil-Lehrer News Hour, The Today Show, The Tony Brown Show, and 60 Minutes . The African Union cited him as one ...