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African Pyramids of Knowledge

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African Pyramids of Knowledge
  • ISBN – Paperback: 9780982532706
  • ISBN – eBook: 9781942774259
  • ISBN – Hardcover: Not Applicable
  • Publish Date: Jan 2015
  • Book Pages: 226
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African Pyramids of Knowledge

Description

Afrocentricity allows the student of human culture investigating African phenomena to view the world from the standpoint of the African. As Ama Mazama has argued in The Afrocentric Paradigm, Afrocentricity’s implications are multifarious and constant. Since the publication of Mazama’s book two decades ago (and spurred in turn by Dr. Asante’s Afrocentricity: The Theory of Social Change two decades before that), the theoretical and critical works on Afrocentricity have exploded. Dr, Asante’s current book brings us into the 21st century with new avenues for research and critique.

Readers will learn how to:

  • Apply the Afrocentric method to transform human reality
  • Usher in a human openness to cultural pluralism unlocking of our minds for acceptance of an expansion of consciousness
  • Overthrow parochialism, provincialism, and narrow Wotanic visions
  • Demonstrate the usefulness of an Afrocentric approach, beginning with ancient Kemet, to questions of knowledge

African Pyramids of Knowledge delves into four areas: (1) The Intellectual Landscape, which details what constitutes the discipline of Africology, (2) A Mobilization of Ideas, which discusses the hallmarks of creative and philosophical origin as they aid in the critical process of African recovery (3) Confronting the Historical Situation, which proposes new ways to deal with the historical situation and (4) Asserting the New Cultural Reality, envisioning what innovative examination of agency could accomplish.

Authors and Contributors

Molefi Kete Asante Ph.D.

Dr. Molefi Kete Asante is known for developing the method of Afrocentricity, a theory that emphasizes African culture and history from an African-centered perspective. Asante is a professor and former chair of the Department of Africology at Temple University, where he founded the PhD program in African-American Studies, and is the founding editor of the Journal of Black Studies. He is also the founder and president of the Molefi Kete Asante Institute.

Asante has been recognized as one of the ten most widely cited African Americans, with over 100 published books. In the 1990s, Black Issues in Higher Education recognized him as one of the most influential leaders of the decade. Dr. Molefi Kete Asante graduated from Oklahoma Christian College in l964. He entered Pepperdine soon afterwards, and completed his M.A. at Pepperdine University in l965. He received his Ph.D. from UCLA at the age of 26 in l968 and was appointed a full professor at the age of 30 at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He chaired the Communication Department at SUNY-Buffalo from l973-1980. He worked in Zimbabwe as a trainer of journalists from l980 to l982. In the Fall of l984, Dr. Asante became chair of the African American Studies Program at Temple University, where he created the first Ph.D. Program in African American Studies in 1987. He has directed more than 140 Ph.D. dissertations. He has written over 500 articles and essays for various journals, books, and magazines, and is the founder of the theory of Afrocentrism. Universal Write Publications is the pioneering social science press instrumental in a historic and legacy-making partnership, having published 15 of Dr. Molefi Kete Asante’s titles.

Dr. Molefi Kete Asante is the most published contemporary African American author. He has become the seminal theoretician of Afrocentric infusion into the curriculum, examining and advancing the agency-centered ideological position in the realm of education, culture, and science. Widely read and consulted, Dr. Asante and his books have inspired educators in the United States, South Africa, Nigeria, Canada, and Brazil.

 

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