The Afrocentric School: [a blueprint]
Description
The Afrocentric School articulates Afrocentric education as a complete and coherent schooling model rooted in African historical consciousness, cultural grounding, and intellectual tradition. Rejecting fragmented or symbolic approaches to inclusion, the work defines African-centered schooling as an institutional system—encompassing curriculum design, pedagogical practice, governance structures, language use, and assessment frameworks.
Positioned at the intersection of education theory, curriculum studies, and African-centered thought, the book clarifies how Afrocentric schools operate as disciplined academic environments that cultivate cultural literacy, identity coherence, and scholarly excellence. The text distinguishes Afrocentric schooling from multicultural education by centering African epistemology as foundational rather than supplementary.
Through theoretical exposition and institutional analysis, The Afrocentric School demonstrates how African-centered schools function as sites of knowledge continuity and intellectual formation. The work provides educators, scholars, and school leaders with a framework for understanding, building, and sustaining Afrocentric educational institutions across K–12, higher education, and community-based contexts.
This volume is essential reading for graduate programs in education, teacher preparation, educational leadership, and Black Studies, as well as for practitioners committed to developing academically rigorous, culturally grounded schools rooted in African-centered principles.
Readers will learn how to:
- Provide students the opportunity to begin the study of the world, its people, concepts, and history from the view of the African child’s heritage;
- Identify African principles and teachings;
- Correct distorted information; and
- Develop lesson plans that guide the teacher, parent, student, and reader in understanding African cultural history from an Afrocentric theoretical perspective.
In this presentation, we highlight a few of the many activities that teachers, parents, and families will find to reclaim African knowledge and reawaken their children’s honest and restored cultural identity.
