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.
LIST OF DR. MOLEFI KETE ASANTE’S BOOKS by ISBN
PUBLISHED by UWP
1. The Dramatic Genius of Charles Fuller
ISBN: 978-1-942774-12-9 (2015)
2. Revolutionary Pedagogy: Primer for Teachers of Black Children, Second Edition
ISBN: 978-1-942774-14-3 (2023)
3. We Will Tell Our Own Story! The Lions of Africa Speak
ISBN: 978-1-942774-16-7 (2017)
4. Radical Insurgencies
ISBN: 978-1-942774-19-8 (2020)
5. The Precarious Center or When Will the African Narrative Hold?
ISBN: 978-1-942774-20-4 (2021)
6. Being Human Being
Universal Write Publications is honored to have published Dr. Molefi Kete Asante’s 100th book, BEING HUMAN BEING.
ISBN: 978-1-942774-24-2 (2021)
7. African Pyramids of Knowledge
ISBN: 978-1-942774-25-9
8. Lynching Barack Obama: How Whites Tried to String Up the President
ISBN: 978-1-942774-26-6 (2016)
9. REVOLUTIONARY PEDAGOGY: Primer for Teachers of Black Children
978-0-9825327-5-1 (2017)1st Edition (2017)
10. 400 Years of Witnessing: A Memoir of a People 1619-2019
ISBN: 978-1-942774-28-0 (2019)
11. The American Demagogue: Donald Trump in the Presidency of the United States of America (2017)1st Edition
ISBN: 978-0982532-77-5
12. The American Demagogue: Donald Trump (Revised Edition)
ISBN: 978-1-942774-29-7 (2024)
13. Indexicality: An Africological Method of Inquiry
PRINT: ISBN: 978-1-942774-50-1
Book 1, Volume 1 LBBS (2025)
14. Afrocentricity: Generations of Theory in Practice (Honoring Dr. Asante founding of Afrocentricity and it’s Impact)
PRINT: ISBN: 978-1-942774-38-9
15. DISCIPLINE OF AFRICOLOGY: Key Concepts
PRINT: ISBN: 978-1-942774-56-3
THE BLACK LEXICON Vol. 1
