Molefi Kete Asante......An outstanding pioneer, author and Teacher In 1980, while a professor at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Asante published Afrocentricity: The Theory of Social Change. This was one of the first major explorations into the theory of Afrocentricity, which had gained momentum in the Black Power phase of the Civil Rights Movement in the late 1960s. Asante, in an interview with the editors of Contemporary Black Biography, claimed that he founded the “Afrocentric Movement” to “examine why it was that we African-Americans as a people were so disoriented.” He also told Newsweek magazine that “Afrocentricity believes that in order to have a stable society, we must always have a society that respects difference.” The Afrocentric theory, he argued, “attempts to repair the damage of hundreds of years of mistreatment that Africans have endured at the hands of a Eurocentric society.” It “shows how African Americans can get back to a center where we begin to see reality from our own history.” Asante expanded his themes in a 1987 book called, The Afrocentric Idea. He explained that Afrocentricity proposes “not only a new perspective but a different framework for understanding human behavior.” As Asante and other Afrocentrists continued to speak and write, they focused increasingly on the African nature of Egyptian civilization and the pioneering role of Egyptian culture in world history. Source:asante.net/biography/
Posted on: Fri, 18 Apr 2014 20:10:26 +0000
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