Introduction: Contemporary Critical Contours: Africology and
Africana Studies, Molefi Kete Asante and Clyde E. Ledbetter,
Jr.
Chapter 1: Decolonizing the Universities in Africa: An Approach to
Transformation, Molefi Kete Asante
Chapter 2: Postmodernist Diversions In African American Thought ,
Daryl B. Harris
Chapter 3: Afrocentricity: A Critical Bibliography, Molefi Kete
Asante
Chapter 4: Boundless James Baldwin: Assessing the Creative Freedom
of a Cultural Critic, Aaron X. Smith
Chapter 5: The Role of an Afrocentric Ideology in Reducing
Obstacles to Integration, Molefi Kete Asante
Chapter 6: Writing History and Reading Texts: An Afrocentric
Narrative of Culture, Nilgun Anadolu Okur
Chapter 7: Retrospective Analysis: The Movement Against African
Centered Thought, Michael T. Tillotson
Chapter 8: Lewis Gordon’s Existential Cartography, Molefi Kete
Asante
Chapter 9: Human Rights Studies as a Sub-Field of Africology, Clyde
E. Ledbetter, Jr.
Chapter 10: Engaging Kwame Nkrumah’s Consciencism: An Afrocentric
Close Reading, Molefi Kete Asante
Chapter 11: African and African Diaspora Culture in the World,
Molefi Kete Asante
Chapter 12: Interrogating the Legacy of African Contributions,
Molefi Kete Asante
Chapter 13: The Universal Periodic Review and Malcolm X’s Human
Rights Strategy, Clyde E. Ledbetter, Jr.
Molefi Kete Asante is current chair and creator of the first
doctoral program in African American studies at Temple University
and co-editor of the Journal of Black Studies.
Clyde Ledbetter Jr. is instructor in the Department of Social and
Behavioral Science at Cheyney University.
This anthology of Africological texts is both an outcry against
senseless attempts to ignore and dismiss the intellectual
production of Afrocentric critical thinkers and an important
academic contribution to strengthening the identity of the
discipline. Anchored to the best praxis of Temple School critical
thinking, a stronghold of Africology, the contributors to this
volume present their critical studies on history, culture,
language, and politics from an Afrocentric perspective. In fact,
they are working towards the creation of a liberating discourse
that operates simultaneously in the spheres of the personal, the
community, nature, and the world. This work is a fundamental piece
of Africological scholarship for graduate and undergraduate
students and researchers seeking to pursue their intellectual quest
within the discipline.
*Ana Monteiro-Ferreira, Eastern Michigan University*
Molefi K. Asante and Clyde Ledbetter have composed an edited volume
that utilizes contemporary critical thought to examine how
Africology, as a theory, transforms the study of Blacks in Africa
and the Diaspora. A must read, this volume provides different
critical perspectives that offer new critiques of colonialism,
decolonization, post modernist Blackness, existential cartography,
human rights, and other conditions still impacting Africa.
Connecting Africology with Afrocentricity, while rewriting
criticism, history, language, culture, and politics, this body of
scholars establish new methods and theories useful in the
liberation struggle of Afro-descended peoples.
*Valerie Grim, Indiana University*
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