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This book engages deeply with the epistemologies and methodologies that have emerged from Mwalimu Molefi Kete Asante's work on Afrocentricity.
List of contents
Introduction
Chapter One: A Survey of Mwalimu Asante's Treatises on Afrocentricity
Chapter Two: Mwalimu Mazrui's Afrenaissance
Chapter Three: Nantambu's Pan-African Nationalism Approach
Chapter Four: Collins' Afrocentric Feminist Epistemology
Chapter Five: Hudson-Weems Africana Womanism Theory
Chapter Six: Mazama's Afrocentric Spirituality
Chapter Seven: Bangura's Ubuntugogy
Chapter Eight: Bangura's African Mathematization
Chapter Nine: Bangura's African-centered Computational Techniques
Chapter Ten: Schiele's Afrocentric Organizational Theory
Chapter Eleven: Schiele's Afrocentric Social Work Practice Paradigm and Social Welfare Philosophy and Policy
Chapter Twelve: Pellebon's Asante-Based Afrocentricity Scale
Chapter Thirteen: Miike's Asiacentricity
Chapter Fourteen: Kondo's Black Consciousness Epistemology
Conclusion
About the author
Abdul Karim Bangura is a researcher-in-residence of Abrahamic Connections and Islamic Peace Studies at the Center for Global Peace at American University and the director of The African Institution, both in Washington DC. He is also a visiting graduate professor of Regional Integration at the University of Cabo Verde as well as director of the Institute and senior doctoral dissertations mentor of the CODESRIA College of Mentors in Dakar (Senegal). Bangura is also a member of many scholarly organizations, has served as President and then United Nations Ambassador of the Association of Third World Studies, and is a Special Envoy of the African Union Peace and Security Council. He has recently been awarded the Special United States Congressional Award for "outstanding and invaluable service to the international community."
Summary
This book engages deeply with the epistemologies and methodologies that have emerged from Mwalimu Molefi Kete Asante's work on Afrocentricity.
