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In An Afrocentric Pan Africanist Vision: Afrocentric Essays, Molefi Kete Asante, engages the age-old debate on Pan Africanism by providing an innovative orientation to the established discourse developed during the twentieth century. Asante opens an interrogation of the Padmorian tradition of a socialist Pan Africanism by suggesting that a deeper entry into the histories and narratives of the literary, economic, social, and spiritual values of the thousands of African societies scattered throughout the world could sustain a different agency analysis of Pan Africanism without grafting an external idea on the unity of Africa. Using his vast knowledge of the history of Africa, Asante suggests that the African renaissance cannot take place unless there is a commitment to creating an African community conscious of its own myths, origins, and economic, cultural, and philosophical traditions.
List of contents
Chapter One: The Song of the Storm
Chapter Two: The Spectrum of Colossal Failure
Chapter Three: Cuban Military Solidarity with Pan Africanism
Chapter Four: Cheikh Anta Diop and the African Revolution
Chapter Five: The Basis of Pan African Unity of Africa
Chapter Six: The Pan African Uses of African Civilization
Chapter Seven: Toward a Union of African States
Chapter Eight: Padmore: A Socialist Pan Africanist in Action
Chapter Nine: Kwame Nkrumah: An Exemplary Pan Africanist
Chapter Ten: Leadership in a Resurgent Africa
Chapter Eleven: African Federalism and the Civil Society
Chapter Twelve: African and African Diasporan Cultures
Chapter Thirteen: African and African Diaspora Cultures
Chapter Fourteen: Of African Revolutionary Actions
Chapter Fifteen: Africans, We Can Do What We Will!
About the author
Molefi Kete Asante is Professor, Department of Africology at Temple University in Philadelphia, President of the Molefi Kete Asante Institute for Afrocentric Studies, and Professor Extraordinarius at the University of South Africa. He was the Founding Editor, Journal of Black Studies, serving for 53 years. Asante, often called the most prolific African American scholar, has published over 100 books, among the most recent are The Perilous Center, or When Will the African Center Hold; Radical Insurgencies; The History of Africa, 3rd Edition; An Afrocentric Pan Africanist Vision; The African American People: A Global History; Erasing Racism: The Survival of the American Nation; Revolutionary Pedagogy; African American History: A Journey of Liberation; African Pyramids of Knowledge; Maulana Karenga: An Intellectual Portrait; Facing South to Africa, and, the memoir, As I Run Toward Africa. Asante has published more than 500 articles and is considered one of the most quoted living African authors as well as one of the most distinguished thinkers in the African world.
