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Ama Mazama: The Ogunic Presence in Africology is a critical analysis of the ideas of Ama Mazama, a prominent and leading female theorist in Africology and African American Studies. Molefe Asante studies the creative and productive power of Mazama's intellectual work as it emerges from the personal wrestling with spiritual elements of consciousness as well as Mazama's attention to ancestral and perhaps epigenetic relationships to African spirituality in the making of theory and practice. Painting a picture of an activist intellectual concerned as much with mental as well as spiritual liberation, Asante demonstrates how and why Ama Mazama has evolved into one of the most popular Africologists in the field.
List of contents
Chapter One: Warrior Intellectual in Search of Answers
Chapter Two: Overhearing Ancestral Voices
Chapter Three: Overcoming the Impositions of Race, Class, and Gender
Chapter Four: Resisting Negation Education
Chapter Five: Radical in the Heart of the West
Chapter Six: Afrocentricity and the Rise of Consciousness
Chapter Seven: Spirituality as a Defense of Anomie
Chapter Eight: Intellectual and Activist Leadership: AI
About the author
Molefi Kete Asante 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.
