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Molefi Kete Asante is professor and chair of the Department of Africology and African American Studies at Temple University.After reading this book you will be compelled to reconsider how we contemporarily think about social justice. Few people have done more to move African Diaspora considerations from a philosophical conversation about our distant past or a theoretic musing about dispersed people out there to something much more timely and relevant. Asante’s contemporary vision, informed by a Pan African sensibility, shows us what we must all do if we genuinely care about the future direction of humanity. It is written with an urgent call to arms to those who understand the significance of agency in the fight for liberation. This book demonstrates why Molefi Kete Asante remains one of the most brilliant thinkers in the world!
- Ronald L. Jackson, University of Cincinnati,
Molefi Kete Asante’s visionary work weaves together seamlessly fractured pieces of thought on Pan Africanism. He highlights the ideas and actions of major leaders in its creation. In this way, the reader can see more clearly how the roles of Pan African leaders have been part of a necessary process of Pan Africanism’s development. Recognizing the necessity of understanding the significance of culture as the dominant factor in the conquest of Africa and her people, Molefi Kete Asante challenges the acceptance of anti African cultures and suggests ways in which Afrocentric knowledge as a cultural tool can offer the basis for African cultural unity not as a dream but as a reality. I highly recommend this book for those interested in the study of Africa and Pan Africanism and its continuing development as a force for positive change.
- Nah Dove, Temple University,
An Afrocentric Pan Africanist Vision is an important and timely piece that clarifies the role of African people in the most substantive form of Pan Africanism. An Afrocentric Pan Africanism requires us to first resolve the crisis of consciousness on the continent and in diaspora; only then can we advance a collective and liberatory African project on our own terms. This is a most important read as the growing global African presence necessitates a Pan African renaissance.
- Ifetayo M. Flannery, San Francisco State University,
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!
The Critical Africana Studies book series features critical, interdisciplinary, and intersectional scholarship within the emerging field of Africana studies. Most scholars within the field agree that 'Africana studies' is essentially a rubric term utilized to conceptually capture the teaching and research of a wide-range of intellectuals (both 'academic' and 'organic' intellectuals) working in disciplines or subdisciplines as discursively diverse as: African studies, African diasporan studies, African American studies, Afro-American studies, Afro-Asian studies, Afro-European studies, Afro-Islamic studies, Afro-Jewish studies, Afro-Latino studies, Afro-Native American studies, Caribbean studies, Pan-African studies, Black British studies and, of course, Black studies. Epistemological and methodological advances in Africana studies, as well as historical and cultural changes, over the last fifty years have led to an increased interest in continental and diasporan African history, culture, thought, and struggles. The Critical Africana Studies book series directly responds to the heightened demand for monographs and edited volumes that innovatively explore Africa and its diaspora employing cutting-edge critical, interdisciplinary, and intersectional theory and methods.
Series Editor: Marquita Gammage
Advisory Board: Martell Teasley, Kimberly Nichele Brown, Jerome Schiele, and Bayyinah S. Jeffries