Table of Contents

1 Introduction 1

2 Ama Mazama and Paradigmatic Discourse 9

3 Afrocentricity: Notes on a Disciplinary Position 31

4 In Search of an Afrocentric Historiography 55

5 Kemetic Bases: The Africanness of Ancient Egypt 68

6 The Afrocentric Idea in Education 78

7 Sustaining a Relationship to Black Studies 93

8 Afrocentricity and History 105

9 The Black Nationalist Question 122

10 Race, Brutality, and Hegemony 132

11 Blackness as an Ethical Trope: Toward a Post-Western Manifesto 153

References 167

Index 174

About the Author

Molefi Kete Asante is Professor of African American Studies at Temple University.

Reviews

“An Afrocentric Manifesto is the most comprehensive response to those critics that charge Afrocentricity is a closed system. Building on the work of Cruse, Nkrumah and Karenga, Asante defines Afrocentricity as a paradigmatic intellectual perspective linking research to ethical praxis.”
Charles P. Henry, University of California, Berkeley

“In An Afrocentric Manifesto, Molefi Kete Asante has accomplished something quite extraordinary in addressing a wide range of issues shaping current discourse on Afrocentricity and related themes.”
Mekada Graham, University of Oklahoma