Contemporary Critical Thought in Africology and Africana Studies

Molefi Kete Asante, Clyde Ledbetter Jr.

• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Year: 2015
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781978780613
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: African American Studies
• Index: Social Sciences

Although traditional academic circles rarely celebrate the work of African or African American thinkers because performers and political figures were more acceptable to narrating histories, this work projects the ideas of several writers with the confidence that Africology, the Afrocentric study of African phenomena, represents an oasis of innovation in progressive venues. The book brings together some of the most discussed theorists and intellectuals in the field of Africology (Africana Studies) for the purpose of sparking further debate, critical interpretations and extensions, and to reform and reformulate the way we approach our critical thought. The contributors' Afrocentric approach offers new interpretations and analysis, and challenges the predominant frameworks in diverse areas such as philosophy, social justice, literature, and history.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Introduction
• 1 Decolonizing the Universities in Africa
• 2 Postmodernist Diversions in African American Thought
• 3 Afrocentricity
• 4 Boundless James Baldwin
• 5 The Role of an Afrocentric Ideology in Reducing Obstacles to African Integration
• 6 Writing History and Reading Texts
• 7 Retrospective Analysis
• 8 Lewis Gordon’s Existential Cartography
• 9 Human Rights Studies as a Sub-Field of Africology
• 10 Engaging Nkrumah’s Consciencism
• 11 African and African Diaspora Culture in the World
• 12 Interrogating the Legacy of African Contributions
• 13 The Universal Periodic Review and the Efficacy of Malcolm X’s Human Rights Strategy
• Index
• About the Authors