Facing South to Africa

Toward an Afrocentric Critical Orientation

AvMolefi Kete Asante

Häftad, Engelska, 2016

Del i serien Critical Africana Studies

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Beskrivning

Facing South to Africa is a bold synthesis of the ideas that have made Afrocentric theorists the leading voices of the African renaissance. Written from the vantage point of the philosophical and political discourse that emerged over the past twenty-five years, this is a highly readable and accessible introduction to African social and cultural criticism. Molefi Kete Asante engages in the practice of critical thinking by raising fundamental questions about how Africans view themselves and the world. Tackling the themes of culture, education, social sciences, the university, politics, African unity, and the prospects for peace in Africa, Facing South to Africa is a fresh, daring, and popularizing synthesis of the best critical thought on the issues of modern knowledge. Asante’s plan is to reorient our thinking on Africa by asking questions of Africa and Africans rather than imposing preconceived, external ideas on African issues.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2016-04-26
Mått:151 x 230 x 12 mm
Vikt:245 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Critical Africana Studies
Antal sidor:172
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781498501569

Utforska kategorier

Sociologi inom Samhälle och politik
Sociala grupper och identitet inom Samhälle och politik
Etnicitet inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Molefi Kete Asante is professor and chair of the Department of African American Studies at Temple University. He is also president of Molefi Kete Asante Institute for Afrocentric Studies and guest professor at Zhejiang University and Professor Extraordinarius at the University of South Africa.

Recensioner i media

Gearing his book primarily to scholars of Afrocentricity theory, Asante, the architect of Afrocentricity, provides perspectives on numerous topics and theories through the Afrocentric lens. He briefly explains Afrocentricity’s position on theories, from structuralism and postmodernism to negritude, Africology, and kawaida (a theory proposed by Maulana Karenga in the 1970s). Asante also looks at immigration, identity, black education, a united Africa, and the various conflicts impacting Africa today. . . . [T]he book...provide[s] important considerations of existing debates, especially around Pan-African unity, and deepens understanding of critical issues for scholars of Afrocentricity. Summing Up: . . . [For] scholars.

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter One: Afrocentricity and CultureChapter Two: African Maat and Human CommunicationChapter Three: The Ordeal of Good Afrocentric SpeechChapter Four: Afrocentricity and EducationChapter Five: Imagining New Social SciencesChapter Six: The Philosophical Basis for an African UniversityChapter Seven: Kwame Nkrumah and Muammar Gaddafi’s Vision of AfricaChapter Eight: Toward a Union of African StatesChapter Nine: Thabo Mbeki and an Afrocentric AfricaChapter Ten: Western Media and the Falsification of AfricaChapter Eleven: Threats to African Peace and The Face of Solutions, UN Speech