Cheikh Anta Diop’s Transdisciplinary Legacy

Victor Oguejiofor Okafor is a professor in the Department of Africology and African American Studies at Eastern Michigan University. He holds a PhD in Africology and African American Studies from Temple University, a Master of Public Affairs from Indiana University, and a BA also from Indiana University.

• Introduction: Cheikh Anta Diop’s Transdisciplinary Legacy: Impacts on Contemporary Africology 2. The Global Scope of Africology & The Imperative of a Grounding in the Visions of the Founding Fathers & Mothers 3. A Diopian Transdisciplinary assessment of the implications & applicability to the Diaspora of an African Ancestral Studies program of study in Higher Education 4. An African Foundation for Science: A Diopian Narrative of Recovery 5. Theories and Principles in Africalogical Conception: The Pedagogy of Ubuntu and Ma’at 6. Diopian Epistemology, Africology, and the Necessity of Establishing a Paradigmatic Shift from Race Ideology to a Culturally Liberatory Model 7. Cheikh Anta Diop, Black Studies, and the Gift of an African Usable Past 8. Black and African: Kemetic Origins of Performance, Ritual Theater and the Choreopoem 9. Re-defining African Womanism as Afrocentric Theory: Voicing Maat 10. Osiris in the form of Cheikh Anta Diop: What does it mean to be a king? 11. Health and Spiritualism: An Africological Perspective 12. Translation A Cultural Ting! An Exercise in Pan-Afrikan Translation 13. The Cultural Basis and Necessity for Pan-Afrikan Unity in the Context of Intellectual Warfare Today! 14. Being Black in White America: An Afrocentric Examination of “Black Lives Matter” in W. E. B. Du Bois’s The Problem of the Colorline 15. Artificial Intelligence Conundrum: An Afrocentric Perspective 16. The Conclusion