Facing South to Africa

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.

• 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

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.