Maulana Karenga

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

• Foreword by Ama Mazama, Temple University viPreface ixAcknowledgements xiii1 Karenga and the Drawing of Cultural Grounds 12 The Cultural Narrative 303 Controlling Intellectual Territory 574 Creating Historical Possibilities 945 Implementing the Lessons 164Notes 183Bibliography of Key Writings 187References 191Index 201

"Asante provides an informative background reading on a scholar for whom the Kwanzaa celebration represents the tip of the iceberg in his activist and academic achievements."Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies"To have the seminal thinker Molefi Asante writing on the legendary Maulana Karenga is a grand treat! This work is an historic encounter of great significance and contemporary relevance."Cornel West, Princeton University "Asante has given us the first in-depth study of the thought of Maulana Karenga. A major cultural influence in the sixties, Karenga's Kawaida Philosophy serves as a primary source of Afrocentric thinking today."Charles Henry, University of California, Berkeley"In this remarkable study, Professor Asante not only provides an intellectual biography of Karenga, undertaken with rare devotion and deep understanding, but also renders homage to an outstanding scholar whose work, spanning some four decades, has been fundamental in the development of African American cultural awareness in our time."F. Abiola Irele, Harvard University