Ama Mazama: The Ogunic Presence in Africology

by Molefi Kete Asante author of Revolutionary Pedagogy: Primer for Teachers of Black Children

Overview

Ama Mazama: The Ogunic Presence in Africology is a critical analysis of the ideas of Ama Mazama, a prominent and leading female theorist in Africology and African American Studies. Molefe Asante studies the creative and productive power of Mazama’s intellectual work as it emerges from the personal wrestling with spiritual elements of consciousness as well as Mazama’s attention to ancestral and perhaps epigenetic relationships to African spirituality in the making of theory and practice. Painting a picture of an activist intellectual concerned as much with mental as well as spiritual liberation, Asante demonstrates how and why Ama Mazama has evolved into one of the most popular Africologists in the field.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781793628923
Publisher:	Lexington Books
Publication date:	08/20/2020
Series:	Critical Africana Studies
Pages:	132
Sales rank:	227,195
Product dimensions:	6.34(w) x 9.18(h) x 0.57(d)

About the Author

Molefi Kete Asante is professor and chair in the Department of Africology and African American Studies at Temple University in Philadelphia.

Table of Contents

Chapter One: Warrior Intellectual in Search of Answers

Chapter Two: Overhearing Ancestral Voices

Chapter Three: Overcoming the Impositions of Race, Class, and Gender

Chapter Four: Resisting Negation Education

Chapter Five: Radical in the Heart of the West

Chapter Six: Afrocentricity and the Rise of Consciousness

Chapter Seven: Spirituality as a Defense of Anomie

Chapter Eight: Intellectual and Activist Leadership: AI

Editorial Reviews

Molefi Kete Asante’s Ama Mazama: The Ogunic Presence in Africology is an open sore on the wound of continuous racial injustice that Professor Ama Mazama has fought against all through her life. She has followed in the footsteps of Frances Cress Welsing as one of the unsung heroes of our times.

Kehbuma Langmia

Molefi Kete Asante’s Ama Mazama: The Ogunic Presence in Africology takes the reader on a remarkable journey of Ama Mazama’s intellectual ascendency. Asante tells this story from the same spiritual center that informs her consciousness. Simply put, he gets her. His exploration of Mazama’s international stature helps solidify this profound activist scholar’s place in the discipline of Africology as well as her importance to the broader Pan-African world. This work situates Ama Mazama among the greatest African thinkers, past and present. Ama Mazama: The Ogunic Presence in Africology is a breathtaking paradigmatic maze of Afrocentric intellectualism that is grounded in the same African cultural framework and cosmology that inspire Ama Mazama’s genius. This is a must read!

Adisa A. Alkebulan