An Afrocentric Pan Africanist Vision: Afrocentric Essays

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

Overview

In An Afrocentric Pan Africanist Vision: Afrocentric Essays, Molefi Kete Asante, engages the age-old debate on Pan Africanism by providing an innovative orientation to the established discourse developed during the twentieth century. Asante opens an interrogation of the Padmorian tradition of a socialist Pan Africanism by suggesting that a deeper entry into the histories and narratives of the literary, economic, social, and spiritual values of the thousands of African societies scattered throughout the world could sustain a different agency analysis of Pan Africanism without grafting an external idea on the unity of Africa. Using his vast knowledge of the history of Africa, Asante suggests that the African renaissance cannot take place unless there is a commitment to creating an African community conscious of its own myths, origins, and economic, cultural, and philosophical traditions.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781793628961
Publisher:	Lexington Books
Publication date:	10/29/2020
Series:	Critical Africana Studies
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	178
File size:	560 KB

About the Author

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

Table of Contents

Chapter One: The Song of the Storm
Chapter Two: The Spectrum of Colossal Failure
Chapter Three: Cuban Military Solidarity with Pan Africanism
Chapter Four: Cheikh Anta Diop and the African Revolution
Chapter Five: The Basis of Pan African Unity of Africa
Chapter Six: The Pan African Uses of African Civilization
Chapter Seven: Toward a Union of African States
Chapter Eight: Padmore: A Socialist Pan Africanist in Action
Chapter Nine: Kwame Nkrumah: An Exemplary Pan Africanist
Chapter Ten: Leadership in a Resurgent Africa
Chapter Eleven: African Federalism and the Civil Society
Chapter Twelve: African and African Diasporan Cultures
Chapter Thirteen: African and African Diaspora Cultures
Chapter Fourteen: Of African Revolutionary Actions
Chapter Fifteen: Africans, We Can Do What We Will!

Editorial Reviews

An Afrocentric Pan Africanist Vision is an important and timely piece that clarifies the role of African people in the most substantive form of Pan Africanism. An Afrocentric Pan Africanism requires us to first resolve the crisis of consciousness on the continent and in diaspora; only then can we advance a collective and liberatory African project on our own terms. This is a most important read as the growing global African presence necessitates a Pan African renaissance.

Ifetayo M. Flannery

After reading this book you will be compelled to reconsider how we contemporarily think about social justice. Few people have done more to move African Diaspora considerations from a philosophical conversation about our distant past or a theoretic musing about dispersed people out there to something much more timely and relevant. Asante’s contemporary vision, informed by a Pan African sensibility, shows us what we must all do if we genuinely care about the future direction of humanity. It is written with an urgent call to arms to those who understand the significance of agency in the fight for liberation. This book demonstrates why Molefi Kete Asante remains one of the most brilliant thinkers in the world!

Ronald L. Jackson

Molefi Kete Asante’s visionary work weaves together seamlessly fractured pieces of thought on Pan Africanism. He highlights the ideas and actions of major leaders in its creation. In this way, the reader can see more clearly how the roles of Pan African leaders have been part of a necessary process of Pan Africanism’s development. Recognizing the necessity of understanding the significance of culture as the dominant factor in the conquest of Africa and her people, Molefi Kete Asante challenges the acceptance of anti African cultures and suggests ways in which Afrocentric knowledge as a cultural tool can offer the basis for African cultural unity not as a dream but as a reality. I highly recommend this book for those interested in the study of Africa and Pan Africanism and its continuing development as a force for positive change.

Nah Dove