# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/molefi-kete-asante
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:40:51.183Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/molefi-kete-asante"
name: "Molefi Kete Asante"
slug: "molefi-kete-asante"
description: "Molefi Kete Asante is an American philosopher who is involved in the fields of African-American studies, African studies, and communication studies. He is currently a professor in the Department of Africology at Temple University, where he founded the PhD program in African-American Studies. He is president of the Molefi Kete Asante Institute for Afrocentric Studies."
tagline: "African-American historian and philosopher; theorist of Afrocentricity"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Molefi_Asante_2011.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1942-08-14"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    url:       "http://www.asante.net/"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump