Molefi Kete Asante
✓ Source-basedfallingAfrican-American historian and philosopher; theorist of Afrocentricity
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.
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Afrocentricity is a frame of reference wherein phenomena are viewed from the perspective of the African person.
Afrocentricity (Africa World Press, revised edition, 2003).
The Afrocentric approach seeks in every situation the appropriate centrality of the African person.
Afrocentricity (Africa World Press, revised edition, 2003).
Afrocentricity is simple. If you examine phenomena concerning African people, you must give them agency.
Asante Speaks About Black History, The Harvard Crimson (1995). Molefi Kete Asante explaining the principle of agency in Afrocentric thought.
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Lucille CliftonAlso won Black Literary Hall of Fame
Margaret WalkerAlso won Black Literary Hall of Fame
Gwendolyn BrooksAlso won Black Literary Hall of Fame
Dudley RandallAlso won Black Literary Hall of Fame
Nikki GiovanniAlso won Black Literary Hall of Fame
Ernest J. GainesAlso won Black Literary Hall of FameAbout this person
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.
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