Analytic Afrocentricity and the Future of African Studies

M. K. Asante ()
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M. K. Asante: Temple University

Chapter Chapter 17 in Africa and the Formation of the New System of International Relations, 2021, pp 229-238 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract In this paper, the author distinguishes between the language of centeredness and the less precise language of de-centeredness in relation to culture and economics. Historical and political de-centeredness takes Africans from the center to the margins in their own narratives; this is a danger for any analysis. Thus, Molefi Asante seeks an analytic Afrocentricity where it is possible to anticipate through sentinel statements the social and political intentions of those who write about African issues. This construction is a response to the continuing issue of an African intellectual world where Africans are not even the subjects in their own realities. Asante argues that this situation can be overcome by a re-orientation of African studies in such a way that partnering rather than hierarchy becomes the fundamental means of investigating and analyzing social, political, and economic issues in Africa.

Keywords: Afrocentricity; Analytic; Sentinel statements; Episteme; African studies; Hierarchy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-77336-6_17

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