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Afrocentricity deals primarily with self-determination and African agency and is a pan-African point of view for the study of culture, philosophy, and history. [3] [4] Afrocentrism is a scholarly movement that seeks to conduct research and education on global history subjects, from the perspective of historical African peoples and polities.
Afrocentricity was coined to evoke "African-centeredness", and, as a unifying paradigm, draws from the foundational scholarship of Africana studies and African studies. [3] [9] Those who identify as specialists in Afrocentricity, including historians, philosophers, and sociologists, call themselves "Africologists" [10] [11] or "Afrocentrists."
Critical Lessons in Slavery and the Slave Trade: Essential Studies and Commentaries on Slavery, in General, and the African Slave Trade, in Particular [26] Ahmed Baba: A Scholar of Old Africa [27] The Image of Africa in the Mind of the Afro-American: African Identity in the Literature of Struggle [28] A New Approach to African History [29]
He transferred to the history department. By the 1960s, he was lecturing and writing about African history from a position of Afrocentrism. He concentrated on African civilizations before the European encounter, and was one of a group of scholars who asserted that Egypt had been a black civilization.
While studies in the Anglophone world have more clearly followed the trend of the conceptual separation of Africa, the Francophone world has been more nuanced, which may stem from imperial policies relating to French colonialism in North Africa and sub-Saharan Africa. [6] As the study of North Africa has largely been initiated by the Arabophone ...
Sorrel. For the final dish, Mick presented a dessert made from Jamaican sorrel, or hibiscus flower. “Its significance has travelled all the way from Ghana to the Caribbean, where my heritage is ...
Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African-American Experience edited by Henry Louis Gates and Anthony Appiah (Basic Civitas Books 1999, 2nd ed. Oxford University Press, 2005, ISBN 978-0-19-517055-9) is a compendium of Africana studies including African studies and the "Pan-African diaspora" inspired by W. E. B. Du Bois' project of an Encyclopedia Africana.
Yaacov Shavit (born 24 October 1944) is an emeritus professor at the Department of Jewish History, Tel Aviv University. His main fields of study are the history of modern Israel and modern Jewish intellectual and cultural history. [1] Shavit has also written about the Afrocentrism movement in the African American community.