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Midas Chanawe outlined in his historical survey of the development of Afrocentricity how experiences of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, Middle Passage, and legal prohibition of literacy, shared by enslaved African-Americans, followed by the experience of dual cultures (e.g., Africanisms, Americanisms), resulted in some African-Americans re-exploring their African cultural heritage rather than ...
Afrocentrism is a worldview that is centered on the history of people of African descent or a view that favors it over non-African civilizations. [1] It is in some respects a response to Eurocentric attitudes about African people and their historical contributions.
The term "miseducation" was coined by Carter G. Woodson to describe the process of systematically depriving African Americans of their knowledge of self. Woodson believed that miseducation was the root of the problems of the masses of the African-American community and that if the masses of the African-American community were given the correct knowledge and education from the beginning, they ...
Cheikh Anta Diop (29 December 1923 – 7 February 1986) was a Senegalese historian, anthropologist, physicist, and politician who studied the human race's origins and pre-colonial African culture. [1]
The terms "Afrocentric", "African-centered", and "Afrocentrist" may refer to: Afrocentrism , popular culture and ideology focused on the history and culture of black Africans Afrocentricity , a research method and methodological paradigm used in Black studies to center black Africans as subjects and agents within their own historical and ...
[6] In particular, Mwalimu Baruti is of the view that when some people of African descent, who are oppressed by European society and cultural imperialism like other people of African descent, seek to come back to their African cultural orientation as they enter into the Conscious Community, intentionally or unintentionally, they bring along ...
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Toward the African Revolution (French: Pour la Revolution Africaine) is a collection of essays written by Frantz Fanon, which was published in 1964, [1] after Fanon's death. The essays in the book were written from 1952 to 1961, between the publication of his two most famous works, Black Skin, White Masks and The Wretched of the Earth .