It was founded by molefi kete asante who wrote four books on the subject over two decades marking afrocentricity as an african intellectual idea to extend negritude. The afrocentric idea and the cultural turn in intercultural communication studies article in international journal of intercultural relations 366 november 2012 with 763 reads. The afrocentric project stands for molefi asante as a critical corrective. I plan to discuss an ideological framework, that is, a superstructure for continental civic commitment to african nationalism based on the perceived and practical relationships of africans with each other. Argues against the afrocentric perspective but supports pan. Context and theory molefi kete asante and the afrocentric idea afrocentricity definition afrocentricity materialized as a theory of knowledge in 1980 under molefi kete asante s philosophical thinking while also posing a systematic challenge to western epistemology.
Dr molefi kete asante revolutionary pedegogy thru afrocentricity. Created during the last quarter of the 20th century, afrocentricity launched terms such as agency, centeredness. Afrocentricity has been labelled as an antithesis, a defensive countermove against eurocentricity seeking to replace the european view of the world. During the l960s a group of african american intellectuals in the newlyformed black studies departments at universities. The emerging paradigm of afrocentric research methods. It is the combining of all the nationalities and cultures here that is the. Published 42009 afrocentricity is a paradigm based on the idea that african people should reassert a sense of agency in order to achieve sanity. Adherents maintain that it cannot be the antithesis of eurocentricity and reject the notion of it seeking to replace eurocentricity. Afrocentricity and the black intellectual tradition and. Asante, in crafting the conceptual foundations of afrocentricity, focuses on five central concepts. The afrocentric idea and the cultural turn in intercultural communication studies. Afrocentricity is a philosophical paradigm, based on the work of the communication and cultural theorist molefi kete asante, that emphasizes the centrality and agency of african phenomena within the african historical context as the solution to what asante called dislocation. By combining the best elements of the centering process. The afrocentric idea and the cultural turn in intercultural.
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