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Facing South to Africa

Toward an Afrocentric Critical Orientation
Buch | Hardcover
158 Seiten
2014
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-0-7391-9671-7 (ISBN)
CHF 159,95 inkl. MwSt
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Renowned Critical Africana scholar and philosopher, Molefi Kete Asante demonstrates the multidimensionality of Afrocentricity as a paradigm of theoretical perspectives advancing the agency of African people. Examining orientations to culture, society, values, and communication, Asante’s essays face South first, and then to the rest of the world.
Facing South to Africa is a bold synthesis of the ideas that have made Afrocentric theorists the leading voices of the African renaissance. Written from the vantage point of the philosophical and political discourse that emerged over the past twenty-five years, this is a highly readable and accessible introduction to African social and cultural criticism. Molefi Kete Asante engages in the practice of critical thinking by raising fundamental questions about how Africans view themselves and the world. Tackling the themes of culture, education, social sciences, the university, politics, African unity, and the prospects for peace in Africa, Facing South to Africa is a fresh, daring, and popularizing synthesis of the best critical thought on the issues of modern knowledge. Asante’s plan is to reorient our thinking on Africa by asking questions of Africa and Africans rather than imposing preconceived, external ideas on African issues.

Molefi Kete Asante is professor and chair of the Department of African American Studies at Temple University. He is also president of Molefi Kete Asante Institute for Afrocentric Studies and guest professor at Zhejiang University and Professor Extraordinarius at the University of South Africa.

Chapter One: Afrocentricity and Culture
Chapter Two: African Maat and Human Communication
Chapter Three: The Ordeal of Good Afrocentric Speech
Chapter Four: Afrocentricity and Education
Chapter Five: Imagining New Social Sciences
Chapter Six: The Philosophical Basis for an African University
Chapter Seven: Kwame Nkrumah and Muammar Gaddafi’s Vision of Africa
Chapter Eight: Toward a Union of African States
Chapter Nine: Thabo Mbeki and an Afrocentric Africa
Chapter Ten: Western Media and the Falsification of Africa
Chapter Eleven: Threats to African Peace and The Face of Solutions, UN Speech

Reihe/Serie Critical Africana Studies
Sprache englisch
Maße 168 x 233 mm
Gewicht 381 g
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Makrosoziologie
ISBN-10 0-7391-9671-5 / 0739196715
ISBN-13 978-0-7391-9671-7 / 9780739196717
Zustand Neuware
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