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Author Asante, Molefi Kete, 1942- author.

Title Facing south to Africa : toward an Afrocentric critical orientation / Molefi Kete Asante.

Publication Info. Lanham : Lexington Books, 2014.

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Critical Africana studies: African, African American, and Caribbean interdisciplinary and intersectional studies
Critical Africana studies.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Afrocentricity and culture -- African maat and human communication -- Ordeal of good Afrocentric speech -- Afrocentricity and education -- Afrocentricity and a new orientation -- Imagining new social sciences -- Philosophical basis for an African university -- Kwame Nkrumah and Muammar Gaddafi's vision of Africa -- Toward a union of African states -- Thabo Mbeki and an Afrocentric Africa -- Western media and the falsification of Africa -- Threats to African peace and the face of solutions, UN speech.
Summary 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.
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Subject Afrocentrism.
Afrocentrism.
Pan-Africanism.
Pan-Africanism.
African cooperation.
African cooperation.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Asante, Molefi Kete, 1942- Facing south to Africa 9780739196717 (DLC) 2014022178 (OCoLC)881208702
ISBN 9780739196724 (electronic book)
0739196723 (electronic book)
9780739196717
0739196715