Afrocentricity: opening the African mouth and mind

Abstract

This paper is an exercise in the exorcizing of white racial supremacy in the minds of African intellectuals. Asante connects the ancient Nile Valley Complex of cultures (Kemet, Kush, and Axum) to classical concepts that were disseminated throughout the African world. Explaining the distorted view of African society because of European marginalizing of the African continent's gifts, Asante proposes the amplification of an Afrocentric assertion where the agency of African people assume the leading role in any interpretation of African phenomena.