Branches of Asanteism explores the epistemologies and research methodologies that have sprung from Mwalimu Molefi Kete Asante's treatises on Afrocentricity. The book identifies and analyzes thirteen such epistemologies and methodologies while defining and explicating the various "branches" of Asante's idea of Afrocentricity.
Branches of Asanteism explores the epistemologies and research methodologies that have sprung from Mwalimu Molefi Kete Asante's treatises on Afrocentricity. The book identifies and analyzes thirteen such epistemologies and methodologies while defining and explicating the various "branches" of Asante's idea of Afrocentricity.
Abdul Karim Bangura is a researcher-in-residence of Abrahamic Connections and Islamic Peace Studies at the Center for Global Peace at American University and the director of The African Institution, both in Washington DC. He is also a visiting graduate professor of Regional Integration at the University of Cabo Verde as well as director of the Institute and senior doctoral dissertations mentor of the CODESRIA College of Mentors in Dakar (Senegal). Bangura is also a member of many scholarly organizations, has served as President and then United Nations Ambassador of the Association of Third World Studies, and is a Special Envoy of the African Union Peace and Security Council. He has recently been awarded the Special United States Congressional Award for "outstanding and invaluable service to the international community."
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Introduction Chapter One: A Survey of Mwalimu Asante's Treatises on Afrocentricity Chapter Two: Mwalimu Mazrui's Afrenaissance Chapter Three: Nantambu's Pan-African Nationalism Approach Chapter Four: Collins' Afrocentric Feminist Epistemology Chapter Five: Hudson-Weems Africana Womanism Theory Chapter Six: Mazama's Afrocentric Spirituality Chapter Seven: Bangura's Ubuntugogy Chapter Eight: Bangura's African Mathematization Chapter Nine: Bangura's African-centered Computational Techniques Chapter Ten: Schiele's Afrocentric Organizational Theory Chapter Eleven: Schiele's Afrocentric Social Work Practice Paradigm and Social Welfare Philosophy and Policy Chapter Twelve: Pellebon's Asante-Based Afrocentricity Scale Chapter Thirteen: Miike's Asiacentricity Chapter Fourteen: Kondo's Black Consciousness Epistemology Conclusion
