Molefi Kete Asante; The African Diaspora: The Making of the Modern World; 20 April 2023 скачать в хорошем качестве

Molefi Kete Asante; The African Diaspora: The Making of the Modern World; 20 April 2023

ABOUT THE SPEAKER: Molefi Kete Asante is Professor, Department of Africology at Temple University in Philadelphia. He is the President of the Molefi Kete Asante Institute for Afrocentric Studies. Asante is Professor Extraordinarius at the University of South Africa. He is the Founding Editor, Journal of Black Studies and first director of UCLA’s Center for Afro-American Studies. Asante, often called the most prolific African American scholar, has published 100 books, among the most recent are Being Human Being: Transforming the Race Discourse with Nah Dove; The Precarious Center, or When Will the African Center Hold; Radical Insurgencies; The History of Africa, 3rd Edition; An Afrocentric Pan Africanist Vision; The African American People: A Global History; Erasing Racism: The Survival of the American Nation; Revolutionary Pedagogy; African American History: A Journey of Liberation; African Pyramids of Knowledge; Maulana Karenga: An Intellectual Portrait; Facing South to Africa, and, the memoir, As I Run Toward Africa. Asante has published more than 500 articles and is considered one of the most quoted living African authors as well as one of the most distinguished thinkers in the African world. He has been named a History Maker with an interview in the Library of Congress. In 2019 the National Communication Association named him an NCA Distinguished Scholar, its highest honor, saying that his writings were “spectacular and profound”. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles, at the age of 26, and was appointed a full professor at the age of 30 at the State University of New York at Buffalo. At Temple University he created the first Ph.D. Program in African American Studies in 1988. He is the founder of the theory of Afrocentricity, The Cheikh Anta Diop Conference, and the think-tank, The Molefi Kete Asante Institute for Afrocentric Studies in Philadelphia. Asante wrote the mandatory African American History course for Philadelphia School District. He also initiated the Temple University Center for Antiracism. Asante has appeared on numerous television and social media programs in Africa, Asia, North and South America, and Europe. He has received many awards and honors for scholarship and political and community activism. ABOUT THE TALK : Dr. Molefi Kete Asante, the leading proponent of Afrocentricity, will discuss the philosophical, cultural, and economic basis for the African diaspora. He will explore this subject in the light of African migration histories and theories and end with the case for a United States of Africa with provisions for diasporans.