Books by Molefi Kete Asante

This book critically examines Ama Mazama, a prominent and leading female theorist in Africology and African American Studies, and her intellectual work. The author studies how and why Ama Mazama has evolved into one of the most popular Africologists in the field.

Molefi Kete Asante confronts the socialist Pan African idea with an Afrocentric orientation grounded in history and culture, suggesting that the African renaissance cannot take place unless there is a commitment to creating an African community conscious of its own myths, origins, and economic, cultural, and philosophical traditions.

Radical Insurgencies draws and translates wisdom from Africology, history, sociology, and philosophy to stitch together various social and political concerns presented by Dr. Molefi Kete Asante in various academic settings. The book offers selected portions of significant speeches, an adaptation from the author's The American Demagogue, and a selection of conference papers presented in British Columbia, Zimbabwe, and the Chinese Communication Conference in 2011.

Afrocentricity allows the student of human culture investigating African phenomena to view the world from the standpoint of the African. As Ama Mazama has argued in The Afrocentric Paradigm, Afrocentricity''s implications are multifarious and constant. Since the publication of Mazama''s book two decades ago (and spurred in turn by Dr. Asante''s Afrocentricity: The Theory of Social Change two decades before that), the theoretical and critical works on Afrocentricity have exploded. Dr, Asante''s current book brings us into the 21st century with new avenues for research and critique.Readers will learn how to: ┬╖      Apply the Afrocentric method to transform human reality ┬╖      Usher in a human openness to cultural pluralism unlocking of our minds for acceptance of an expansion of consciousness┬╖      Overthrow parochialism, provincialism, and narrow Wotanic visions┬╖      Demonstrate the usefulness of an Afrocentric approach, beginning with ancient Kemet, to questions of knowledgeAfrican Pyramids of Knowledge delves into four areas: (1) The Intellectual Landscape, which details what constitutes the discipline of Africology, (2) A Mobilization of Ideas, which discusses the hallmarks of creative and philosophical origin as they aid in the critical process of African recovery (3) Confronting the Historical Situation, which proposes new ways to deal with the historical situation and (4) Asserting the New Cultural Reality, envisioning what innovative examination of agency could accomplish. 

Few critics have examined Fuller seriously and in some ways his work, like that of other black writers, has fallen outside the gaze of contemporary literary and dramatic writers even though he has received some of the highest awards in the nation. Part of this is because few African American dramatists have been looked at critically or studied in classrooms or spoken of in terms of their philosophy, style, originality, and brilliance. This book brings a critical reading and sympathetic location of Fuller''s drama in the center of African American dramatic and social history.

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.

The authors contend that in Africa there exists only one religion with a vast array of 'denominations.' African religion is expressed in a different way by each of the denominations, which creates confusion for those who believe that there are more than one African religion.

The first book to show the continuum from slavery to the black conservative movement.

Molefi Kete Asante's Afrocentric philosophy has become one of the most persistent influences in the social sciences and humanities over the past three decades.

Presenting research and scholarship in the field of African-American or black studies, this book contains three divisions: historical and cultural foundations; philosophical and conceptual basis; and critical and analytical concepts.

Summarizes the international, intercultural and developmental communication. This volume includes an overview of major theoretical and applied issues; processes and effects in international and intercultural communication; contexts; and, issues of conducting research on culture, language and communication.