Molefi Kete Asante

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According to Wikipedia, Molefi Kete Asante is an American professor and philosopher. He is a leading figure in the fields of African-American studies, African studies, and communication studies. He is currently a professor in the Department of Africology at Temple University, where he founded the PhD program in African-American Studies. He is president of the Molefi Kete Asante Institute for Afrocentric Studies.

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The Afrocentric Idea in Education. (1991) (509)
Book Review: Two Nations: Black and White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal. (1992) (345)
African Culture: The Rhythms Of Unity (1985) (143)
The Afrocentric Idea, Revised and Expanded Edition (1998) (62)
Rhetoric of Black revolution (1969) (60)
The Painful Demise of Eurocentrism: An Afrocentric Response to Critics (1999) (60)
Thunder and Silence: The Mass Media in Africa (1992) (56)
Encyclopedia of Black studies (2005) (49)
Encyclopedia of African Religion (2010) (47)
African American Studies: The Future of the Discipline (1992) (35)
Handbook of Black Studies (2005) (31)
A Discourse on Black Studies (2006) (26)
The Historical and Cultural Atlas of African Americans (1991) (25)
Barack Obama and the Dilemma of Power (2007) (22)
THE AFRICAN AMERICAN MODE OF TRANSCENDENCE (1984) (21)
Television and Black Consciousness (1976) (21)
Mass communication: Principles and practices (1979) (18)
Africology and the Puzzle of Nomenclature (2009) (16)
The book of African names (1991) (15)
Afrocentricity and history: Mediating the meaning of culture in western society (2000) (14)
Rooming in the Master's House: Power and Privilege in the Rise of Black Conservatism (2010) (13)
Spear masters : an introduction to African religion (2007) (13)
The African American as African (1998) (13)
Multiculturalism: An Exchange (2016) (12)
Erasing Racism: The Survival of the American Nation (2003) (11)
Multiculturalism and the Academy. (1996) (10)
MORE THOUGHTS ON THE AFRICANISTS' AGENDA (1995) (10)
Afrocentricity: Notes on a Disciplinary Position (2017) (9)
Great Zimbabwe: An Ancient African City-State (1983) (9)
Myth: The Communication Dimension to the African American Mind (1981) (8)
The History of Africa (2007) (8)
The Philosophy of Afrocentricity (2017) (8)
The African American People: A Global History (2011) (8)
Maulana Karenga: An Intellectual Portrait (2009) (8)
Systematic Nationalism (1978) (7)
100 Greatest African Americans: A Biographical Encyclopedia (2002) (7)
Afrocentricity and the Critique of Drama. (1991) (7)
The Character of Kwame Nkrumah's United Africa Vision (2012) (7)
As I Run Toward Africa: A Memoir (2011) (6)
Afrotopia: The Roots of African American Popular History (review) (2001) (6)
The African-American Atlas: Black History and Culture-An Illustrated Reference (1998) (6)
Socio-Cultural Conflict Between African American and Korean American (2000) (5)
Afrocentricity and the Argument for Civic Commitment: Ideology and Citizenship in a United States of Africa (2010) (5)
Nkrabea and Yuan in Akan and Chinese (2013) (5)
Advancing Identity: Classical East and South Meet the West (2018) (5)
African Renaissance Conferences of the 21st Century (2006) (4)
Akhenaten to Origen (2009) (4)
Africa and Africans in Antiquity (review) (2003) (4)
"Wonders of Africa": A Eurocentric Enterprise (2000) (3)
I Am Afrocentric and Pan-African: A Response to Tawanda Sydesky Nyawasha on Scholarship in South Africa (2020) (3)
“Wonders of the African World”: A Eurocentric Enterprise (2000) (3)
The Discipline of Africology at the Crossroads: Toward An Eshuean Response to Intellectual Dilemma (2005) (3)
The tradition of advocacy in the Yoruba courts (1990) (3)
The Classical African Concept of Maat and Human Communication (2018) (3)
Global Village vs. GandhianVillages: A Viable Vision (2013) (2)
Rediscovering the “Lost” Roman Caesar (2010) (2)
The African Union and the Renaissance of Pan-Africanism (2018) (2)
The Cambridge Companion to Malcolm X: Afrocentricity and Malcolm X (2010) (2)
The Encyclopedia of African American Military History (2004) (2)
Rhetorical Alliances in the Civil Rights Era. (1985) (2)
Decolonising Our Universities (2016) (2)
Criminal Archetypes in the 2000 Presidential Election: How Black Votes Were Stolen (2001) (2)
Graduate Studies in Africology: Challenges and Prospects (2010) (2)
Special Section: Transracial Communication and the Changing Image of Black Americans (1973) (2)
Towards an Afrocentric University (1988) (1)
Foreign Workers' German: A concise glossary of verbal phrases. By Carol A. Blackshire-Belay (1994) (1)
The Black Scholar Reader's Forum: Multiculturalism, Postmodernism and Racial Consciousness (1993) (1)
The Remarkable Curvature of the Mind of Abdias do Nascimento (2021) (1)
Social Discourse without Abandoning African Agency: An Eshuean Response to Intellectual Dilemma (2006) (1)
The African struggle to abandon westernity: African philosophy at Eshuean crossroads (2018) (1)
Learning about Africa. (1992) (1)
Introduction to Third Edition, The History of Africa (2018) (1)
Book Review: Black Visions: The Roots of Contemporary African-American Political Ideologies, by Michael C. Dawson. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. ISBN 0-226-13860-7. 419 pp. $32.00. (2003) (1)
Editor's Note on the 40th Anniversary (2009) (1)
Notes in the History of Intercultural Communication: The Foreign Service Institute and the Mandate for Intercultural Training (2013) (1)
Litany of Horror: A Survey of Newspaper-Reported Lynchings (2004) (1)
An Afrocentric Manifesto: Toward an African Renaissance, Molefi (2005) (1)
The Future of African American Rhetoric (2014) (1)
Millennium Development Goals:Towards a post-2015 development agenda for South Africa (2015) (1)
Interrogating the African Roman Emperor Caracalla (2016) (1)
Generators of traditional and contemporary Africa (2014) (0)
The Nigerian Story (2017) (0)
A Peoples Political History of Guyana 1838–1964, written by Kimani Nehusi (2022) (0)
Book Review: Exodus! Religion, Race, and Nation in Early Nineteenth-Century Black America (2000) (0)
Book Review: The Afrocentric praxis of teaching for freedom: Connecting culture to learning (2016) (0)
Analytic Afrocentricity and the Future of African Studies (2021) (0)
Toward a Transformative African Curriculum for Higher Education (2020) (0)
Wilfred Cartey (1992) (0)
Editor's Statement (1979) (0)
Africa consolidates independence (2014) (0)
Black Language Patterns and Reading Instructions. (1976) (0)
Introduction (1978) (0)
The elements of early African civilization (2014) (0)
Afrocentricity International Salutes Haiti (2016) (0)
Africa regains consciousness in a Pan-African explosion (2014) (0)
MUHAMMAD ALI AND THE EUROPEAN FABRIC OF DOMINATION (2022) (0)
Amiri Baraka: the staccato master of the word (2014) (0)
Africa and the Origin of Humanity (2018) (0)
BOOK REVIEW: Ed. Edwin M. Yamauchi.Africa and Africans in Antiquity, East Lansing, Michigan: Michigan State UP, 2001. (2003) (0)
Resisting European and Arab slave traders (2014) (0)
Notes of my memory of Prof. Ana Monteiro Ferreira: afrocentricity and women’s studies (2021) (0)
7 Afrocentricity and Africology: Theory and Practice in the Discipline (2021) (0)
Pathways in Analysis of African Culture (1987) (0)
Marvels of the African World: African Cultural Patrimony, New World Connections, and Identities (review) (2005) (0)
Haiti and Africa: Past, present and future prospects (2010) (0)
Anthony B. Pinn, Introducing African American Religion. Routledge, London/New York 2013, xii + 276 pp. ISBN 9780415694018. £24.99. (2014) (0)
Encyclopedia of African Religion: Introduction (2022) (0)
Meeting Cheikh Anta Diop on the Road to African Resurgence (2018) (0)
A Legacy of Commitment to Excellence: The Temple University African American Studies Program. (1990) (0)
The World of the African Writer and Artist Fifty Years After the 1956 Conference (2007) (0)
The Sudanic empires: Historians and their narratives (2014) (0)
Afrocentrism and World Politics: Towards a New Paradigm . By Errol Anthony Henderson. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 1995. 222p. $55.00. (1997) (0)
Sex and Power on Daytime Television (1983) (0)
Toward a United States of Africa without Compromise (2018) (0)
What's in Small Talk? Revolutionary Communication in Black Children's Games. (1977) (0)
Arab and European missionaries, merchants, and mercenaries (2014) (0)
Editor's Note (1980) (0)
Book Review: Wade, A. (2006). A Destiny for Africa: The Future of a Continent. Neuilly-sur-Seine, France: Michel Lafon (2007) (0)
Africa and the beginning of civilization (2012) (0)
Announcement (1975) (0)
Toward a United States of Africa without compromise: Creation of the African Union (2014) (0)
Marketing of breast milk substitutes. Manufacturers have sponsored healthcare journals. (1998) (0)
Book Review : The Jewish Onslaught: Despatches from the Wellesley Battlefront. By Tony Martin. Dover, MA: Majority Press, 1994 (1994) (0)
BOOK REVIEW:Ed. Niyi AfolabiMARVELS OF THE AFRICAN WORLD: AFRICAN CULTURAL PATRIMONY, NEW WORLD CONNECTIONS, AND IDENTITIES. Trenton: Africa World P, 2003. (2005) (0)
Amiri Baraka (1934-2014) (2014) (0)
Book Review: Multiracial Identity: An International Perspective (2001) (0)

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