Molefi Kete Asante
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)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.
Molefi Kete Asante's Published Works
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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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