Molefi Kete Asante

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Molefi Kete Asante , originally Arthur Lee Smith Jr. (born August 14, 1942 in Valdosta , Georgia , USA ) is an American author and Afrocentrist. His book Afrocentricity coined the term Afrocentrism . Asante is considered the "foster son" of Cheikh Anta Diop .

Asante was born as one of 16 children to a Sudanese - Nigerian family. He studied at Pepperdine University and the University of California in Los Angeles . At the age of 30 he became a professor at the State University of New York at Buffalo . He is Professor of African American Studies at Temple University . He is also the father of the author and filmmaker MK Asante .

biography

Asante was born in 1942 as the fourth of a total of 16 children. His father, Arthur Lee Smith, worked in a peanut warehouse and later for the Georgia Southern Railroad ; his mother was a housewife. During the summer, Asante had to help out on tobacco and cotton fields in Georgia to finance his school fees. His aunt gave him his first book with various short stories by Charles Dickens .

He attended the Nashville Christian Institute , where he graduated from high school in 1960. Then he attended the same place the Oklahoma Christian College , where he received his bachelor's degree in 1964 . A year later he received a Master of Arts degree from Pepperdine University in Los Angeles . He was also president of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Chapter at the University of California in the 1960s , where he received his PhD in philosophy in 1968 .

Asante then became one of the first black professors at Purdue University for a year before returning to the University of California to lead the Center for Afro-American Studies. During this time he co-founded the Journal of Black Studies with Robert Singleton , a scientific publication in the field. In 1972, while traveling through Africa, Smith got the idea of ​​changing his name after a librarian - who had previously had his book - thought it was written by an Englishman. In 1973 he was appointed professor in the Department of Communications at the State University of New York and officially changed his name in the same year. In 1980 he wrote his most important work, Afrocentricity: The Theory of Social Change , with which he defined the term Afrocentric and with further publications in the following decades (including The Afrocentric Idea 1987, Kemet, Afrocentricity and Knowledge 1990 and An Afrocentric Manifesto 2007 ) further consolidated. In 1984 he became Professor of African-American Studies at Temple University , a position he still holds today.

Asante received a large number of honors: in 1995 he was given the name Nana Okru Asante Peasah together with the title Kyidomhene of the House of Tafo in Akyem Abuakwa in Ghana. In 2002 he received the Douglas Ehninger Award for Rhetorical Scholarship. In 2004 he was invited by the African Union to give a keynote speech at the Conference of Intellectuals of Africa and the Diaspora in Dakar and named at the introduction as one of the twelve greatest intellectuals of African descent. In 2012 he was awarded the title Wanadoo of Gao at the court of Hassimi Maiga der Songhai . In April 2014, he was invited to address the UN General Assembly for Peace in Africa.

Works

  • Break of Dawn. Dorrance Company , Philadelphia 1964
  • Rhetoric of Black Revolution. Allyn & Bacon , Boston 1969 (with Andrea Rich )
  • Toward Transracial Communication. UCLA Center of Afro-American Studies , Los Angeles 1970
  • How to Talk to People of Other Races. Transcultural Education Foundation , Los Angeles 1971 (together with Anne Allen and Deluvina Hernandez )
  • The Voice of Plack Rhetoric. Allyn & Bacon , Boston 1971
  • Language, Communication, and Rhetoric in Black America. Harper & Row , New York 1972
  • Transracial Communication. Prentice Hall , Englewood Cliffs 1973
  • African and Afro-American Communication Continuities. SUNY Center of International Affairs , Buffalo 1975
  • Intercultural Communication: Theory Into Practice. Speech Communication Association , Alexandria VA 1976 (with Eileen Newmark )
  • Contemporary Public Communication. Harper & Row , New York 1976 (with J. Frye )
  • The Social Uses of Mass Communication. SUNY Communication Research Center , Buffalo 1977 (with Mary Cassata )
  • Epic in Search of African Kings. Amulefi Publishing Company , Buffalo 1978
  • Mass Communication: Principles and Practices. Macmillan , New York 1979 (with Mary Cassata)
  • Handbook of Intercultural Communication. Sage Publications , Beverly Hills 1979 (with E. Newmark and C. Blake)
  • Contemporary Black Thought. Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks 1980.
  • Afrocentricity: The Theory of Social Change. Amulefi Publishing Company 1980
  • Media Training Needs in Zimbabwe. Mass Media Trust and Friedrich Naumann Foundation , Harare 1982
  • African Myths: New Frames of Reference. ZIMCO , Harare 1982
  • Research in Mass Communication: A Guide to Practice. ZIMCO, Harare 1982
  • International Press Seminar Proceedings. Ranche House , Harare 1982
  • African Culture: The Rythms of Unity. Greenwood Press , Westport 1985
  • The Afrocentric Idea. Temple University Press , Philadelphia 1987
  • Afrocentricity: The Theory of Social Change. Africa World Press, Trenton 1988
  • Handbook of International and Intercultural Communication. Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks 1989
  • Umfundalai: Afrocentric Rites of Passage. National Afrocentric Institute , Philadelphia 1989
  • Kemet, Afrocentricity, and Knowledge. Africa World Press , Trenton 1990
  • Historical and Cultural Atlas of African Americans. MacMillan, New York 1991
  • The Book of African Names. Africa World Press, Trenton 1991
  • Thunder and Silence: The Mass Media in Africa. Africa World Press, Trenton 1991
  • Classical Africa. Peoples Publishing Group , Maywood NJ 1994
  • Malcolm X as Cultural Hero and Other Afrocentric Essays. Africa World Press, Trenton 1995
  • African American History: A Journey of Liberation. Peoples Publishing Group, Maywood NJ 1995
  • In Their Faces: Situating Alternatives to Afrocentricity. Temple Institute for Advanced Afrocentric Research, Philadelphia 1994 (not published)
  • African Intellectual Heritage. Temple University Press , Philadelphia 1996 (with Abu Abarry )
  • Classical African Activity Book. Peoples Publishing Group, New Jersey 1996 (with Judylynn Mitchell )
  • Teacher's Guide for African American History. Peoples Publishing Group, New Jersey 1997 (with Chermaine Harris-Stewart and Augusta Mann )
  • Activity Book for African American History. Peoples Publishing Group, New Jersey 1997 (with Augusta Mann)
  • African American Names. Peoples Publishing Group, New Jersey 1997 (with Renee Muntaqim )
  • Love Dances. Sungai Press , Trenton 1998
  • African American Atlas: Black History and Culture. Macmillan, New York 1998
  • The Scream of Blood: Desettlerism in Southern Africa. Sungai Books , Princeton 1998
  • The Painful Demise of Eurocentrism. Africa World Press, Trenton 1999
  • The Egyptian Philosophers. African American Images , Chicago 2000
  • Social Conflict Between African Americans and Korean Americans. University Press of America , Alexandria VA 2000 (with Molefi Asante )
  • Discovery Essays for Teachers. Ankh Publishiers , Philadelphia 2001 (with Molefi Asante)
  • Transcultural Realities. Sage Publications, Thousands Oaks 2001 (with Molefi Asante and Peter Nwosu )
  • Egypt, Greece and the American Academy. African American Images, Chicago 2002 (with Ama Mazama )
  • Scattered to the wind. Sungai Books, Princeton 2002
  • 100 Greatest African Americans. Prometheus Books , Amherst NY 2002
  • Customs and Culture of Modern Egypt. Greenwood Press, Westport CT 2002
  • Erasing Racism: The Survival of the American Nation. Prometheus Books, Amherst NY 2003
  • Encyclopedia of Black Studies. Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks 2004 (with Ama Mazama)
  • Handbook of Black Studies. Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks 2005 (with Maulana Karenga)
  • Rhetoric, Race and Identity: The Architecton of Soul. Promotheus Books, Amherst NY 2005
  • Cheikh Anta Diop : An Intellectual Portrait. University of Sankore Press , Los Angeles 2006
  • Spear Masters: An Introduction to African Religion. Rowman and Littlefield , Lanham MD 2007 (with Emeka Nwadiora )
  • The History of Africa: The Quest for Eternal Harmony. Routledge , Oxford and New York 2007
  • The Afrocentric Manifesto: Toward an African Renaissance. Polity Press , Oxford 2007
  • The Global Intercultural Communication Reader. Routledge, New York 2008 (with Yoshitaka Miike and Jing Yin )
  • Encyclopedia of African Religion. Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks 2009
  • Maulana Karenga : An Intellectual Portrait. Polity Press, London 2009
  • Speaking My Mother's Tongue: Introduction to African American Language. Themba Hill Press , Fort Worth 2010
  • Afrocentric Infusion for Urban Teachers. ANKH , Philadelphia 2010 (with Ama Mazama)
  • Rooming in the Master's House. Paradigm Publishers , Boulder CO 2010 (with Ron Hall )
  • Barack Obama: Political Frontiers and racial agency. CQ Press College , Washington 2011 (with Ama Mazama )
  • As I Run toward Africa: A Memoir. Paradigm Publishers, Boulder CO 2011
  • The African American People: A Global History. Routledge, New York 2012
  • Herodotus on Egypt. Black Classic Press , Baltimore 2012
  • Afrocentricity: Imagination and Action. Multiversity & Citizens International , Penang 2013
  • Facing South to Africa: Toward an Afrocentric Critical Orientation. Lexington Books , 2014
  • African Pyramids of Knowledge: Kemet, Afrocentricity and Africology Universal Write , 2015
  • The Dramatic Genius of Charles Fuller: An African American Playwright Universal Write, 2015
  • Contemporary Critical Thought in Africology and Africana Studies Lexington Books, 2016

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Diane D. Turner: An Oral History Interview: Molefi Kete Asante . In: Journal of Black Studies . tape 32 , no. 6 , July 2002, p. 711-734 , JSTOR : 3180971 .
  2. ↑ Patricia Reid-Merritt: Molefi Kete Asante . In: Encyclopedia of African American History . ABC-CLIO, 2010, p. 617-618 .
  3. ↑ Biography. In: asante.net. Retrieved August 21, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Asante, Molefi Kete
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American author and afrocentrist
DATE OF BIRTH August 14, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Valdosta , Georgia , USA