The Theorist Of Afrocentricity

Arthur Lee Smith Jr., 80 Molefi Kete Asante

The Theorist Of Afrocentricity

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Molefi Kete Asante was born named Arthur Lee Smith Jr. on August 14, 1942 in Valdosta, Georgia of the United States. In the 1970s, there was an emphasis laid by Molefi for information to be Afrocentric inclined. This emphasis followed with book publishing in 1980 named "Afrocentricity: The Theory of Social Change", in which he laid down the fundamentals of his ideas. There was a previous existence to the word "Afrocentricity", and had been uttered by numerous persons such as kwame Nkrumah in 1960...

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