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• W1557303411 abstract "Abstract Employing a descriptive case study approach, this article presents and analyzes the essentiality of conceptualizing and contextualizing Africancentricity based on works by African-centered scholars ranging from Cheikh Anta Diop to Molefi Kete Asante. This important because many of the concepts and contexts used in works dealing with Africa and its Diaspora employ Eurocentric concepts and contexts that often do not capture the essence of the phenomena being discussed. To call a thing by its precise name the beginning of understanding, because it the key to the procedure that allows the mind to grasp reality and its many relationships. The systematic discussion that follows demonstrates why and how Africancentricity promotes a greater comprehension of African phenomena. Introduction In this article, I provide a conceptual and contextual analysis of the Afrocentric paradigm as postulated from Cheikh Anta Diop to Molefi Kete Asante. Correspondingly, the major question probed the following: are the major concepts and contexts that undergird the Afrocentric paradigm? Thus, a descriptive case study approach employed in this essay, as the method helps a researcher to answer the What is type question posed here. Before doing all this, however, I begin by grounding the discussion in this paper on the importance of conceptualizing and contextualizing major theoretical thoughts. In essence, this article explores the Afrocentric paradigm to determine its scientific import. This vital because it will help to demonstrate the applicability of Afrocentricity as a systematic form of analysis by identifying the general postulates that make this paradigm explainable and predictable. The Importance of Conceptualizing Major Theoretical Thoughts To call a thing by its precise name the beginning of understanding, because it the key to the procedure that allows the mind to grasp reality and its many relationships. It makes a great deal of difference whether illness conceived of as caused by the Evil Spirit or by bacteria on a binge. The concept bacteria part and parcel of a system of concepts in which there a connection to a powerful repertory of treatments-i.e. antibiotics. Naming a process that can give the namer great power. Old movies about Africans often have episode featuring a confrontation between the local medicine man or witchdoctor and the Western doctor who triumphs for modern science by saving the chief or his child. The cultural agreement that supported the medicine man shattered by the scientist with a microscope. Sadly, for the children of modern medicine, it turns out that there were a few tricks in the medicine man's or witch doctor's bag that were ignored or lost in the euphoria of such a victory for science. Even less happy was the arrogance with which many of the cultural arrangements expressed in the African languages were undermined through the supposition of superiority by conquering powers. To capture meaning in a language a profound and subtle process, indeed. Furthermore, as Chava Frankfort-Nachmias and David Nachmias point out, Thinking involves the use of language. Language itself a system of communication composed of symbols and a set of rules permitting various combinations of these symbols. One of the most significant symbols in a language...is the concept.1 With this excerpt as backdrop, Frankfort- Nachmias and Nachmias define a concept as an abstraction-a symbol-a representation of object or one of its properties, or of a behavioral phenomenon.2 Concepts are generally defined as abstract ideas or mental symbols that are typically associated with corresponding representations in languages or symbologies which denote all of the objects in given categories or classes of entities, events, phenomena, or relationships between them. Concepts are said to be abstract when they omit the differences of the things in their extensions, treating them as if they are identical; they are said to be universal when they apply to everything in their extensions. …" @default.
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• W1557303411 title "From Diop to Asante: Conceptualizing and Contextualizing the Afrocentric Paradigm" @default.
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