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• W276988597 abstract "The discipline of Africology must give us a prism through which we can correctly interpret the world around us. It must give us the capacity not simply to ask different questions, but the right questions, and to test the truth of the answers we receive on the basis of realities emanating uniquely from the African experience. --William E. Nelson (1) Introduction With the first writing of Afrocentricity: Theory of Social Change in 1980, Molefi Asante proposes an Afrocentric philosophy through which Afrologists can produce liberating and transforming scholarship within the discipline of Afrology. (2) Unfortunately, the current intellectual ideas generating from most Temple trained Asantean scholars is repetitive at best and stagnant at worst. It is true that the discipline Asante divinely reveals and scribes as Afrology in his 1980 text became further institutionalized in the academe with the creation of the first department of Africology at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee in 1994 under the direction of Winston Van Horne. It is also true that the Department of African American Studies at Temple University became the first to offer a Ph.D. degree with Afrocentricity as the proposed philosophical perspective in 1988. In spite of these defining disciplinary advancements, however, it is clear that there is only a minimal corpus of Africological writings that has set the precedent for liberatory Asantean Africological paradigmatic scholarship besides the writings of Ama Mazama, Danjuma Modupe and of course, Asante. Temple has produced over 100+ doctoral dissertations since the inception of the Ph.D. program, many which rely on an Asantean Afrocentric philosophical perspective as lens. Most Africologists, it seems, at least from perusal of these dissertations, rely on location theory or subject/agent theory as theoretical Afrocentric points of departure. Using either of these theories requires Africologists to seek understanding about Africana phenomena in the midst of our postmodern moment and then decide if the phenomenon is Afrocentric or otherwise. According to the defining Afrocentric paradigmatic sources, examination of phenomena in this way is imperative on our path towards liberation of our consciousness, our initial stage in our quest for our knowledge of self and quest for freedom in the oppressive West. (3) Nonetheless, if our Africological mission is to scribe transgenerational African approaches for thinking and research that assists us in developing ways of understanding about and proposing necessary solutions for our freedom while residing in the oppressive West, we are really indeed at an Anpuic crossroads at this moment. (4) For, Asantean Africological students who are currently in scribal training at Temple University are stuck in a quagmire when using either location or subject/agent theories because these theories do not necessarily encourage self knowledge that can truly bring about freedom of consciousness and therefore freedom for the greater homeland and diasporan African communities. What really has differentiated our attempts at discourse development from, say, scholars emerging from University of California at Berkeley's Department of African American Studies and Northwestern's African American Studies Department besides our notion that we need to reclaim our subject/agent position regardless of location? Are not most writings on Africana phenomena in our postmodern world about finding, reclaiming, dispersing, moving, collapsing and/or negating subjective/agent positions because of location in time and space? My intention for writing this essay is to continue with a much-needed conversation among Asantean Africologists. Concerned with what really defines our work as Africologists, and where we have gone a stray, it is my hope that I will not anger nor disrespect the first generation of Asantean Africologists, but inquire about ways to rectify the seemingly retardation of our discourse among younger Africologists. …" @default.
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• W276988597 title "An Essay on God as the Bicameral Mind: Implications for Africological Research" @default.
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