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Molefi Kete Asante
Quoted From “Afrocentricity: Theory of Social Change”
“Afrocentricity seeks to re-locate the African person as an agent in human history in an
effort to eliminate the illusion of the fringes. For the past five hundred years Africans have
been taken off of cultural, economic, religious, political, and social terms and have existed
primarily on the periphery of Europe. Because of this existence we have often participated in
an anti-African racism born of the same Western triumphalism that has entrapped our minds in the
West. We know little about our own classical heritage and nothing about our contributions to
world knowledge. To say that we are decentered means essentially that we have lost our own
cultural footing and become other than our cultural and political origins, dis-located and
dis-oriented. We are essentially insane, that is, living an absurdity from which we will never
be able to free our minds until we return to the source. Afrocentricity as a theory of change
intends to re-locate the African person as subject, thus destroying the notion of being objects
in the Western project of domination. As a pan-African idea, Afrocentricity becomes the key to
the proper education of children and the essence of an African cultural revival and, indeed, survival.”
...www.asante.net
W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington
Quoted From “Two Nations of Black America”: A PBS Special on Race
“Two great leaders of the black community in the late 19th and 20th century were W.E.B.
Du Bois and Booker T. Washington. However, they sharply disagreed on strategies for black social
and economic progress. Their opposing philosophies can be found in much of today's discussions over
how to end class and racial injustice, what is the role of black leadership, and what
do the 'haves' owe the 'have-nots' in the black community.”
...www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/race/etc/road.html
...www.issues-views.com
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