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Africological enterprises  

Definition

  • Winston Van Horne coined the term Africology after Afrology, the term coined by Molefi Asante in Afrocentricty (1980). In discourse and by agreement, Van Horne and Asante decided to use the term Africology to refer to the Afrocentric study of African phenomena (as opposed to any other way of examining phenomena). [Source: Encyclopedia of Black Studies; Africological Enterprise]

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