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Temple Circle  

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  • The Temple Circle (TC) was a group of Afrocentric scholars gathered at Temple University in the late 1980s and early 1990s around the intellectual ideas articulated by Molefi Kete Asante. Among the leaders of this group were scholars such as C. T. Keto, Ama Mazama, Aisha Blackshire-Belay, Kariamu Welsh, Theophile Obenga, James Ravell, Charles Fuller, Nah Dove, Thelma Ravell, and several others. [Source: Encyclopedia of Black Studies; Temple Circle]

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