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the afrocentric idea  

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  • The Afrocentric Idea is Molefi Kete Asante's second salvo in a trilogy of books that includes Afrocentricity (1980) and Kemet, Afrocentricity, and Knowledge (1990). In The Afrocentric Idea Asante articulates his simultaneously critically acclaimed and vigorously contested concept of Afrocentricity. [Source: Encyclopedia of Black Studies; The Afrocentric Idea]

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