Asante develops his theory of Afrocentricity — the study of African people and phenomena from their own centered standpoint — and grounds it in Kemet, ancient Egypt, as a source of classical African concepts of knowledge. The book examines how knowledge is framed, whose standpoint counts as universal, and what an Afrocentric method means for scholarship. It is a key text in the Afrocentric school Asante founded.
Author: Molefi Kete Asante · Original publisher: Africa World Press (Trenton, NJ), 1990
