Afrocentric

Afrocentricity is a comprehensive Pan African organization created to support the worldwide economic What is any greater than seeing the world through our eyes?

Afrocentricity is a paradigm based on the idea that African people should re-assert a sense of agency in order to achieve sanity. During the l960s a group of African American intellectuals in the newly-formed Black Studies departments at universities began to formulate novel ways of analyzing information. In some cases, these new ways were called looking at information from “a black perspective” a

s opposed to what had been considered the “white perspective” of most information in the American academy. In the late l970s Molefi Kete Asante began speaking of the need for an Afrocentric orientation to data. By l980 he had published a book, Afrocentricity: The Theory of Social Change, which launched the first full discussion of the concept. Although the word existed before Asante’s book and had been used by many people, including Asante in the l970s, and Kwame Nkrumah in the l960s, the intellectual idea did not have substance as a philosophical concept until l980. The Afrocentric paradigm is a revolutionary shift in thinking proposed as a constructural adjustment to black disorientation, decenteredness, and lack of agency. The Afrocentrist asks the question, “What would African people do if there were no white people?” In other words, what natural responses would occur in the relationships, attitudes toward the environment, kinship patterns, preferences for colors, type of religion, and historical referent points for African people if there had not been any intervention of colonialism or enslavement? Afrocentricity answers this question by asserting the central role of the African subject within the context of African history, thereby removing Europe from the center of the African reality. In this way, Afrocentricity becomes a revolutionary idea because it studies ideas, concepts, events, personalities, and political and economic processes from a standpoint of black people as subjects and not as objects, basing all knowledge on the authentic interrogation of location. So that it becomes legitmate to ask, “Where is the sistah coming from?” or “Where is the brotha at?” “Are you down with overcoming oppression?” These are assessment and evaluative questions that allow the interrogator to accurately pinpoint the responder’s location, whether it be a cultural or psychological location. As a paradigm Afrocentricity enthrones the centrality of the African, that is, black ideals and values, as expressed in the highest forms of African culture, and activates consciousness as a functional aspect of any revolutionary approach to phenomena. The cognitive and structural aspects of a paradigm are incomplete without the functional aspect. There is something more than knowing in the Afrocentric sense; there is also doing. Afrocentricity holds that all definitions are autobiographical. One of the key assumptions of the Afrocentrist is that all relationships are based on centers and margins and the distances from either the center or the margin. When black people view themselves as centered and central in their own history then they see themselves as agents, actors, and participants rather than as marginals on the periphery of political or economic experience. Using this paradigm, human beings have discovered that all phenomena are expressed in the fundamental categories of space and time. Furthermore, it is then understood that relationships develop and knowledge increases to the extent we are able to appreciate the issues of space and time. The Afrocentric scholar or practitioner knows that one way to express Afrocentricity is called marking. Whenever a person delineates a cultural boundary around a particular cultural space in human time, this is called marking. It might be done with the announcement of a certain symbol, the creation of a special bonding, or the citing of personal heroes of African history and culture. Beyond citing the revolutionary thinkers in our history, that is, beyond Amilcar Cabral, Frantz Fanon, Malcolm X and Nkrumah, we must be prepared to act upon our interpretation of what is in the best interest of black people, that is, black people as an historically oppressed population. This is the fundamental necessity for advancing the political process. Afrocentricity is the substance of our regeneration because it is in line with what contemporary philosophers Haki Madhubuti and Maulana Karenga, among others, have articulated as in the best image and interest of African people. What is any better than operating and acting out of our own collective interest? What resonates more with people than understanding that we are central to our history, not someone else’s? If we can, in the process of materializing our consciousness, claim space as agents of progressive change, then we can change our condition and change the world.

Carmen Attikossie: I started Cartik with less than $3 to my name

10/10/2017

https://sheleadsafrica.org/started-cartik/

Insightful!

Carmen Attikossie: I started Cartik with less than $3 to my name With less than $3 to her name, Carmen Attikossie birthed Cartik, a fashion brand that works with artisans in both Togo and Ghana.

10/05/2017

Attacking my hunger 😊

On this Invasion Day, I am angry. Australia has a long way to go | IndigenousX

26/01/2016

While I think it is a normal respond to hold grudges and be angry at those that have inflicted pain and hurt on you and your own kinds - I think being angry in unity to ignite change is much better. Take this opportunity to think about your ancestors' country and the happenings in that country and what changes need to be made. http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jan/26/on-this-day-of-mourning-i-am-angry-australia-has-a-long-way-to-go

On this Invasion Day, I am angry. Australia has a long way to go | IndigenousX 26 January is alternately known as Australia Day, Invasion Day and the Day of Mourning. host Pekeri Ruska reflects on what this date means to her and her people

Would you like to try these delicious racist snacks with your Australia Day barbie? | First Dog...

26/01/2016

I consider myself lucky to live in Australia but, this country's past is never far from my sight and mind. It reminds me of my own people and the country that is now South Sudan. How is your Australia Day going? http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2016/jan/25/would-you-like-to-try-these-delicious-racist-snacks-with-your-australia-day-barbie =_

Would you like to try these delicious racist snacks with your Australia Day barbie? | First Dog... Thanks for coming! Are you hungry? We baked this Australia flag cake. It’s a traditional recipe using flour laced with arsenic

25/05/2015

He teaches children about things, he said, there is world out there, he even said there must be other civilisation somewhere out of space!! This man is dangerous!!!

It may not seemingly have any practical uses, but it won't hurt them, it will only stimulate they Mind to conceive reality outside of they sphere of influence.

Let's the children dream!!

I was born in a place where dream are nightmare for dreams!!!

It has not practical use, they said, what you are going to use that? They say!! That's just a dream, they say, but often fail to realise, that the very foundation of reality is a dream. From word, comes thought. We imagined, we put our imagination into word, in the form of words projected orally or writing then manifest that into physical objects.

This is just metaphorical...:)

Moving speech: A pan-African perspective...Decolonising the Mind of Africans

24/03/2015

http://youtu.be/KfOFcjMRlgo

Must watched my beloved African brothers and sisters! It's time we change our thinking, our social positions and situations in this world.

Moving speech: A pan-African perspective...Decolonising the Mind of Africans ...If Nkrumah, Nyerere and Lumumba were to rise up from the dead and see what is happening in Africa, they would be confronted with Africa at war with each o...

12/03/2015

Every nation have a tendency to grow from small aggregate to a larger aggregate. These evolutionary grow start from family, tribe and to nation. Europe went through this evolutionary path, Africa was going through the same, but it has been constantly interrupted, first through slavery, then colonialism and now global capitalism ( global dictatorship) what European powers are doing and still been doing, not ordinary people, but the powers, are rationalising injustice and calling people primitive to make seemingly justifiable to steal, kill and exploit them. In my eyes this is the greatest form of savagery and uncivilised behaviours. in Historical process there is winners and losers, this has nothing to do with brain capacity. We have seen great civilisation coming and vanishing many of whom where non Europeans. But today some of them can be found in a state of so-call primitive and these where very advance civilisations before Europe has even thought of basic thing such as classifying man as man. These example can even be found in many part of Europe itself. England for instance, they somehow ruled the world, they started many of advancement in industries. England where looked looked down on other Europeans, that one the king said said and I quote"they are so dumb that I cannot make good slave out them" but look at them today. And an islamic scholar in medical Iraq once said, the more you move toward west the more pale you you'll find them and more studied they are.

27/02/2015

Hi friends and families... Thanks you very much for sharing infos on Afro-centric page, this page is for you! So please keep sharing.

Thanks to my dear sister Loveyta Elizabeth brown for sharing so much enlightened informations with us. Please keep up sister.

27/02/2015

Made in Africa, we should fund people/companies like this who wants to push Africa forward

11/02/2015

To our wonderful followers, thank you for liking the page. Life can get a bit busy making it hard to keep the page up to date. Please, if you come across anything that is revelant to this page, and might be of benefit to your follow African/black brothers and sisters, please I encourage you to feel free to share it as long as it is revelant and does not contain any explicit and or offensive material. Thank you so much, Afrocentric.

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