African Intellectual Heritage

by Molefi Kete Asante | Temple University Press (1996)

Summary

Organized by major themes such as creation stories, and resistance to oppression, this collection gather together ancient, anonymous writers whose texts were originally written on stone and papyri, and the well-known public figures of more recent times whose spoken and written words have shaped the intellectual history of the diaspora.

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  • Asante is “one of America’s top 100 leading thinkers.

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  • Asante, a sixth-generation American descended from enslaved Africans, has been a guiding light in African American studies.

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  • Molefi Kete Asante is a seminal thinker.

    —Cornel West, Princeton University