ABSTRACT
Afrocentricity is a philosophical paradigm used to generate theories and methods of analysis and correctives to the social, economic, and cultural conditions of African people. Rather Afrocentricity argued that Africans, regardless to opposition and despite the spatial distribution of Africans, had to embrace the idea that as African people there was nothing wrong with them as Africans. Afrocentricity’s innovation in approaching knowledge related to African people is the assertion that Africans must be the center of their own narratives. This was a simple philosophical pivot, but its impact has colored all studies of African people since the publication of Molefi Kete Asante’s original studies on Afrocentricity. A key premise of Afrocentricity is that African agency is the central instrument in a cultural reorientation in the African world. Few critics of Afrocentricity even quote from Afrocentrists; they are second-hand commentators for the most part.
