The Precarious Center or When Will The African Narrrative Hold - Couverture souple

Asante, Molefi Kete

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1942774044 ISBN 13 : 9781942774044

Editeur : Universal Write Publications LLC, 2021

Synopsis

My concern in this book, The Precarious Center , is the degree to which Africans have become enamored through Greek, English, French, German, Spanish, and Portuguese with Westernity to the detriment of African ideas and ideals. Only in the re-centering of the African World in its own narrative subjectivity can true freedom of thought, innovation, and liberation exist as a way to enhance human knowledge. The Pan European Academy with all of its structural capital amassed over the centuries and enshrined in the educational systems of Africans has continued to dominate the theoretical and value base of African inquiries.
The point I make in this preface is that Western notions grounded in the myths and memes of Greek society obliterate all other possibilities and reinforce the idea of European superiority in a multiethnic and multitural world. In a quest for a broader sense of what the prize-winning africologist Ibram Kendi calls the true intellectual project I want to see a total respect for all tures. Therefore, in this book I assert the idea that to strengthen global communication equality and free the spirit of humanity we must challenge the assertive memes of the West to allow spaces for a multiplicity of tural postures. 
In a practical sense this means that I want to urge the reader to examine how the memes of Greek and Roman realities are related to those of other classical civilizations in an effort to minimize the aggressive anti-human behavior of those who do not understand the totality of human experience. I am suggesting that it is necessary to be conscious of Zeus while simultaneously discovering in this Greek symbol the psycho-myths that haunt our present time. Of course, I do not project either Ra or Odudua as superior to Zeus, only that they have a seat at the table.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Universal Write Publications LLC
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1942774044
• ISBN 13: 9781942774044
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 146
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible