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From Nat Turner to Molefi Kete Asante: Reading the European Intellectual Indictment of the Afrocentric Conception of Reality
Tavengwa Gwekwerere*
* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: jltgwekwerere{at}yahoo.com.
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The desperate Eurocentric intellectual undertaking to undermine the Afrocentric conception of reality is not a recent development. It originated the moment Europeans awoke from the slumber of their Dark Ages to find themselves lagging far behind in the march of the world’s civilizations. The subsequent expropriation of principles and standards from ancient African civilization, the brazen European abduction of African people into slavery, and the unpardonable colonization, exploitation and dehumanization of African people all concatenate to drive European scholars into adopting an aggressive stance toward ideas that expose them in their cultural, social, political, economic and intellectual nudity. The Eurocentric prerogative to subvert the Afrocentric conception of reality is therefore a struggle for European survival and is inspired by the desire to keep the world misinformed in order that Europeans may escape their inferiority and crimes. This exegesis identifies the disappearance of the slave that Afrocentricity facilitates and the sordid nature of Europe’s transactions with non-European peoples in history as the major reasons behind European intellectual discomfiture with Afrocentric principles.
First published on March 31, 2009
Journal of Black Studies 2009, doi:10.1177/0021934708328249
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