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Molefi Kete Asante is professor and chair in the Department of Africology and African American Studies at Temple University in Philadelphia.Molefi Kete Asante’s Ama Mazama: The Ogunic Presence in Africology takes the reader on a remarkable journey of Ama Mazama’s intellectual ascendency. Asante tells this story from the same spiritual center that informs her consciousness. Simply put, he gets her. His exploration of Mazama’s international stature helps solidify this profound activist scholar’s place in the discipline of Africology as well as her importance to the broader Pan-African world. This work situates Ama Mazama among the greatest African thinkers, past and present. Ama Mazama: The Ogunic Presence in Africology is a breathtaking paradigmatic maze of Afrocentric intellectualism that is grounded in the same African cultural framework and cosmology that inspire Ama Mazama’s genius. This is a must read!
- Adisa A. Alkebulan, Associate Professor and Chair of Africana Studies, San Diego State University,
Molefi Kete Asante’s Ama Mazama: The Ogunic Presence in Africology is an open sore on the wound of continuous racial injustice that Professor Ama Mazama has fought against all through her life. She has followed in the footsteps of Frances Cress Welsing as one of the unsung heroes of our times.
- Kehbuma Langmia, Howard University,
Chapter One: Warrior Intellectual in Search of Answers
Chapter Two: Overhearing Ancestral Voices
Chapter Three: Overcoming the Impositions of Race, Class, and Gender
Chapter Four: Resisting Negation Education
Chapter Five: Radical in the Heart of the West
Chapter Six: Afrocentricity and the Rise of Consciousness
Chapter Seven: Spirituality as a Defense of Anomie
Chapter Eight: Intellectual and Activist Leadership: AI
The Critical Africana Studies book series features critical, interdisciplinary, and intersectional scholarship within the emerging field of Africana studies. Most scholars within the field agree that 'Africana studies' is essentially a rubric term utilized to conceptually capture the teaching and research of a wide-range of intellectuals (both 'academic' and 'organic' intellectuals) working in disciplines or subdisciplines as discursively diverse as: African studies, African diasporan studies, African American studies, Afro-American studies, Afro-Asian studies, Afro-European studies, Afro-Islamic studies, Afro-Jewish studies, Afro-Latino studies, Afro-Native American studies, Caribbean studies, Pan-African studies, Black British studies and, of course, Black studies. Epistemological and methodological advances in Africana studies, as well as historical and cultural changes, over the last fifty years have led to an increased interest in continental and diasporan African history, culture, thought, and struggles. The Critical Africana Studies book series directly responds to the heightened demand for monographs and edited volumes that innovatively explore Africa and its diaspora employing cutting-edge critical, interdisciplinary, and intersectional theory and methods.
Series Editor: Marquita Gammage
Advisory Board: Martell Teasley, Kimberly Nichele Brown, Jerome Schiele, and Bayyinah S. Jeffries