In twenty brilliant and illuminating chapters, Molefi Kete Asante explores major intellectual themes confronting African people. Engaging a wide range of issues, such as gender, African hunger, slavery in Mauritania, lack of historical consciousness, the contest over ancient Egypt, and Malcolm X as cultural hero, he sustains one overarching argument: Africans owe deference to no one. This is a major book which no African intellectual anywhere in the world would be without.
"Molefi Kete Asante represents the
best of African culture. He is unafraid of the truth and his writings are wholly
committed to advancing theory and practice. These essays are accessible to the
common readers, well though out, and full of Afrocentric allusions and figures.
I highly recommend Malcolm X as Cultural Hero and Other Afrocentric
Essays."
-Paulatte Fair, President Afri-charts, Indianapolis
"Molefi Kate Asante, our most
prolific contemporary intellectual, has stayed the course in Malcolm X as
Cultural Hero and Other Afrocentric Essays on issues confronting African
people."
-Dr. C. T. Keto, Director of Graduate Studies African American Studies at
Temple University, Philadelphia
"With Malcolm X as Cultural Hero and
Other Afrocentric Essays, Dr. Asante underscores the organic and authentic
relationship Malcolm X has with African politics and culture at the level of
community."
-Dr. Adeniyi Coker, Director of African Studies at University of Wyoming