CURRENT
POSITION:
Professor
Department of African American Studies
Temple University 025-26
1115 W. Berks Mall
Philadelphia PA 19122
CORRESPONDENCE:
Website: http://www.asante.net
(Email:masante@temple.edu or nanaokru@cs.com)
Office Fax: 215-782-8411
Office Phone: 215-204-4322
Engagement Phone: 215-782-3214/Ana Yenenga
EDUCATION:
Ph.D., Communication, University
of California, Los Angeles, 1968
M.A., Communication, Pepperdine University, Los Angeles, 1965
B.A., Communication, Oklahoma Christian College, 1964
L’Université Catholique de l’Ouest, CIDEF, Angers,
2002
Diploma in French
Languages Read or Studied: Akan, Ebonics, Yoruba, Kiswahili, Middle
Egyptian (Mdw Ntr), Portuguese, Arabic, Greek, English, French,
Spanish, German, and Latin,
Hobbies: Poetry, Painting, Gardening, Basketball, Astronomy
ACADEMIC POSITIONS:
Professor, Department of African
American Studies, since 1984-Current
Professor and Chair, Department of African American Studies, Temple
University, l984-1996 (Created the first PH.D. program in African
American Studies)
Professor and Chair, Department of Communication, State University
of New York at Buffalo, 1973-1982 (Re-organized the Graduate Programs
in Communication)
Professor and Chair, Department of Black Studies, State University
of New York at Buffalo, 1977-79 (Served concurrently as chairs of
two departments)
Associate Professor, Department of Communication and Director, Center
for Afro American Studies, UCLA, 1969-73 (Co-Founded the Journal
of Black Studies, created the African American Library, and wrote
the MA program)
Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, Purdue University,
1968-69. (Advisor to the Black Student Organization, Invited Mark
Hampton and Julian Bond to campus)
Visiting Professorships:
Florida State University, Communication, 1972
Howard University, Communication, 1979-80; 1995
Zimbabwe Institute of Mass Communication, 1981-82 (Trained first
set of Zimbabwean journalists after the Second Chimurenga)
BOOKS:
Molefi Kete Asante, Ebonics: An
Introduction to African American Language. Chicago: African American
Images, 2005.
Molefi Kete Asante, Cheikh Anta Diop: An Intellectual Portrait.
Chicago: Third World Press, 2005.
Molefi Kete Asante, Rhetoric, Race, and Identity: The Architecton
of Soul. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2005
Molefi Kete Asante and Maulana Karenga, eds., Handbook of Black
Studies. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, 2005.
Molefi Kete Asante and Ama Mazama, eds., Encyclopedia of Black Studies.
Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, December, 2004.
Molefi Kete Asante, Erasing Racism: The Social Survival of the American
Nation. Amherst: NY: Prometheus Books, 2003
Molefi Kete Asante, Afrocentricity: The Theory of Social Change,
2nd Edition. Chicago: African American Images, 2003.
Molefi Kete Asante, Customs and Culture of Modern Egypt. Westport,
CT: Greenwood Press, 2002.
Molefi Kete Asante, 100 Greatest African Americans. Amherst: Prometheus
Books, 2002.
Molefi Kete Asante, Scattered to the Wind, fiction, (a African metaphorical
saga). Princeton: Sungai Books, 2002.
Molefi Kete Asante and Ama Mazama, (eds.) Egypt, Greece, and the
American Academy. Chicago: AA Images, 2002
Virginia Millhouse, Molefi Asante, and Peter Nwosu., (Eds), Transcultural
Realities. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, 2001.
E. J. Min and Molefi Kete Asante, (Eds.) Social Conflict Between
African Americans and Korean Americans. Alexandria, Va.: University
Press of America, 2000.
Molefi Kete Asante, African American History. Saddle Brook, N.J.:
Peoples Publishing Group, 2001, Second Edition.
Molefi Kete Asante, Charmaine Harris-Stewart, Theresa Flynn-Nason,
and David J. Glunt, Teacher’s Guide for African American History,
Second Edition. Maywood, New Jersey: Peoples Publishing Group, 2001.
Molefi Kete Asante, Charmaine Harris-Stewart, Theresa Flynn-Nason,
and David J. Glunt, Worktext for African American History, Second
Edition. Maywood, New Jersey: Peoples Publishing Group, 2001
Molefi Kete Asante and Judylynn Mitchell, Discovery Essays for Teachers.
Philadelphia: Ankh Publishers, 2001.
Molefi Kete Asante, The Egyptian Philosophers. Chicago: African
American Images, 2000.
Molefi Kete Asante, The Painful Demise of Eurocentrism. Trenton:
Africa World Press, 2000.
Molefi Kete Asante, Scream of Blood: Desettlerism in Southern Africa.
Princeton: Sungai Books, 1999.
Molefi Kete Asante and Mark Mattson, African American Atlas. (2nd
Edition) New York: Simon and Schuster, 1999.
Molefi Kete Asante, The Afrocentric Idea. Philadelphia: Temple University
Press, Revised and Expanded 2nd Edition, 1998.
Molefi Kete Asante and Renee Muntaqim, African American Names. Maywood,
N.J.: Peoples Publishing Group, 1997.
Molefi Kete Asante and Augusta Mann, Activity Book for African American
History. Maywood, New Jersey::Peoples Publishing Group, 1997 (Pedagogy)
Molefi Kete Asante, Charmaine Harris-Stewart, and Augusta Mann,
Teacher’s Guide for African American History. Maywood, New
Jersey: Peoples Publishing Group, 1997. (Pedagogy)
Molefi Kete Asante, Love Dance. Trenton: Sungai Press, 1996.
Molefi Kete Asante and Judylynn Mitchell, Classical African Activity
Book. Maywood, New Jersey: Peoples Publishing Group, 1996. (Pedagogy)
Molefi Kete Asante and Abu Abarry (Eds.), African Intellectual Heritage,
Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1996.
Molefi Kete Asante (Ed.), In Their Faces: Situating Alternatives
to Afrocentricity, Philadelphia: Temple Institute for Advanced Afrocentric
Research, (unpublished)1994.
Molefi Kete Asante, African American History: A Journey of Liberation,
Maywood, N.J.: Peoples Publishing Group, An Asante Imprint Book,
1995
Molefi Kete Asante, Malcolm X as Cultural Hero and Other Afrocentric
Essays, Trenton: Africa World Press, 1995.
Molefi Kete Asante, Classical Africa (part of the Asante Imprint
series of high school textbooks), Maywood, N.J.: Peoples Publishing
Group, Inc., 1993.
Molefi Kete Asante and Dhyana Ziegler, Thunder and Silence: The
Mass Media in Africa, Trenton: Africa World Press, 1991.
Molefi Kete Asante, The Book of African Names, Trenton: Africa World
Press, 1991.
Molefi Kete Asante and Mark Mattson, Historical and Cultural Atlas
of African Americans, New York: MacMillan, 1991.
Molefi Kete Asante, Kemet, Afrocentricity, and Knowledge, Trenton:
Africa World Press, 1990.
Molefi Kete Asante, Umfundalai: Afrocentric Rites of Passage, Philadelphia:
National Afrocentric Institute, 1989.
Molefi Kete Asante, The Afrocentric Idea, Philadelphia: Temple University
Press, 1987. (First Edition)
Molefi Kete Asante, Afrocentricity, 3rd edition, Trenton: Africa
World Press, 1987.
Molefi Kete Asante and W. Gudykunst (Eds.), Handbook of Intercultural
and International Communication, Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications,
1989.
Molefi Kete Asante and Kariamu Welsh Asante (Eds.), African Culture:
The Rhythms of Unity, Westport, Ct.: Greenwood Press, 1985.
Molefi Kete Asante (Ed.), International Press Seminar Proceedings,
Harare: Ranche House, 1982.
Molefi Kete Asante, Research in Mass Communication: A Guide to Practice,
Harare, Zimbabwe: ZIMCO, 1982.
Molefi Kete Asante, African Myths: New Frames of Reference, Harare,
Zimbabwe: ZIMCO, 1982.
Molefi Kete Asante, et. al., Media Training Needs in Zimbabwe, Harare:
Mass Media Trust and Friedrich Naumann Foundation, 1982.
Molefi Kete Asante, Afrocentricity: The Theory of Social Change,
Buffalo: Amulefi Publishing Company, 1980.
Molefi Kete Asante and A. Sarr Vandi (Eds.), Contemporary Black
Thought, Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications, 1980.
Molefi Kete Asante, E. Newmark, and C. Blake (Eds.), Handbook of
Intercultural Communication, Beverly Hills, Calif.: Sage Publications,
1979.
Molefi Kete Asante and Mary Cassata, Mass Communication: Principles
and Practices, New York: MacMillan, 1979.
Molefi Kete Asante, Epic in Search of African Kings, Buffalo: Amulefi
Publishing Company, 1978.
Molefi Kete Asante and Mary Cassata (Eds.), The Social Uses of Mass
Communication, Buffalo: SUNY Communication Research Center, 1977.
Molefi Kete Asante and J. Frye, Contemporary Public Communication,
New York: Harper and Row, 1976.
Molefi Kete Asante and Eileen Newmark, Intercultural Communication:
Theory Into Practice, Alexandria, VA. : Speech Communication Association,
1976.
Molefi Kete Asante, African and Afro-American Communication Continuities,
Buffalo: SUNY Center for International Affairs, 1975.
Molefi Kete Asante [Arthur L. Smith], Transracial Communication,
Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1973.
Molefi Kete Asante [Arthur L. Smith], Language, Communication, and
Rhetoric in Black America, New York: Harper and Row, 1972.
Molefi Kete Asante [Arthur L. Smith] and Steve Robb (Eds.), The
Voice of Black Rhetoric, Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1971.
Molefi Kete Asante [Arthur L. Smith], Anne Allen, and Deluvina Hernandez,
How to Talk to People of Other Races, Los Angeles: Transcultural
Education Foundation, 1971.
Molefi Kete Asante [Arthur L. Smith], Toward Transracial Communication,
Los Angeles: UCLA Center for Afro-American Studies, 1970.
Molefi Kete Asante [Arthur L. Smith] and Andrea Rich, Rhetoric of
Revolution, Durham, N.C.: Moore Publishing Company, 1970.
Molefi Kete Asante [Arthur L. Smith], The Rhetoric of Black Revolution,
Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1969.
Molefi Kete Asante [Arthur L. Smith], Break of Dawn, Philadelphia:
Dorrance Company, 1964.
CHAPTERS PUBLISHED IN BOOKS:
Molefi Kete Asante, “L’idéologie
de la supériorité raciale comme fondement de la déportation
d’Africains par les Européens,” in Isabel Castro
Henriques et Louis Sala-Molins, Déraison, esclavage, et droit:
Less fondements ideologiques et juridiques de la traite négrière
et de l’eslcavage. Paris: EDITIONS UNESCO, 2003.
Molefi Kete Asante, “The Future of African American Rhetoric,”
in Ronald Jackson and Elaine Richardson, eds. Understanding African
American Rhetoric: Classical Origins to Contemporary Innovations.
New York: Routledge, 2003.
Molefi Kete Asante, “Racism, Consciousness, and Afrocentricity,”
in William Banks, ed., The Anthology of African American Social
and Political Thought. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.
Molefi Kete Asante, “Afrocentricity and the Decline of Western
Hegemonic Thought: A Critique of Eurocentric Theory and Practice,”
in Mark Christian, ed., Black Identity in the 20th Century: Expressions
of the US and UK African Diaspora. London: Hansib, 2002.Molefi Kete
Asante, “Language and Agency in the Transformation of American
Identity,” in Conversation in America: Changing Rules, Hidden
Dimensions, edited by William F. Eadie and Paul E. Nelson. Thousand
Oaks, CA.: Sage Publications, 2000.
Molefi Kete Asante, "An Afrocentric Location of the African
German," in The African German Experience: Critical Essays
edited by Aisha Blackshire-Belay, Westport, Ct.: Greenwood Publishing,
l997.
Molefi Kete Asante, "The Egyptian Origin of Rhetoric and Oratory",
In Kemet and the African Worldview, edited by Maulana Karenga and
Jacob Carruthers, University of Sankore Press, 1986.
Molefi Kete Asante, "Afrocentricity and Culture", In African
Culture: The Rhythms of Unity, edited by Molefi Kete Asante and
Kariamu Welsh Asante, Greenwood Press, 1985.
Molefi Kete Asante, "The African Essence in African American
Language", In African Culture: The Rhythms of Unity, edited
by Molefi Kete Asante and Kariamu Welsh Asante, Greenwood Press,
1985.
Molefi Kete Asante and Kariamu Welsh Asante, "Bibliographic
Essay in African Culture", In African Culture: The Rhythms
of Unity, edited by Molefi Kete Asante and Kariamu Welsh Asante,
Greenwood Press, 1985.
Molefi Kete Asante and Kariamu Welsh Asante, "Great Zimbabwe:
An Ancient African City-State", In Blacks in Science: Ancient
and Modern, edited by Ivan Van Sertima, Transaction Books, 1983.
Molefi Kete Asante, "Black Male and Female Communications in
an Afrocentric Relationship", In The Black Male, edited by
Lawrence Gary, Sage Publications, 1982.
Molefi Kete Asante, "Television and the Language Socialization
of Black Children", In Television and the Socialization of
the Minority Child, edited by Gordon Berry and Claudia Mitchell-Kernan,
Academic Press, 1982.
Molefi Kete Asante and Erika Vora, "Different Philosophical
Approaches to Intercultural Communication", In Intercultural
Communication Theory, edited by Gudykunst, Sage Publications, 1982.
Molefi Kete Asante, "Intercultural Communication", In
Education in the Eighties, edited by Gus Friedrich, NEA-SCA, 1981.
Molefi Kete Asante, "The Communication Person in Society",
In Contemporary Black Thought, edited by Molefi Kete Asante and
A. Vandi, Sage, 1980.
Molefi Kete Asante, "International and Intercultural Relations",
In Contemporary Black Thought, edited by Molefi Kete Asante and
A. Vandi, Sage, 1980.
Molefi Kete Asante, "Television's Impact on Black Children's
Language", In Contemporary Black Thought, edited by Molefi
Kete Asante and A. Vandi, Sage, 1980.
Molefi Kete Asante and Alene Barnes, "The Demystification of
the Intercultural Encounter", In Handbook of Intercultural
Communication, edited by Molefi Kete Asante, E. Newmark, and C.
Blake, Sage, 1979.
Molefi Kete Asante, "Theoretical Issues in Black Communication",
In Black Communication, edited by Jack Daniel, Speech Communication
Association, 1974.
Molefi Kete Asante, "Black Revolution: 1954 to the Present",
In America in Controversy, edited by DeWitte Holland, W.C. Brown,
1973.
Molefi Kete Asante, "Interpersonal Communication within Transracial
Contexts", In Speech Communication Behavior, edited by L. Barker
and R. Kibler, Prentice-Hall, 1971. [Reprinted in Intercultural
Communication, edited by L. Samovar and R. Porter, Wadsworth, 1972.
Molefi Kete Asante, "Toward a Revolutionary Rhetoric",
In Return to Vision, edited by Cherry, et. al., Houghton Mifflin,
1971.
Molefi Kete Asante, "The Language of Black Messianism: The
Case of Nat Turner, In Topics in Afro-American Studies, edited by
Henry Richards, Black Academy Press, 1971.
RESEARCH AND SCHOLARLY
ARTICLES PUBLISHED OR IN PRESS:
Molefi Kete Asante, “Culture,
History, and a Rise of African Consciousness: A Predicate for Academic
Excellence,” Encore: Journal of the National Association of
Dramatic and Speech Arts, 2003.
Molefi Kete Asante, “The African Ancestral World: Seeing the
Unseen,” Encore: Journal of the National Association of Dramatic
and Speech Arts, 2002.
Molefi Kete Asante, “Analytic Afrocentricity,” Current
Perspectives in Social Theory. Volume 22, 2003
Molefi Kete Asante, “Criminal Archetypes in the 2000 Presidential
Election: How Black Votes Were Stolen,” Black Scholar, August
2001.
Molefi Kete Asante, “Contesting Ancient African History: Assumptions
and Claims of Eurocentric Historians,” African Centred Review,
June, 2000.
Molefi Kete Asante, “Wonders of the African World: A Eurocentric
Enterprise,” Black Scholar, volume 30, No. 1, Spring, 2000.
Molefi Kete Asante, “African Americans as Africans,”
Diogenes, 1998. [First scholarly article to use Ebonics as research
language (abstract)]
Molefi Kete Asante, "The Naming of a People: Attending to First
Things First," Lincoln University, 1996.
Molefi Kete Asante, "Multiculturalism in the Academy,"
Academe, June, 1996.
Molefi Kete Asante, "African American Plays NOT written,"
International Journal of Black Drama, September, 1996.
Molefi Kete Asante, "Afrocentric Curriculum", Educational
Leadership, June 1992.
Molefi Kete Asante, "The Painful Demise of Eurocentrism",
The World and I, March 1992.
Molefi Kete Asante, "The Afrocentric Renaissance: The Role
of the Scientists and Technicians, Journal of the National Technical
Association, July 1991.
Molefi Kete Asante, "Multiculturalism: An Exchange", The
American Scholar, Spring 1991.
Molefi Kete Asante, "Afrocentricity and the Critique of Drama",
Western Journal of Black Studies, Spring 1991.
Molefi Kete Asante, "Afrocentricity and Gender", New Essence,
Spring 1991.
Molefi Kete Asante, "Afrocentricity and the Human Future",
Black Books Bulletin, Spring 1991.
Molefi Kete Asante, "The Afrocentric Idea in Education",
Journal of Negro Education, April 1991.
Molefi Kete Asante, "Afrocentricity and the African American
Student: A Challenge", Black Collegian, March 1991.
Molefi Kete Asante, "The Tradition of Advocacy in the Yoruba
Courts", Southern Communication Journal, Spring 1990.
Molefi Kete Asante, "Build Lessons from Students' Heritage",
NJEA Review, February 1989.
Molefi Kete Asante, "Afrocentric Theory", Critical Social
Issues, Spring 1987.
Molefi Kete Asante, "A Six State Continent", African Concord,
January 1987.
Molefi Kete Asante, "A Review of Nathan Huggins' Report on
Afro-American Studies to the Ford Foundation", Journal of Black
Studies, December 1986.
Molefi Kete Asante, "Notes on the Crisis of Martin Kilson",
Dissent, Summer 1986.
Molefi Kete Asante and Deborah Atwater, "Rhetorical Condition
as Symbolic Discourse", Communication Quarterly, Spring 1986.
Molefi Kete Asante and Alice Davis, "Black and White Communication:
Analyzing Workplace Encounters, Journal of Black Studies, September
1985.
Molefi Kete Asante, "Rhetorical Alliances in the Civil Rights
Era", Negro Educational Review, January 1985.
Molefi Kete Asante, "The African American Mode of Transcendence",
Journal of Transpersonal Psychology, Autumn 1984.
Molefi Kete Asante and Kyong Liong Kim, "Realizing a New World
Information Order", Journal of Communication, Autumn 1984.
Molefi Kete Asante, "A Metaphor Centered Rhetoric of Movements",
Encoder, Summer 1984.
Molefi Kete Asante and Hana Noor Al-Deen, "Social Interaction
of Black and White College Students", Journal of Black Studies,
June 1984.
Molefi Kete Asante, "Blacks and White TV", Journal of
Communication, Autumn 1983.
Molefi Kete Asante, "The Ideological Significance of Afrocentricity
in Intercultural Communication", Journal of Black Studies,
September 1983.
Molefi Kete Asante, "The Impact of New Communication Technology
on Culture in Africa", Encoder, Summer 1983.
Molefi Kete Asante and Kariamu Welsh Asante, "Great Zimbabwe:
Seat of Ancient African Civilization", Journal of African Civilization,
Spring 1983.
Molefi Kete Asante and Guang Yu Xie [Hsieh], "Media and Criticism
in China: The Case of the Cultural Revolution", International
Journal of Intercultural Relations, Spring 1983.
Molefi Kete Asante and Kristina Gonzales, "Power and Sex on
Daytime Television", Journal of Popular Culture, Winter 1983.
Molefi Kete Asante, "Communication: A Field of Study for the
Next Hundred Years", Chinese Science and Technology Review,
1982.
Molefi Kete Asante, "A Context for African American Reading
Research", Journal of Language Arts and Communication, October
1981.
Molefi Kete Asante and A. Odejide, "Advocacy in Yoruba",
Review of Afro-American Issues and Cultures, Summer 1981.
Molefi Kete Asante and Kariamu Welsh Asante, "Myth: The Communication
Dimension to the African American Mind", Journal of Black Studies,
June 1981.
Molefi Kete Asante, "Walter Rodney: In Memoriam", Journal
of Black Studies, March 1981.
Molefi Kete Asante, "Notes on Demystification of the Intercultural
Encounter", Communication Yearbook, 1981.
Molefi Kete Asante, "Language Arts and Communication at Ibadan",
Language Artist, September 1980.
Molefi Kete Asante, "Afrocentricity and Negritude: Two African
Perspectives", Palestine Review, Summer 1980.
Molefi Kete Asante and Erika Vora, "Sadat and Begin in Jerusalem:
A Content Analysis", Peace Research, 1980.
Molefi Kete Asante, "The Politics of Black Language",
Review of Afro-American Issues and Cultures, Summer 1979.
Molefi Kete Asante and Michael Appiah, "The Rhetoric of the
Akan Drum", Western Journal of Black Studies, Spring 1979.
Molefi Kete Asante, "Systematic Nationalism: A Legitimate Strategy
for National Selfhood", Journal of Black Studies, September
1978.
Molefi Kete Asante, "Television and Black Consciousness",
Journal of Communication, Autumn 1976.
Molefi Kete Asante, "Rhetoric and Race: The American Conundrum",
Encore: The Journal of NADSA, April 1975.
Molefi Kete Asante, "Where Have all the Country Speakers Gone?"
Common Threads, 1974.
Molefi Kete Asante and Peter Andersen, "Transracial Communication
and the Changing Image of Black Americans", Journal of Black
Studies, September 1973.
Molefi Kete Asante, "Styling in Black Communication",
Encore, April 1973.
Molefi Kete Asante, "Review of the Radical Attitudes of American
Presidents and the Politics of Civil Rights in the Truman Administration",
Quarterly Journal of Speech, August 1972.
Molefi Kete Asante, "What's the Score on Black Studies?",
Today's Education, January 1972.
Molefi Kete Asante, "Shadows of Men: Reflections in Symbols",
Colorado Journal of Educational Research, Winter 1972.
Molefi Kete Asante, "Research in Black Communication",
Speech Abstracts, December 1971.
Molefi Kete Asante, "Some Characteristics of the Black Religious
Audience", Speech Monographs, August 1971.
Molefi Kete Asante, "Some Emerging Language Uses on the Public
Platform", Language Quarterly, Spring 1971.
Molefi Kete Asante, "Markings of an African Concept of Rhetoric",
Today's Speech, March 1971.
Molefi Kete Asante, "The Nature of Rhetorical Invention",
Speech Abstracts, December 1970.
Molefi Kete Asante, "Socio-Historical Perspectives of Black
Oratory", Quarterly Journal of Black Speech, October 1970.
Molefi Kete Asante, "Urban Protest Rhetoric", Urban Research,
September 14, 1970.
Molefi Kete Asante, "Henry Highland Garnet: Black Revolutionary
in Sheep's Vestments", Central States Speech Journal, Summer
1970.
Molefi Kete Asante, "Critical Dimensions in Black Rhetoric",
Encore, April 1970.
Molefi Kete Asante and Andrea Rich, "An Approach to Teaching
Interracial Communication", Speech Teacher, March 1970.
Molefi Kete Asante, "Building a Black History Course: A Rhetorical
Perspective", Speech Abstracts, December 1969.
Molefi Kete Asante, "A Pluralistic Rhetoric for a Multi-ethnic
Society", Relevance, Fall 1969. REFERENCE WORKS:
Molefi Kete Asante, contributor to Encyclopedia of the African Diaspora,
2005, essay on Afrocentricity..
Molefi Kete Asante, contributor to Encyclopedia of World Cultures,
Macmillan, 1991, essay on African Americans.
Molefi Kete Asante, contributor to Encyclopedia Britannica, 1995,
essay on Afrocentricity
Molefi Kete Asante, contributor to Oxford Companion to African American
Literature, 1996, essay on Afrocentricity.
Molefi Kete Asante, contributor to Revised Encarta Africana, Microsoft,
2001, essays on Maulana Karenga and Afrocentricity
CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS:
Molefi Kete Asante, "Intercultural
Communication: An Afrocentric Inquiry", Proceedings of the
Bellagio Conference on Black Communication, Rockefeller Foundation,
1980.
Molefi Kete Asante and E. Newmark, "The Perception of Self:
An Approach to Intercultural Communication", 2nd Annual Conference
Proceedings of Intercultural Communication, Speech Communication
Association, 1976.
BOOK FOREWORDS:
Molefi Kete Asante, Foreword to
Adeniyi Coker, Ola Rotimi.
Molefi Kete Asante, Foreword to Peter Nwosu, Chuka Onwumechili and
Ritchard M’Bayo, Communication and the Transformation of Society.
Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 2001
Molefi Kete Asante, Foreword to Jemal Freeman’s, Heru Bekhatet:
Heru Rising: The Quest for Maat, New York
Molefi Kete Asante, Foreword to Daniel Mengara’s Images of
Africa: Stereotypes and Realities, Trenton: Africa World Press,
2000
Molefi Kete Asante, Foreword to Thomas Socha and Rhunette Diggs”
Communication, Race and Family. New York: Erlbaum, 1999.
Molefi Kete Asante, Foreword to Richard Poe, Black Spark, White
Fire, New York: Prima, 1998
Molefi Kete Asante, Foreword to Linda Jackson's Ebonics Dictionary,
Memphis, 1997.
Molefi Kete Asante, Foreword to Walter Gill's, Alternatives in Social
Actions, 1997.
Molefi Kete Asante, Foreword to Janet Hamlet's Afrocentricity and
Communication., 1997.
Molefi Kete Asante, Foreword to Theophile Obenga's A Lost Tradition:
African Philosophy in World History, Philadelphia: Source Editions,
1995.
Molefi Kete Asante, Foreword to Transcending Psychoneurotic Disturbance,
written by Edward Bruce Bynum, Haworth Press, 1994.
Molefi Kete Asante, Foreword to Dancing to Future Music, written
by Obidike Nyako Kamau, Houston, 1987.
Molefi Kete Asante, Foreword to Religion, Geopolitics, and Technology
in the 21st Century, written by S.O. Wey and Eghosa Osagie, Ogiso
Publishers, 1982.
Molefi Kete Asante, Foreword to South Africa: The Press and Politics
of Liberation, written by Chenhamo Chimutengwende, Barbican, 1978.
ARTICLES:
Molefi Kete Asante, “The
Recent Documentary on Marcus Garvey: What Price the Destruction
of A Black Hero?” Contrast, New York, May, 2001.
Molefi Kete Asante, "Quitting: I Quit Wearing a Tie,"
Utne Reader, September, 1996.
Molefi Kete Asante, "The Many Fallacies of Mary Lefkowitz,"
Emerge Magazine, July 1996.
Molefi Kete Asante, "Let the Music Speak," Straight from
the Streets, September, 1996.
Molefi Kete Asante, "Debate with Mary Lefkowitz," Source
Magazine, July, 1996.
Molefi Kete Asante, "The Situation in Liberia", The Nigerian
Mail, October 1, 1990.
Molefi Kete Asante, "The Case for Multicultural Literacy",
Temple Review, September 1989.
Molefi Kete Asante, "In the Matter of Men", Philadelphia
New Observer, May 1989.
Molefi Kete Asante, "In the Matter of Men", Buffalo Challenger,
May 1987.
Molefi Kete Asante, "The Disease of Racism", Philadelphia
New Observer, April 15, 1987.
Molefi Kete Asante, "Black Studies and Cheyney University",
Philadelphia Tribune, April 1987.
Molefi Kete Asante, "Time Running Out in South Africa",
Philadelphia Tribune, October 1985.
Molefi Kete Asante, "Mugabe's Victory in Zimbabwe", Philadelphia
Tribune, July 19, 1985.
Molefi Kete Asante, "The Tragedy of Moving MOVE", Philadelphia
Tribune, June-July 1985.
Molefi Kete Asante, "The Tragedy of Moving MOVE", Philadelphia
Daily News, June-July 1985.
Molefi Kete Asante, "Werner's Short History of African Art:
A Review", Philadelphia Daily News, March 1985.
Molefi Kete Asante and Cindy McQueen, "TV Can Hurt Black Children",
Philadelphia Tribune, December 1984.
Molefi Kete Asante, "Pan Africanism", PANA Newsletter,
January 1984.
Molefi Kete Asante, "Metamorphosis of the University of Zimbabwe",
Reporter, March 1983.
Molefi Kete Asante, "Zimbabwe Update", Buffalo Challenger,
June 1981.
Molefi Kete Asante, "The Struggle for Namibia", Buffalo
Challenger, February 28, 1981.
Molefi Kete Asante, "Shango, Ogun, and Me at Kissing Bridge",
Essence, February 1981.
Molefi Kete Asante, "Kariamu and Company: On the Wings of Ecstasy",
Essence, April 1977.
Molefi Kete Asante, "Can Librarians Cope With the 21st Century?",
New York State Library Association Bulletin, November 1976.
Molefi Kete Asante, "A Metatheory of Black Communicative Behavior",
NADSA Newsletter, September 1974.
Molefi Kete Asante, "Flesh Colored Bandaids Show Subtle Racism"
Los Angeles Times, June 13, 1972.
Molefi Kete Asante, "Culturally Diverse Symbols in Curricula",
NEA Magazine, 1971.
BOOK REVIEWS:
Molefi Kete Asante, “Ama
Mazama, ed., The Afrocentric Paradigm. Trenton: Africa World Press,
2003, in Journal of Black Social and Political Thought, 2003.
Molefi Kete Asante, “Edwin M. Yamauchi, ed., Africa and Africans
in Antiquity. East Lansing, Michigan: Michigan State University
Press, 2001, in Research in African Studies, 2003
Molefi Kete Asante, “Michael C.Dawson, Black Visions: The
Roots of Contemporary African-American Political Ideologies. New
York: Oxford University Press, 2002, Journal of Black Studies, 2003.
Molefi Kete Asante, “Multiracial Identity,” by Mark
Christian, in Journal of Black Studies, 2001.
Molefi Kete Asante, “Against Race,” by Paul Gilroy,
in Journal of Black Studies, June, 2001.
Molefi Kete Asante, “Race and the Writing of History,”
by Maghan Sundiata, in Journal of Black Studies, May, 2001.
Molefi Kete Asante, “Afrotopia,” by Wilson Moses, in
Journal of World History, Spring, 2001, Volume 12, No. 1.
Molefi Kete Asante, “Exodus,” by Eddie Glaude, in Journal
of Black Studies, September, 2000.
Molefi Kete Asante, “In Search of Africa,” by Manthia
Diawara, in Academe, 1999.
Molefi Kete Asante, “Black Athena Revisited,” in Research
in African Literature, volume 29, No. 1, Spring 1998.
Molefi Kete Asante, "Afrocentrism and World Politics,"
by Errol Henderson, American Political Quarterly Review, 1997
Molefi Kete Asante, "Operationalising Afrocentrism", by
Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe, African Peoples Review, December 1994.
Molefi Kete Asante, "The Jewish Onslaught: Despatches From
the Wellesley Battlefront", by Tony Martin, Journal of Black
Studies, December 1994.
Molefi Kete Asante, "Two Nations: Black and White, Separate,
Hostile, Unequal", by Andrew Hacker, Journal of Black Studies,
December 1992.
Molefi Kete Asante, "Afrocentric Concepts in African Historiography",
Research in African Literature, January 1992.
Molefi Kete Asante, "The Other Side of Racism", by Anne
Wortham, Black Books Bulletin, Summer 1982.
Molefi Kete Asante, "The Black Preacher in America", by
Charles Hamilton, Quarterly Journal of Speech, April 1973.
Molefi Kete Asante, "Black Preaching", Quarterly Journal
of Speech, October 1971.
Molefi Kete Asante, "A Dictionary of Afro-American Slang",
Quarterly Journal of Speech, August 1971.
Molefi Kete Asante, "The Relevant Rhetoric", Journal of
Communication, Spring 1971.
Molefi Kete Asante, "Johnson Reprint Series", Journal
of Black Studies, Spring 1971.
SELECTED PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS/CONFERENCES:
Rio de Janeiro, Arquivo Nacional,
Keynote Presenter, Memorial to African Brazilian Scholar-Artist,
Abdias do Nascimento, November 2004
African Union, Congress of African Intellectuals, one of the twelve
plenary presenters at the congress held in Dakar, Senegal, October
2004
Celebration of South Africa’s 10th Year of Freedom, Keynote
Speaker, Johannesburg, March, 2004
National Communication Association, Three Programs, New Orleans,
December 2002
NABSE, Scholar-in-Residence, Atlanta, November, 2002
African Business and Culture Conference, Keynote Lecture, London,
April, 2002
Annual Multicultural Conference, University of Wisconsin, La Crosse,
Keynoter, 2001
Sixth Annual Nile Valley Conference, Aswan, Egypt, August 2001
Dia De Los Negros, A Celebration of Marcus Garvey, University of
Costa Rica, San Jose, August 2000.
Africa 2000, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom, August, 2000.
The Future of African Gods, W.E.B. Du Bois Center, Accra, Ghana,
July 1998
Race and Racism in Europe, International European Conference Against
Racism, Verona, Italy, Keynoter
Johns Hopkins Conference on the Impact of Afrocentricity on Egyptology:
Debating Afrocentrism in the Academy, Baltimore, 1996.
Speech Communication Association Annual Conference, San Antonio,
Keynote, 1995.
NABSE, Scholar-in-Residence, Dallas, 1995.
African American Child placed in Crisis, Detroit, 1993.
Institute of the Black Peoples (UNESCO), Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso,
1990.
International Scientific Committee (FESPAC), Dakar, Senegal, 1987.
Non Aligned Movement Pre Conference Symposium, Harare, Zimbabwe,
1985.
SIETAR, San Gimigiano, Italy, 1983.
World Conference on Black Communication, Nairobi, Kenya, 1981.
International press Seminar, Harare, Zimbabwe, 1981.
UNESCO Conference on Women in Africa, Marondera, Zimbabwe, 1981.
Modern African Art Conference (Academie des Beaux Arts), Kinshasa,
Zaire, 1980.
Seminar on African Culture, Douala, Cameroon, 1980.
Pre-Colloquium on Third Festival of Black Culture, Dakar, Senegal,
1980.
International Communication Association, Acapulco, Mexico, 1980.
Rockefeller Conference on Black Communication, Bellagio, Italy,
1980.
9th World Congress of Sociology, Upsala, Sweden, 1978.
International Communication Association, Berlin, Germany, 1977.
FESTAC, Lagos, Nigeria, 1977.
Society for Intercultural Education, Training and Research, Montreal,
Quebec, 1976.
Operations Research, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1976.
International Conference on Communication, Monterrey, Mexico, 1975.
SELECTED INVITED LECTURES
AND PAPER:
Selected Invited lectures and speeches
1986-2004 (Scores of lectures have been delivered in community organizations,
high schools, churches, lodges, and public campaigns against racism,
oppression, war, and the holding of political prisoners)
Auburn University, “Creating a Black Studies Program,”
February, 1989
Beaver College, “Afrocentricity,” Sociology Class, March,
1992
Bowie State University, “Culture, Race, and Identity: The
African American Student in a Hostile Environment,” January,
2000
Brandeis University, “Multiculturalism,” October, 1993
Bryn Mawr College, “African American Males and Females: Relationships,”
April,1988
Bucknell University, “The Afrocentric Idea,” November
1994
California State University-Chico, “Egypt: The Real Classical
Ideal,” May, 1997
California State University-Fresno, “Pan Africanism, Native
Americanism, and Harmony,” February, 2003
California State University-Fullerton , “Afrocentricity: The
Transforming Idea,” October, 1987
California State University-Long Beach, “Humanizing the World
Through Kemetic Choices,” February, 1996
California State University-Sacramento, “The Structure of
Knowledge in the West,” April, 2000
City College of New York, “African Intellectual Giants: Diop,
Clarke, Karenga, Obenga” February 1995
Clarion University , “Creating a Doctoral Program in African
American Studies,” March, 1999
Cleveland State University, “The Debate over African Values
and Culture,” January, 1994
Colgate University, “Multiculturalism and Education,”
February, 1992
Columbia University, “Advocacy in a Multicultural Society:
Lessons from Yoruba,” April, 1999
Dartmouth University, “African American History: The Icon
of Resistance,” May, 1993
Delaware State College, “African History and American Racism,”
February, 1989
Denison University, “Communication and the African American
Community,” November, 1998
Depauw University, “Interrogating American Unity: Cultural
Differences,” February, 1997
Drew University, “Ancient Kemet,” January 1994
Drexel University, “Heritages of Americans: Afrocentricity,”
January 2000
Duquesne University, “Ebonics: My First Language,” March,
1994
Eastern Michigan University, “Malcolm X: The Meaning of Cultured,”
March, 2000
Edinboro University, “Afrocentricity and Pan Africanism,”
April, 2001
Fisk University, “Race and Racial Relations,” January,
1997
Florida State University, “Communication and Culture,”
April, 1992
Georgia State University, “Reinvigorating our Justice Tradition:
The Vanguard,” January, 1996
Georgetown University, “Culture, Communication, and Rhetoric,”
November, 1989
Hamilton College, “Creating the Ph.D. in African American
Studies,” March 1986
Hampton University , “African Epistemologies and Axiologies,”
February 1987
Harvard College, “Afrocentricity: An Intellectual Idea for
African Resurgence,” February 1994
Haverford College , “Pan African Agency: The Case of Nkrumah,”
March 1990
Hofstra University , “Afrocentricity, Pan Africanism, and
Negritude,” May, 1997
Howard University, “Ancient Egyptian Philosophers: Imhotep
to Akhenaten,” School of Communication, November, 1999.
Hunter College, “The Temple Circle of Afrocentricity: Theories
of Keto, Welsh, and Mazama,” April, 1996.
Indiana University, “Deciphering the Western Academy to Educate
African People,” November 2004
Kean College , “The Afrocentric Idea and Kwanzaa,” December,
1995
Kent State University , “Turning Postmodernism on Its Head:
Multiculturalism in Education,” April, 2001
King's College, Halifax , “Alexandre Pushkin: The African
Who Created Russian,” May 2000
Knox College, “Afrocentricity and the Theory of Cultural Transformation,”
April 1997
Kutztown University, “Robeson, DuBois, Hurston: Giants of
African American History,” February, 2000
Lafayette College, “Equality and Justice in a Racist Society:
Prospects and Limitations,” September 1995
Lehigh University, “Teaching African American Studies: The
Challenges of our Times,” October 1999
Lincoln University, “African American History: Seeing from
our own Agency,” March 2003
Manchester University, United Kingdom , “The Theory of Afrocentricity,”
October 2000
Manhattanville College, “Rhetoric, Race, and Identity,”
February, 1992
Marquette University , “Rhetorics of Shame and Defeat: African
Intellectuals Running Away from Africa,” March 1988
McGill College, “Race and Communication: The Media and Its
Impact on Human Interactions,” October, 1994
Miami University, “The Afrocentric Idea: Overcoming White
Supremacist Hegemony in the West,” March, 2002
Michigan State University, “Malcolm X: What it Means to Be
Cultured,” February, 1998
Morehouse College, “Alton Hornsby: The Model of an African
Intellectual,” April, 2001
Morgan State University, “Carter G. Woodson’s Miseducation
of the Negro in Contemporary Light,” May, 1997
New York University, “Multiculturalism, Afrocentricity, Humanism,”
September 1996
Norfolk State University , “Afrocentricity,” January,
1995
North Carolina State University, Greenville, “Educating the
Black Child,” April, 1998
Northeastern University, “The Problems with Hegemony and Eurocentrism,”
October, 1996
Northeastern Illinois University, “The Structure of American
Education,” April, 1998
Northern Illinois University, “Anti-Africanism Among African
Intellectuals: The Quest for a Non-African Patrimony,” March,
1997
Oberlin College, “Bantu Steve Biko and the Black Consciousness
Movement in South Africa,” October 1988
Ohio State University, “The Rise of Black Studies in the Sixties:
Reflections from a Founder,” March 1994
Ottawa University, “Dialogues with Ethical Concepts from Africa:
Maat and Iwa,” March, 1999
Penn State University , “Communication and African Resurgence,”
April, 1996
Pepperdine University, “The Structure of American Education
and Its Eurocentric Hegemony,” April, 2002
Portland State University, “Martin Luther King, Jr.: Apostle
of Peace,” January 1993
Princeton University, “The Afrocentric Movement and its Impact
on American Education,” May 1994
Queens College, “Race, Racism, and Race Relations: Differences
and Dialogues,” November, 1997
Rochester Institute of Technology, “Media Communication and
Human Relations,” March 1996
Rutgers University , “Race, Gender, Class: An Afrocentric
Critique,” January, 1994
San Diego State University, “Afrocentricity: The Paradigm
and Its Impact in African Studies,” March, 2003
Shippensburg University, “Communication, Culture, and Race:
Toward Human Community,” October, 1993
Southern University, “History and the Historian: Where is
the White Historian Located?” February, 1988
Southwest Louisiana University, “Literature, Language and
the Centered Idea,” March 1987
Spelman College, “African Americans and Female-Male Relationships:
The Myths and the Realities,” October, 1990
St. Cloud State University, “Interracial Communication,”
April 1987
SUNY-Albany, “The Future of Black Studies in Major Universities,”
November 1996
SUNY-Binghamton, “Ali Mazrui and the African Idea in Political
Science: Challenges and Victories,” January, 2001
SUNY-Buffalo, “The Struggle Against Eurocentric Hegemony in
Education: Saving our Children,” March 1999.
Syracuse University, “Researching African American History:
Finding Our Centers,” September 1986
Talladega College, “Afrocentricity, Negritude, Kawaida, and
Kilombismo: African Intellectual Ideas,” February 1993
Tennessee State University, “Why There Ought to Be African
American Studies at HBCUs,” October 1994
Texas Southern University, “Intercultural Communication: Models
of Mutual Respect,” December, 1997
Texas Tech, “Community v. Individuality: Unity or Singularity
in African Culture?” October 1997
Tufts University, “Challenging the Whiteness Paradigm: Eurocentric
Historians and the Burden of Distortion,” February 1999
Tulane University, “On the Occasion of the Delivery of the
Molefi Kete Asante Papers to the Amistad Research Center,”
March 1996
Union College, “African Religion: The Unity of an Idea,”
September 1994
University of California Los Angeles, “Textual Analysis in
the Odu Ifa,” April 2000
University of California Berkeley, “Questions of African Values:
The Classical Issue,” October 1992
University of California-Irvine, “Multiculturalism in the
United States: History and Practice,” March 1994
University of California-Davis, “The Afrocentric Idea: Discourse
on Agency,” March 2001
University of Costa Rica, San Jose, “Afrocentricity,”
August, 1999
University of Dayton, “Pillars of Ancient Egyptian Philosophy:
Merikare and Amenhotep, son of Hapu,” January, 2000
University of Delaware, “African American Education: Writing
a Textbook that Makes Sense,” February, 1995
University of Illinois, “The Afrocentric Paradigm: Disciplinary
Fundamentals in Black Studies,” February 2003
University of Kansas, “What does Afrocentricity say about
Humanities?” February 1987
University of Leeds , United Kingdom, “Discourses on Racism
in Western Nations: How the Afrocentric Idea Responds,” October
1999
University of Louisville, “Seeking Positionality in our Research,”
January 1996
University of Manchester, United Kingdom, “The Afrocentric
Idea,” March 2000
University of Maryland, “Akhenaten and the Heresy of Aten,”
February 2000
University of Miami-Dade, “The Haitian-Cuban Issue: The Politics
of Whiteness,” April 1998
University of Michigan, “From Weber to Diamond with Racist
Explanations for Historical Processes,” September 1999
University of Minnesota, “Human Communication Theories: Mutuality
and Negotiation,” October 1996
University of Missouri, “The Institutionalization of African
American Studies: Departments, Centers, and Programs,” March
1987
University of New England, “The Trail of Tears and the Middle
Passage: Iconic Views of History,” September 1997
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, “Afrocentricity,”
February 1993
University of Puerto Rico, “Ebonics: My First Language,”
January 1995
University of Pennsylvania, “Black Studies: Theories and Practices,”
October 2002
University of Pittsburgh, “Centeredness in Afrocentric Theory,”
November 1997
University of Rochester, “The Meaning of Afrocentricity,”
March 1990
University of Sheffield, United Kingdom, “The African Diaspora:
Against the Idea of a Black Atlantic,” October 1998
University of Tennessee, “Celebrating the Lives of King and
Haley,” January 1995
University of Texas, “How Europe Continues to Under-develop
Africa: In Honor of Walter Rodney,” February 1996
University of Toronto, OISE, “The Africalogical Enterprise:
Using Afrocentric Methods,” March 2003
University of Virginia, “Interrogating Local African American
History for Evidence of Resistance to Oppression,” October
1990
University of Washington, “The Afrocentric Idea in Education,”
April 1990
University of Wisconsin-Madison, “The Afrocentric Idea: The
Difficulty of Viewing Freedom in Black Studies,” May 1992
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, “Africology: Why I Support
the Afrocentric Study of African Phenomena,” March 1994
Valdosta State College, “Intercultural Communication,”
March 1994
Villanova University, “Alexander Crummell, Martin Delany,
and other Black Nationalists,” December 1988
Virginia Tech, “Creating a PH.D. Program in African American
Studies,” February 1995
Virginia Commonwealth University, “African American Youth
in Revolt: The Case of the Black Panthers and Us Movement,”
February 1996
Wayne State University, “Rhetoric and Communication in Ancient
Kemet,” March 1993
Wesleyan College, “The Afrocentric Idea and Aesthetics: Philosophical
Questions,” September 1994
West Virginia University, “Afrocentricity and History: Interpretation
and Justification,” March 2001
Western Ontario University, “Racism and Western Hegemony:
Why the World Reacts,” October 1992
Winston-Salem State University, “African American History,”
September 2001
Wooster College, “Teaching African American Students from
a Centered Position,” February 1992.
TYPICAL COURSES TAUGHT
IN THE LAST FIVE YEARS:
Seminar on Cheikh Anta Diop
Ancient Egyptian Language and Culture
Seminar in Nile Valley Civilizations
The Afrocentric Idea
African Civilization
African Religions
Readings in African American Social and Political Thought
Dimensions of Racism
SPECIAL AWARDS RECEIVED
FOR TEACHING, WRITING, AND SCHOLARLY EXCELLENCE:
Inducted into the Literary Hall
of Fame for Writers of African Descent, Gwendolyn Brooks Center,
Chicago State University, October 2004
Carter Woodson and Cheikh Anta Diop Award for Lifetime Achievement
in Africana Studies Research and Scholarship, West Virginia University,
2002
Douglas Ehninger Award for Distinguished Rhetorical Scholarship,
National Communication Association, New Orleans, December, 2002
The Philadelphia 76ers and Philadelphia Tribune Community Service
Award, 2002
Nguzo Saba Award for Scholarly Initiative, NAKO, Los Angeles, September,
2000
Walter Annenberg Chair for Distinguished Scholars, Howard University,
School of Communication, 1995
Morgan State University, College of Arts and Sciences Award for
Distinguished Academic Service, 1995
Howard University Education and Community Service Award, Washington
DC, 1994
Outstanding Communication Scholar in America, Howard University,
Washington DC, 1992
Doctor of Humane Letters, Sojourner-Douglass College, Baltimore
MD, 1991
Ralph Metcalfe Chair for Distinguished Scholars, Marquette University,
Marquette WI, 1984-85
Outstanding Communication Scholar, Jackson State University, 1980
Distinguished Professor in Communication, Howard University, Washington
DC, 1979-80
Doctor of Humane Letters, University of New Haven, New Haven CT,
1976
(Dr. Asante has received more than 100 Special Awards)
LIST OF SOME OF THE DISSERTATIONS
SUPERVISED AND STUDENTS MENTORED: (Generally considered
a pre-eminent trainer of young scholars, Dr. Asante has mentored
scores of graduate students and colleagues. He has supervised more
dissertations in African American Studies than any scholar. His
students alone have written more than 75 books and serve in universities
around the world)
Leophus Tarharka King, “Philomythy:
Ancient Egyptian Correspondences with Greek Myths,” Temple
University, 2003, (Millersville University)
Ivan Douglas Hicks, “Centering African American Religion:
Toward an Afrocentric Analysis,” Temple University, 2003 (Senior
Minister, Central Baptist Church, Indianapolis)
Emeka Nwadiora, “God in Africa: Towards a Unitized Pan African
Liberation Theology,” Temple University, 2002 (Temple University)
Michelle Rief, “Banded Close Together”: An Afrocentric
Study of African American Women’s International Activism,
1850-1940, And the International Council of Women of the Darker
Races, Temple University, 2002.
Weldon Williams III, “The African Origin of the New Age: An
Astrochronolgy of the Black Experience,” Temple University,
2002.
Suzuko Morikawa, “African American and Asian American Responses
to Racism: A Comparative Analysis,” Temple University, 2001.(Chicago
State University)
Audrea FeFe Dunham, “More’n a Notion: A Quantitative
Study of Black Nationalism,” Temple University 2001. (New
Jersery State Government, Delaware State University)
Reiland Rabaka Smith, “Critical Analysis of African American
Intellectual Thought,” Temple University , 2001.(California
State University, Long Beach)
Jelani Lorenza Williams, “An Afrocentric Study of the Charter
School Movement,” Temple University 2001. (Private Charter
School, Houston) deceased
Segun Shabaka, “Emigration of African Americans to Haiti in
1825,” Temple University, 2001. (New York Public Schools)
Victor Vega, “The Afro-Latino and Afrocentricity: A Study
in Centrality Location,” Temple University, 2001 (Middlesex
College)
Barbara Faggins, “An Afrocentric Analysis of the Contact Between
African Americans and First Americans in Colonial Virginia, Temple
University, 2000
Geoffrey Giddings, “An Analysis of Afrocentricity, Kawaida
and Black Psychology as Cultural Constructions,” Temple University,
2000 (Antioch College)
Daryl (Zizwe) Poe, “An Analysis of Nkrumahism as a Precursor
to Afrocentricity,” Temple University, 2000 (Lincoln University)
Kwame Botwe-Asamoah, “Kwame Nkruman’s Cultural Philosophy,”
Temple University, 2000 (University of Pittsburgh)
Ji Yuan, “W. E. B. Du Bois Socialist Philosophy,” Temple
University, 1999 (Jilin University)
Vivian Newman, “An Afrocentric Analysis of Black Conservatism,
“ Temple University, 1998 (Coppin State University)
Troy Allen, Ancient Egyptian Kinship Patterns, Temple University,
1997 (Southern University)
Cynthia Lehman, "Sdm P N Mdw MaAt, Temple University, 1997
(University of Maryland, Eastern Shore)
Clyde Robertson, "Unsung Hero: The Afrocentric Location of
Alexander Pierre Turead," Temple University, 1997 (New Orleans
Public Schools)
Tshombe Walker, “Hip Hop Worldview: An Afrocentric Analysis,”
Temple University, 1997 ( New York Technical College)
Doreen Loury, "African-Centered Ethnography of African American
Male Single Fathers," Temple University, 1997. (Arcadia University)
Lillian Safisha Green Gaskins, “African American Infusion
in the Philadelphia School System,” Temple University, 1997.
(Philadelphia Public Schools, retired)
Marlene Archie, “A Centered School: An African Centered Developmental
Project," Temple University, 1997. (Imhotep Charter School)
Jeffrey Lynn Woodyard, “Malcolm X: An Afrocentric Analysis
of Black Males” Temple University, 1997 (Florida Central University)
Catherine Godboldte, “Comparative Study of Ancient Egyptian
and African American Funeral Rites,” Temple University (Salem
Baptist Church)
Miriam Maat Ka Re Monges, "Kush: An Afrocentric Analysis "
Temple University, 1995. (California State University, Chico)
Marta Moreno Vega, “A Study of Yoruba as Practiced in Urban
Communities,” Temple University, 1995 (Director, Caribbean
Cultural Center, New York)
Katherine Bankole, "Slave Medicine in Ante-Bellum Louisiana,"
Temple University, 1995 (West Virginia University)
Cecil Gray, " From Incipient Afrocentricity to Afrocentricity,"
Temple University, 1995 (Gettysburg College)
Donald McNeely, "Multiculturalism and the Teacher Education,"
Temple University, 1995. (New Jersey Education Association, retired)
Susan Thomas-Holder, "Henry Highland Garnet: His Life, Time
and Afrocentric Analysis of his Writing", Temple University,
l994.
Franzone, Dorothy, "Garifuna: An Afrocentric Analysis,"
Temple University, 1994 (Texas Southern University)
Victor Oguejiofor Okafor, "Leadership and Political Integration
in Africa: An Afrocentric Case Study of Nigeria", Temple University,
1994. (Eastern Michigan University)
Timothy Johnson, "The Ideology, Theological and Conceptual
Postulates of the Black Church Becoming Afrocentric", Temple
University, 1994.
Barbara Marshall, "An Afrocentric Analysis of the Works of
Selected African American Female Writers", Temple University,
1993. (Philadelphia Public Schools)
Don Luke, "Afrocentric Methods and the Retrieval of an Obscured
African History: A Re-examination of Old Norse Sagas", Temple
University, 1993.
James Naazir Conyers, "A Descriptive and Evaluative Analysis
of Selected African-American Studies Departments and Programs (Pennsylvania,
California, Wisconsin, Ohio State University, Temple, Connecticut,
UCLA, University of Wisconsin, Yale)", Temple University, 1992.
(University of Houston)
Adeniyi Coker, "The Aesthetic Dimension of Ola Rotimi's Ori
Olokun Theatre", Temple University, 1991. (University of Alabama)
Mark Hyman, "Afrocentric Leanings of Black Church-Owned Newspapers
from Mid-Nineteenth Century to WWI", Temple University, 1991.
(Widener University) deceased
Ella Forbes, "But We Have No Country: An Afrocentric Study
of the 1851 Christiana Resistance", Temple University, 1991.
(Temple University)
Hilary Amata Nwaozuzu, "Emeka Ojukwu's Rhetoric of Secessionism
and Yakubu Gowon's Anti-Secessionist Rhetoric: A Critical and Historical
Analysis", SUNY-Buffalo, 1985.
Hilary Mgbeahuruike Oziri, "The Evolution of Telecommunication
in Nigeria: A Needs Analysis", SUNY-Buffalo, 1984. (University
of Nsukka, Nigeria)
Edwin Ndichu Gitau, "Press Freedom and the New World Information
Order: A Developmental Scheme", SUNY-Buffalo, 1984. (University
of Nairobi)
Alene L. Barnes-Harden, "African American Verbal Arts: Their
Nature and Communicative Interpretation (A Thematic Analysis)",
SUNY-Buffalo, 1980. (Kent State University)
Deborah Atwater, "Arnold B. Pinckney and the 1971 Cleveland
Mayoral Campaign: The Case for the Strategy of Flexible Responses",
SUNY-Buffalo, 1979. (Penn State)
Michael Anthony Appiah, "Okyeame': An Integrative Model of
Communication Behavior", SUNY-Buffalo, 1979. (Minister, Ghana
Government)
Abu Shardow Abarry, "Rhetoric and Poetics of Oral African Literature:
A Study of the Ga of Ghana", SUNY-Buffalo, 1979. (Temple University)
Naomi Pasiharigutwi Nhiwatiwa, "International Communication
Between the European and African Worldviews", SUNY-Buffalo,
1979. (Ambassador, World Health Organization)
Doyinsola Aboaba-Abiola, "The Nigerian Press Under Military
Rule", SUNY-Buffalo, 1979. (Publisher, Concord Newspapers,
Nigeria)
Dellvina Gross, "A Participant Observation Study of Communication
During Activity of Short Term Imprisoned Women", SUNY-Buffalo,
1979. (Temple University)
Louis Alban Browne, "Monoethnicity, Multiethnicity and the
Television Commerical: A Critical Assessment", SUNY-Buffalo,
1979. (Texas Southern University)
Beverly Duncklee, "A Study of Black American Versus White American
Health Beliefs and Health Care Communication", SUNY-Buffalo,
1979.
Sharon Dittmar, "An Exploratory Study of the Critical Listening
Abilities of Senior Students in Diploma, Associate Degree and Baccalaureate
Degree Programs of Nursing Education", SUNY-Buffalo, 1979.
(SUNY Buffalo)
Ellen Grant, "A Communication Environment for African American
Mental Health Care", SUNY-Buffalo, 1979. (Erie County Hospital
Chief)
Jill Robyn Weiner, "The Family of Woman: A Mythological Analysis
of the Rhetoric of Contemporary Feminist Song", SUNY-Buffalo,
1979. (Manhattan Marymount College)
Everett Maraka Standa, "A Systems Approach to Instructional
Radio Broadcasting in the Kenya School System: A Model", SUNY-Buffao,
1979. (University of Kenya, now Vice Chancellor, Kenyatta University)
Marilyn Stahlka Watt, "A Critical Analysis of the Roles of
Women in a Local Media Industry", SUNY-Buffalo, 1979. (Canisius
College)
Eileen Newmark, "The Evaluation of the Effectiveness of an
Intercultural Orientation Training Program for a Study Abroad Project:
An Exploratory Study", SUNY-Buffalo, 1979.
Janice Shaw Crouse, "The Carter-Ford Campaign Debates, 1976:
The Images and Issues in Political Persuasion", SUNY-Buffalo,
1979.
Samuel Osei Boadu, "Communication and Cultural Change: An Empirical
Evaluation of Value Orientations in a Modernizing Society",
SUNY-Buffalo, 1978. (World Health Organization)
Robert Holmes, Jr., "The Therapeutic Effect of The Self Disclosure
Technique in the Rehabilitation of Disabled Individuals (An Analysis
of Communication Behavior), SUNY-Buffalo, 1978.
Erika Wenzel Vora, "The Development of Concept Diffusion Models
and Their Application to the Diffusion of the Social Concept of
Race", SUNY-Buffalo, 1978. (St. Cloud State University)
Daniel Harrison, "Major Themes and Tactics in Speeches of William
L. Garrison", SUNY-Buffalo, 1978. (Kennedy-King College)
Rita Flaningan Rice, "A Descriptive Study of the Communication
Behavior of the Federal Disaster Assistance Administration",
SUNY-Buffalo, 1978. (Slippery Rock State)
Joan Flanigen Drexelius, "A Reconceptualization of Rhetoric
in a General Systems Framework", SUNY-Buffalo, 1978. (University
of Puerto Rico)
Sarr Abdulai Vandi, "Towards the Utilization of Mass Media
in Community Education Programs in Liberia", SUNY-Buffalo,
1977. (Minister of Communication, Liberia)
Samuel Otitigbe, "Slow Pay of Media Bills: A Critical Analysis
of a Three-Dimensional Contemporary Problem in Advertising",
SUNY-Buffalo, 1977. (SUNY Albany)
Alan Jay Zaremba, "An Exploratory Analysis of National Perceptions
of the Arab-Israeli Conflict as Represented Through World Newspapers:
An International Communication Study", SUNY-Buffalo, 1977.
(Northeastern University)
Diane S. Hope, "A Rhetorical Definition of Movements: The Drama
of Rebirth in Radical Feminism", SUNY-Buffalo, 1975. (Rochester
Institute of Technology)
Enid Janssen Reed, “Communication Tactics Used by High and
Low Machiavellians in Differentially-Motivated Task Oriented Situations,”
UCLA, l973.
Karen Wells Borden, "Persuasive Appeals of Imperialist and
Anti-Imperialist Congressmen in the Debates on Phillipine Independence,
1912-1934", UCLA, 1972.
Melbourne Stenson Cummings, "The Rhetoric of Bishop Henry McNeal
Turner, Leading Advocate in the African Emigration Movement, 1866-1907",
UCLA, 1972. (Howard University)
SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION:
Editor, Journal of Black Studies,
1969- current
Editor, African Dissertation Series, Routledge, Taylor and Francis,
Publishers, 2001—current
Advisory Editor, Imhotep, African American Studies Graduate Journal,
1988-1992
Reviewer and Evaluator for Best Books, Diamond Book Award, National
Communication Association, 2000--
Developer, Asante Imprint Books, Peoples Publishing Group, for Afrocentric
Infusion, 1993-2000
Consulting Editor for the following publishers: Chandler, Macmillan,
Sage, Allyn and Bacon, Prentice-Hall, McGraw-Hill, Scott, Foresman,
Peoples Publishing, Modern Curriculum Press, Harper and Row, 1991-1996
Evaluator and Reviewer, Center for Black Culture, Penn State University,
1994
Evaluator and Reviewer, Department of Black Community Research,
University of Pittsburgh, 1991
President, National Afrocentric Institute, 1989-91
Vice President, National Council of Black Studies, 1988-90
Created the first PH.D. Program in African American Studies at Temple
University in 1987.
Evaluator, Graduate Program in African American Studies, University
of Maryland and Morgan State University, 1988.
Consultant, United Nations University, 1985-86.
External Evaluation Team for Department of Black Studies, Ohio State
University, 1985.
UNESCO reviewer for International Scholarly Books, 1985.
Consultant, Zimbabwe Institute for Mass Communication, 1981-82.
President, Society for Intercultural Education, Training and Research,
1975-76.
Communication item writer, Educational Testing Service, Princeton
NJ, 1976, 1969-70.
SUNY Distinguished Faculty Exchange Professor, 1973-83.
President, Trans-Cultural Education/Communication Foundation, 1971-81.
Program Planner, Dimension Programs, Speech Communication Association,
1971.
Chairperson, Faculty Exchange Committee, Speech Communication Association.
Martin Luther King Fellowships, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton
NJ, 1970-72.
Urban and Ethnic Affairs Committee, Speech Communication Association,
1969.
UNIVERSITY SERVICE AND
COMMUNITY SERVICE:
Director, Pan African Center/Free
African Society Lectures, African American History Museum of Philadelphia,
2004
WURD radio program host, 2001-Present
WHAT radio program host, 1994-2000
President and Chairperson, African Writers Endowment, 2000-current,
makes grants to African writers
Park Mall Committee for University Construction, Temple University,
1994-1996.
Merit Committee, Temple University, 1992-93.
Academy named in Honor, Molefi Kete Asante Cultural Awareness Academy
of the Hatch Middle School, Camden NJ. Founded in 1993
College of Arts and Sciences Cutting Edge Seminars Committee, Temple
University, 1991-93.
Amistad Research Center for Black History, Tulane University, Archives
Asante Papers and Correspondences relevant to Afrocentric Movement,
since 1995--, C-451.
National Institute for Drug Abuse Advisory Committee on Culture,
A.I.D. 1994-1995
Prevention and Drug Abuse Advisory Committee, Washington DC, 1991-92.
Advisory Board, National Association of Black Men, 1991.
Chairperson, National Afrocentric Institute, 1989-1997
Chair, African Academy of Sciences, 1988-Present.
Promotions Committee, Temple University, 1991-93.
Study Leave Committee, Temple University, 1989-90.
Park Mall Housing Committee, Temple University, 1985-87.
College of Arts and Sciences Executive Committee, Temple University,
1985
Advisory Board, Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolence,
Philadelphia PA.
Advisory Board, Channel 7, Buffalo NY.
Advisory Board, Channel 13, Los Angeles CA.
Chairperson of Board, Center for Positive Thought, Buffalo, 1978-82.
Curator, Museum of African and African American Art and Antiquities,
Buffalo NY 1979-84.
Advisory Board, Pepperdine Master Campus Plan, 1972.
Presidential Search Committee, SUNY-Buffalo, 1981.
Clifton Wharton's Task Force on African Studies, SUNY-Buffalo, 1979-83.
Representative for Faculty Union, SUNY-Buffalo, 1978-82
Chair, Boyer's Task Force on African Studies, SUNY-Buffalo, 1976-77.
Academic Senate, SUNY-Buffalo, 1974-75.
Provost's Search Committee, SUNY-Buffalo, 1974.
Chair, Statewide Committee on Black Studies, UCLA, 1972-73.
Campus Representative, Statewide Assembly, UCLA, 1972.
Committee on Affirmative Action, Florida State University, 1972.
Advisor, Ethno-Communication Films, UCLA, 1971-73.
Advisor, Chicano Studies Center, UCLA, 1971-72.
Advisor, African Studies Center, UCLA, 1971-72.
Chair, Search Committee, UCLA, 1971-72.
Dean, Graduate Advancement, UCLA, 1971-72
Chair, Indiana State Civil Rights Commission on Higher Education
and the Afro-American, 1968.
Order of the Golden Bruin, UCLA, 1966-1973
Committee on Distinguished Teachers, UCLA, 1971.
Committee for Senate Re-Evaluation, UCLA, 1971.
University Reorganization Committee and Conference, UCLA, 1971.
Committee to Evaluate the Graduate Division, UCLA, 1970-71.
Camp Hess Kramer Seminar on Interracial Communication, 1970.
Young's Committee to Review Subject A, Foreign Languages and American
Institutions, UCLA. EDUCATIONAL
CONSULTANT SERVICES:
Burlington New Jersey School District,
2002
Asbury Park New Jersey School District, 2001
Birmingham School District (AL), 2000-2002
Gary, Indiana School District (IND) 1996-1999, 2001-2002
Trenton School Board (NJ)1996
Baltimore School District (MD), 1993
Camden School District (NJ), 1993; 2000, 2004
Pleasantville School District (NJ), 1994
Philadelphia School District (PA), 1996, 2003-2004
Detroit School District (MI), 1994-1996
New York School District (NY), 1996
Los Angeles Human Relations Commission (CA), 1970-72.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:
African Union, Committee for African
Intellectuals, Member, 2003-2004
National Communication Association, on-going since 1969
International Communication Association- Nominated and ran for President
in l980; Vice President l978 to 1980.
President and Chairperson, African Writers Endowment Foundation,
2000-
President, Association of Nubian Kemetic Heritage (ANKH), 1995-2003
Vice Chair, Institut des Peuples Noirs, Commission II, Ouagadougou
Burkina Faso, 1990.
Founder and President, National Afrocentric Institute, 1989-Present.
Vice Chair, National Council of Black Studies, 1988-90.
Association for the Study of Classical African Civilizations, initial
member
African Heritage Studies Association, 1970, on-going
American Studies Association , 1988
African Studies Association, 1984, on-going
American Education Research Association, 1973-1977
American Academy of Political and Social Sciences, 1979-1984
Modern Language Association , 1981
Board Member, Project Daytime Television, l975-1979
Director, Institute for the Study of Intercultural Communication
(ISIC)
President, Society for Intercultural Education, Training and Research,
1975-76
Charter Member, The World University, 1973-82.
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