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Dr. Molefi Kete Asante is Professor and former Chair, Department of African American Studies at Temple University. Considered by his peers to be one of the most distinguished contemporary scholars, Asante is the author of 40 books, the latest are Favorite African American Names written with Renee Muntaqim; the revised and expanded The Afrocentric Idea; African American History: A Journey of Liberation: African Intellectual Heritage with Abu Abarry and Love Dance, a book of Asante and friend in Egypt

poetry and illustrations. He has published more scholarly books than any contemporary African author and has reently been recognized as one of the ten most widely cited African Americans. Asante received his Ph.D. from UCL A at the age of 26 and was appointed a full professor at the age of 30 at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He created the first Ph.D. program in African American Studies in a major institution and has directed more than 60 Ph.D. dissertations in communication and Africology, making him one of the principal producers of Ph.d.'s in the nation. He has written more than 200 scholarly articles for journals and is the founder of the theory of Enstoolment of Nana Asante

Afrocentricity. Indeed, his books Afrocentricity; the Afrocentric Idea; Kemet, Afrocentricity and Knowledge are the key works in the field. Sought after as a speaker and consultant, nationally and internationally, Asante was born in Valdosta, Georgia, one of sixteen children. He is a poet, dramatist, painter, and gardener. His work on African culture and philsophy has been cited by journals and newspapers such as the Journal of Black Studies, Imhotep, Journal of Communication, New York Times, Newsweek, Western Journal of Black Studies, Boston Globe, and the Afrocentric Scholar. In 1996 the Utne Magazine called him one of the "100 Leading Thinkers" in America and Asante was recently recommended in a survey as one of the 25 influential African male leaders of the century. He appears regularly on shows like Nightline, BET, MacNeil-Lehrer News Hour, Today Show, the Tony Brown Show, 60 Minutes, NightTalk, and Nightwatch. He has received honorary degrees for his community and educational work. Asante is the founding editor of the Journal of Black Studies and was the president of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee at UCLA in the l960s. Recently he was made a traditional king, Nana Okru Asante Peasah, Kyidomhene of Tafo, in Akyem, Ghana. Dr. Asante was the first permanent director of the UCLA Center for Afro-American Studies, the past Chair of the Department of Communication at SUNY-Buffalo, and remains active as an activist-scholar who believes that it is not enough to know, one must act to humanize the world. He is or has been a consultant for rewriting curricula in more

than a dozen school districts and for two years has hosted the popular Philadelphia radio show, "African Spotlight" on WHAT-Radio. For Dr. Asante's full resume click this text.