We Will Tell Our Own Story: The Lions of Africa Speak!

These authors, all deeply dedicated to the telling of an African story, are committed to righting the wrongs of intellectual inquiry by setting upright the standards, criteria, and assumptions often avoided by Eurocentrists-of any complexion. Without the 'lions of Africa' speaking and writing about their narratives, the fields of literature, philosophy, social science, history, and psychology, evidence would cede to those without the slightest idea about the African knowledge base or how to add to it. Thus, the authors in this volume speak loudly, and write deftly and definitively to erect a new phalanx of liberated minds.

Readers will learn how:

- Black people of the African Diaspora have a story that transcends Eurocentric teachings and ideology.

- The intricate knowledge of history, physical, and social sciences are rich in the scholarship of Black educators.

- To navigate the spaces of socio-political concepts by shedding new light and thinking strategy.

- The stories are different when the lions are not the victims but can display agency in the hunt and hunted.

The authors in this book logically state the cultural, social, economic, political, and literary facts regarding African people and explore what Africans have said-and will say.

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We Will Tell Our Own Story: The Lions of Africa Speak!

These authors, all deeply dedicated to the telling of an African story, are committed to righting the wrongs of intellectual inquiry by setting upright the standards, criteria, and assumptions often avoided by Eurocentrists-of any complexion. Without the 'lions of Africa' speaking and writing about their narratives, the fields of literature, philosophy, social science, history, and psychology, evidence would cede to those without the slightest idea about the African knowledge base or how to add to it. Thus, the authors in this volume speak loudly, and write deftly and definitively to erect a new phalanx of liberated minds.

Readers will learn how:

- Black people of the African Diaspora have a story that transcends Eurocentric teachings and ideology.

- The intricate knowledge of history, physical, and social sciences are rich in the scholarship of Black educators.

- To navigate the spaces of socio-political concepts by shedding new light and thinking strategy.

- The stories are different when the lions are not the victims but can display agency in the hunt and hunted.

The authors in this book logically state the cultural, social, economic, political, and literary facts regarding African people and explore what Africans have said-and will say.

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We Will Tell Our Own Story: The Lions of Africa Speak!

We Will Tell Our Own Story: The Lions of Africa Speak!

We Will Tell Our Own Story: The Lions of Africa Speak!

We Will Tell Our Own Story: The Lions of Africa Speak!

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These authors, all deeply dedicated to the telling of an African story, are committed to righting the wrongs of intellectual inquiry by setting upright the standards, criteria, and assumptions often avoided by Eurocentrists-of any complexion. Without the 'lions of Africa' speaking and writing about their narratives, the fields of literature, philosophy, social science, history, and psychology, evidence would cede to those without the slightest idea about the African knowledge base or how to add to it. Thus, the authors in this volume speak loudly, and write deftly and definitively to erect a new phalanx of liberated minds.

Readers will learn how:

- Black people of the African Diaspora have a story that transcends Eurocentric teachings and ideology.

- The intricate knowledge of history, physical, and social sciences are rich in the scholarship of Black educators.

- To navigate the spaces of socio-political concepts by shedding new light and thinking strategy.

- The stories are different when the lions are not the victims but can display agency in the hunt and hunted.

The authors in this book logically state the cultural, social, economic, political, and literary facts regarding African people and explore what Africans have said-and will say.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780982532768
Publisher: Universal Write Publications LLC
Publication date: 05/01/2017
Edition description: Revised ed.
Pages: 416
Sales rank: 783,078
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.85(d)

About the Author

Akomolafe is author and editor of We Will Tell Our Own Story! and These Wilds Beyond Our Fences: Letter to My Daughter of Humanity's Search for Home. He is the author of multiple essays on matters ranging from the nature of science, the coronavirus pandemic, racism, tricksters, climate chaos, and unschooling.

Molefi Kete Asante has become the seminal theoretician of Afrocentric infusion into the curriculum, examining and advancing the agency-centered ideological position in the realm of education, culture, and science. Widely read and consulted, Dr. Asante and his books have inspired educators in the United States, South Africa, Nigeria, Canada, and Brazil.

Table of Contents

CONTENTS

Beyond Truth: The Subversion of Story 4

Adebayo C. Akomolafe

Telling an African Social Sciences Narrative: An Approach

Molefi Kete Asante 37

Afrocentricity and the Critical Question of African Agency

Ama Mazama 48

Social Sciences and Academic Imperialism in the Global South: Some Reflections on Africa

Gordon Onyango Omenya 60

In Search of Becoming Whole: Moving the Center in Social Science Research

Augustine Nwoye 82

Re-claiming Schooling and Higher Education in Africa

George J. Sefa Dei 107

Western Media Stereotypes and Portrayal of Africa

Nnamdi T. Ekeanyanwu 134

The Myth of Poverty: African Identities within an Ecosystem Approach to the Gift Economy

Yvette Abrahams 152

Exploring Indigenous Healing Methods: A Personal Account

Peter Onyekwere Ebigbo 161

Beyond Revolution: Who Shall Lead Afrika’s 21st Century Transformation?

Paulo Wangoola 186

Koru: Celebrating New Ecologies of Knowledges

Ijeoma Clement-Akomolafe 226

Dream States and Interrupted People

Tsitsi Dangarembga 251

Reflections on Political Science

Daryl Taiwo Harris 266

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