Africology and Diopian Epistemology

A Transdisciplinary Legacy
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-041-09391-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Routledge Studies in African Philosophy

This book highlights the transdisciplinary legacy of Cheikh Anta Diop’s epistemology, demonstrating its continuing impact on contemporary Africology, which is also known as Black Studies.

Diop’s works in the second half of the twentieth century were foundational to the discipline of Africology. Exposing a stain of cultural and racial bias in Eurocentric Egyptology, Diop argued that Egyptian civilization in fact had deep cultural and linguistic connections with African societies south of the Sahara. This book argues that transdisciplinarity was at the heart of Diop’s arguments, as his work drew from history, anthropology, linguistics, sociology, economics, linguistics, osteology, and physics. This book argues that even now, transdisciplinary approaches remain essential to the discipline of Africology, sometimes referred to as Black Studies, Africana Studies, Pan-African Studies, African Global Studies, or African American Studies. In the book, the contributors consider how Diopian transdisciplinary epistemic approaches continue to combat racial bias and restore the global historical and cultural significance of Africa.

Highlighting the significance of Africa’s usable past as outlined by Diop, this book is an important read for researchers across African Studies, Africology, Black Studies, History, World Civilizations, Intercultural Studies, Africa-focused Think Tanks, and policy makers across the African world.

Zielgruppe

Academic and Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Okafor, Victor Oguejiofor

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Historische & Regionale Volkskunde
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Nicht-Westliche Philosophie Afrikanische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Erkenntnistheorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Cheikh Anta Diop’s Transdisciplinary Legacy: Impacts on Contemporary Africology 2. The Global Scope of Africology & The Imperative of a Grounding in the Visions of the Founding Fathers & Mothers 3. A Diopian Transdisciplinary assessment of the implications & applicability to the Diaspora of an African Ancestral Studies program of study in Higher Education 4. An African Foundation for Science: A Diopian Narrative of Recovery 5. Theories and Principles in Africalogical Conception; the Pedagogy of Ubuntu and Ma’at 6. Diopian Epistemology, Africology, and the Necessity of Establishing a Paradigmatic Shift from Race Ideology to a Culturally Liberatory Model 7. Cheikh Anta Diop, Black Studies, and the Gift of an African Usable Past 8. Black and African: Kemetic Origins of Performance, Ritual Theater and the Choreopoem 9. Re-defining African Womanism as Afrocentric Theory: Voicing Maat 10. Osiris in the form of Cheikh Anta Diop: What does it mean to be a king? 11. Health and Spiritualism; An Africological Perspective 12. Translation A Cultural Ting! An Exercise in Pan-Afrikan Translation 13. The Cultural Basis and Necessity for Pan-Afrikan Unity in the Context of Intellectual Warfare Today! 14. Being Black in White America: An Afrocentric Examination of “Black Lives Matter” in W. E. B. Du Bois’s The Problem of the Colorline 15. Artificial Intelligence Conundrum: An Afrocentric Perspective 16. The Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Victor Oguejiofor Okafor is a professor and head of the Department of Africology and African American Studies at Eastern Michigan University. He holds a Ph.D. in Africology and African American Studies from Temple University, a Master of Public Affairs from Indiana University, and a B.A. from Temple University.