Who is dr molefi kete asante

New York: Universal Write, Molefi Kete Asante, Revolutionary Pedagogy. Molefi Kete Asante, ed. Cognella, New York and London: Routledge, Second Edition. New York: Lexington, Philadelphia: Ramses, Washington, DC: CQ, Ethiopia Unbound by E.

Casely Hayford. Baltimore, Md. Boulder, Colo. Molefi Kete Asante and Ama Mazama. Afrocentric Infusion for Urban Teachers. Philadelphia: ANKH, Fort Worth: ThembaHill Press, He has directed more than Ph.

He has written more than articles and essays for journals, books and magazines and is the founder of the theory of Afrocentricity. Asante was born in Valdosta, Ga. He is a poet, dramatist, and a painter. The African Union cited him as one of the twelve top scholars of African descent when it invited him to give one of the keynote addresses at the Conference of Intellectuals of Africa and the Diaspora in Dakar in Following graduation, Asante worked as assistant professor in the department of communications at Purdue University.

While working as an assistant professor, he published his second book, The Rhetoric of Black Revolution and was founding editor of the Journal of Black Studies. In , Asante authored, Afrocentricity: The Theory of Social Change , the first of a quartet of books mandating that Africans be viewed as subjects rather than objects. He went to Zimnbabwe in l to assist the government in training journalists and was in charge of the first diplomas in journalism in free Zimbabwe.

In , Asante was hired at Temple University as professor and department chair of the African American Studies department. Two years later, he founded the first Ph.

Asante has directed more than one hundred and forty Ph. Throughout his career Asante has published over seventy-five books, five hundred articles and has won over awards, honorary doctorates and distinguished professorships.

He is the leading authority on African culture and philosophy.