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Afrocentricity       Search catalogue MMS 9839669521702711

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Developed as a theory in the early 1980s in the USA within the context of African-American academic studies, Afrocentrality has as its ultimate goal the liberation of African people from the grips of Eurocentrism, first and foremost through African intellectual agency. (See: Encyclopedia.com, accessed 4-2-2021)

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Afrocentrism

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cultural philosophy

Subject category
06.06 PHILOSOPHY AND METAPHYSICS

Indexing history
Added 2021

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