Afrocentrism: Mythical Pasts and Imagined Homes - Paperback

by Stephen Howe (Author)

In this provocative study, Stephen Howe traces the sources and ancestries of the Afrocentric movement, and closely analyses the writings of its leading proponents. Hard-hitting yet subtle and scholarly in its appraisal of Afrocentric ideas, and based on wide-ranging research in the histories both of Afro-America and of Africa itself, Afrocentrism not only demolishes the mythical "history" taught by black ultra-nationalists but suggests paths towards a true historical consciousness of Africa and its diaspora.

Author Biography

Stephen Howe is Professor in the History and Culture of Colonialism at Bristol University.