Concept, Praxis, and Legacy:
Cheikh Anta Diop, Molefi Kete Asante
and the Afrocentric Project

October 17 -18, 2008
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Panel 5: Afrocentric Language and Culture

  • Chair: Mario Root, Bishop Dunne High School, Dallas
  • Dr. Mark Christian, Miami University - Ohio
    “A Pan-Africanist Critique of Cecil Brown’s Dude, Where’s My Black Studies Department?”
  • Dr. Adisa Alkebulan, San Diego State University
    “The Language Question in Literature Afrocentrically Re-Asked”
  • Senfo Tonkam, University of Hamburg
    “From Machiavelism to Nzinga-Samorism: Toward an Afrocentric Power Ethics”
  • Dr. Kimmika L. H. Williams-Witherspoon, Temple University
    “There’s Home in How I Say It: Afrocentricity’s Contributions to the Ebonics Discourse”

Dr. Mark Christian, Miami University - Ohio
“A Pan-Africanist Critique of Cecil Brown’s Dude,
Where’s My Black Studies Department?”