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

October 17 -18, 2008
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Panel 1: Currents of African Scholarship

  • Chair: David Agum, Temple University
  • Dr. Shirley A. J. Hanshaw, Mississippi State University
    “Paradigms of African Hero Dynamics: The Black (W) hole Experience of the “Compassionate” Hero in Selected African American Novels”
  • Dr. Adebayo Oyebade, Tennessee State University
    “African Historiography and Paradigm Shift: Construction of an Afrocentric Theory of Knowledge”
  • Dr. Reiland Rabaka, University of Colorado, Boulder
    “Du Bois’s Dialectics From the ‘Talented Tenth’ to the ‘Guiding Hundredth’”

Dr. Shirley A. J. Hanshaw, Mississippi State University
“Paradigms of African Hero Dynamics: The Black (W) hole Experience of the “Compassionate” Hero in Selected African American Novels”