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

October 17 -18, 2008
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Panel 2: Molefi Asante’s Contributions to Africana Studies Scholarship
in the Light of Contemporary Issues

  • Chair: Dr. Lenetta Lee, Langston Hughes Charter School
  • Dr. Lisa Bratton, University of Maryland
    “Not the Way God Created My Parts: A Sudanese Woman Speaks of Female Genital Mutilation”
  • Dr. Iya Adjua Zauditu Mandikizela Hetheru, Founder, Whmy Msu Productions
    “Asante’s ‘Race Rhetoric and Identity: The Architecton of Soul’
    An Afrocentric Comprehension of the ‘Obama Nation’ in America”
  • Dr. Marlene Archie, Cheyney University
    “An Afrocentric Critique or the Locating Of Dislocation: An Example from Contemporary Practice”

Dr. Lisa Bratton, University of Maryland
“Not the Way God Created My Parts:
A Sudanese Woman Speaks of Female Genital Mutilation”