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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Asar Imhotep: [QB] Personally I don't see anything wrong with being considered an Afro-centrists. I say so because 97% of the people who attempt to make this "a bad word" have NEVER studied any Afrocentric literature to know what that even means. First and foremost, it is a literary critique to find the location of the author in time and space. It has been proven scientifically that objectivity is fantasy (see the Double Slit Experiment) and many of the non-scholars on this board seems to believe that somehow "objectivity" is attainable. When one is talking about African social phenomena, the only accurate way one can describe such phenomena is by the African people themselves. There is no way around it. To discuss African history, culture and philosophy, one must be centered in the reality of the African. This has been the mistake of practically all Eurocentric researchers: trying to explain African social phenomena from the perspective of Europeans and pass it off as truth. People who study Africa, and aren't African-Centered will never gain the insight to produce useful information and get at the heart of the culture. This is the difference between Jan Vansina discussing oral traditions in Africa, versus Amadou Hampate Ba ("The Living Tradition," UNESCO). Anyone who has read anything of Ba's knows there in inside information that no outsiders would be prevy of because they don't live the culture. This is what upset scholars attempting to tackle Dogon history and culture and couldn't get anywhere that Griaule could because he was initiated into the culture which they didn't want to do. He was African-Centered and his detractors were not. You don't have to be "Black" to be African-Centered. The book _Race and Identity in the Nile Valley: Ancient and Modern Perspectives(2004)_ is edited by Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban and Kharyssa Rhodes, two women Afrocentrists who are 'White'. They use primary sources and let the culture speak for itself without interjecting White cultural bias. I challenge any person who is not Afrocentric to be able to extract information about African culture better than someone who lives the African reality. You can't do it. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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