Afrocentricity and the Black American Experience

00:00:51 - Opening 

00:07:08 - What is afrocentricity?

00:23:03 - What is pan africanism?

00:44:43 - Debate: Kwame Toure vs Molefi Asante 

01:20:01 - Asante response

01:46:51 - Close

For this episode, we examine the distinctions between Afrocenticity and Pan-Africanism that are often conflated as one and the same with our guest Dr. Layla Brown. Dr. Layla Brown is a member of the All African People’s Revolutionary Party-GC and currently works as an Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology & Africana Studies and affiliate faculty in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Northeastern University. 

 We explore the 1996 debate on Afrocentricity vs Pan-Africanism between Molefi Asante and Kwame Ture in a talk entitled Africa and the Future. We use this debate to help flesh out the understanding of these terms and show how the application of each term both coincides and differs. 

Debate

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeWcBU1m5ug&t=2538s&ab_channel=MaweluluOnwuku

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