Malcolm X As Cultural Hero and Other Afrocentric Essays by Molefi Kete Asante

In twenty brilliant and illuminating chapters, Molefi Kete Asante explores major intellectual themes confronting African people. Engaging a wide range of issues, such as gender, African hunger, slavery in Mauritania, lack of historical consciousness, the contest over ancient Egypt, and Malcolm X as cultural hero, he sustains one overarching argument: Africans owe deference to no one. This is a major book which no African intellectual anywhere in the world should be without."Molefi Kete Asante represents the best of African culture. He is unafraid of the truth and his writings are wholly committed to advancing theory and practice. These essays are accessible to the common reader, well thought-out, and full of Afrocentric allusions and figures. I highly recommend Malcolm X as Cultural hero and Other Afrocentric Essays." -Paulette Fair, President, Afri-Charte, Indianapolis"Molefi Kete Asante, our most prolific contemporary intellectual, has stayed the course in Malcolm X as Cultural Hero