ࡱ> CEB3 bjbjzz ,hh4 $Bb7'''7L'6'`p?]:b0Z:ZZ,'''''''77'''''''Z'''''''''X t:  CITATION: Molefi Kete Asante Born on 14 August 1942 in Valdosta, Georgia in the USA, to Arthur Lee Smith and Lillie Mae Wilkens, Molefi Kete Asante is the fourth of 16 children. He attended Nashville Christian Institute, a Church of Christ-founded boarding school for Black students, in Nashville, Tennessee where he earned his high school diploma in 1960. He has a Bachelor of Arts from Oklahoma Christian College, a Master of Arts from Pepperdine University, and a PhD in Communication Studies from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He worked for a time at UCLA, becoming the Director of the Center for African-American Studies from 1969-1973. At the age of 30, he was appointed by the State University of New York at Buffalo, as a Full Professor and Head of the Department of Communication. Asante is currently Professor and Chair in the Department of Africology and African American Studies at Temple University, Philadelphia, USA, where he founded the PhD programme in African-American Studies. In 1969, he co-founded, with Robert Singleton, the Journal of Black Studies. Asante is currently also president of the Molefi Kete Asante Institute. He is the founder of the theory of Afrocentricity. In 1976, Asante chose to make a legal name change because he considered "Arthur Lee Smith" a slave name. From 1980 to 1982, he worked in Zimbabwe to train journalists. Considered by his peers to be one of the most distinguished contemporary scholars, he has written more than 550 articles and essays for journals, books and magazines. Asante has published no fewer than 77 books, of which the 21st century publications include: As I Run Toward Africa: A Memoir (2015), Facing South to Africa: Toward an Afrocentric Critical Orientation (2014), The Dramatic Genius of Charles Fuller: An African American Playwright (2014), The History of Africa (second edition) (2014), The African American People: A Global History (2011), Maulana Karenga: An Intellectual Portrait (2010), Maulana Karenga: An Intellectual Portrait (2009), Encyclopedia of African Religion (co-edited with Arna Mazama) (2008), The Afrocentric Manifesto (2008), Handbook of Black Studies (co-edited with Maulana Karenga) (2006), Race, Rhetoric, and Identity: The Architecton of Soul (2005), Encyclopedia of Black Studies (co-edited with Arna Mazama) (2004), 100 Greatest African Americans: A Biographical Encyclopedia (2003), Erasing Racism: The Survival of the American Nation (2003), Scattered to the Wind: An African Saga of History (2002), The Egyptian Philosophers: Ancient African Voices from Imhotep to Akhenaten (2000) Asante's African American History: Journey of Liberation, 2nd Edition (2002), a high school text, is used in more than 400 schools throughout North America. Asante has been recognised as one of the 10 most widely cited African Americans. He is honoured as a HistoryMaker, with an interview archive in the US Library of Congress. In the 1990s, Black Issues in Higher Education recognised Asante as one of the most influential leaders of the decade. He was made a traditional king, Nana Okru Asante Peasah, Kyidomhene of Tafo, Akyem, Ghana, in 1995. His work on African culture and philosophy and African American education has been cited by journals such as the Matices; Journal of Black Studies; Journal of Communication; American Scholar; Daedalus; Western Journal of Black Studies; and Africological Perspectives. The Utne Reader called him one of the "100 Leading Thinkers" in America. In 2001, Transition Magazine reported "Asante may be the most important professor in Black America". He has appeared on Nightline; Nighttalk; BET; Macneil Lehrer News Hour; Today Show; the Tony Brown Show; Night Watch; Like It Is; and 60 Minutes, and more than 100 local and international television shows. Asante has appeared in several films including 500 Years Later; The Faces of Evil; and The Black Candle. In 2002, he received the distinguished Douglas Ehninger Award for Rhetorical Scholarship from the National Communication Association. The African Union cited him as one of the 12 top scholars of African descent when he delivered the keynote address at the Conference of Intellectuals of Africa and the Diaspora in Dakar in 2004. That same year, Asande also a poet, dramatist, and painter was inducted into the Literary Hall of Fame for Writers of African Descent at the Gwendolyn Brooks Centre at Chicago State University. In 2012, he was given the title of Wanadoo of Gao in the court of the Amiru Hassimi Maiga of Songhoy. In 2014, Asande was invited to give a speech at the United Nation's General Assembly on Peace in Africa and to deliver the keynote address at the Japan Black Studies Association's 60th conference in Kyoto, Japan. Asante holds more than 100 awards for scholarship and teaching, including the Fulbright scholarship, honorary doctorates from three universities, a guest professorship at Zhejiang University, and he Professor Extraordinarius at the University of South Africa. He has supervised more than 140 PhD theses at three universities. Asante has been or is presently a consultant for a dozen school districts. He was the Chair of the United States Commission for FESMAN III for three years. In 2009, the Council of African Intellectuals elected him as Chair of the Diaspora Intellectuals in support of the United States of Africa. Asante believes it is not enough to know; one must act to humanise the world. 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