Abstract
Molefi Kete Asante's Afrocentricity offers an analysis of the role of Africa in postmodern history that calls into question many of the basic assumptions of Western thought. Critics of Afrocentric thought contend that it advocates a wholesale rejection of Eurocentric worldviews and illustrates an underlying paradox that emerges in much postmodern thought: the complicitous acceptance of the assumptions of essentialism. This essay explores this paradox by illustrating the common grounds of Afrocentric and Eurocentric thought, the extent to which each way of knowing is implicated in the other, and the possibility of moving beyond the complicity of essentialist epistemology to a coherent integration of opposites.
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