Afrocentrism: Mythical Pasts and Imagined Homes
Subtitle: Mythical Pasts and Homes
Publisher: Verso
Published: 1998
Place of publication: USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 348
Copyright date: 1998
First sentence: The arguments over Afrocentrism, like the closely related ones which have recurred under different names for decades, are about history and culture, mentality and psychology, literature and linguistics, sex and economics; about Africa, Europe, America, and the Atlantic and the Mediterranean.
Description: Offering a mostly fictional history of Africa and its diaspora, centred on bizarre ideas about ancient Egypt, Howe argues that Afrocentrism is a symptom of, rather than a cure for, desperate political and economic problems.