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<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink="#CC0000" alink="#CC0000"><center><hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade>This comprehensive volume brings together documents from the richly textured intellectual history of Africa and the diaspora<hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade><p><a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/ChicagoBook.aspx?ISBN=9781566394024&&PRESS=temple" target="_top">Buy this book!</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">View Cart</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">Check Out</a></p><p><img src="932_reg.gif" height=200 border=1 vspace=4></p></center><!--none//--><h1>African Intellectual Heritage</h1>
<H2>A Book of Sources</H2>
<h3>edited by Molefi Kete Asante and Abu S. Abarry</h3>
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<BLOCKQUOTE><I>"This marvelous volume, </I>African Intellectual Heritage<I>, is indispensable for anyone interested in the life of the mind. Molefi Asante and Abu Abarry are to be congratulated for this fine gift."</I>
<BR>—<B>Cornel West</B>, Harvard University<I></I></BLOCKQUOTE>
<p>Organized by major themes—such as creation stories, and resistance to oppression—this collection gather works of imagination, politics and history, religion, and culture from many societies and across recorded time. Asante and Abarry marshal together ancient, anonymous writers whose texts were originally written on stone and papyri and the well-known public figures of more recent times whose spoken and written words have shaped the intellectual history of the diaspora.
<p>Within this remarkably wide-ranging volume are such sources as prayers and praise songs from ancient Kemet and Ethiopia along with African American spirituals; political commentary from C.L.R. James, Malcolm X, Mary McLeod Bethune, and Joseph Nyerere; stirring calls for social justice from David Walker, Abdias Nacimento, Franzo Fanon, and Martin Luther King, Jr. Featuring newly translated texts and documents published for the first time, the volume also includes an African chronology, a glossary, and an extensive bibliography. With this landmark book, Asante and Abarry offer a major contribution to the ongoing debates on defining the African canon.
<BR> <h2>Reviews</h2>
<P><I>"This impressive work shows a profound appreciation for African intellectual ideas."</I>
<BR>—<B>H. Patrick Swygert</B>, President, Howard University
<P><I>"Remarkable for its extensive coverage of the African world, </I>African Intellectual Heritage<I> brings together the information for which scholars, students, and the general public have been waiting. Mary McLeod Bethune, Julius Nyerere, Marcus Garvey, and Ptahhotep in the same book! This is a bold and positive enterprise."</I>
<BR>—<B>Rebecca Hankins</B>, Senior Curator, Amistad Research Center, Tulane University
<p><i>"This is not a book to be read at one or two settings; rather it should be treated as a Bible, studied slowly. Ponder the words and contemplate the ideas, allowing the information to seep into one's mind. ...</i>African Intellectual Heritage: A Book of Sources<i> should be a must for all academics, especially those in African/Black Studies area. This work is an important contribution to African/Black intellectualism."</i>
<br>—<b><i><a href="http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2278/is_1_24/ai_58411677" target="new">MELUS</a></i></b>
<BR> <h2>Contents</h2><P>
<p>Preface
<br>An African Chronology
<br>1. African Sources: An Introduction
<p><b>Part I: The Creation of the Universe</b>
<br>2. The Heliopolis Creation Narrative
<br>3. The Memphite Declaration of the Deities
<br>4. Vision of the Universe – Pharaoh Unas
<br>5. Vision of the Universe – Pharaoh Teti
<br>6. Vision of the Universe – Pharaoh Pepi
<br>7. Tomb Inscription – Princess Ni-sedjer-kai
<br>8. Tomb Inscription – Hotep-her-akhet
<br>9. Tomb Inscription – Nefer-seshem-ra
<br>10. Memorial Stone – Ni-hebsed-pepi
<br>11. The San Creation Narrative
<br>12. The Khoi Creation Narrative
<br>13. The BarozviCreation Narrative
<br>14. The Dogon Creation Narrative
<br>15. The Yoruba Creation Narrative
<br>16. The Asante Tower to Heaven
<br>17. The Asante Concept of the Creation of the Lesser Gods
<br>18. The Creation – James Weldon Johnson
<p><b>Part II: Religious Ideas</b>
<br>19. The Prophecy – Nefer-rohu
<br>20. Tomb Prayers – Paheri
<br>21. Selections from the Papyrus of Ani
<br>22. Hymns to Aten – Akhenaten
<br>23. Prayer and Hymn – Haremhab
<br>24. Penitential Hymns
<br>25. Selections from the Book of Henok (Enoch)
<br>26. Religion and Ancestor Veneration – Jomo Kenyatta
<br>27. Asante Praise Poems to Tano River and the Earth
<br>28. A Lodagaa Libation to the Ancestors
<br>29. Recurrent Themes in Ga Libation (Mpai) Oratory – Abu Shardow Abarry
<br>30. Igbo Invocations
<br>31. Wapele: The Concept of Good Character in Ifa Literary Corpus – Wande Abimbola
<br>32. Akan Religion – Mensah Sarbah
<p><b>Part III: Culture and Identity</b>
<br>33. Her Assertion of Her Power – Queen Hatshepsut
<br>34. Yoruba Praises to Ogun
<br>35. The Resources of the Oral Epic – Isidore Okpewho
<br>36. Kouroukan Fougan, or the Division of the World by Sundiata
<br>37. The Ozidi Saga – J.P. Clark-Bekederemo
<br>38. The Rise of Shaka – Mazisi Kunene
<br>39. A Myth of Origins: Esu-Elegbara and the Signifying Monkey – Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
<br>40. Identity, Culture, and Kidnapping – Olaudah Equiano
<br>41. Indigenous Institutions of Ghana '85 – J. Caseley Hayford
<br>42. The Condition and Destiny of Africans in the United States – Martin Delany
<br>43. W.E.B. Du Bois and The Souls of Black Folk – Houston A. Baker, Jr.
<br>44. Notes on a Return to the Native Land – Aim� C�saire
<br>45. The Origin and History of the Black World – Cheikh Anta Diop
<br>46. Africa's Tripartite Heritage: Towards Cultural Synthesis – Ali A. Mazrui
<br>47. The Origin and Growth of Afro-American Literature – John Henrik Clarke
<br>48. First Congress of Negro Writers and Artists (1956)
<br>49. Second Congress of Negro Writers and Artists (1959)
<br>50. On National Culture – Frantz Fanon
<br>51. Identity and Dignity in the Context of Struggle – Amilcar Cabral
<br>52. African Classical Concepts of Tragedy – Wole Soyinka
<br>53. The Akan Blackened Stool and the Odwira Festival – Peter Sarpong
<br>54. The Ga Homowo (Hunger-Hooting) Cultural Festival – Abu Shardow Abarry
<br>55. Africa as the Nursery of Science and Literature – J. Africanus B. Horton
<br>56. The Principal Issues in Afrocentric Inquiry – Molefi Kete Asante
<br>57. Genetic Linguistic Connections of Ancient Egypt and the Rest of Africa – Th�ophile Obenca
<p><b>Part IV: Philosophy and Morality</b>
<br>58. The Study of African Religions and Philosophy – John Mbiti
<br>59. The Idea of African Philosophy – Kwame Gyekye
<br>60. Moral Teachings – Ptah-hotep
<br>61. My Victory over Circumstances – Sinuhe
<br>62. Instructions for Well-Being – Amenemope
<br>63. The Pharaoh�s Speech at the Installation of Rekhmire as Prime Minister
<br>64. The Doomed Prince
<br>65. The Story of the Two Brothers
<br>66. My Journey to Asia – Wen-Amon
<br>67. The Lion in Search of Man
<br>68. African Socialism – L�opold S�dar Senghor
<br>69. Consciencism – Kwame Nkrumah
<br>70. The Zulu Personal Declaration
<br>71. The African Writer and the English Language – Chinua Achebe
<br>72. Igbo Proverbs
<br>73. Luyia Proverbs
<br>74. African American Spirituals
<br>75. On African Rights and Liberty – Maria W. Stewart
<br>76. Philosophy and Opinions – Marcus Garvey
<br>77. The Concept of Race – W.E.B. DuBois
<br>78. The Ethics of Culture – Alain Locke
<br>79. The Life and Times of Anton Wilhelm Amo, the First African (Black) Philosopher in Europe – William E. Abraham
<p><b>Part V: Society and Politics</b>
<br>80. Autobiography – Weni
<br>81. Autobiography – Harkhuf
<br>82. Theory of Human Society – William E. Abraham
<br>83. On the Fante National Constitution – Mensah Sarbah
<br>84. Mohammedanism and the Negro Race – Edward Wilmot Blyden
<br>85. Christianity and the Negro Race – Edward Wilmot Blyden
<br>86. Racial Accommodation – Booker T. Washington
<br>87. The Atlanta Exposition Address – Booker T. Washington
<br>88. Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others – W.E.B. DuBois
<br>89. A Critique of Booker T. Washington's Plan – Monroe Trotter
<br>90. Women as Leaders – Amy Jacques Garvey
<br>91. Brazilian <I>Quilombismo</I> – Abdias Do Nascimento
<br>92. Pan-African Congress Resolution (1919)
<br>93. Pan-African Congress Resolution (1945)
<br>94. The Power of Negro Action – Paul Robeson
<br>95. Declaration and Resolutions of the First Conference of Independent African States (1958)
<br>96. The Nguzo Saba (The Seven Principles): Their Meaning and Message – Maulana Karenga
<br>97. One-Party Government – Julius K. Nyerere
<br>98. The Need for a Union Government for Africa – Kwame Nkrumah
<br>99. The Rise and Fall of Nkrumah – C.L.R. James
<br>100. My Dungeon Shook: Letter to My Nephew on the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Emancipation – James Baldwin
<br>101. W.E.B. DuBois: The Jamesian Organic Intellectual – Cornel West
<p><b>Part VI: Resistance and Renewal</b>
<br>102. The Expulsion of the Hyksos – Ah-mose
<br>103. The Commemorative Stone of Thutmose III
<br>104. Annals – Thutmose III
<br>105. Pharaoh Piye and the Victory over North
<br>106. The Portuguese Fortress at El Mina – King Kwame Ansa
<br>107. A Shona Song
<br>108. Narrative – Nat Turner
<br>109. Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World: Our Wretchedness in Consequence of Slavery – David Walker
<br>110. Fourth of July Oration – Frederick Douglass
<br>111. We Are All Bound Up Together – Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
<br>112. Womanhood: A Vital Element in the Regeneration and Progress of a Race – Anna Julia Cooper
<br>113. Lynch Law in All Its Phases – Ida B. Wells-Barnett
<br>114. The Mis-Education of the Negro – Carter G. Woodson
<br>115. Address to the League of Nations – Emperor Haile Selassie
<br>116. My Last Will and Testament – Mary McLeod Bethune
<br>117. I Have a Dream – Martin Luther King, Jr.
<br>118. Colonial War and Mental Disorders – Frantz Fanon
<br>119. Revolutionary Culture and the Future of Pan African Culture – Amiri Baraka
<br>120. Charter of the Organization of African Unity
<br>121. How Africa Developed before the Coming of the Europeans—up to the Fifteenth Century – Walter Rodney
<br>122. Message to the Grassroots – Malcolm X
<br>123. Towards the Sixth Pan African Congress: Aspects of the International Class Struggle in Africa, the Caribbean, and America – Walter Rodney
<br>124. Letter from a Birmingham Jail – Martin Luther King, Jr.
<br>125. Negroes Are Not Moving Too Fast – Martin Luther King, Jr.
<br>126. Cultural Revolution and the Future of the Pan African Culture – Abdias do Nascimento
<br>127. Black Women and Music: A Historical Legacy of Struggle – Angela Y. Davis
<br>128. Black Sisters, Speak Out – Awa Thiam
<br>129. The Million Man March/Day of Absence Mission Statement – Maulana Karenga
<p>Glossary of Names and Terms
<br>Suggestions for Further Reading
<br>Sources and Credits
<br>Index
</P><BR> <H2>About the Author(s)</H2>
<table><tr><td valign="top"><img src="/tempress/authors/932_au1.gif" height="90" width="75"></td><td width="100%" valign="middle"><p><b>Molefi Kete Asante</b> is Professor and Chair of African American Studies at Temple University and author of several books, including <I><A HREF="500_reg.html" TARGET="_top">The Afrocentric Idea</A></I> (Temple) and <i>The Historical and Cultural Atlas of African Americans</i>.</P></td></tr></table><P><b>Abu S. Abarry</b> is Assistant Chair of African American Studies at Temple University.</P>
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