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DECEMBER 2021
We are now up to date with the December 2021 issue.
This issue takes a close look at some of the work of Frank Snowden. His virulent anti-Afrocentrism leads him, like Gates and Appiah, to violate some basic academic protocols. One article focusses on a single sentence, to reveal the depths of misunderstanding revaeled in the hidden assumptions. It also reveals the breaches of evidence and academic protocols involved.
It would not be a surprise if Snowden’s attitude to Afrocentrism and Blacks in history generally, which may have dominated the Classics department, alienated the student population so that no one wanted to major in classics. General press comment focussed on the plans of Howard University to close the Classics Department. No one asked what the department had done to seem irrelevant to the university’s student body and why over many years it had not made changes to make the deprtment more attractive and relevant to their lives. In any other university such a conundrum, no one taking majors in an important subject, would have been met with modernisation and updating of the curriculum. An absence of students is a vote. Only the arrogant could ignore it for so many years. If a curriculum at a HBU (Historically Black University) on literature avoided important Black isues and any Black authors there would be an immediate adjustment of the curriculum. It would not be concluded that students did not like literature. None of the major press that complained asked such basic questions. That itself is revealing. Elsewhere we had written that any ‘Classics’ department in an HBU that did not include Ancient Egypt and Ancient China was irrelevant and deserved to be closed.
We also include an article by Cecil Gutzmore defending Walter Rodney from defenestration.
September 2021 issue.
A partial recovery from Covid induced disruption, this issue has 6 articles ranging from Egyptology to BCW
June 2021 issue.
A little known outpost of neo-liberalism is evolutionary psychology. Apart from being erroneous, the theory has the potential of corrupting the core of human life and intimacy and should be fought.
March 2021 issue.
Covid-19 has impacted us all. This issue is focused on aspects of BCW in history, in particular the fake news about the siege of Kaffa that has had a disastrous influence in modn western history. Any suggestion that fake news is a recent phenomenon needs to be dispelled. Understanding how lies were told in the past and how they served the interest of power to gain public support for what would otherwis be vehemently rejected is an urgent lesson for today.
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I am a man, nothing human is alien to me‘ – Terence the African.
This peer-reviewed journal was started in 1999 at the dawn of the 21st Century.
This September 2020 issue is our tenth of the relaunched journal.
Covid-19 has impacted us all. In an earlier issue we published an article about Covid-19 and ‘race’ and how the matter under discussion is criminal behaviour by health administrators. We also addressed the issue of 4IR and AI in Africa in general and Nigeria in particular. We addressed the issue that it is not inevitable that Africa should be behind.
It never ceases to surprise how Western academics pretend to be colour bind when their texts are anything but colour blind. This is self deception on an epic scale and we take Professor Skidelsky to task.
There was a conference at the University of Ibadan honouring Prof Ade-Ajayi (one of the founding members of our editorial board). A paper presented at the conference discussing the importance of philosophy to the work of African historians is presented.
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June 2019
African century journal ISSN 2514-5673
‘I am a man, nothing human is alien to me‘ – Terence the African.
This peer-reviewed journal was started in 1999 at the dawn of the 21st Century.
This is our sixth issue of the relaunched journal.
We welcome Professor Emeritus Robin Chandler to our editorial team. I have known Dr Chandler for many years and her devotion to arts, justice, empowerment and spirituality is unquestionable and profound.
In this issue we are looking closely at recent controversies in Kant scholarship and western philosophy. Following the pioneering work of Peter Park -”Africa, Asia and the History of Philosophy: racism in the formation of the philosophical canon 1780-1830” which followed on from the work of Robert Bernasconi, particularly ‘Will the real Kant please stand up’ Radical Philosophy issue 117, this issue is now forefront of philosophical discussion. Following Park’s work Bryan Norden has chimed in with ‘Why the Western philosophical canon is xenophobic and racist’ and then there is Wulf Hund’s important “‘It must come from Europe’ the racism of Immanuel Kant’ and then Norden’s latest contribution ‘Tacking back Philosophy’.
We publish the last in our series on Appiah and identify his endorsement of genocide.
Dr Wes Morris explains how the parlous situation of the economy in Jamaica is merely a reflection of the lack of political leadership and that the opportunities exist to transform the country and society.
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March 2018
African century journal ISSN 2514-5673
‘I am a man, nothing human is alien to me‘ – Terence the African.
This peer-reviewed journal was started in 1999 at the dawn of the 21st Century
This is our second issue of the relaunched journal.
We welcome Dr Wesley Morris to the Editorial Board. We will provide a formal introduction at our next issue, but suffice to say Dr Morris is engaged in interesting political and intellectual activity in Jamaica and has much to contribute to the Africa and the African diaspora.
There is a great fear among African and diaspora academics against stepping too far out of line in critiquing the establishment. We have found a great many supporters who will prefer to remain behind the barricades.
Structural adjustment appears to have had long lasting effects on the morale and courage of African and diaspora academics. Nevertheless we are hoisting our flag here. The insurgency starts NOW.
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