African Intellectual Heritage: A Book of Sources

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Temple University Press, 1996 - 828 pages
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.
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 ocuments 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. Author note:Molefi Kete Asanteis Professor and Chair of African American Studies at Temple University and author of several books, includingThe Afrocentric Idea(Temple) andThe Historical and Cultural Atlas of African Americans.Abu S. Abarryis Assistant Chair of African American Studies at Temple University.

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Contents

The Heliopolis Creation Narrative
14
PHARAOH PEPI
27
NEFERROHU
60
PAHERI
66
AKHENATEN
75
Penitential Hymns
82
JOMO KENYATTA
88
Igbo Invocations
96
The Lion in Search of Man
340
KWAME NKRUMAH
354
The Zulu Personal Declaration
371
CHINUA ACHEBE
379
Igbo Proverbs
385
MARIA W STEWART
397
WENI
444
WILLIAM E ABRAHAM
452

MENSAH SARBAH
107
Her Assertion of Her Power
114
Yoruba Praises to Ogun
117
Kouroukan Fougan or the Division of the World by Sundiata
131
MAZISI KUNENE
151
OLAUDAH EQUIANO
176
MARTIN DELANY
189
AIMÉ CÉSAIRE
202
JOHN HENRIK CLARKE
218
FRANTZ FANON
236
PETER SARPONG
251
JOHN MBITI
285
KWAME GYEKYE
294
ÐÒÀÍÍÎÒÅÐ
306
AMENEMOPE
312
The Pharaohs Speech at the Installation of Rekhmire as Prime Minister
326
The Story of the Two Brothers
332
MENSAH SARBAH
462
EDWARD WILMOT BLYDEN
470
Christianity and the Negro Race
477
BOOKER T WASHINGTON
483
The Atlanta Exposition Address
489
MONROE TROTTER
500
PanAfrican Congress Resolution 1919
517
of Independent African States 1958
533
AHMOSE
600
Pharaoh Piye and the Victory over North
609
KING KWAME ANSA
618
DAVID WALKER
627
FREDERICK DOUGLASS
637
ANNA JULIA COOPER
643
Glossary of Names and Terms
791
Sources and Credits
809
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