African Intellectual Heritage: A Book of SourcesTemple 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 |
РТАННОТЕР | 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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