Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Africans and African Americans

Biko:
I see this as your main thrust:

"transforming all the distinguished Centers of African Studies around the world into Centers of Africana Studies under the paradigm of creative, critical, and Africa-centered scholar-activism at home and abroad"

Can you expand on the above? I think you once evaluated our program at UT Austin which is now a Department.

Opinions are divided about this:
1. The Asante-Gates model
2. The Title six model
3. The mainstream model
4. The Africology model, etc.

In general, the integration of African studies and African American Studies remains unsuccessful in many places. I have served as an official evaluator like you but I have not seen the integration in many places.

Also bear in mind that the current recruitment of young Africans into the academy is to turn them into careerists. Careerists write about Africa for Western consumption, they seek non-African validation, they don't publish in black-oriented journals and they have been deceived to accept ranking over and above relevance. We can see their contributions in terms of advancing strictly academic issues but not of nation building. Thus one can now become a full professor of Africa but there is actually nothing for Africans in the scholarship.
TF

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> On May 31, 2019, at 2:57 AM, 'Biko Agozino' via USA Africa Dialogue Series <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com> wrote:
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> transforming all the distinguished Centers of African Studies around the world into Centers of Africana Studies under the paradigm of creative, critical, and Africa-centered scholar-activism at home and abroad

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