Ana Monteiro-Ferreira is Assistant Professor of Africology and African American Studies at Eastern Michigan University.

Foreword by Molefi Kete Asante
Preface
Acknowledgments
Relevance of a Dialogue

1. Context and Theory: Molefi Kete Asante and the Afrocentric Idea

2. Reason and Analysis: Africana and New Interpretations of Reality

3. Afrocentricity and Modernism: Innovative Encounters with History and Ideology

4. Afrocentricity and Postmodernism: The Moment of Truth

5. The Paradigmatic Rupture: Critical Africology

Notes
Bibliography
Index