Afrocentrist

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An Afrocentrist intentionally centers Africa in both theory and practice. Afrocentrism is not only about studying Africa but about doing so from an African-centred perspective. It challenges the dominance of Eurocentric narratives that have historically misrepresented African peoples, civilisations, and knowledge systems. Afrocentrists aim to restore African dignity and agency by elevating African philosophies, histories and identities as primary rather than peripheral. This includes promoting indigenous knowledge, reclaiming African cultural pride, and using African conceptual frameworks (e.g. African cosmologies, family systems, languages) in education, governance and research. The Afrocentrist shifts the question from what is Africa? to what does Africa say about itself?

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