1st Edition

As I Run Toward Africa A Memoir

By Molefi Kete Asante Copyright 2011
336 Pages
by Routledge

336 Pages
by Routledge

336 Pages
by Routledge

As I Run Toward Africa is Molefi Kete Asante's memoir of his extraordinary life. He takes the reader on a journey from the American South to the homes of kings in Africa. Born into a family of 16 children living in a two bedroom shack, Asante rose to become director of UCLA's Centre for Afro American Studies, editor of the Journal of Black Studies and university professor by the age of 30. The... Read more
Chapter 1 Georgia Swamp Lessons; Chapter 2 Orientations; Chapter 3 Passages; Chapter 4 Destinations; Chapter 5 Creations; epi; Epilogue;

Biography

Molefi Kete Asante

Asante is “one of America’s top 100 leading thinkers. --Utne Reader

Asante, a sixth-generation American descended from enslaved Africans, has been a guiding light in African American studies. --Booklist

Molefi Kete Asante is a seminal thinker.
--Cornel West, Princeton University