An Essay on God As the Bicameral Mind: Implications for Africological Research (Essay)

Introduction With the first writing of Afrocentricity: Theory of Social Change in 1980, Molefi Asante proposes an Afrocentric philosophy through which Afrologists can produce liberating and transforming scholarship within the discipline of Afrology. (2) Unfortunately, the current intellectual ideas generating from most Temple trained Asantean scholars is repetitive at best and stagnant at worst. It is true that the discipline Asante divinely reveals and scribes as Afrology in his 1980 text became further institutionalized in the academe with the creation of the first department of Africology at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee in 1994 under the direction of Winston Van Horne. It is also true that the Department of African American Studies at Temple University became the first to offer a Ph.

D. degree with Afrocentricity as the proposed philosophical perspective in 1988. In spite of these defining disciplinary advancements, however, it is clear that there is only a minimal corpus of Africological writings that has set the precedent for liberatory Asantean Africological paradigmatic scholarship besides the writings of Ama Mazama, Danjuma Modupe and of course, Asante.