ASCAC -- The Association for the Study of Classical African Civilizations announced the publishing of the first volume of THE AFRICAN WORLD HISTORY PROJECT -- "The Preliminary Challenge" on May 1, 1997. This project by African Centered Scholars continues the tradition of Ancient African Ancestors in separating truth from falsehood. This project is for all Africans everywhere to help us reclaim our African birth right and the legacy of 6000 + years.

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"The "Preliminary Challenge" of the Association for the Study of Classical African Civilization's (ASCAC) African World History Project (AWHP) is designed to provoke African-centered scholars to develop a basic tool for the liberation of the African mind. Most African historians trained in foreign universities have been shackled with non-African theoretical frameworks, historiography's, and methodologies. While we should avail ourselves of any methods that benefit our project, we should first seek African ways of thinking and searching before embracing foreign epistemes, which we may not need and which may in fact defeat the objectives of the project."

While the effort of constructing an African Centered Historiography that is linked to the Nile Valley Civilizations "goes back at least to the last decade of the eighteenth century, the project was perhaps best articulated by David Walker in 1829. Walker's instruction was followed by African nationalists leaders throughout the nineteenth century. Martin Delany, Henry Garnet, Edward Blyden, and Henry Turner all emphasized the Nile Valley connection. The theme was raised to a higher level of relevance by Cheikh Anta Diop and George G. M. James in their 1954 publications."

"Thus the African revolution which would liberate the African body and mind was firmly linked to a classical African past. The history of our present undertaking can be traced directly from that historical context. This volume sets a precedent of letting the African conversation unfold as we attempt to forge a consensus on methodology for our intellectual endeavor."

Jacob H. Carruthers

Part I--The Challenge

Chapter 1

Developing An African Historiography By Anderson Thompson

Chapter 2

Who Am I? By Theophile Obenga

Part II--The African Historical Imagination

Chapter 3

An African Historiography for the 21st Century By Jacob H. Carruthers

Chapter 4

Critical Issues in Nile Valley Studies: Unification, Periodization, and Characterization By Vulindlela I. Wobogo

Part III--African-Centered Perspectives

Chapter 5

From Tef Tef to Medew Nefer: The Importance of Utilizing African Terminologies and Concepts in the Rescue, Restoration, Reconstruction, and Reconnection of African Ancestral Memory By Adisa A. Ajamu

Chapter 6

Maat: The Cultural and Intellectual Allegiance of a Concept By Mario Beatty

Chapter 7

Owing a Tradition--Woman and Black Feminism: Issues in the Manipulation of African Historiography By Valethia Watkins

Chapter 8

Introduction to a Research Project on the
African-Centered Philosophy of History By Greg Kimathi Carr

Part IV--Patterns of African-Centered History

Chapter 9

Waset, The Eye of Ra and the Abode of Maat: The Pinnacle of Black Leadership in the Ancient World By Asa Hilliard III

Chapter 10

Civilization or Barbarism: The Legacy of Cheikh Anta Diop
By Leonard Jeffries, Jr.

Appendixes

1. Transcript: Inaugural Meeting of the African World History Project
2. Memorandum By Jacob H. Carruthers
3. The Kemetic Calendar Project By Rkhty Wimby Amen

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