Discusses African music, how it survived slavery, why it manifests itself in specific forms, why some of these forms are almost purely African today while others are very European, the specific characteristics of African music that permeate all African-American music, and why African derived religions are flourishing in the black communities of…

Examined centricity combined with Africentricity in mentoring experiences among African American students. Discusses Africentric and Eurocentric philosophies; utilizes the Mentoring Model and African principles of Nguzo Saba to develop an Africentric mentoring paradigm; examines the paradigm's role in supporting African American college students;…

This book for children describes and explains the African American celebration, Kwanzaa. The book describes how Maulana Karenga, an African-American teacher, started the custom in 1966 in order to teach African Americans about their history and about African customs. The text briefly reviews the history of enslavement of blacks since before the…

Within the Afro-American studies program, the study of African literature is invaluable in demonstrating the relationship between black Americans and Africa; it contributes to the sketchy glimpse of what black culture is and reflects the affective experience of colonialism and neocolonialism. This paper explores the values of an African-literature…

An investigation questioned whether the words and gestures "cut-eye" and "suck-teeth," evident in Guyana, represent African survivals, and how widely these are recognized in the Caribbean, the United States and Africa. Caribbean data were drawn from observations, dictionaries and interviews. U.S. data came from questionnaires…

The present text on Gullah, a dialect of a large number of Negroes in South Carolina and Georgia, is a reprint of the original volume published in 1949 by the University of Chicago Press. (Publication of the original was aided by a subsidy from the American Council of Learned Societies.) In the first preface, the author remarks on the current…

Discusses the decline in publications for black children since the 1960's. Presents an annotated list of black literature for children including African history, African and Caribbean folktales, the African connection with American blacks, biographies and autobiographies, fiction, and poetry. (SA)

Argues that the different set of temporal norms governing the behavior of blacks is attributable to at least two ascertainable causes: (1) a carry over of the traditional West African concept of time in which the cosmology and ontological hierarchy of existence dictated temporal behaviors much different from the Westernized concept of time; and…

The author reports on his experiences as a Black American travelling in Nigeria and Ghana. He reviews the many similarities and the few differences between the Black American and the African experience from the broad perspectives of philosophy, psychology, sociology, and art. (Author/MC)

Yoruba cultural, religious, and linguistic traditions have been preserved to a great extent in Brazil, especially in the province of Bahia. Although many Afro-Brazilian religions have historically been considered lower-class, today Candomble and other religious/cultural practices are gaining social acceptance on a national level. (GC)

Charts Cyprian Ekwensi's development of the force of the city in three of the major novels. (Author/AM)

Explores the wealth of learning opportunities arising from the study of Africa and its peoples. Students must learn about the history, traditions, and diversity of Africa, rather than focusing narrowly on the problems of recent years. Teaching students about the contributions of Africa will help them be better world citizens. (SLD)

To determine the relationship between Afrocentric consciousness and perceptions of heterosexual relations, 177 Black adults in northern Florida, including college students, unskilled workers, professionals, and the elderly, were queried. The more Afrocentric subjects held opinions on mate selection and family life rooted in mutuality and…