Discusses how Afrocentricity entered the picture in the western world. Afrocentricity seeks to obliterate the mental, physical, cultural, and economic dislocation of African people by thrusting Africans as centered, healthy human beings in the context of African thought. Examines Eurocentric approaches (dialectical materialism, structuralism, and modernism and postmodernism), noting how they differ from Afrocentric approaches (Negritude, Diopian historiography, and Kawaida). (SM)