Africology

The article is devoted to the history of development and evolution of Africology, a phenomenon that integrates epistemology, academic discipline, and method of interpreting concepts, events and narratives. Africology is viewed within the context of the interpretive turn that began in the humanities in the 1970s. The author focuses on the “chain of rebirths” of Africology from 1969 to the present day. Special attention is given to the concepts of Africology by American mass communications specialist Molefi Kete Asante, the creator of the theory of Afrocentricity, and Ugandan philosopher and lawyer Dani Wadada Nabudere. The concluding section asserts that the evolution of Africology follows a cyclical pattern: it emerged in the late 1960s as a theoretical and philosophical idea, evolved into a methodology and educational approach during the 1980s and 1990s, and by the early 2000s, it started to revert to its initial form

Linguistics · African history and culture studies · History · Philosophy