Jacob H. Carruthers and the Restoration of an African Worldview: Finding Our Way through the Desert

Jacob H. Carruthers' work is examined in Finding Our Way Through the Desert, highlighting his ideas and contributions to the African-centered paradigm. Carruthers emphasized the importance of Black intellectuals in illuminating new visions for African people's future. His work focused on re-Africanizing Black consciousness and transforming reality through African history and culture. The book explores various themes related to Carruthers' ideas, including Black education, disciplinary knowledge, indigenous African cosmologies, and revolutionary struggle.

Format: Hardback
Length: 172 pages
Publication date: 15 June 2024
Publisher: Lexington Books

Finding Our Way Through the Desert: Jacob H. Carruthers and the Restoration of an African Worldview offers a critical examination of Carruthers' ideas and work, a key architect of the African-centered paradigm and a major contributor to its application to the study of Nile Valley culture and civilization. Kamau Rashid explicates Carruthers' principal contributions, the theoretical and practical implications of his work, and how Carruthers' work is situated in the stream of Black intellectual genealogy. Carruthers' concerns about the vital importance of Black intellectuals in the illumination of new visions of future possibility for African people are essential to this book. The centrality of African history and culture as resources in the transformation of consciousness and the revitalization of an African worldview were key elements in Carruthers' conceptualization of two interrelated imperatives: the re-Africanization of Black consciousness and the transformation of reality. Composed of three parts, this book discusses various themes, including Black education, disciplinary knowledge and knowledge construction, indigenous African cosmologies, African deep thought, institutional formation, revolutionary struggle, history, and historiography, to explore the implications of Carruthers' thinking to the ongoing malaise of African people globally.

Dimension: 229 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781793608505