Dr. Marimba Ani to speak at Morgan State University
“Without the African connection we are a disjointed people…begging for entry into somebody else’s house”
The Institute for Urban Research will host scholar, Dr. Marimba Ani, author of Yurugu: An African-Centered Critique of European Thought and Behavior, on Saturday, December 1, 2007 6PM - 10PM at Morgan State University’s Engineering Building Auditorium.
The long anticipated 2nd Edition of Yurugu marks a milestone in the long career of Professor Ani’s contributions in the deconstruction of western thought and behavior.
Marimba Ani holds a BA degree in Philosophy from the University of Chicago, and the MA Ph.D. degrees in anthropology from the Graduate Faculty of the New School University. Professor Ani has taught at Hunter College in the Department of Black and Puerto Rican Studies for the past 25 years and was a colleague of the eminent Black historian, Dr. John Henrik Clarke.
Yurugu, Ani’s seminal work, was called by the late Dr. Asa Hilliard, “one of two of the most important books published by an African author during the 20th century, the other being W. E. B. Dubois’, The Souls of Black Folk.” Her book, Let the Circle be Unbroken is also considered one of the most important works in understanding African consciousness in the western world.
Marimba Ani has developed the concepts of Maafa, Asili, Utamawazo, and Utamarohoas part of the ongoing process of African-centered reconceptualization of the effects of white supremacy and the TransAtlantic Slave Trade on the behavior of Africans and Europeans.
Dr. Raymond A. Winbush is the Director of the Institute for Urban Research. For more information please call (443) 885-3004.Â
