The Demise of the Inhuman

<p><b>Employs a critical Afrocentric reading of Western constructions of knowledge so as to overcome the dehumanizing tendencies of modernity.</b></p><p><b>Winner of the 2015 Best Scholarly Book Award presented by the Diopian Institute for Scholarly Advancement </b></p><p>Afrocentricity is the most intellectually dominant idea in the African world one that is having a growing impact on social science discourse. This paradigm philosophically rooted in African cultures and values fundamentally challenges major epistemological traditions in Western thought such as modernism and postmodernism Marxism existentialism feminism and postcolonialism. In <i>The Demise of the Inhuman</i> Ana Monteiro-Ferreira reviews what Molefi Kete Asante has called the infrastructures of dominance and privilege arguing that Western concepts such as individualism colonialism race and ethnicity universalism and progress are insufficient to overcome various forms of oppression. Afrocentricity she argues can help lead us beyond Western structures of thought that have held sway since the early fifteenth century towards a new epistemological framework that will enable a more <i>human</i> humanity.</p>