Afrocentric Before Afrocentricity: A Quest Towards Endarkenment

Afrocentric Before Afrocentricity: A Quest Towards Endarkenment is a poetic-scholarly text that charts an intellectual and cultural awakening toward African-centered consciousness. Blending lyrical narrative with disciplined reflection, Dr. Ayo Sekai presents a chronological journey of self-discovery that parallels the broader development of Afrocentric philosophy and Black intellectual traditions. The work explores how language, memory, and cultural positioning shape identity formation across diasporic experience. Drawing on Afrocentric theory, Pan-African movements, and linguistic frameworks such as corpus linguistics, Dr. Sekai situates poetry as both cultural testimony and analytic method. The text engages themes of naming, spiritual grounding, historical inheritance, and epistemological realignment, showing how consciousness emerges prior to formal ideological identification. Rather than functioning solely as a literary collection, this book operates as a bridge between expressive practice and academic inquiry. It demonstrates how personal narrative can intersect with disciplined theory to illuminate broader questions of agency, language power, and cultural continuity. The concept of “endarkenment” is advanced as a constructive intellectual process—one that reorients interpretation toward African civilizational foundations while sustaining global human connection. Afrocentric Before Afrocentricity is the 1st Ed of A2: A Scholarly Poetical Science Discourse, and is suitable for classroom use, interdisciplinary study, and readers seeking an Africa-centered framework for understanding language, identity, and intellectual becoming.