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{{Short description|Scientific study of contemporary social structures of Africa}}
'''Afrology''' is a [[scientific]] study of the organization of the contemporary [[social structure]]s of [[Africa]]. It places in the heart of African social change the notion of ''[[cultural identity|identity]]''.
Afrology is a way of thinking about the various forms of social, [[institutional]] and [[Social identity|personal]] identification. It posits that each individual, though determined by mental and [[psychological]] structures, reconstructs himself within the framework of specific or general broad collective identities, of which the modern State is an example.
This identity remains to be created in Africa. The problem arising in contemporary Africa is that of the reality of the [[State (polity)|State]], federator of the institutions of socialization like the family, the village and the [[Market (place)|market]], is for the most part unrealized. The collective identity, its delimitations, and its instrumentalization by politics consequently constitute the major axes of the comprehension of African society.
==Afrology Think Tank==
The objective of ''Afrology Think Tank'' is to share a vision of the current [[socio-economic]] topicality with various actors, [[writer]]s, [[economist]]s, lawyers, [[data processing]] specialists, [[accountant]]s and others. It also tries to collect information on the Internet and make some randomly selected texts available to readers. The goal of Afrology is to create a true space for reflection and debates on the African continent.
==Afrology and Africology==
Following the Black studies movement and Africana studies movement, [[Molefi Kete Asante]] identifies the Africological movement as a subsequent academic movement.<ref name="Asante">{{cite journal |last1=Asante |first1=Molefi Kete |title=The Pursuit of Africology: On the Creation and Sustaining of Black Studies |journal=International Journal of Africana Studies |date=2008 |volume=14 |issue=1 |pages=317–328 |url=https://iopn.library.illinois.edu/pressbooks/iblackstudies/chapter/177/ |doi=10.4135/9781412982696.N22 |isbn=9780761928409 |s2cid=132662366}}</ref> Asante authored the book, ''[[Afrocentricity (book)|Afrocentricity]]'', in 1980.<ref name="Asante" /> Within the book, Asante used the term, "Afrology," as the name for the interdisciplinary field of Black studies and defined it as "the Afrocentric study of African phenomena."<ref name="Asante" /> Later, Winston Van Horne changed Asante's use of the term "Afrology" to "Africology."<ref name="Asante" /> Asante then went on to use his earlier definition for "Afrology" as the definition for his newly adopted term, "[[Africology]]."<ref name="Asante" />  Systematic Africology,<ref name="Conyers">{{cite journal |last1=Conyers, Jr. |first1=James L. |title=The Evolution Of Africology: An Afrocentric Appraisal |journal=Journal of Black Studies |date=May 1, 2004 |volume=34 |issue=5 |pages=643–644, 646–648 |doi=10.1177/0021934703259257 |jstor=3180921 |s2cid=145790776 |url=https://www.artsrn.ualberta.ca/amcdouga/MEAS400/jan%2022/africology.pdf}}</ref><ref name="Conyers II" /> which is a [[research method]] in the field of Black studies that was developed by Asante,<ref name="Conyers II">{{cite book |last1=Conyers, Jr. |first1=James L. |title=Africana Methodology: A Social Study of Research, Triangulation and Meta-theory |date=Oct 15, 2018 |publisher=Cambridge Scholars Publishing |pages=201–204 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VvN0DwAAQBAJ&dq=Theoretical+models+in+the+Discipline+of+Africana+Studies&pg=PA201 |chapter=Research Methods In Africana Studies|isbn=9781527519404 }}</ref> utilizes the theory of [[Afrocentricity]] to analyze and evaluate African phenomena.<ref name="Conyers" />
==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.afrology.com/ Afrology website (in French)]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20051217102219/http://londonafricaclub.org/presentations/Amaizo.ppt Google HTML link to "African Interdependency" by Y.E. Amaïzo, Director, Afrology Think Tank Group]
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[[Category:African studies]]
[[Category:Black studies]]