General Topics:

  • African Classical Civilizations

  • The History of Africa

  • Historical Roots: Garvey, Diop, Chinweizu, Cesaire, Asante, Karenga, Nascimento,

Obenga, Mveng, Mudimbe, Mafeje, Bankole, Fanon, Cabral, Diagne, Mkandawire

  • Diopian Assertions in Historiography: Works of Sesanti, Moloi

  • The African World: African Diasporas

  • The Geography of Africa: Premise for Union? Faye, Gadio

  • Women Leaders of the African World: Legacy of Kemet and Nubia

  • African Philosophy: Contextualizing the Vision: Gordon, Yancy

  • African Womanism: The Classical Understanding

  • Practical Dissemination of Afrocentric Economics

  • African Rock Paintings and Writings During the Mesuit

  • Strategies for Overcoming Superstition: Maulana Karenga, E. Ridley,

  • Afrocentric Education for Teachers: Hilliard, Nah Dove, Nobles, Joyce King

  • World Classic Literatures: African Intellectual Traditions

  • Afrocentric Sciences: S.O. Keita, Finch, Browder

  • Museums, Exhibitions, and National Places

  • Ifa and Probability, Works of Mwishe Wande Abiola

  • Military Histories of Africa from Thutmoses III to Menelik

  • African Inventors and Creators from Imhotep

  • Resistance to Oppression Studies: Ayo Sekai

  • Critiques of Subversive Epistemologies: Works of George Sefa Dei

  • Afrofuturism and Techno-Capital-Futurism

  • Sacred Ecology and Environment: Kimani Nehusi, Reynaldo Anderson

  • Economic Cooperation and Collective Achievement

  • Technology and Sustainable Communities

  • (Names attached to topics are not speakers but signifiers)

The Mission

We have an abundance of conferences being planned in the African world. This is a sign of the

times we are in politically, socially, and culturally; there is nothing wrong with the burst of

intellectual activism. Each conference seems to concentrate on solving our immediate and long term problems.

However, the Global Afrocentricity Conference in Philadelphia, May 16 and 17, 2026, seeks to

articulate a philosophy beyond the mere discourses about problems and challenges. It is

designed to demonstrate that the lack of strategies, tactics, and pragmatic actions have little to

do with our desires, ambitions, and robust pronouncements.

The African problem is the weakness of theory. Without theory to carry the burden of our goals

we will not be able to succeed even if we give or hear the most eloquent pleas for solutions.

The solution stares us in the face every time an intellectual activist speaks to the challenges.

For example, Pan Africanism is not a theory, it is a concept, perhaps a good objective, but it

does not tell us how to arrive at Pan Africanism.

The Philadelphia Global Afrocentricity Conference of May 16, 17, 2026, will concentrate on

arriving at a robust foundation of historical-cultural agency separate from our received and

perceived ideas about truth, justice,unity, economics, religion, progress, education, politics, and

development.

This conference will not seek pragmatism, decoloniality, postmodernism, neoliberalism,

Christianity, Islamism, Hinduism, capitalism, Marxism, or any other ideology, religion, or politics;

it is a conference dedicated to the reconstruction and construction of an African orientation to all

phenomena. Our debate should be the determination of what is African assertion in every case

we confront in the world.

While we understand the need for immediate results, we cannot abandon the principled ancient

proverbial wisdom of our ancestors who laid the foundations of the moral and ethical universe

long before they ever migrated out of the continent of Africa. This is why the Global

Afrocentricity Conference to meet at the Pennsylvania Convention Center on May 16-17, 2026

will be a defining moment for the struggle for African agency and assertion. In 1948, Cheikh

Anta Diop asked, “When shall we speak of an African renaissance?” Our conference intends to

answer that question with an affirming now!