The Wikipedia history section traces roots to nineteenth and early twentieth century writers such as Blyden and Woodson, through a consolidation across the 1980s and 1990s associated with Molefi Asante, with no single sentence naming one founding year for the approach itself.
What would resolve this A source directly naming the year Asante or another scholar first formally named or defined Afrocentric education as a distinct pedagogical approach.
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