Afrocentricity is a manner of thought and action in which the centrality of African interests, values, and perspectives predominate.
According to Dr Molefi Kete Asante, "Afrocentricity is a frame of reference wherein phenomena are viewed from the perspective of the African person. The Afrocentric approach seeks in every situation the appropriate centrality of the African person."
The Afrocentrist asks the question, “What would African people do if there were no white people?”
In other words, what natural responses would occur in the relationships, attitudes toward the environment, kinship patterns, preferences for colors, type of religion, type of politics, and historical referent points for African people if there had not been any intervention of colonialism or enslavement? In this case, would there be no democracy in Africa still?
Afrocentricity answers this question by asserting the central role of the African subject within the context of African history, thereby removing Europe from the center of the African reality. In this way, Afrocentricity becomes a revolutionary idea because it studies ideas, concepts, events, personalities, and political and economic processes from a standpoint of black people as subjects and not as objects, basing all knowledge on the authentic interrogation of location.
