In the 1990s, the political tradition of Afrocentrism came under attack in the Western academy, resulting in its glaring omission from most genealogies of Black thought today. This is despite the fact that Afrocentrism had roots dating back to the 15th century, shaping movements like Pan-Africanism and Négritude. It is also despite the fact that the tradition resulted in important cornerstones of Black American life: the holiday of Kwanzaa, the discipline of Black Studies, and independent Afrocentric schools. This essay revisits Afrocentrism as a foundation for the Black Radical Tradition. It argues that Afrocentrism presupposed the relationship between Blackness and Africa to be the central problem for emancipatory thought. Re-embracing Africa not only meant resistance; it targeted the originary thread of political modernity itself–that is, the separation of Blackness from Africa.

在1990年代，黑人中心派的政治传统在西方学术界受到抨击，导致今天大多数黑人思想家谱都明显地遗漏了它。尽管事实上，非洲中心主义的根源可以追溯到15世纪，但它塑造了泛非洲主义和Négritude之类的运动。尽管事实上，这一传统还是黑人美国生活的重要基石：宽扎节假期，黑人研究学科和独立的非洲中心学校。本文重新审视了以黑人为中心的黑人中心主义。它认为，以非洲为中心的先决条件是黑人与非洲之间的关系成为解放思想的中心问题。重新拥抱非洲不仅意味着抵抗，而且还意味着对非洲的抵抗。它针对的是政治现代性本身的起源线索，也就是说，