Few scholars have been successful at articulating with as much clarity as Patrick Manning does, the relevance and centrality of African history to world history. The historical experiences of the peoples of Africa, within, above, and beyond the Anthropocene, had not been synthetized with a view of globalizing certain Forms of the African Past as integral pieces of the mosaic of the Human Adventure. This essay presents the extent of Manning’s contributions to the debates regarding the general concept of Afrocentricity in practice, namely in relation to the construction of functional global institutions where learned citizens congregate to boost humanity’s intellectual capital. Pat Manning stands out for deconstructing in engaging arrangements—that is, in bravura and substance—the marginalization of Africa and Africans in the academic deliberations about the emergence of cosmopolitan Modernity over the past six or seven centuries at a global scale. Manning-Senseï reverberates in global academia the influences of Black peoples on “the Human System in Movement.” On the other hand, Manning arguably evades the moralization of the discourse that participates in the travails for the restoration of historical consciousness in Black Africa, inducing thereby the ubiquitous question of contemporary world historians’ political responsibility.

很少有学者像帕特里克·曼宁（Patrick Manning）一样清楚地阐明非洲历史与世界历史的相关性和中心性，从而成功地阐明了这一点。并没有综合人类世界内，上，外的非洲人民的历史经验，以使某些非洲过去形式全球化，成为人类历险画中不可或缺的一部分。本文介绍了曼宁在实践中关于以非洲为中心的一般概念的辩论中所做的贡献，即与建设功能性全球机构有关，在该机构中，有学识的公民聚集在一起以增强人类的智力资本。帕特·曼宁（Pat Manning）擅长破坏参与安排，也就是说，在勇敢和实质方面—在过去六，七个世纪中在全球范围内出现国际化现代性的学术讨论中，非洲人和非洲人的边缘化。曼宁Senseï在全球学术界回荡了黑人对“运动中的人类系统”的影响。另一方面，曼宁可以说是逃避了参与为恢复黑非洲历史意识而进行的努力的话语的道德化，从而引发了当代世界历史学家的政治责任的普遍问题。