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...group then discussed another problem faced by cities today: densification. Nancy Kete, the Director of EMBARQ—the World Resources Institute Center for Sustainable Transport— said that as world motorization rates are increasing, the urban sprawl phenomenon is “absolutely unsustainable” and will serve to damage the environment...
Philadelphia's Temple University, meanwhile, has become the standard-bearer for the responsible wing of the Afrocentric movement under the leadership of Molefi Kete Asante. His department includes the leading Egyptologist Theophile Obenga, as well as professors of African dance and linguistics. All 35 students who have received doctorates from Temple's program easily found jobs. Says Asante: "This is the hottest degree in the country." There are now 215 black-studies programs of varying quality at colleges and universities around...
...Molefi Kete Asante, creator of the nation's first accredited African American Studies doctoral program, defended his philosophy of Afrocentrism in a spirited 90-minute discussion with a diverse audience filing Science Center A last night...
...words of Molefi Kete Asante, chair of Temple University's Black Studies Department, "There is no American culture as is claimed by the defenders of the status...
...What West will do is bring a degree of validity in terms of connections between the African community and the University, that neither Gates nor Appiah have done," said Molefi Kete Asante, who chairs the Temple University Department of African American studies...