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Afrocentrism

worldview centered on the history of African civilization
Intangible ideology Q1876790
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Summary

Afrocentrism is an ideology[1]. Afrocentrism ranks in the top 5% of ideology entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,585 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: ethnocentrism[3]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Afrocentrism[4]
  • Described by source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of African Thought[5]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: WikiProject African diaspora[6]

Why It Matters

Afrocentrism has Wikipedia articles in 18 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[7] Afrocentrism is known by 19 alternative names across languages and contexts.[8]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [7] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [8] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 12d ago · Susmuffin · 2026-10-07 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'ast', 'az', 'ca', 'cs', 'de', 'en', 'eo', 'es', 'fa', 'fi', 'fr', 'ha',
    Harper's tag → afrocentrism
    Gnd id → 4432503-4
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: afrocentrism, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289911898|afrocentrism (#289911898)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]"
  2. 22w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    On focus list of wikimedia project → WikiProject African diaspora
    Topic's main category → Category:Afrocentrism
    Described by source → The Oxford Encyclopedia of African Thought
    Instance of → —
    + 4 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|7 */ Yso id: 25531, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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