Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Afrocentrism" in English language version.
Mainstream Egyptologists and other scholars strongly object to Afrocentric Egyptology. It is viewed as a 'therapeutic mythology' that is not based on convincing evidence or persuasive interpretations.
We shall then read from the works of "Afrocentrist" writers of history including Chancellor Williams, Yosef ben Yochanen and Chiekh Anta Diop as well as those of sympathetic scholars such as St. Clair Drake and Shomarka Keita.
Opponents of Afrocentrism claim that this approach is entrenched in myth and fantasy. Mary Lefkowitz, in Not Out of Africa, argues that Afrocentrism is grounded in identity politics and not in sound scholarship.