Introduction Black Studies advocates have sought to create a counterhegemonic body of thought designed to facilitate the liberation of African people since the inception of the discipline in the 1960s. For some six decades, these scholars have been researching the philosophy and praxis of Blacks on the continent and in diaspora from a multidisciplinary perspective that includes history, politics, sociology, psychology, art, and economics. This study makes a contribution to that scholarship by addressing two omissions.
