text: If , as Banks normally assumes , any African-American academic who has an engagement with the fate of the race is part of the story , I am not sure why he thinks Professor Molefi K. Asante , who can make a reasonable claim to having invented Afrocentrism as an academic subject , doesn 't merit discussion .
  
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  I don 't know why Professor Molefi K. Asante isn 't brought up more often .