Why this word is great
AFROCENTRICITY — [Noun] The quality, ideology, or practice of placing African people and perspectives at the center of historical, cultural, and philosophical analysis. From Afrocentric (itself from Afro-, a combining form of Africa, and -centric, meaning "centered") + -ity (a suffix forming nouns denoting a state or condition). Unlike Pan-Africanism, a political project of solidarity, or Eurocentrism, which asserts a Western default, Afrocentricity is a deliberate methodological re-centering, an act of intellectual repatriation. It is the quiet insistence on Kemet instead of Egypt, tracing a theorem to its origins in the Nile Valley, and finding an aesthetic lineage in Benin and Ife—a radical reclamation that restores the subjecthood of history, building a home for the mind on ground long declared terra nullius.