Ama Mazama’s book, L’Impératif Afrocentrique, reinforces on an international level the discourse on Africa as subject. In this book, the author very convincingly argues for the necessity for African people today to reassess and restructure their response to the world’s political and historical realities. She offers us a penetrating reading and contextualization of the most important textual events for the construction of the modern African world. The precise and concise language of the six chapters included in her book, all informed by the notion of an Afrocentric imperative, is simply remarkable.