Conclusion
Africologists may take on various interests in other fields in order to
garner the data necessary for their inquiries. Interests in resources
and methods from other fields in the western academy may be necessary to
conduct Africological research. However, it is important to make sure
that those resources and methods are approached using Afrocentric
methodology or they will be no good for Africological research. It is
the job of Africologists to ensure the formation and maintenance of
Africological historiography is not corrupted by alien cosmology. All
Africological inquiry has an inherent praxis, being the use of
scholarship in order to advance the Africana World Cultural Project
(AWCP), restoring the agency and sovereignty of African people
worldwide. The writing of African history is also an exercise in such
praxis. The implications of an Africological Historiography are wide
ranging and will ensure better control over source material, discourse,
and perceptions concerning African phenomena. It will also better assist
in the restorative efforts of the AWCP. However, Africological
Historiography will never become the dominant voice among African
scholarship if it continues its arrest in the western academy. More
Africologists and schools of Africology are needed throughout the
African diaspora and, perhaps more importantly, on the African
continent, in order to ensure our goals come to fruition.