by Molefi Kete Asante
Skin Recognition The person recognizes that his/her skin and heritage are Black, but that is the extent of the reality.
Environmental Recognition Devaluing of Blackness via discrimination and abuse.
Personality Awareness Talking Black, acting Black, dancing Black, eating Black, but not thinking Black.
Interest/Concern At this level, the person accepts the first three levels and so demonstrates interest and concern in the problems of Blacks and tries to deal intelligently with the issues of Africkan people. However, it lacks Afrocentricity in the sense that it does not consume the life and spirit of the person.
Africentricity At this highest level, the person becomes totally changed to a conscious involvement in the struggles for his/her own mind's liberation and becomes aware of the collective conscious will. Now the person is consumed. Once you have Africentricity, no one needs to tell you that you have it or ask you if you have it; it is consciously revealed in everything you do, say, think or feel.