Afrocentrism, or Afrocentricity, is a worl view that emphasizes the importance of African peoples in culture, philosophy, and history. Fundamental to Afrocentrism is the assumption that approaching knowledge from a Eurocentrist perspective, as well as certain mainstream assumptions in the application of information in the West, has led to injustices and also to inadequacies in meeting the needs of Black Africans and the peoples of the African diaspora. The Afrocentrist paradigm seeks to discover and also reinterpret (or reinvent) information through African eyes.