The Bunting Summary

Bunting Article Analysis Throughout the Bunting article, various concepts that are included in the Afrocentric approach to critical thinking are reflected. . These concepts include omissions, stereotypes, distortions, unwarranted assumptions, what is hidden-below the surface, Eurocentric perspectives, effects of power relations, and exclusions of others points of views. The first concept reflected in this article is an unwarranted assumption. We see an unwarranted assumption in the first page of the article when Dr. Bunting recalls his conversation with a taxi driver in London. After Dr. Bunting tells the taxi driver that he was in Rwanda, the taxi driver states that the problem in Africa is that all the small “tribes” are killing each other. This is an example of an unwarranted assumption because the taxi driver assumed that every country in Africa is a “tribe”. It was also an unwarranted assumption when the taxi driver stated that the only thing happening in Africa was fighting between “tribes”.
Eurocentrism is a sense of superiority by European and western civilization. On page four of the article, Dr. Bunting talks about an article about a Dutch nurse in Africa named Connie Bass who used her heroics to deliver 54 babies. This article is an example of a Eurocentric perspective because it only talks about the heroism of the Dutch nurse and it fails to mention the heroism by the African nurses that helped the Dutch nurse. This article makes it seem as though Connie Bass single handedly delivered the babies by herself and it gives an example of European superiority. This is also an example of Eurocentrism because it makes it seem as though the Africans are helpless and they are constantly in need of help by the European