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Article: Diop, Cheikh Anta
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Diop, Cheikh Anta
1923-1986
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Cheikh Anta Diop was the most daring African cultural-nationalist historian, scientist, and nonapologetic Egyptologist of the twentieth century. His scholarship on the reclaiming of black civilization produced an immense body of knowledge on ancient Egyptian civilization. His argument that ancient Egypt was essentially Negroid and that the origins of Hellenic civilization were to be found in black Africa challenged the prevailing Eurocentric view of the world.
The implications of Diop
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s thought should be contextualized within the European imperialist dictum and black resistance movements of the time. He grew up in Senegal when France was ...
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Article: Remembering Egypt, remembering Chiekh Anta Diop
Michigan Citizen;
February 1, 2003 ;
669 words
... ... Cultural Unity of Black Africa and and Precolonial Black Africa. During his student days, Cheikh Anta Diop was an avid ... Fundamental Institute of Black Africa (IFAN) at the University ... African studies. Cheikh Anta Diop died quietly ...
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