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Article: The legacy of a genius: Cheikh Anta Diop, Part 2
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- New York Amsterdam News
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- October 15, 2003
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Boyd, Herb
New York Amsterdam News
10-15-2003
In 1966, the first World Black Festival of Arts and Culture, held in Dakar,
Senegal, honored Dr. Diop and Dr. W.E.B. DuBois as the scholars who exerted
the greatest influence on African thought in the 20th century. For many
aspiring Black thinkers, they represented the twin towers of African
achievement.
Another important milestone in Diop's career occurred in 1974 when he and
Congolese Egyptologist and linguist Theophile Obenga upset participants at
the UNESCO conference with their paper "The Peopling of Ancient Egypt,"
which contended the Egyptian language was African and that it was related
genetically to a family of African languages. In effect, ...