Cheikh Anta Diop (1923–1986)
Author of The African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality
About the Author
Cheikh Anta Diop was born in 1923 in Diourbel, Senegal. After earning a Litt.D. degree in France, Diop worked as a historian in addition to heading the carbon-14 dating laboratory for the Institut Fondamentale d'Afrique Noire in Senegal. He founded two political parties in the 1960s, the Bloc des show more Masses Senegalaises and the Front Nationale Senegalaise, but he is best remembered for his historical works about Africa. Diop's works includes Civilization or Barbarism: An Authentic Anthropology, 1991 and Alerte sous les tropiques: Articles 1946-1960: Culture et developpement en Afrique noire, Presence Africaine, 1990. Through his books, Diop attempts to prove that blacks had a larger role in the beginnings of civilization than is generally acknowledged. He was honored by the World Festival of Negro Arts in 1966 as the black intellectual who had exercised the most fruitful influence in the 20th century. Diop died February 7, 1986, in Dakar, Senegal. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Works by Cheikh Anta Diop
The Cultural Unity of Black Africa: The Domains of Patriarchy and of Matriarchy in Classical Antiquity (1982) 56 copies
Nations nègres et culture: De l'antiquité nègre égyptienne aux problèmes culturels de l'Afrique Noire d'aujourd'hui (1979) 26 copies
Towards the African Renaissance: Essays in African Culture and Development, 1946-1960 (1996) 9 copies
Nações Negras e Cultura 2 copies
Alerte sous les tropiques. Articles 1946-1960. Culture et développement en Afrique noire (1990) 2 copies
Nations nègres et culture, tome 2. 2 copies
L'AFRIQUE NOIRE PRECOLONIALE 1 copy
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- Birthdate
- 1923-12-29
- Date of death
- 1986-02-07
- Gender
- male
- Education
- University of Paris (PhD | Literature)
- Occupations
- historian
- Awards and honors
- Grands prix des associations littéraires (Grand prix de la mémoire, 2015)
- Nationality
- Senegal
- Birthplace
- Caytou, Senegal
- Places of residence
- Caytou, Senegal
Saint-Louis, Senegal
Dakar, Senegal
Paris, France - Place of death
- Fann, Dakar, Senegal
- Associated Place (for map)
- Senegal
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Fabulous book, a few minor arguments need much stronger explanations but I didn’t bookmark specifics since I was on audio. Great if you’re interested in Africana Studies historiography.
Diop offers a Critical challenge to orthodox scholarship's interpretation of Egypt as a White civilization, which arose during the nineteenth century to reinforce European racism and imperialism. Amassing evidence from the linguistic to the archaeological, from the historical to the philosophical, he demonstrates that Egypt was a Black civilization and that Blacks are the rightful heirs to Egypt's proud legacy. Moreover, he shows through superbly detailed documentation that Greek show more civilization, long revered as the birthplace of Western thought, owes a substantial debt to Egyptian ideas and accomplishments.
Dr. Leonard Jefferies, Jr.,Professor of Africana Studies, City College of New York show less
Dr. Leonard Jefferies, Jr.,Professor of Africana Studies, City College of New York show less
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- Rating
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- ISBNs
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