Born in Thieytou, Center Senegal, Dr. Cheikh Anta Diop (1923—1986)
was born to an aristocratic Muslim Wolof family in Senegal where he was
educated in a traditional Islamic school. Diop's family was part of the
Mouride brotherhood, the only independent Muslim group in Africa according
to Diop. He obtained a bachelor's degree in Senegal before moving to Paris
for graduate studies, where he ended his scholastic education. —S.
Ademola Ajayi, "Cheikh Anta Diop" in Kevin Shillington (ed.), Encyclopedia
of African History.
The African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality
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Paperback: 336 pages
Publisher: Chicago Review Press; First Edition edition (July 1, 1989)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1556520727
ISBN-13: 978-1556520723
Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.9 x 8.1 inches
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The Black Egyptians are the original settlers of KMT. "The native Sudanese are one of the original pigmented Arabs in that region. They are members of the same ethnic family with the ancient Egyptians, the Ethiopians, the Southern Arabians, and the primitive inhabitants of Babylon. All founders and sustainers of the mighty Nilotic civilization we still admire today. They are very great nation of Blacks, who did rule almost over all Africa and Asia in a very remote era, in fact beyond the reach of history of any of our records
Black Africa: The Economic & Cultural Basis for a Federated State
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Paperback: 146 pages
Publisher: Chicago Review Press; Rev Exp Su edition (June 1, 1987)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1556520611
ISBN-13: 978-1556520617
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This expanded edition continues Diop's campaign for the political and
economic unification of the nations of black Africa. It concludes with a
lengthy interview with Diop.
Civilization or Barbarism: An Authentic Anthropology
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Paperback: 464 pages
Publisher: Chicago Review Press (April 1, 1991)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1556520484
ISBN-13: 978-1556520488
Product Dimensions: 6 x 1.1 x 0.8 inches
This last work of the well-known Senegalese scholar (1923-86) is a summation
and expansion of his two previous volumes-- Precolonial Black Africa (1987)
and The African Origin of Civilization (1974)--and offers a refined
statement of his life's work, to prove the primacy of African culture by
proving that ancient Egypt was a black society, first in many cultural
achievements later claimed by the following Indo-Aryan cultures. To this
end, Diop discusses the paleontology, sociology, anthropology, and
intellectual history of the ancient Egyptians set against contemporaneous
cultures and also the modern Wolofs. This is a fascinating and frustrating
volume. The organization is patchy; one central section seems to have gone
off-course into an apology for Marxist political theory; the translation
stumbles badly, especially in the early chapters; and one feels that history
is being stretched (a la Velikovsky) on the author's Procrustean bed of
African genesis. But Diop's erudition is patent, his place in African
letters is secure, and his major works should certainly be available. For
academic and large public collections. --Jo-Ann D. Suleiman, SANAD Support
Technologies, Rockville, Md.
Precolonial Black Africa
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Paperback: 240 pages
Publisher: Chicago Review Press (August 1, 1988)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1556520883
ISBN-13: 978-1556520884
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