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Cheikh Anta Diop

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[Wikipedia] Cheikh Anta Diop was a Senegalese historian, anthropologist, physicist, and politician who studied the human race's origins and pre-colonial African culture. Diop's work is considered foundational to the theory of Afrocentricity, though he himself never described himself as an Afrocentrist. The ques

Quotes by Cheikh Anta Diop

Africa can and will only advance through African integration, which can be realized through the Federal United States of Africa

Cheikh Anta Diop

Integration

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“....the line of ill-intentional Egyptologist, equipped with a ferocious erudition , have commited their well known crime against science, by becoming guilty…

Cheikh Anta Diop

Ancient-african-history

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The generation that followed did not have the same concerns; none of its members attempted to follow the example of the past…

Cheikh Anta Diop

Calumny

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In practice it is possible to determine directly the skin colour and hence the ethnic affiliations of the ancient Egyptians by microscopic…

Cheikh Anta Diop

Affiliation

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European languages must not be considered diamonds displayed under a glass ball, dazzling us with their brilliance.

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Balls

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“Until now (1960, date of the first edition), the history of Black Africa has always been written with dates as dry as…

Cheikh Anta Diop

Black consciousness

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Intellectuals ought to study the past not for the pleasure they find in so doing, but to derive lessons from it.

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Learning

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Humanity's moral conscience progresses, slowly yet surely.

Cheikh Anta Diop

Conscience

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Ancient Egypt was a Negro Civilization. The history of Black Africa will remain suspended in air and cannot be written correctly until…

Cheikh Anta Diop

Air

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