Air Quote by Cheikh Anta Diop

It is unfortunate that so much of the history of Africa has been written by conquerors, foreigners, missionaries and adventurers. The Egyptians left the…

— John Henrik Clarke

“Ancient Egypt is possibly one of the clearest-cut cases of the iron law of nature which says that if a society which has produced…

— Arthur Kemp

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

— Cheikh Anta Diop

“The early and relatively sophisticated Egyptians understood that their civilization would be threatened if they bred with the Negroes to their south, so pharaohs…

— Kyle Bristow

I was taught about slavery, but it was the ancient Egyptians. That's the closest I got to African history.

— Malachi Kirby

There is nothing new in Egypt. Egyptians are making history as usual.

— Silvio Berlusconi

“raising more questions as I progressed through school, questions whose answers were even more perplexing. For, having read everything about the African race that…

— Chancellor Williams

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

— Cheikh Anta Diop

Most historians accept that Egypt was a cradle of civilization, and that many cultural idioms and traditions come from there. What has yet to…

— Michael Tsarion

We should emphasize not Negro History, but the Negro in history. What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but…

— Carter G. Woodson

The black nation of Egypt is the only country that has a science named after its culture: Egyptology

— Malcolm X

It's important to debunk the myths of Africa being this benighted continent civilized only when white people arrived. In fact, Africans had been creators…

— Henry Louis Gates