Cheikh Anta Diop (29 December 1923 – 7 February 1986) was a Senegalese historian, anthropologist, physicist, and politician who studied the human race’s origins and pre-colonial African culture. Though Diop is sometimes referred to as an Afrocentrist, he predates the concept and thus was not himself an Afrocentric scholar. However, “Diopian thought”, as it is called, is paradigmatic to Afrocentricity.[2] His work was greatly controversial and throughout his career, Diop argued that there was a shared cultural continuity across African peoples that was more important than the varied development of different ethnic groups shown by differences among languages and cultures over time.[3]
Diop’s work has posed questions about cultural bias in scientific research.[4] Cheikh Anta Diop University (formerly known as the University of Dakar), in Dakar, Senegal, is named after him.[5][6]
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The African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality
Cheikh Anta Diop
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Civilization or Barbarism: An Authentic Anthropology
Cheikh Anta Diop
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Precolonial Black Africa: A Comparative Study of the Political and Social Systems of Europe and Black Africa, from Antiquity to the Formation of Mod
Cheikh Anta Diop
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https://zethio.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/cheikh-anta-diop-precolonial-black-africa.pdf
Black Africa: The Economic and Cultural Basis for a Federated State
Cheikh Anta Diop
http://siiasi.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Black-Africa-1.pdf
http://siiasi.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Black-Africa-2.pdf
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The Cultural Unity of Black Africa: The Domains of Patriarchy and of Matriarchy in Classical Antiquity
Cheikh Anta Diop
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Towards the African Renaissance: Essays Culture and Development
Cheikh Anta Diop
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The Peopling of Ancient Egypt & the Deciphering of the Meroitic Script
Cheikh Anta Diop
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Cheikh Anta Diop: An African Scientist (Pan African Internationalist Handbook, Book 1)
Cheikh Anta Diop
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L’Antiquite Africaine Par L’Image
Cheikh Anta Diop
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