Books by Cheikh Anta Diop
The African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality
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Pre-Colonial Black Africa /
Civilization or Barbarism /
The Cultural Unity of Black Africa
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REMEMBER: CHEIKH ANTA DIOP
By Jane
Musoke-Nteyafas
Remember
Cheikh Anta Diop
Remember
your ancestors
You sons of Akhenaten
Prodigies of Imohotep
Nile/Niger treasures
My melanated men of
Coveted cocktails
Bamboo brown
Sable dunes shades
Caribbean soirče shades
Black like scarab beetles
Conakry/Congo/Cote D’Ivoire
Bambara/Berber/Bissau beauties.
Remember
Cheikh Anta Diop
Remember
your ancestors
Remember
Your history
Do not let his legacy die
You men of
lotus white eyes
like silken drops
warrior wine lips
Nefertiti/Nefertari/Nubian noses
pomegranate/papaya perfumes
tortoise shells jewellery
Sahara silhouetted sandals
And dazzling dashikis.
Remember
Cheikh Anta Diop
Forget not
your secret brotherhood
You guards of
Sacredness and spirituality
Language and traditions
Forget not
Ancient Kemet and Kush
Punt and Nubia
the authentic Africa in you.
Remember
your African roots
Remember
your African mother
The womb-man who birthed you
Remember
Mother Africa
The precious land that claims you
Remember
Cheikh Anta Diop.
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Written Tuesday 21st June 2005
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Cheik Anta Diop /
Cheik Anta Diop2
Cheik Anta
Diop (29 December 1923 in Thieytou,
Diourbel Region – 7 February 1986 in
Dakar) explains the origin of humanity including
the origin of Europeans all other races. why and how
Afrikans are the original man. He was a historian,
anthropologist, physicist, and politician who
studied the human race's origins and pre-colonial
African culture. He is regarded as an important
figure in the development of the
Afrocentric viewpoint, in particular for his
theory that the
Ancient Egyptians were
Black Africans.
Cheikh Anta Diop University, in
Dakar,
Senegal is named after him.—Wikipedia
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Cheikh Anta Diop: An Intellectual
Portrait
By Molefi Kete Asante
Dr. Cheikh Anta Diop—Diop
received five PhDs—in Physics, African
history, Egyptology, linguistics,
anthropology, and he also was well
versed in Sociology and Economics, as he
armed himself for the task of setting
the historical record straight. In 1951,
Diop submitted his first Ph.D thesis at
the University of Paris where he argued
that ancient Egypt had in fact been a
Black African culture.
After 1960, Diop went back to Senegal
and continued writing. A radiocarbon
laboratory was established with the
University of Dakar (which was later
named Cheikh Anta Diop University of
Dakar after his death), and Diop was
made its head. He had said, "In practice
it is possible to determine directly the
skin color and, hence, the ethnic
affiliations of the ancient Egyptians by
microscopic analysis in the laboratory;
I doubt if the sagacity of the
researchers who have studied the
question has overlooked the
possibility." |
One of his
important works published in journals is the dosage
test—a technique developed by Diop to determine the
melanin content of the Egyptian mummies. This
technique was later adopted by the U.S. forensic
department to determine the racial identity of badly
burnt accident victims. In 1974, Cheikh Anta Diop
participated in a UNESCO symposium in Cairo, where
he presented his theories to other specialists in
Egyptology. He also wrote the chapter about the
origins of the Egyptians in the UNESCO General
History of Africa.
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Jane Musoke-Nteyafas, poet/author/artist and
playwright, was born in Moscow, Russia and currently
resides in Toronto, Canada. She is the daughter of
retired diplomats. By the time she was 19, she spoke
French, English, Spanish, Danish, Luganda, some
Russian and had lived in Russia, Uganda, France,
Denmark, Cuba and Canada. She won the Miss
Africanada beauty pageant 2000 in Toronto where she
was also named ‘one of the new voices of Africa’
after reciting one of her poems. In 2004 she was
published in T-Dot Griots-An Anthology of Toronto's
Black storytellers and in February 2005 her art
piece Namyenya was featured as the poster piece for
the Human Rights through Art-Black History Month
Exhibit.
She is the
recipient of numerous awards for her poetry, art,
and playwriting and is becoming a household name in
Toronto circles. She is a columnist for Bahiyah
Woman Magazine and is also a fellow for the Crossing
Borders-British Council Writers Programme.—Nteyafas
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music website >
http://www.kalamu.com/bol/
writing website >
http://wordup.posterous.com/
daily blog >
http://kalamu.posterous.com
twitter >
http://twitter.com/neogriot
facebook >
http://www.facebook.com/kalamu.salaam
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The State of African Education
(April 200)
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Attack On Africans Writing Their Own History Part 1 of 7
Part 2 of 7
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Part
3 of 7 /
Part 4 of 7
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Part 5 of 7 /
Part 6 of 7 /
Part 7 of 7
Dr Asa
Hilliard III speaks on the assault of academia on Africans writing and
accounting for their own history.
Dr Hilliard is A teacher,
psychologist, and historian.
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John Henrik Clarke—A Great and Mighty Walk
This
video chronicles the life and times of the
noted African-American historian, scholar
and Pan-African activist John Henrik Clarke
(1915-1998). Both a biography of Clarke
himself and an overview of 5,000 years of
African history, the film offers a
provocative look at the past through the
eyes of a leading proponent of an
Afrocentric view of history. From ancient
Egypt and Africa’s other great empires,
Clarke moves through Mediterranean
borrowings, the Atlantic slave trade,
European colonization, the development of
the Pan-African movement, and present-day
African-American history. |
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updated 3 November 2007
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