Cheikh Anta Diop

Herbert Ekwe Ekwe (UNIFOR - Universidade de Fortaleza)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 8.2.1: Francophone African Writing and Culture: Subsaharan.
Vol. editors: Helen Rachel Cousins (Birmingham Newman University)

Dates

Activity 1860-1986
Born 29 Dec 1923
Died 1986

Places

Born in Senegal
Active in Senegal; France

Cultural Identities

African French

Activities

Primary

Historian / Chronicler

Resources

Diop's Works

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In 1966 Cheikh Anta Diop and W.E.B. Du Bois were jointly awarded the prestigious African World Festival of Arts and Culture prize for scholars who had “exerted the greatest influence on African peoples in the 20th century”. Diop’s scholarship benefited immensely from his impressive multidisciplinary training in France between 1946 and 1960. He was a physicist, mathematician, philosopher, historian, linguist, anthropologist and Egyptologist. Whilst the defining focus of Diop’s scholarship is undoubtedly Kemet - from

Kmt

, the name the “Ancient Egyptians” used of themselves - his near-40 years of research work and publications, which culminated in

Civilisation ou barbarie

, 1981 [

Civilization or Barbarism

, 1991], radically challenged the “orthodoxies” on practically every…

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Citation: Ekwe Ekwe, Herbert. "Cheikh Anta Diop". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 17 May 2005 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=5908, accessed 23 November 2024.]