The African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality
Cheikh Anta Diop
A claim that the pharaohs were Black, and that Greece borrowed from Africa.
Drawing on essays written from the 1950s, the Senegalese scholar argued that ancient Egypt was a Black African civilization whose achievements shaped Greek and later Western culture. His methods and conclusions remain contested among Egyptologists and historians, many of whom reject his racial framing. Even so, the work pressed hard questions about bias in the writing of African history and became a key reference for later Afrocentric thought.
Its legacy. Influential and disputed in equal measure.
- Author
- Cheikh Anta Diop
- First published
- 1974
- Genre
- History
- Theme
- Pan-Africanism, Race and the Diaspora
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