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Cheikh Anta Diop
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“The negation of the history and intellectual accomplishments of Black Africans was cultural, mental murder, which preceded and paved the way for their genocide here and there in the world.”
Cheikh Anta Diop (1923–1986) said by 1986 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Anthropologists have invented the ingenious, convenient, fictional notion of the “true Negro,” which allows them to consider, if need be, all the real Negroes on earth as fake Negroes, more or less approaching a kind of Platonic archetype, without ever attaining it. Thus, African history is full of “Negroids,” Hamites, semi-Hamites, Nilo-Hamitics, Ethiopoids, Sabaeans, even Caucasoids! Yet, if one stuck strictly to scientific data and archeological facts, the prototype of the White race would be sought in vain throughout the earliest years of present-day humanity.”
Cheikh Anta Diop (1923–1986) said by 1986 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Ancient Egypt was a Negro civilization.”
Cheikh Anta Diop (1923–1986) said by 1986 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The ancient Egyptians were Negroes. The moral fruit of their civilization is to be counted among the assets of the Black world.”
Cheikh Anta Diop (1923–1986) said by 1986 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Instead of presenting itself to history as an insolvent debtor, that Black world is the very initiator of the "western" civilization flaunted before our eyes today.”
Cheikh Anta Diop (1923–1986) said by 1986 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Pythagorean mathematics, the theory of the four elements of Thales of Miletus, Epicurean materialism, Platonic idealism, Judaism, Islam, and modern science are rooted in Egyptian cosmogony and science.”
Cheikh Anta Diop (1923–1986) said by 1986 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Contrary to the legend, the Negro king was not, and had never been, a despot with unlimited powers. ... His mission was to serve the people wisely and his authority depended on his respect for the established constitution.”
Cheikh Anta Diop (1923–1986) said by 1986 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Already during the Middle Ages, the memory of a Negro Egypt that had civilized the world had been blurred by ignorance of the antique tradition hidden in libraries or buried under ruins. It would become even more obscure during those four centuries of slavery.”
Cheikh Anta Diop (1923–1986) said by 1986 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Europeans looked down on the Black world and condescended to touch nothing but its riches.”
Cheikh Anta Diop (1923–1986) said by 1986 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source