Cheikh Anta Diop
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Cheikh Anta Diop
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Cheikh Anta Diop was a Senegalese historian, anthropologist, physicist, and politician who studied the human race's origins and pre-colonial African culture. Diop's work is considered foundational to the theory of Afrocentricity, though he himself never described himself as an Afrocentrist. The questions he posed about cultural bias in scientific research contributed greatly to the postcolonial turn in the study of African civilizations. Diop argued that there was a shared cultural continuity ac
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Senegalese politician, historian and scientist (1923–1986)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheikh_Anta_Diop
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2005-06-03T01:51:46Z
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2024-09-06T01:37:34Z
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