Cheikh Anta Diop (1923–1986)
Autor(a) de The African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality
About the Author
Cheikh Anta Diop was born in 1923 in Diourbel, Senegal. After earning a Litt.D. degree in France, Diop worked as a historian in addition to heading the carbon-14 dating laboratory for the Institut Fondamentale d'Afrique Noire in Senegal. He founded two political parties in the 1960s, the Bloc des mostrar mais Masses Senegalaises and the Front Nationale Senegalaise, but he is best remembered for his historical works about Africa. Diop's works includes Civilization or Barbarism: An Authentic Anthropology, 1991 and Alerte sous les tropiques: Articles 1946-1960: Culture et developpement en Afrique noire, Presence Africaine, 1990. Through his books, Diop attempts to prove that blacks had a larger role in the beginnings of civilization than is generally acknowledged. He was honored by the World Festival of Negro Arts in 1966 as the black intellectual who had exercised the most fruitful influence in the 20th century. Diop died February 7, 1986, in Dakar, Senegal. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Obras de Cheikh Anta Diop
The Cultural Unity of Black Africa: The Domains of Patriarchy and of Matriarchy in Classical Antiquity (1962) 40 cópias
Towards the African Renaissance: Essays in African Culture and Development, 1946-1960 (1996) 8 cópias
Alerte sous les Tropiques : articles 1946-1960 : culture et développement en Afrique noire (1990) 2 cópias
Nations nègres et culture 2 cópias
Cheikh Anta Diop: On science, history and technology (Pan African internationalist handbook) (1990) 1 exemplar(es)
Nouvelles recherches sur l'egyptien ancien et les langues negro-africaines modernes: Complements a Parente… (1988) 1 exemplar(es)
L'AFRIQUE NOIRE PRECOLONIALE 1 exemplar(es)
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Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1923-12-29
- Data de falecimento
- 1986-02-07
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- Senegal
- Local de nascimento
- Caytou, Senegal
- Local de falecimento
- Fann, Dakar, Senegal
- Locais de residência
- Caytou, Senegal
Saint-Louis, Senegal
Dakar, Senegal
Paris, France - Educação
- University of Paris (PhD | Literature)
- Ocupação
- historian
- Premiações
- Grands prix des associations littéraires (Grand prix de la mémoire, 2015)
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- Membros
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- Popularidade
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- Avaliação
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- ISBNs
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