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Senegalese Historian (Sheikh Anta Diop) Egyptian Civilization, Black Africa

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Sheikh Anta Diop is considered the most influential African Historian.

The Senegalese Historian, Politician, and Anthropologist Sheikh Anta Diop (1923 - 1986) is considered the most influential African historian.

Through his works; he defended that Egyptian civilization has African roots, even his DNA analyses of mummies showed this relationship. He also demonstrated that Wolof, a Senegalese ethnic group, had its origins in the Egyptian Civilization.

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  1. Sheikh Anta Diop (Senegalese Historian, Muslim)
  2. Relations between the Egyptian civilization and Black Africa
  3. Concept of African Renaissance of Sheikh Anta Diop

Sheikh Anta Diop (African Historian)
Sheikh Anta Diop (African Renaissance)

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The Subject “Sheikh Anta Diop and African Renaissance” is included within the curriculum of the following academic programs at EENI Global Business School:

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Master: Business in Africa, Religions & International Business

Masters in International Business and Foreign Trade (MIB AI)

Doctorate in African Business, Ethics, Religion & Business.

Doctorate in International Business (DIB AI) Online

Languages: Masters, Doctorate, International Business, English or Study Doctorate in International Business in French Sheikh Anta Diop Masters Foreign Trade in Portuguese Sheikh Anta Diop Study Master Doctorate in International Business in Spanish Sheikh Anta Diop.


  1. Place of birth of Sheikh Anta Diop: Caytou (Senegal, West Africa) in 1923
  2. Religion: Sheikh Anta Diop was Muslim
  3. Education: Human Sciences and Mathematics
  4. Sheikh Anta Diop also studied Nuclear Physics
  5. Specializations: Wolof, Civilization of the Pharaohs, Quran, Arabs-Muslims, and African cultures
  6. Contacts with the Burkinabe Historian Joseph Ki-Zerbo

The concept of Renaissance of Africa of Sheikh Anta Diop is based on:

  1. scientific reconstitution of authentic consciousness of African History and humanity
  2. That Africans themselves should write its history (Théophile Obenga)

The main topics of the work of Sheikh Anta Diop:

  1. Origin of mankind (Africa: Cradle of humanity) and their migrations
  2. Filiations of Egyptian Civilization with Black Africa (linguistics, culture, socio-political structures) - Black Egyptian hypothesis. (Leopold Sédar Senghor)
  3. Evolution of societies and the African States
  4. African contributions to humanity: arts, metallurgy, sciences, astronomy, philosophy, and architecture
  5. African Socio-economic Development (towards the African Federal State)

Bibliography of Sheikh Anta Diop:

  1. Black (Negro) nations and culture, 1954
  2. Cultural unity of Black Africa
  3. African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality?
  4. Genetic relatedness between Pharaonic Egyptian and African languages
  5. Civilization or Barbarism
  6. Economic and cultural basis for a Federated State
    1. Cultural influence of religion in global business
  7. Africa since 1935 (Volume VIII of the History of Africa)

Sheikh Anta Diop was an African Historian of the West African Economic Area.

Senegalese personalities
  1. Leopold Sédar Senghor
  2. Pathé Diagne

More information about Senegal (EENI African Business Portal).

  1. Dakar, Pikine, Rufisque, Saint-Louis
  2. Guédiawaye, Kaolak, M'bour
  3. Thiès, Touba, Ziguinchor

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