On This Day In TCXPI History IF IT HAD NOT BEEN! WE WOULD NOT HAVE KNOWN WE HAD A STORY! Call The Ancestors Name In Honor And Tribute! Cheikh Anta Diop Without his Mastery, we may have never learned the Black Africans Origin of World and Human Civilization. Cheikh Anta Diop, Egyptologist, Historian, Scholar, and Master Teacher Cheikh Anta Diop was born in Diourbel, Senegal on December 29, 1923 to an aristocratic Muslim Wolof family where he was educated in a traditional Islamic school. His family was part of the Mouride sect, the only independent Muslim group in Africa according to Diop. This was a fertile intellectual community that had produced many Muslim scholars and griots-oral tribal historians. He obtained a bachelor’s degree in Senegal before moving to Paris for graduate studies where he ended his scholastic education. When Cheikh Anta Diop was 23 years young he traveled and studied in Paris, France to continue advanced studies in Physics. He remained in Paris for 15 years studying physics and ultimately translating parts of Einstein’s theory of Relativity into his native Wolof. Cheikh Diop’s education included History, Egyptology, Physics, Linguistics, Anthropology, Economics, and Sociology. While studying in Paris, he “gained an understanding of the Greco-Latin world. As a student of Gaston, Bachelard, and others, Cheikh Diop “acquired proficiency in such diverse disciplines as rationalism, dialectics, modern scientific techniques, prehistoric archeology and so on.” Cheikh Diop was also the only Black African of his generation to have received training as an Egyptologist.” He applied this knowledge to his research on African history. After receiving his baccalaureate in Senegal, Cheikh Diops interest in African Cultural Unity theories developed a deep interest in Doctoral Studies at the University de Paris. While there, he met with resistance concerning his initial dissertation and it was rejected because it was based on the premise that Egypt of the Pharaohs was an African civilization. Cheikh Diop’s argumentative thesis stressed the great contributions of Egypt, in particular, to the origins of culture and sciences, and asserted that Egyptian civilization was of black origin, a theory that has been corroborated with anthropological evidence. However, his dissertation was published by Presence Africaine under the title nations Negres et Culture in 1955 and he won international acclaim. While acquiring his education, Cheikh Anta Diop became deeply interested in black studies and wanted to research them relating to the African origins of humanity and civilization. He became more active in the African student movements in the struggle against minorities and racism. Being an avid political activist led him to a pathetic struggle of ridding Africa from the claws of cultural alienation to its rightful place in history before the rise of colonialism. True to his roots, Cheikh Diop believed that people who feel they possess no past of their own tend to be absorbed and assimilated into the governing system, and are made to feel inferior because of this apparent deficiency. Cheikh Anta Diop began his transition quietly in his sleep in Dakar, Senegal on February 7, 1986. Desperate attempts by the Colonial and Neo-colonial establishments to silence Cheikh Diop’s voice were denied in the long run. His theory of the Black African contribution to Ancient Egyptian civilization is now widely accepted and embraced as we continue to learn more about ourselves as a means of eradicating the disease of racism. Source: AfricanAfrican africanafrican/folder13/african%20and%20african%20american%20history/ancient%20egypt%20and%20more/CheikAntaDiopBio.pdf (Accessed on 12/29/2014) For More Daily Black History, visit: tcxpi/ thechinuexprojectinc.blogspot/ https://facebook/TCXPIHistory https://facebook/TCXPI?ref=hl https://facebook/TheMediaAndTheBlackCommunityTcxpi?ref=hl #tcxpi
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