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Challenging societal beliefs, this volume rethinks african and world history from an afrocentric perspective. Myth or reality by cheikh anta diop he should be considered as one of the greatest scientists after darwin, as he demonstrated that africa was the cradle of humanity. Laymen and scholars alike will welcome the publication of this onevolume translation of the major sections of c. Myth or reality by cheikh anta diop, edited by mercer cook. Cheikh anta diop was a great senegalese historian, anthropologist, philosopher, physicist and politician. Clarke and cheikh anta diop and mercer cook, year1974. Cheikh anta diop was the most daring african culturalnationalist historian, scientist, and nonapologetic egyptologist of the twentieth century. This last work of cheikh anta diop is a summation and expansion of his two previous volumes precolonial black africa 1987 and the african origin of civilization 1974 offers a refined statement of his lifes work, to prove the primacy of african culture by proving that ancient egypt was a black society, first in many cultural.
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