Cheikh Anta Diop Quotes on Nature
Cheikh Anta Diop was a Senegalese historian, anthropologist, physicist, and political philosopher who argued for the African origin of ancient Egyptian civilization and for the cultural unity of black Africa. This page collects quotes attributed to Cheikh Anta Diop on the topic of nature, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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“The negation of the history and intellectual accomplishments of Black Africans was cultural, mental murder, which preceded and paved the way for their genocide here and there in the world.”
Civilization or Barbarism: An Authentic Anthropology -
“The ancient Egyptians were Negroes. The moral fruit of their civilization is to be counted among the assets of the Black world.”
p. xiv -
“Instead of presenting itself to history as an insolvent debtor, that Black world is the very initiator of the "western" civilization flaunted before our eyes today.”
p. xiv -
“The Europeans looked down on the Black world and condescended to touch nothing but its riches.”
p. 24