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“Egyptian antiquity is to African culture what Graeco-Roman antiquity is to Western culture. The building up of a corpus of African humanities should be based on this fact.”

Source: “Origin of the ancient Egyptians”, UNESCO General History of Africa, vol. II (1981)

Context Writing for UNESCO's General History of Africa, he restated his thesis on the African origin of the ancient Egyptians, debated at UNESCO's 1974 Cairo symposium.

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Cheikh Anta DiopSenegal · 1923–1986
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