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Cheikh Anta Diop
1923–1986 · Senegal
Cheikh Anta Diop (1923–1986) was a Senegalese historian, anthropologist, physicist, and political thinker — one of the most wide-ranging and controversial African intellectuals of the…
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"The African who has understood us is the one who, after reading our works, feels that a new element has…"
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