Cheikh Anta Diop: An Intellectual Portrait

By Molefi Kete Asante

This volume is a lucid and essential contribution to our critical understanding of the intellectual and practical work of Cheikh Anta Diop. Professor Asante identifies and clarifies the key... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0943412269
• ISBN13: 9780943412269
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Univ of Sankore Pr
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 0.5" x 5.8"

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Cheikh Anta Diop: The Consummate Intellectual And The Future of Africa

Reviewer: Mr. Francis Kwarteng Book: Cheikh Anta Diop: An Intellectual Portrait Author: Dr. Molefi Kete Asante Cheikh Anta Diop: The Consummate Intellectual And The Future of Africa It does not actually constitute a wide stretch of the human imagination to assert the currency or primacy of Afrocentricity in contemporary scholarly discourse on the classical world and its intellectual force in providing Africans with a legitimate claim to the ownership of the intellectual and cultural legacy of ancient Egypt. A sea of red ink had already been expended in the past century in the debate over the racial constitution of the ancient Egyptians and about their phantom heirs at law, and the tireless yet indispensable efforts of honest scholars like Drs. Cheikh Anta Diop and Molefi Kete Asante to pedestalize the ancient Egyptians and their unparalleled achievements, as part of the endless battle to expropriate this covetous legacy for Africansthe rightful owners. Moreover, by commission or omission the West has committed one of the most egregious intellectual crimes when she belittles the ancient Egyptians' massive contributions to human civilizationeither by bastardizing their advanced culture or by usurping their cultural supremacy in favor of the ancient Greeks' or UFOs' employing the flimsiest of excuses or glossy evidence, or both. It is my opinion that the West has purposefully done this on a cultural dais of barefaced arrogance, of feigned ignorance of alternate prismatic methodology (i.e. Afrocentricity) for plumbing ancient Egyptian civilization, and of ruthless confutation of significant contributions put forth by outstanding thinkers such as Diop, Asante, et al. Therefore, it should come as no surprise to inquisitive and cautious minds that many germane books that speak eloquently to the classical world would be authored to serve jointly as a corrective to the gross misinterpretation and misguided claims advanced by Eurocentric scholars and their ilkin relation to the contentious ancient Egyptians' historical legacyin the Levant in particular and the world at large. One such book is Dr. Molefi Kete Asante's Cheikh Anta Diop: An Intellectual Portrait, an elephantine project that received the spiritual imprimatur of Senegal's President Abdoulaye Wade and ex-President Thambo Mbeki of South Africa. In Cheikh Anta Diop: An Intellectual Portrait, Dr. Asante, a brilliant theoretician and a leading exponent of Afrocentricity, assumes the difficult task of carrying lay persons and scholars along on a long and meandering journey into the depths of the mind of one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth-century, Dr. Cheikh Anta Diop, a world-class scientist and humanist. Dr. Asante focuses on: * The impact of rich cultural traditions on the evolution of Diopian thought via the long history of familial erudition placed at the disposal of the young Diop; Diop's proximate ten-year study at the bastion of the French Academy,

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