Cheikh Anta Diop was born in 1923 and died of a heart attack in 1986. His entire life was devoted to scholarship and to retrieving ancient Egyptian history as an intrinsic part of Black African history. He was responsible for the UNESCO-sponsored conference on thepeopling of ancient Egypt and the deciphering of the Meroitic script in Cairo, 1974.
Cheikh Anta Diop was born in 1923 and died of a heart attack in 1986. His entire life was devoted to scholarship and to retrieving ancient Egyptian history as an intrinsic part of Black African history. He was responsible for the UNESCO-sponsored conference on thepeopling of ancient Egypt and the deciphering of the Meroitic script in Cairo, 1974.
Cheikh Anta Diop was born in 1923 and died of a heart attack in 1986. His entire life was devoted to scholarship and to retrieving ancient Egyptian history as an intrinsic part of Black African history. He was responsible for the UNESCO-sponsored conference on thepeopling of ancient Egypt and the deciphering of the Meroitic script in Cairo, 1974.