Cheikh Anta Diop was a Senegalese historian, anthropologist, and scholar of Afrocentricity. He is the author of Black Africa, The African Origin of Civilization, Civilization or Barbarism, and Precolonial Black Africa.
This expanded edition continues Diop's campaign for the political and economic unification of the nations of black Africa. It concludes with a lengthy interview with Diop.
A comparison of the political and social systems of Europe and black Africa from antiquity to the formation of modern states that demonstrates the black contribution to the development of Western civilization.
Now in its 30th printing, this classic presents historical, archaeological, and anthropological evidence to support the theory that ancient Egypt was a black civilization.
