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ORIGIN
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CIVILIZATION
Myth or Reality
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Table of Contents
‘The Meaning of Our Work i
What Weve the Bysptiane? 1
Bit of te Nar Mosh 1
Moder Fussitcaner of History
Could Fan Cinication Rave 8s
Originated nthe Dei?
Cons Faspian Ciication reo
Te of san Origin?
The Eeypiog Kars x Soen and 129
Treated by Autropolits
Arguments Supporting a Neeto Orin ma
Areamems Opposing a Negro Osgin 156
Peopting of Aira front
be ite Vatey i
Poliieal aud Social Evolution ang
‘of Ancient Ege
Contribution of Exp Nubi 210
fond Expt
Reply «rie 236
arly SHitory of Humanity 260
volun ofthe Bask Mont
‘conection a
NOTES ON ARCHEDEDGICNL FEROS USEDEY THE HEN 297
iter looranueat sores 300
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List of Mastrations
“The Sphinx
Harbome Eas: African
The Gul Osiris
Lora Tera Newr
Narmer (or Mencs)
Doser
heaps
Mycorius and the Goddess Mother
Mentukotep 1
Sesotrs 1
Ramses 10 and a Moscin Wate
athmosis
Taharga
Hayptian Woman
The Lady with Thani
Women Making Perfune
Vintage ‘ime
Sudanese Solis
Egyptians Fishing
Egyptian Hoads
A Cook
Nok Terra Cott
Buck Peasant Privoners|
Princess and Seneralse Gis
Diimbi and Dyers
Fatemte Coiores
Pate, King of Lagu
The Famous Dark Red Color
Prisoners of ba Simi
‘Aryan, Libyan, and Semitic Caprives
Narmers Tablet
A Diack Queen of Satan
Frontispiece
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eypiian Totemis Dstes
“The Fowsrof Rabel
Faleos and Crocodile
inate Avcbitct
‘Grineing Swiss Mask
Congolese Cusis: Mask
Me (nigeria) Head
Bexin Heaeze Head
Th Gao Mosque
“The Poul Type
Ramses 1138 0 Boy
The Sphins and the Great Pysani
“Zoser’s Mortuary ‘Temple
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These Stale
The Huseatot Vers
Ange Skull
Shaca Caso Painting: Negro Woman
‘Translatov’s Preface
‘To iniosuce Cheikh Antn Diop 19 Englidespeaking readers, we
sent, ih the author's coment, kon hples fein Ns Rast pubs
Rabe lune: Nations wigreser sine (1998), anu tree from his
Fest works Anércrté es clio wrest ove wit8 fase
Mama? (1967). Tor purposes of caminuty and necessity, this
‘Elcton exsidee mos! of Lic mose techie! discussions, expertly
the Hieguistie end grormatial pasoges, lat moncthe ess shill gi
lle wader a gatora es of whet Congolese author Thooahile Ones
{ale te "Historical Sotho ad Conception of Chik Ames Dinp.""
De, Dips isthod is mull-tacted ad eos bis vari Wee
ground 0s "histerion, physics, amd philosopher.” Oboaga singles
Fim oat as “the only ick Africny ot hx goraration to hase seceived
Anning gs an Egyptologet.” At « Sonsyale, he has had dicet con
fae. vith (ve Of teadiione ans ssc! srwcare of West Atrica
From Andie Aymaid, Profesor of History and Laer Dea af the
Foeuly of Later the Unversity of Pars, bo fix gained a uae
Handing the Grves Latin work As a stndont of Gaston Balan,
Fridéris Joli Curse, Andie Lotei-Gourhen, aad others 18 his 2¢-
‘ted proiclency in suck diver disiplncs at rationalism, elec
they madern sienie techniques, pshatorie achvology, ané £0 00
Sete inp, he ho apd hs epee knee to
i everches om Avicanhisory
"While pursuing this rossirch” he tll che Het Inesnatonal
Congres of Bock Were end Anite in September 1956, "we have
‘ome to discover thatthe saciont Phvaame Hsp ciation was
undoubtedly a Negro civiliatica, To desi this then artroplogi
fal, ethrologicul, linguistic, historic}, and cult weguments have
Sen onde, To je Use vay, Huss 0 lero Nations
Thus he proccell in Nutin weyes er evi .
ttn aed et ealtte ate ws
volumes 10 decument eancisions tha form a ehoren tReoy, eomn-
troversial because it elutes many ilcss previously presented. 7
Eayprotegss,amnopotouiss, archeologists, ingwsts end historians
4. Thioptte Ovens, *Méthos
[A good example of this is Chapter XIU of the present volume is
‘hich be vets $9 a crifiealtovow af Nations nig
Moreh st decade ago hninanvel Wallerstsin summarized De
Dips eorsibation 35 follows:
Perhaps the west writs atentpt 19 rosonstruct Afccan hi
tory tus neu the numerous Wangs of Chsikh Ama Digp. Diop
hus a thetny that hore ia ba alobal ivslon of peoples ite
two kinds the Southerners (wr NegtAtrieans), ard the Aryans
(a categny covering all Cassia, inluding, Semites, Monge
Ibid and Attica Indians) Fach esomping hae ¢ cataract
Took tance nt response fo cis, te alifrence between ther
being thatthe Aryans nave had a harscraiate
‘The Aryans hae descioped patischal systems charvcterined bs
the supnession of wonten an 9 propensity for War. Also ass
Ciated with such socitise are materiie wigon, sand gui
avopholis, the tags drama, the city-state, indsidualse anc
pest, Souliancts, on the ater had, are metiarebal. The
tronen ane fice an the poopie peacels thet is Dionysian op
prsch to file, sels Edealsay, and no concept of sin. With «
Iattarhal sky some acnophilia, the tale om x Herary For
the terri ste, cal soles, end optimism
AAcccrling tw Dip’s thony, the aacisot Leypians, whe wore
egies, re che ssators uf the Southerers. This bod hyposhess
‘whic is nt aresemed with suppenting dats xs the interesting
fffeet of inverting Nester cular assunyptons. For, Diop args
Hv the ancient Cyptins wore Nears, thew European eslization
fs but a derivation ol Mss achieve
orn on Desember 29, 1923, a: Dioul, Senegal, Cheikh Ants
Diop reels his maser of sn yuce aul is decorate From th
University of Pars, Since 1861 he Tas been a the staf of IPAS
ste Fonsamenta de PAfsgue Node) in Dakar, where he dices
the radiocarbor leboratory which he fasted In 1966, atthe Foes
