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THE AFRICAN ORIGIN OF CIVILIZATION Myth or Reality Lethe Spins, a Found iin the sinsteenth yo fet French stintite mission rs. This pile is neither Geek noe Semis is Banta Ms snodel esa to have Tien Pharaoh Chphen (ctea afoa nc, Fourth Dynasty), who Bul the second Glen psi Cheikh Anta Diop THE AFRICAN: ORIGIN OF CIVILIZATION Myth or Reality Translated jrom the French by MERCER COOK LAWRENCE HILL & COMPANY New Yotk © Wespurt ooert reuse Convah it renee HDL CoP ‘en, ein cee Inds bho tee. sun DSBS wes 28 my 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 ore ai 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 8 6 i 9 is of tairations 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 yon Tllaeacs om Costa An 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