Diop's sweeping anthropology argues that ancient Egypt was a Black African civilization and a root of world culture, marshalling linguistics, physical anthropology, and history against Eurocentric accounts. It is among his most ambitious works and a foundation text of Afrocentric scholarship.
Author: Cheikh Anta Diop · Original publisher: French original: Présence Africaine (Paris), 1981; standard English edition: Lawrence Hill Books (New York), 1991 (trans. Y-L. Ngemi)
