Diop compares the matriarchal, communal cultures of Black Africa with the patriarchal, nomadic cultures of ancient Eurasia, arguing that African societies share one deep cultural matrix rooted in the Nile Valley and the agricultural South. An early statement of the thesis he spent his career defending.
Author: Cheikh Anta Diop · Original publisher: French original: Présence Africaine (Paris), 1959 (*L'Unité culturelle de l'Afrique noire*); English edition: Third World Press (Chicago), 1978 (trans. Paris J. LeBron)
