Cheikh Anta Diop, Senegalese historian, anthropologist, and physicist (born 1923)

Cheikh Anta Diop

Senegalese politician, historian and scientist (1923–1986)

Cheikh Anta Diop was a Senegalese historian, anthropologist, physicist, and politician who studied the human race's origins and pre-colonial African culture. Diop's work is considered foundational to the theory of Afrocentricity, though he himself never described himself as an…