Senegalese Writers - Senegalese Historians, Senegalese Poets, Senegalese Women Writers, Phillis Wheatley, Leopold Sedar Senghor (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 29. Chapters: Senegalese historians, Senegalese poets, Senegalese women writers, Phillis Wheatley, Leopold Sedar Senghor, Cheikh Anta Diop, Ousmane Sembene, Mariama Ba, Lamine Diakhate, Iba Der Thiam, Boubacar Boris Diop, List of Senegalese writers, Fatou Diome, Cheikh Tidiane Gaye, Khady Sylla, Ken Bugul, Sokhna Benga, Alioune Badara Beye, Ousmane Soce, Birago Diop, Aminata Sow Fall, David Diop, Annette Mbaye d'Erneville, Abdoulaye Sadji, Nafissatou Dia Diouf, Fatou Ndiaye Sow, Cheikh Hamidou Kane, Khadi Fall, Mariama Ndoye, Nafissatou Niang Diallo, Fama Diagne Sene, Jacqueline Fatima Bocoum, Abibatou Traore, Fatou Niang Siga, Diana Mordasini, Aminata Maiga Ka, Khady Hane, Mame Younousse Dieng. Excerpt: Cheikh Anta Diop (29 December 1923 in Thieytou, Diourbel Region - 7 February 1986 in Dakar) was a historian, anthropologist, physicist, and politician who studied the human race's origins and pre-colonial African culture. He is regarded as an important figure in the development of the Afrocentric viewpoint, in particular for his controversial theory that the Ancient Egyptians were Black Africans. Cheikh Anta Diop University, in Dakar, Senegal is named after him. Diop was born to an aristocratic Muslim Wolof family in Senegal where he was educated in a traditional Islamic school. Diop's family was part of the Mouride sect, the only independent Muslim group in Africa according to Diop. He obtained a bachelor's degree in Senegal before moving to Paris for graduate studies where he ended his scholastic education. In 1946, at the age of 23, Diop went to Paris to become a physicist. He remained there for 15 years, studying physics under Frederic Joliot-Curie, Marie Curie's son-in-law, and ultimately translating parts of Einstein's Theory of Relativity into his native Wolof. Diop's education included History, Egyptology, Physics, Linguis..