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Diop, Cheikh Anta

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Personal name headingDiop, Cheikh Anta
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Variant(s)Anta Diop, Cheikh
Jóob, Séex Anta
Jūb, al-Shaykh Anta
Associated countrySenegal France
Birth date1923-12-29
Death date1986-02-07
Place of birthDiourbel (Senegal : Region)
Place of deathDakar (Senegal)
Field of activityAfrica--Antiquities Egypt --Civilization--African influences Africa, Sub-Saharan--Civilization--Egyptian influences Physical anthropology
Profession or occupationHistorians Physical anthropologists Linguists Physicists
Found inAuthor's Nations nègres et culture, 1954.
Author's Civilization or barbarism, c1990: CIP t.p. (Cheikh Anta Diop) data sheet (b. 1923; d. 1986)
Séex Anta Jóob wax nga dëgg, 1999
Cheikh Anta Diop website, viewed June 20, 2013: biographie (b. Dec. 29, 1923 in village of Caytou, region of Diourbel (Baol-Cayor area), Senegal; studied philosophy at Faculté des Lettres de la Sorbonne, 1946-1948; also researched Wolof and Serer languages, and chemistry; thesis on black Egyptian antiquity; doctorate 1960, Sorbonne, returned to Senegal; did archaeological survey of Mali; estab. carbon-14 dating laboratory at IFAN, Dakar; d. Feb. 7, 1986 at home in Fann [Dakar]; Université de Dakar named after him)
Wikipedia, June 20, 2013 (Cheikh Anta Diop; historian, anthropologist, physicist, politician; b. in Thieytou, Diourbel Region; native language Wolof)
Actes du colloque international tenu à Tombouctou sur : la culture arabo-islamique en Afrique au sud du Sahara, 1997: Arabic section, page 67 (Jāmiʻat al-Shaykh Anta Jūb Dakār, al-Sinighāl)
Associated languagefre wol