Cheikh Anta Diop

Cheikh Anta Diop was born in 1923 in the Diourbel region of Senegal. In Paris, he studied philosophy under Gaston Bachelard, then chemistry and physics, and in 1960 defended a state doctorate at the Sorbonne. Back in Senegal, he was kept out of the University of Dakar under Senghor, whose rule he fought by founding several opposition parties, and he became a professor only in 1981. He died on 7 February 1986, and the capital's university now bears his name.

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• EssayNations nègres et cultureCheikh Anta Diop · 1954not translated into EnglishLiterature