Dr Cheikh Anta Diop was born into a rich, aristocratic Muslim family in the French colony of Senegal in Africa in 1923. His privileged background ensured that he got a top-class education.

One of the main academic proponents of the view that the ancient Egyptian civilisation was founded by black Africans was the Senegalese historian Cheikh Anta Diop. "Ancient Egypt was a Negro ...

The rebels’ calls for the region’s independence will be difficult to neglect despite the new deal, said Mohamed Traore, a doctoral researcher at the Cheikh Anta Diop University of Dakar.