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Title: | Cheikh Anta Diop: the social sciences, humanities, physical and natural sciences and transdisciplinarity |
Author: | Nabudere, Dani Wadada |
Year: | 2007 |
Periodical: | International Journal of African Renaissance Studies |
Volume: | 2 |
Issue: | 1 |
Pages: | 6-34 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Subsaharan Africa Egypt |
Subjects: | African culture Antiquity cultural history epistemology |
About person: | Cheikh Anta Diop (1923-1986) |
External link: | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/18186870701384269 |
Abstract: | This article presents a critical exposition of the contributions of Cheikh Anta Diop to a scientific understanding of ancient African history, race, and the study of culture. It sets out the history of Diop's successful struggle against flawed Eurocentric scholarship which sought to deny the contributions of ancient black Egyptians to world civilization. Diop's intellectual odyssey across physics, linguistics, through anthropology, ethnology, genetics and history is recounted here to demonstrate the limitations of mono, inter, and multidisciplinarity and clearly identifies him as a pioneer of transdisciplinarity in the field of knowledge production. Bibliogr., sum. [Journal abstract] |