Challenging western societal beliefs, this volume rethinks African and world history from an Afrocentric perspective. Diop offers a critical challenge to orthodox scholarships’s interpretation of Egypt as a white civilization, which arose in the 19th century to reinforce European racismand imperialism. amassing evidence from linguistic to the archeaological , from the historical to the philosophical he demonstrates that Egypt was a Black civilizatioin. Moreover Greek civilization the birthplace of Western thought owes a substantial debt to Egyptian ideas and accomplishments

author; Cheikh Anta Diop

Publisher; Lawrence Hill Books

ISBN; 9781556520488