The ancient Egyptians were Negroes. The moral fruit of thei… - Cheikh Anta Diop

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The ancient Egyptians were Negroes. The moral fruit of their civilization is to be counted among the assets of the Black world.

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Cheikh Anta Diop (29 December 1923 – 7 February 1986) was a Senegalese historian, anthropologist, physicist, and politician who studied the human race's origins and pre-colonial African culture.

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Instead of presenting itself to history as an insolvent debtor, that Black world is the very initiator of the "western" civilization flaunted before our eyes today.

Ancient Egypt was a Negro civilization.

Pythagorean mathematics, the theory of the four elements of Thales of Miletus, Epicurean materialism, Platonic idealism, Judaism, Islam, and modern science are rooted in Egyptian cosmogony and science.

The ancient Egyptians were Negroes. The moral fruit of their civilization is to be counted among the assets of the Black world. - Cheikh Anta Diop

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