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History

Cheikh Anta Diop: Visionary scholar

July 20, 2018

Anthropologist, historian, specialist in nuclear physics and passionate about linguistics, the Senegalese scholar Cheikh Anta Diop laid the foundation for finally writing the history of Africa without racist prejudices.

https://p.dw.com/p/31pyT

Tamara Wackernagel, Mamadou Lamine Ba and Philipp Sandner contributed to this package. It is part of DW's special series "African Roots", dedicated to African history, a cooperation with the Gerda Henkel Foundation.