The One Truth Amidst a Realm of Falsehoods

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The One Truth Amidst a Realm of Falsehoods

• A Presentation on Cheikh Anta Diop and the legacy
  of his work, beliefs, and ideals.
  
• By DeLandis K. Brooks

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Main goals of this presentation
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Who is Cheikh Anta Diop?

• Born on December 29, 1923 in Diourbel, Senegal.
• A well renowned scholar as well as a
  groundbreaking scientist whose scientific methods
  are still being widely used to this day.
  
• Like many other conscious members of the African
  population, Diop was an avid political activist.
  
• Passed away on February 7, 1986.

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Insight into Diops early life, trials, and
tribulations.

• Studied Physics at the prestigious University of
  Paris, Sorbonne in the country of France.
  

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Insight into Diops early life, trials, and
tribulations(contd)

• While studying in France, Diop held a position as
  Secretary General of the Rassemblement
  Democratique Africaine (RAD) from 1950 - 1953, a
  political group dedicated to the liberation of
  the African peoples from outside the walls of the
  motherland.

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Insight into Diops early life, trials and
tribulations(contd)

• In 1951, Diop helped to establish the very first
  Pan-African Student Congress in the city of
  Paris, a group of students dedicated to lifting
  the shackles of colonialism that existed in
  Africans and the African people dispersed
  globally.

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Insight into Diops early life, trials, and
tribulations(contd)

• In 1951, Diop applied for his initial doctorate
  with a dissertation based on the premise that
  Ancient Egypt of the pharaohs was without a doubt
  an African civilization contrary to the stories
  many were told of the history of Ancient Egypt.

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Physical and historical evidence of the truth..

• Narmer (or menes), the first pharaoh of Egypt. He
  unified upper and lower Egypt for the first time.
  From this picture you can tell that he is
  unquestionably African.

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Physical and historical evidence of the
truth(contd)

• Protohistorical figure of Lord Tera Neter, of the
  Negro Anu race, who were the first inhabitants of
  Egypt.

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Physical and historical evidence of the
truth(contd)

• Mycerinus of the Fourth Dynasty. Built the Giza
  Pyramid. Unquestionably African.

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Physical and historical evidence of the
truth(contd)

• Pharaoh Mentuhotep. Founder of the Eleventh
  Dynasty. (circa 2100 B.C.)

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Physical and historical evidence of the
truth(contd)

• Pharaoh Sesostris I (Twelfth Dynasty)

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Physical and historical evidence of the
truth(contd)

• Pharaoh Ramses II(left) and a modern
  Watusi(right). The Watusi hairstyle can only be
  achieved with wooly hair. The small circles that
  appear on the statue would indicate the wooliness
  of the Pharaohs hair himself.

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Physical and historical evidence of the
truth(contd)

• Queen Ahmes Nefertari(left/middle) and modern
  African woman(right).
  

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Physical and historical evidence of the
truth(contd)

• The Great Sphinx as the first French scientific
  mission found it in the nineteenth century. This
  statue is not Greek or Semitic. It is said to
  have been modeled for Pharaoh Chephren (2600
  B.C., Fourth Dynasty) who built the second Giza
  pyramid.

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Scientific evidence of the truth.

• Diop did not stop there, however, he also
  invented a scientific method of determining the
  melanin content of mummified and badly burnt
  deceased peoples called, Radiocarbon dating. It
  is with this test that Diop proved without a
  doubt that the Ancient Egyptians were
  unquestionably dark skinned Africans, contrary to
  what we are told or believe.

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More trials and tribulations..

• With all of this information as proof of a stolen
  legacy, Diops initial doctoral dissertation was
  turned down in 1951 and it was not until 1960,
  after the publication in 1955 of his doctorate
  as, Nations Negres et Culture won him
  international acclaim, and after numerous
  additional attempts that he was finally granted
  his doctorate degree.

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What does all this mean?

• Frederich Hegel, the German philosopher who
  claimed that Africans had no ability to reason,
  obviously had no idea what he was talking about,
  which dispels the myth that Africans played no
  part in the age of reason or had no ability to
  reason. Contrary to what Hegel claims, Diop has
  proved, if anything, that Africans were the
  catalysts that helped to spawn development and
  reason.

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Impact on the scientific and international
community.

• In 1966, the First World Black Festival of Arts
  and Culture held in Dakar, Senegal honored Dr.
  Diop and W.E.B. Dubois as the scholars who
  contributed most to the influence on African
  thought in the 20th century.

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Impact on the scientific and international
community(contd)

• In 1961, six years after Nations Negre et
  Culture was published by Diop, anthropologists
  all over the world began flocking to Africa
  looking for remains of the earliest humans which
  the Leakey family did find. The remains of the
  oldest humanoid(3.2 million years) where found in
  Africa and the Leakeys named her Lucy.

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Impact on the scientific and international
community(contd)

• The scientific method founded by Diop is still
  being widely used throughout the world by
  scientists and police forensic labs to identify
  the remains of badly burnt victims of homicide.

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Diops thoughts on Pan-Africanism..

• I want my accomplishments, our accomplishments
  to be known so that through the cultural unity of
  the African peoples dispersed globally, we as a
  people can finally liberate ourselves with the
  power of our minds.

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Thank you for your time

• This concludes my presentation..THE END.