ANTHROPOLOGIST

Cheikh Anta Diop

1923 - 1986

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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. Diop's work is considered foundational to the theory of Afrocentricity, though he himself never described himself as an Afrocentrist. The questions he posed about cultural bias in scientific research contributed greatly to the postcolonial turn in the study of African civilizations. Diop argued that there was a shared cultural continuity across African people that was more important than the varied development of different ethnic groups shown by differences among languages and cultures over time. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Cheikh Anta Diop is the 37th most popular anthropologist (down from 22nd in 2019), the 10th most popular biography from Senegal (down from 9th in 2019) and the most popular Senegalese Anthropologist.

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS

Among anthropologists, Cheikh Anta Diop ranks 37 out of 93. Before him are Fredrik Barth, Richard Leakey, Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring, Henry Fairfield Osborn, Franco Basaglia, and Pierre Clastres. After him are Marcel Griaule, David Graeber, Mikhail Mikhaylovich Gerasimov, Edwin H. Colbert, John Lloyd Stephens, and Georges Vacher de Lapouge.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Cheikh Anta Diop ranks 148. Before him are Svetozar Gligorić, Achille Silvestrini, Estelle Getty, Inge Morath, Lindsay Anderson, and Onofre Marimón. After him are Carl Djerassi, Gerda van der Kade-Koudijs, Peter Lawford, Wes Montgomery, Harrison Dillard, and Albert Vanhoye. Among people deceased in 1986, Cheikh Anta Diop ranks 104. Before him are Dick Scobee, Léopold Szondi, Oscar Zariski, Moderato Wisintainer, Phil Lynott, and Elisabeth Bergner. After him are Michael, Prince of Montenegro, Jacques Henri Lartigue, Gardner Fox, Ilmari Salminen, Thierry Sabine, and Scatman Crothers.

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In Senegal

Among people born in Senegal, Cheikh Anta Diop ranks 10 out of 138. Before him are Abdou Diouf (1935), Patrick Vieira (1976), Youssou N'Dour (1959), Ousmane Sembène (1923), Ali Dia (1965), and Macky Sall (1961). After him are Mariama Bâ (1929), Amadou-Mahtar M'Bow (1921), Sadio Mané (1992), Lamine Diack (1933), Patrice Evra (1981), and Jean-Pierre Adams (1948).

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS In Senegal

Among anthropologists born in Senegal, Cheikh Anta Diop ranks 1. 

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