Theophile obenga biography of williams death

By Dr. Josef Ben Levi. Presented by Omni-U Virtual University. Ancestor Dr. Cheikh Anta Diop.

Diop africa

During his youth, he attended elementary school in Diourbel and high school in Dakar, Senegal. Diop then traveled to Paris, France for completion of his advanced degrees. He obtained his doctorates, after much difficulty and controversy, from the University Sorbonne in Paris and then returned to Dakar to further his scientific knowledge at the Radiocarbon Laboratory of the Fundamental Institute of Black Africa I.

Diop is best known for his writings on classical African civilizations and his contributions to the physical sciences. This scientific institute took four years to complete. It became functional in with the aim of establishing a low-energy radioactivity research program and chronological dating system for African antiquity.

Diop and obenga

Diop spent a lot of time working and experimenting in his laboratory. Because of his outspoken political views and activities against the government of Leopold Senghor, he was never allowed to teach. He became one of the very few Africans with access to some of the most advanced scientific knowledge available at that time. This background is esantial to our assessment of his contribution to African historical knowledge.

He believed in using a pluridisciplinary approach,i. This vital research led to a publication entitled "The Pigmentation of then Ancient Egyptians: Test by melanin Analysis".