Senegalese Writers

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 29. Chapters: Senegalese historians, Senegalese poets, Senegalese women writers, Phillis Wheatley, Léopold Sédar Senghor, Cheikh Anta Diop, Ousmane Sembène, Mariama Bâ, Lamine Diakhate, Iba Der Thiam, Boubacar Boris Diop, List of Senegalese writers, Fatou Diome, Cheikh Tidiane Gaye, Khady Sylla, Ken Bugul, Sokhna Benga, Alioune Badara Bèye, Ousmane Socé, Birago Diop, Aminata Sow Fall, David Diop, Annette Mbaye d'Erneville, Abdoulaye Sadji, Nafissatou Dia Diouf, Fatou Ndiaye Sow, Cheikh Hamidou Kane, Khadi Fall, Mariama Ndoye, Nafissatou Niang Diallo, Fama Diagne Sène, Jacqueline Fatima Bocoum, Abibatou Traoré, Fatou Niang Siga, Diana Mordasini, Aminata Maïga Ka, Khady Hane, Mame Younousse Dieng. Excerpt: Cheikh Anta Diop (29 December 1923 in Thieytou, Diourbel Region - 7 February 1986 in Dakar) was a historian, anthropologist, physicist,and politician who studied the human race's origins and pre-colonial African culture. He is regarded as an important figure in the development of the Afrocentric viewpoint, in particular for his controversial theory that the Ancient Egyptians were Black Africans. Cheikh Anta Diop University, in Dakar, Senegal is named after him. Diop was born to an aristocratic Muslim Wolof family in Senegal where he was educated in a traditional Islamic school. Diop's family was part of the Mouride sect, the only independent Muslim group in Africa according to Diop. He obtained a bachelor's degree in Senegal before moving to Paris for graduate studies where he ended his scholastic education. In 1946, at the age of 23, Diop went to Paris to become a physicist. He remained there for 15 years, studying physics under Frédéric Joliot-Curie, Marie Curie's son-in-law, and ultimately translating parts of Einstein's Theory of Relativity into his native Wolof. Diop's education included History, Egyptology, Physics, Linguistics, Anthropology, Economics, and Sociology. While studying in Paris, Diop studied under André Aymard, professor of History and later Dean of the Faculty of Letters at the University of Paris through which he "gained an understanding of the Greco-Latin world. As a student of Gaston Bachelard, Frédéric Joliot-Curie, André Leroi-Gourhan, and others" Diop "acquired proficiency in such diverse disciplines as rationalism, dialectics, modern scientific techniques, prehistoric archeology and so on." Diop was also "the only Black African of his generation to have received training as an Egyptologist." "More importantly" he "applied this encyclopedic knowledge to his researches on African history." In 1948 Diop edited with Madeleine Rousseau, a professor of art history, a special edition of the journal Musee vivant, published by the Association popu