The African Origin of Civilization

This chapter by chapter review of Cheikh Anta Diop's foundational work, The African Origin of Civilization, offers some perspective here sixty-two years after the bulk of it was first published.  Diop is largely seen as an intellectual giant across the African world family and worked as a physicist, historian, linguist, and Egyptologist. The arguments and evidence presented time and time again still a make a compelling case for the Nile Valley origins of ancient Egyptian Civilization but Civilization at large.