Cheikh Anta Diop on the Contributions of Africa to Mathematics Archimedes is generally considered to be the greatest mathematician of antiquity and one of the greatest of all time. Archimedes, a Greek who studied his craft in Alexandria, Egypt, lived from 287 BC – c. 212 BC., and is credited with (1) discovering the area and tangents to the curve traced by a point moving with uniform speed along a straight line which is revolving...
Reflections on Civilization or Barbarism: An Authentic Anthropology by Cheikh Anta Diop In Civilization or Barbarism, Cheikh Anta Diop offers an intelligent and fact-based reinterpretation of the false doctrines put forth by white European racists in the 19th century. The false beliefs that Egypt was a white civilization, and that Black civilization has failed to contribute to the collective knowledge base of humanity is effectively countered with linguistic, historical and archeological evidence that points...