Book contents
- African Literature in Transition
- African Literature in Transition
- African Literature in Transition
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Sources
- Part II Memories
- Chapter 6 Black Antiquity
- Chapter 7 Imagining Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade in the Works of African Writers
- Chapter 8 The Colonial Encounter
- Chapter 9 Arab Traces in Coastal Eastern Africa
- Chapter 10 Recalling Colonialism in North Africa
- Chapter 11 In the Name of God
- Chapter 12 Aestheticizing and Archiving the Women’s War of 1929 and the 1949 Women’s March on the Grand-Bassam Prison
- Chapter 13 Queer Pasts
- Chapter 14 Liberation Struggles
- Chapter 15 The Archival Impulse in African Fictions of Civil Strife
- Part III Maps
- Index
- References
Chapter 6 - Black Antiquity
from Part II - Memories
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 31 October 2025
Book contents
- African Literature in Transition
- African Literature in Transition
- African Literature in Transition
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Sources
- Part II Memories
- Chapter 6 Black Antiquity
- Chapter 7 Imagining Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade in the Works of African Writers
- Chapter 8 The Colonial Encounter
- Chapter 9 Arab Traces in Coastal Eastern Africa
- Chapter 10 Recalling Colonialism in North Africa
- Chapter 11 In the Name of God
- Chapter 12 Aestheticizing and Archiving the Women’s War of 1929 and the 1949 Women’s March on the Grand-Bassam Prison
- Chapter 13 Queer Pasts
- Chapter 14 Liberation Struggles
- Chapter 15 The Archival Impulse in African Fictions of Civil Strife
- Part III Maps
- Index
- References
Summary
When Cheikh Anta Diop suggested, in 1951, that ancient Egypt had been a black civilization, this was the start of a lifelong commitment to researching, arguing, and defending this idea. His work has since opened up and provided contexts for discussions dating back to antiquity, controversially pushing back against long-held, sometimes wrong-headed imperial notions such as that Western philosophy began in Greece. He seeks to recenter and restore meaning to an Africa uniquely severed from precolonial origins.
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- African Literature in TransitionThe Archive of African Literature, 1800–2000, pp. 95 - 109Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2025
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