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History, linguistics & African epistemologies

Le Laboratoire de radiocarbone de l’IFAN

A defining contribution to African historiography and the debate on how language, history and evidence shape our understanding of Africa. Read the edition record for Le Laboratoire de radiocarbone de l’IFAN and explore its sources.

First published1968

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A defining contribution to African historiography and the debate on how language, history and evidence shape our understanding of Africa. Read the edition record for Le Laboratoire de radiocarbone de l’IFAN and explore its sources.

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Cheikh Anta Diop

Cheikh Anta Diop (1923–1986) crossed disciplinary boundaries that others treated as fixed. He joined historical inquiry to linguistics, Egyptology and the physical sciences, and helped establish radiocarbon research at IFAN in Dakar. In Nations nègres et culture, L’Afrique noire précoloniale and Civilisation ou barbarie, he challenged inherited accounts of Africa’s historical place and argued for a rigorous African contribution to writing world history. His research, debated

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