Intro to Africana Studies-Cheikh Anta Diop and Black Scholars

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2. Egypt is a Greek word meaning “Black.”
The Egyptians of the Bible were Negroid.
The Bible says both Egyptians and Ethiopians are descendants of Ham.
Arabs invaded Egypt in the 7th Century AD; Remember, Egypt wasn't invaded
by Rome until 300 BC. The Bible dates 4000 BC.
Therefore, Arabs have no more connection to Ancient Egypt than Europeans
have to Ancient America.
Egyptian is an Afro-Asiatic language. (AFRO, AFRO)
The national language of modern day Egypt is Egyptian Arabic, which gradually
replaced Coptic. (Coptic--Ethiopia)
Black Egyptians were eventually mixed with invading Libyans, Persians,
Greeks, Romans, Turks, Arabs and Western Europeans. That is where the
mixed people of the modern-day Arabs come from.
Source:The Black Egyptians--Original Settlers of Kemet
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3. The following is supporting evidence from
The African Origin of Civilization:
By Cheikh Anta Diop
The Black Egyptians--Original Settlers of Kemet
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4. 1) Evidence from
Physical Anthropology
The skeletons and skulls of the Ancient Egyptians clearly
reflect they were Negroid people with features very
similar to those of modern Black Nubians and other
people of the Upper Nile and of East Africa.
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5. 2) Melanin Dosage Test
Egyptologist Cheikh Anta Diop invented a method for
determining the level of melanin in the skin of
human beings. When conducted on Egyptian
mummies in the Museum of Man in Paris, this test
indicated these remains were of Black people.
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6. 3) Osteological Evidence
"Lepsius canon," which distinguishes
the bodily proportions of various racial
groups categories the "ideal Egyptian"
as "short-armed and of Negroid or
Negrito physical type."
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7. 4) Evidence From Blood Types
Diop notes that even after hundreds of years
of inter-mixture with foreign invaders, the
blood type of modern Egyptians is the "same
group B as the populations of western Africa
on the Atlantic seaboard and not the A2 Group
characteristic of the white race prior to any
crossbreeding."
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8. 5) The Egyptians as They Saw Themselves
"The Egyptians had only one term to designate
themselves =kmt= the Negroes (literally). This is the
strongest term existing in the Pharaonic tongue to
indicate blackness; it is accordingly written with a
hieroglyph representing a length of wood charred at
the end and not crocodile scales," singular. ‘Kmt’ from
the adjective =kmt= black; it therefore means strictly
Negroes or at the very least black men. The term is a
collective noun which thus described the whole
people of Pharaonic Egypt as a black people."
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9. 6) Divine Epithets
Diop demonstrates that "black or Negro" is the divine
epithet invariably used for the chief beneficent Gods
of Egypt, while the evil spirits were depicted as red.
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10. 7) Evidence From the Bible
The Bible states"…[t]he sons of Ham [were] Cush and
Mizraim [i.e. Egypt], and Phut, and Canaan. And the
sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and
Raamah and Sabtechah." According to Biblical
tradition, Ham, of course, was the father of the Black
race. "Generally speaking all Semitic tradition (Jewish
and Arab) class ancient Egypt with the countries of
the Black."
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11. 8) Cultural unity of Egypt With The Rest of Africa
Through a study of circumcision and totemism. Diop
gives detailed data showing cultural unity between
Egypt and the rest of Africa.
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12. 9) Linguistic Unity With Southern and Western Africa
In a detailed study of languages, Diop clearly
demonstrates that Ancient Egyptian, modern Coptic
of Egypt and Walaf of West Africa are related, with
the latter two having their origin in the former.
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13. 10) Testimony of Classical Greek and Roman Authors
Virtually all of the early Latin eyewitnesses described
the Ancient Egyptians as Black skinned with wooly
hair.
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My dedication:
RBG Afrikan-Centered
Cultural Development and
Education Wikizine
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