Dr Cheikh Anta Diop was born into a rich, aristocratic Muslim family in the French colony of Senegal in Africa in 1923. His privileged background ensured that he got a top-class education.

One of the main academic proponents of the view that the ancient Egyptian civilisation was founded by black Africans was the Senegalese historian Cheikh Anta Diop. "Ancient Egypt was a Negro ...

Cheikh Anta Diop nous a quittés il y a tout juste vingt-cinq ans. Pour lui rendre hommage, jeuneafrique.com réédite un article du regretté Siradiou Diallo, publié dans le J.A. n° 1316 (daté ...

Mati Diop speaks on her documentary “Dahomey,” which explores the concept of restitution through the story of 26 artifacts ...

Ibrahima Seck, the director of research at the Whitney Plantation and a historian at University Cheikh Anta Diop in Dakar, Senegal, said that every plantation the size of Winchester's would have ...

"Scarpetta," the upcoming Prime Video show based on Patricia Cornwell's book series, will star Tiya Sircar, Anna Diop, Graham ...

Shirley Maclaine tells us all about her legendary life, filmmaker Mati Diop speaks on her new doc “Dahomey,” and André ...

Based on Patricia Cornwell’s best-selling book series, Scarpetta follows Kay Scarpetta (Kidman), Chief Medical Examiner, as ...

“And, once you’ve gone, you can’t come back.” While beginning to shoot the film, in 2009, Diop saw Dakar anew on rides with a beloved cousin, Cheikh Mbaye. “We spent our time exploring the city on his ...

Her first feature since 2019’s rather startling magical-neo-colonial melodrama, Atlantics, Diop’s doc leaves much unsaid for ...

Advertisement Article continues below this ad “Wolof is on the rise because Senegalese people want to be seen,” said Adjaratou Sall, professor of Linguistics at the Cheikh Anta Diop University ...

Mati Diop’s second feature film shares elements, interests, and a distinctive restlessness with her 2019 debut Atlantics, though it falls, however unconventionally, within the realm of documentary. It ...