Theophile Obenga

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Theophile Obenga is a Congolese Egyptologist, linguist, and historian known for his Afrocentric scholarship on the African origins of ancient Egyptian civilization and African cultural unity.

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instanceOf Egyptologist
linguist
person
university professor
academicDegree PhD in history
PhD in linguistics
birthCountry Republic of the Congo
birthDate 1936-02-02
birthPlace Mbaya
citizenship Republic of the Congo
collaboratedWith Cheikh Anta Diop
continentOfCitizenship Africa
educatedAt University of Bordeaux
University of Geneva
University of Paris
employer Marien Ngouabi University
San Francisco State University
familyName Obenga
fieldOfWork African history
Afrocentric studies
linked to: Afrocentrism

Egyptology
historical linguistics
philosophy of history
gender male
givenName Théophile
influenced Afrocentric historiography
influencedBy Cheikh Anta Diop
knownFor Afrocentric scholarship
comparative study of ancient Egyptian and African languages
research on African origins of ancient Egyptian civilization
work on African cultural unity
languageOfWorkOrName English
French
Lingala
livingStatus living person
movement Afrocentrism
name Théophile Obenga
linked to: Theophile Obenga
nationality Congolese
notableWork Ancient Egypt and Black Africa
La philosophie africaine de la période pharaonique
L’Afrique dans l’Antiquité
Origine commune de l’égyptien, du copte et des langues négro-africaines
participatedIn UNESCO symposium on the peopling of ancient Egypt and the deciphering of the Meroitic script (Cairo, 1974)
positionHeld director of the Center for Egyptology at Marien Ngouabi University
theory ancient Egyptian civilization has Black African origins
ancient Egyptian is an African language related to other Black African languages

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Afrocentrism hasProponent Theophile Obenga
Cheikh Anta Diop influenced Theophile Obenga
Théophile Obenga name Théophile Obenga
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linked to: Theophile Obenga