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In the scholarly world of Afrocentrism, it is the name, as well as the scholarship of Cheikh Anta Diop not Joseph Antenor Firmin, that evokes racial pride and historical vindication in debunking Eurocentrism and white supremacist intellectual dogma by substantiating the claim that the ancient Egyptians along with their great civilization were Blacks, Africans not whites, Europeans. Yet, the Black African origin of the ancient Egyptians and their spectacular civilization was first propounded by Firmin, not Diop. However, within the intellectual realm of African-centered scholarship and Egyptology, it is the name of Cheikh Anta Diop along with his scholarship that is popularized and better known than the name and scholarship of Joseph Antenor Firmin. But why? The aim of this chapter is to probe deeply into that question while exploring and analyzing comparatively the lives, times, and scholarly works of Joseph Antenor Firmin and Cheikh Anta Diop specifically pertaining to the Black African origin of the ancient Egyptians and their civilization. |
