1st Edition

Cheikh Anta Diop’s Transdisciplinary Legacy Impacts on Contemporary Africology

Edited By Victor Oguejiofor Okafor Copyright 2026
296 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

296 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book highlights the transdisciplinary legacy of Cheikh Anta Diop’s epistemology, demonstrating its continuing impact on contemporary Africology, which is also known as Black Studies. Diop’s works in the second half of the 20th century were foundational to the discipline of Africology. Exposing a stain of cultural and racial bias in Eurocentric Egyptology, Diop argued that ancient Egyptian... Read more

Foreword

Niyi Coker, Jr.

Introduction

Cheikh Anta Diop’s Transdisciplinary Legacy: Impacts on Contemporary Africology

Victor Oguejiofor Okafor

 

Chapter 2

The Global Scope of Africology & The Imperative of a Grounding in the Visions of the Founding Fathers & Mothers

Victor Oguejiofor Okafor

 

Chapter 3

A Diopian Transdisciplinary assessment of the implications & applicability to the Diaspora of an African Ancestral Studies program of study in Higher Education

Victor Oguejiofor Okafor

 

Chapter 4

An African Foundation for Science: A Diopian Narrative of Recovery

Molefi Kete Asante

 

Chapter 5

Theories and Principles in Africalogical Conception; the Pedagogy of Ubuntu and Ma’at 

Clarence George III

 

Chapter 6

Diopian Epistemology, Africology, and the Necessity of Establishing a Paradigmatic Shift from Race Ideology to a Culturally Liberatory Model

Louis Walee

 

Chapter 7

Cheikh Anta Diop, Black Studies, and the Gift of an African Usable Past

Ama Mazama

 

Chapter 8

Black and African: Kemetic Origins of Performance, Ritual Theater and the Choreopoem

Kimmika Williams-Witherspoon

 

Chapter 9

Re-defining African Womanism as Afrocentric Theory: Voicing Maat

Nah Dove

 

Chapter 10

Osiris in the form of Cheikh Anta Diop: What does it mean to be a king?

Asar Imhotep

 

 

Chapter 11

Health and Spiritualism; An Africological Perspective

Christian Ehiobuche

 

Chapter 12

Translation A Cultural Ting! An Exercise in Pan-Afrikan Translation

Talawa Adodo

 

Chapter 13

The Cultural Basis and Necessity for Pan-Afrikan Unity in the Context of Intellectual Warfare Today!

Kimoni Yaw Ajani (Formerly Wilbert St. Hilaire)

 

Chapter 14

Being Black in White America: An Afrocentric Examination of “Black Lives Matter” in W. E. B. Du Bois’s The Problem of the Colorline

Chinedu Ikpemaraeziokwu Agbo

 

Chapter 15

Artificial Intelligence Conundrum: An Afrocentric Perspective

Christian Ehiobuche

 

Chapter 16

The Conclusion

Victor Oguejiofor Okafor

 

Biography

Victor Oguejiofor Okafor is a professor in the Department of Africology and African American Studies at Eastern Michigan University. He holds a PhD in Africology and African American Studies from Temple University, a Master of Public Affairs from Indiana University, and a BA also from Indiana University.