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'''Théophile Obenga''' is a professor emeritus, formerly at [[San Francisco State University]], in the [[Africana Studies]] Center. |
'''Théophile Obenga''' is a professor emeritus, formerly at [[San Francisco State University]], in the [[Africana Studies]] Center. |
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He was born in [[Brazzaville]], [[Republic of the Congo]]. |
He was born in 1936 in [[Brazzaville]], [[Republic of the Congo]]. |
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Obenga is a proponent of [[Pan-Africanism]] and has advocated a number of theories such as a "Negro-Egyptian langugage" family including all [[languages of Africa]]. |
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Obenga's theories are rejected in mainstream scholarship as politically motivated [[pseudolinguistics]].<ref>''L'argument linguistique chez Cheikh Anta Diop et ses disciples'', Pp79-102, éd Karthala, Paris 2000. |
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.Henry Tourneux, [http://www.politique-africaine.com/numeros/pdf/055153.pdf Les langues africaines et l'égyptien]</ref><ref>" A theory elaborated by Rev. Trilles (1912, 1931) in the early 20th century claims an Egyptian origin for the Fang population, its language and its culture on the basis of its oral tradition, and several linguistic, cultural and physical traits. This theory has become very popular, especially among Black African scholars, and often takes a strong ideological dimension as it accuses (white) Egyptologists of falsifying ancient History. It suffers, however, from important methodological and theoretical weaknesses. Cheikh Anta Diop and Théophile Obenga are the main representatives of this school of thought. Similar claims have been made by other Bantu-speaking populations (cf. Basaá, A43a). (…) Guthrie (1948), Hombert & al. (1989) and Medjo Mvé (1997) have shown that Fang presents all the traits of a regular Bantu language. There is absolutely no evidence of a non-Bantu substratum." Patrick Mouguiama-Daouda, Jean-Marie Hombert, Lolke Van der Veen, « Aspects of linguistic diversity in western Central Africa » Laboratoire “Dynamique du Langage”, UMR 5596, Lyon [http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/projects/ Languages-and-Genes/poster/VanderVeenAbstract.pdf -]</ref>. |
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==Work== |
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Obenga contributed as part of the United Nations Educational and Scientific Cultural Organization (UNESCO) program, to the writing of the General History of Africa and the Scientific and Cultural History of Humanity. He was, until the end of 1991, Director General of the [[Centre International des Civilisations Bantu]] (CICIBA) in Libreville, Gabon. He is the Director and Chief Editor of the journal Ankh. |
Obenga contributed as part of the United Nations Educational and Scientific Cultural Organization (UNESCO) program, to the writing of the General History of Africa and the Scientific and Cultural History of Humanity. He was, until the end of 1991, Director General of the [[Centre International des Civilisations Bantu]] (CICIBA) in Libreville, Gabon. He is the Director and Chief Editor of the journal Ankh. |
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Théophile Obenga is a professor emeritus, formerly at San Francisco State University, in the Africana Studies Center. He was born in 1936 in Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo.
Obenga is a proponent of Pan-Africanism and has advocated a number of theories such as a "Negro-Egyptian langugage" family including all languages of Africa. Obenga's theories are rejected in mainstream scholarship as politically motivated pseudolinguistics.[1][2].
Work
Obenga contributed as part of the United Nations Educational and Scientific Cultural Organization (UNESCO) program, to the writing of the General History of Africa and the Scientific and Cultural History of Humanity. He was, until the end of 1991, Director General of the Centre International des Civilisations Bantu (CICIBA) in Libreville, Gabon. He is the Director and Chief Editor of the journal Ankh.
From January 28 to February 3, 1974 at Cairo, Egypt, Obenga accompanied Cheikh Anta Diop as Africa’s representatives to the UNESCO symposium on “The Peopling of Ancient Egypt and the Deciphering of the Meroitic Script.” This meeting remains one of the single most important and famous defenses of African intellectual and historical integrity in the modern era, and, according to Obenga's and Diop's followers, affirmed the African origin of Egyptian civilization.
Obenga’s most recent work is African Philosophy: the Pharaonic period 2780-330 B.C.
Obenga is a former professor at San Francisco State University, in the Africana Studies Center. [3]
Obenga worked with Diop and helped encourage academic interest in Classical African Civilization. He also served as Congo's Minister of Foreign Affairs in several governments .
Degrees
Obenga has obtained a wide range of degrees, which include:
- M.A. in Philosophy (University of Bordeaux, France)
- M.Ed. (University of Pittsburgh, U.S.A.)
- M.A. in History (University of Paris, Sorbonne)
- Advanced studies in History, Linguistics, and Egyptology (University of Geneva, Switzerland); in Prehistory (Institut de Paléontologie Humaine, Paris), and in Linguistics, Philology, and Egyptology (University of Paris, Sorbonne, and College de France).
Bibliography
- L’Afrique dans l’Antiquité – Égypte ancienne – Afrique noire, Paris, Présence Africaine, 1973.
- Introduction à la connaissance du peuple de la République Populaire du Congo, Brazzaville, Librairies Populaires, 1973.
- Afrique centrale précoloniale – Documents d’histoire vivante, Paris, Présence Africaine, 1974.
- La Cuvette Congolaise. Les hommes et les structures. Contribution à l’histoire traditionnelle de l’Afrique centrale, Paris, Présence Africaine, 1976.
- Le Zaïre, Civilisations traditionnelles et Culture moderne (Archives culturelles d’Afrique centrale), Paris, Présence Africaine, 1977.
- La vie de Marien Ngouabi 1938-1977, Paris, Présence Africaine, 1977.
- Stèles pour l’avenir (poèmes), Paris, Présence Africaine, 1978.
- Pour une Nouvelle Histoire, essai, Paris, Présence Africaine, 1980.
- La dissertation historique en Afrique. A l’usage des étudiants de Première Année d’Université, Dakar, NEA, Paris, Présence Africaine, 1980.
- Sur le chemin des hommes. Essai sur la poésie négro-africaine, Paris, Présence Africaine, 1984.
- Littérature traditionnelle des Mbochi. Etsee le Yamba, Paris, Présence Africaine, 1984.
- Les Bantu, Langues-Peuples-Civilisations, Paris, Présence Africaine, 1985.
- Discours et écrits politiques de Jacques Opangault, Paris, Présence Africaine, 1987.
- Astres si longtemps. Poèmes en Sept Chants, Paris, Présence Africaine, 1988, Collection : Poésie.
- La Philosophie africaine de la période pharaonique – 2780-330 avant notre ère, Paris, L’Harmattan, 1990.
- Ancient Egypt and Black Africa: A Student's Handbook for the Study of Ancient Egypt in Philosophy, Linguistics and Gender Relations, Edited by Amon Saba SAAKANA, Londres, Karnak House, 1992.
- Origine commune de l'égyptien ancien, du copte et des langues négro-africaines modernes – Introduction à la linguistique historique africaine, Paris, L’Harmattan, 1993.
- La Géométrie égyptienne – Contribution de l'Afrique antique à la mathématique mondiale, Paris, L’Harmattan / Khepera, 1995.
- Cheikh Anta Diop, Volney et le Sphinx – Contribution de Cheikh Anta Diop à l'historiographie mondiale, Paris, Présence Africaine / Khepera, 1996.
- L’histoire sanglante du Congo-Brazzaville (1959-1997)– Diagnostic d’une mentalité politique africaine, Paris, Présence Africaine, 1998.
- Pour le Congo-Brazzaville – Réflexions et propositions, Paris, L’Harmattan, 2001, Collection : Études Africaines.
- Le sens de la lutte contre l’africanisme eurocentriste, Paris, Khepera / L'Harmattan, 2001.
- L’UNIVERSITÉ AFRICAINE dans le cadre de l’Union Africaine, Paris, Pyramide Papyrus Presse, 2003, Collection : Narmer.
- African Philosophy – The Pharaonic Period: 2780-330 BC, Dakar, Per Ankh, 2004. (Traduction de l’ouvrage La Philosophie africaine de la période pharaonique 2780-330 avant notre ère, Paris, L’Harmattan, 1990).
- L’Égypte, la Grèce et l’école d’Alexandrie – Histoire interculturelle dans l’Antiquité – Aux sources égyptiennes de la philosophie grecque, Paris, Khepera / L’Harmattan, 2005.
Notes
- ^ L'argument linguistique chez Cheikh Anta Diop et ses disciples, Pp79-102, éd Karthala, Paris 2000. .Henry Tourneux, Les langues africaines et l'égyptien
- ^ " A theory elaborated by Rev. Trilles (1912, 1931) in the early 20th century claims an Egyptian origin for the Fang population, its language and its culture on the basis of its oral tradition, and several linguistic, cultural and physical traits. This theory has become very popular, especially among Black African scholars, and often takes a strong ideological dimension as it accuses (white) Egyptologists of falsifying ancient History. It suffers, however, from important methodological and theoretical weaknesses. Cheikh Anta Diop and Théophile Obenga are the main representatives of this school of thought. Similar claims have been made by other Bantu-speaking populations (cf. Basaá, A43a). (…) Guthrie (1948), Hombert & al. (1989) and Medjo Mvé (1997) have shown that Fang presents all the traits of a regular Bantu language. There is absolutely no evidence of a non-Bantu substratum." Patrick Mouguiama-Daouda, Jean-Marie Hombert, Lolke Van der Veen, « Aspects of linguistic diversity in western Central Africa » Laboratoire “Dynamique du Langage”, UMR 5596, Lyon Languages-and-Genes/poster/VanderVeenAbstract.pdf -
- ^ Department of Africana Studies at San Francisco State University
References
"Department of Africana Studies at San Francisco State University"