Towards the African Renaissance: Essays in African Culture and Development, 1946-1960 Paperback

Towards the African Renaissance Essays on African Culture & Development 1946-1960 This book is a collection of prophetic articles written by Cheikh Anta Diop, the canonised ancestor, whose vision encompassed the future of Africa, and his prescriptions were offered in a programmatic format. Guided by the earth sciences in his approach, he surveys the necessity of African governments to redirect their energies in scientific research and programmes such as the harnessing of nuclear energy. He iterates the vast mineral resources of Africa country by country and projects that the utilisation of these resources for national development should be the foundation upon which Africa's future is assured or guaranteed. Cheikh Anta Diop, in the academic arena, was decades ahead of his contemporaries. He persistently wrote and spoke of an African Renaissance which was fundamental to Kemet in its remodelling of itself by looking at the currents of energies from its formation. Dip utilised his deep scientific training, along with the thirteen languages he understood, read or spoke, his vast and diverse readings of and interactions with African culture and civilisations, prepared him for the triumph at the 1974 Cairo Conference, from which all modern Euro-Western Egyptologists today have shown abundant evidence to confirm the African identity of the Ancient Kemites. This book is a living testimony of his profound immersion in African Renaissance ideas and their exposure.