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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| Label | Occurrences |
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| Theophile Obenga canonical | 1 |
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| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
Egyptologist
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linguist ⓘ person ⓘ university professor ⓘ |
| academicDegree |
PhD in history
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PhD in linguistics ⓘ |
| birthCountry | Republic of the Congo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1936-02-02 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Mbaya NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| citizenship | Republic of the Congo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith | Cheikh Anta Diop NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| continentOfCitizenship | Africa ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
University of Bordeaux
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University of Geneva NERFINISHED ⓘ University of Paris NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer |
Marien Ngouabi University
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San Francisco State University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Obenga NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
African history
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Afrocentric studies NERFINISHED ⓘ Egyptology ⓘ historical linguistics ⓘ philosophy of history ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Théophile NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenced | Afrocentric historiography ⓘ |
| influencedBy | Cheikh Anta Diop NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Afrocentric scholarship
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comparative study of ancient Egyptian and African languages ⓘ research on African origins of ancient Egyptian civilization ⓘ work on African cultural unity ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
English
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French ⓘ Lingala NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| livingStatus | living person ⓘ |
| movement | Afrocentrism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Théophile Obenga NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | Congolese ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Ancient Egypt and Black Africa
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La philosophie africaine de la période pharaonique NERFINISHED ⓘ L’Afrique dans l’Antiquité NERFINISHED ⓘ Origine commune de l’égyptien, du copte et des langues négro-africaines NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| participatedIn | UNESCO symposium on the peopling of ancient Egypt and the deciphering of the Meroitic script (Cairo, 1974) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | director of the Center for Egyptology at Marien Ngouabi University ⓘ |
| theory |
ancient Egyptian civilization has Black African origins
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ancient Egyptian is an African language related to other Black African languages ⓘ |
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