Africa can and will only advance through African integration, which can be realized through the Federal United States of Africa
Cheikh Anta DiopAncient Egypt was a Negro Civilization. The history of Black Africa will remain suspended in air and cannot be written correctly until African historians dare to connect it with the history of Egypt.
Cheikh Anta DiopThe generation that followed did not have the same concerns; none of its members attempted to follow the example of the past generation. There was no longer anyone with the noble determination to get to know the great men of the world, or if there were some individuals consumed with this curiosity, they were few in number. From then on, there remained only vulgar minds given over to hatred, envy and discord, who took an interest only in things which did not concern them, gossip, slander, calumny of one's neighbors, all those things which are the source of the worst of our troubles.
Cheikh Anta DiopIntellectuals ought to study the past not for the pleasure they find in so doing, but to derive lessons from it.
Cheikh Anta Diop