2023-12-24 00:28:57
Dakar, Dec 23 (APS) – The multidisciplinary approach of Senegalese scholar Cheikh Anta Diop must be advocated as part of the project to reconstruct African history with a view to achieving a more human and more open form of civilization, said Friday the Senegalese political scientist Aziz Salmone Fall.
”We must see how to use the multidisciplinary approach of the work of Cheikh Anta Diop in the reconstruction of our history to move towards another form of civilization that is much more human and open,” said Mr. Fall during a panel organized on the occasion of the celebration of the centenary of Cheikh Anta Diop.
Professor Fall, who spoke on the theme ”The few issues and advances in the wake of Seex Anta Joob and relevant for the world system and pan-Africanism in the 21st century”, during a panel believes that it is necessary to teach the work of Cheikh Anta Diop in all its dimension.
He recommended using the multidisciplinary approach of the Senegalese scholar “to get off the beaten track and move towards the creation of the United States of Africa or something that would get Africans out of unfavorable integration into globalization”.
”It requires another type of science, another type of higher education. But also teach in our national languages in order to arm young people in science, as Cheikh Anta Diop said,” continued Aziz Salmone Fall.
To popularize the approach of the scholar Cheikh Anta Diop, he invited young people ”to appropriate his thoughts by reading his work”.
“We must ensure that our books are accessible and free,” he argued.
”What remains for us to do is to continue his humanist and rationalist work. This will be the best way to pay him all the tribute we owe him,” responded, for his part, Dr Diallo Diop, teacher-researcher and Senegalese politician.
For teacher-researcher Diallo Diop, all of Cheikh Anta Diop’s work is off the beaten track, in other words, academicism.
Mamarame Seck, teacher-researcher at the Fundamental Institute of Black Africa, returned during the panel to the work of Professor Cheikh Anta Diop with regard to African languages.
“The work of the founder of the Carbone 14 laboratory on African languages is far from complete (…) it is up to the young generation of African linguists to continue research on the Negro-African origin of ancient Egyptian (…) by adding to the comparative method the study of the historical evolution of words taking into account linguistic laws,” suggested Mamarame Seck.
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