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“It is therefore legitimate, that in reading and evaluating black African cosmogonies and thought, we turn toward the Nile valley. By the same token, the discipline of Egyptology will not really reach an understanding of pharaonic civilization, its inner soul and its so-called mysteries, its specific humanity and its originality, the range of its renowned peculiarities and novelties, in short, see the real face of ancient Egypt, until the day it embraces ancient Egypt in its native environment, its original context, that is to say, the black African world, for the obvious reason that “the psychology and culture revealed by the Egyptian texts are identical to those of the black African personality.” So the news is that a history of African philosophy is possible. The catch is that the production of such a history is a particularly exacting task. For it requires nothing less than a fluent knowledge of ancient Egyptian, Greek, Latin and Arab, in addition to mastery of the techniques and methods associated with the history of philosophy. Without Greek, no scholar can acquire a genuine grounding in the Western philosophical tradition. Without ancient Egyptian, the restoration of the authentic tradition of black African philosophy, in its most ancient chronological aspect, its most fundamental manifestation, remains impossible.”

Theophile Obenga
“African Philosophy: The Pharaonic Period: 2780-330BC”
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