THEOPHILE OBENGA ON AFRICAN HISTORY

Théophile Obenga is a professor emeritus, formerly at San Francisco State University, in the Africana Studies Center. He was born in 1936 in Brazzaville, French Equatorial Africa (today in the Republic of the Congo).[citation needed]

Obenga is a proponent of Pan-Africanism and has advocated a number of theories such as a "Negro-Egyptian" language family (négro-égyptien) including all languages of Africa, an approach which he shares with Cheikh Anta Diop

According to his sfsu.edu homepage, Obenga holds a PhD in Letters, Arts and Humanities from Montpellier University, France. He contributed as part of the United Nations Educational and Scientific Cultural Organization (UNESCO) program, to the writing of the General History of Africa and the Scientific and Cultural History of Humanity. He was, until the end of 1991, Director General of the Centre International des Civilisations Bantu (CICIBA) in Libreville, Gabon. He is the Director and Chief Editor of the journal Ankh. From January 28 to February 3, 1974 at Cairo, Egypt, Obenga accompanied Cheikh Anta Diop as Africa's representatives to the UNESCO symposium on "The Peopling of Ancient Egypt and the Deciphering of the Meroitic Script.