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Intellectuals ought to study the past not for the pleasure they find in so doing, but to derive lessons from it.

Cheikh Anta Diop

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Cheikh Anta Diop
Age: 62 †
Born: 1923
Born: December 29
Died: 1986
Died: February 7
Anthropologist
Egyptologist
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Nuclear Physicist
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