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Théophile Obenga
human
Ein sex anaa gendermale Edit
Ein country of citizenshipRepublic of the Congo Edit
Name wey dem give amThéophile Edit
Family nameObenga Edit
Ein date of birth2 February 1936 Edit
Place dem born amRepublic of the Congo Edit
Languages edey speak, rep anaa signFrench Edit
Ein occupationpolitician, historian, Egyptologist, linguist, minister Edit
Ein field of workEgyptology, linguistics, history, politics Edit
EmployerSan Francisco State University Edit
Educate forFaculty of Arts of Paris, University of Geneva, University of Pittsburgh, University of Bordeaux Edit

Théophile Obenga (born 1936 insyd de Republic of the Congo) be professor emeritus insyd de Africana Studies Center at San Francisco State University. He be a politically active proponent of Pan-Africanism. Obenga be an Egyptologist, linguist, den historian.

Background

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Dem born Obenga insyd 1936 insyd Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo.[1]

Théophile Obenga study a wide variety of subjects den dey obtain a wide range of degrees. Ein degrees include:

  • M.A. in Philosophy (University of Bordeaux, France)
  • M.Ed. (University of Pittsburgh, U.S.A.)
  • M.A. in History (University of Paris, Sorbonne)
  • Advanced studies in History, Linguistics, and Egyptology (University of Geneva, Switzerland); in Prehistory (Institut de Paléontologie Humaine, Paris), and in Linguistics, Philology, and Egyptology (University of Paris, Sorbonne, and College de France)

Théophile Obenga dey hold a Ph.D. in Letters, Arts and Humanities from Montpellier University, France.

Linguistic analysis

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During de 1974 UNESCO Cairo symposium, De peopling of ancient Egypt den de deciphering of de Meroitic script, Cheikh Anta Diop den Obenga be among ein participants.[2][3][4] Adding on to Diop ein African origin of ancient Egypt model, Theophile Obenga dey focus on linguistics.[2][3][4] Obenga dey criticize Joseph Greenberg ein mass comparison method, for ein inability to prove genetic relationships among languages. He cited de work of Istvan Fodor who sana criticize Greenberg ein multi lateral comparative analysis.[5] Obenga through de usage of de historical comparative method sought to prove dat de Egyptian language be genetically dey relate to de majority of de languages insyd Africa.[2][3][4] Obenga analyze typological similarities insyd grammar as well as examine de word forms of ancient Egyptian den numerous African languages such as Wolof[2][3][4] den discover dat de similarities between de ancient Egyptian language den de African languages he analyze to be greater than de similarities between de Semitic, Berber, den Egyptian languages, which Greenberg grouped together as de Afroasiatic languages.[2][3][4] Obenga reveal 101 putative cognates insyd African languages classified insyd different families by Greenberg. These languages share de same word across de length den breadth of de continent. According to Kambon, de sheer spatial den temporal depth involve dey make de notion dat these terms be borrowed from one language family to anoda highly unlikely. These lexical commonalities point to a common ancestral proto-language from wich na dem be all descend.[6]

Obenga dey propose three major language families for Africa:[7][8][9]

Obenga developed Cheikh Anta Diop ein Paleo African language family as Negro-Egyptian. Dis family be composed of:

  • Ancient Egyptian
  • Chadic
  • Coptic
  • Cushitic
  • Niger-Kordofanian
  • Nilo-Saharan

Rules of historical linguistics “Historical linguistics” or even “historical genetic linguistics” consists of a diachronic perspective of de study of languages aiming to account for de dynamic nature of linguistic phenomena. To do dis, dis scientific discipline mobilizes descriptive data make available by synchronic linguistic studies (lexicology, phonology, morphology, grammar, etc.), by comparing them from one language to odas (or from language to language). insyd a corpus previously determined through de empirical observation of a few similarities. Dis comparative approach aims, according to him, to test say similarities, insyd order to know if they be “fortuitous”, “borrowed”, “convergent”, or even “inherited”. Insyd de group of languages considered, only de regular character of inherited linguistic properties will constitute de “genetic relationship” common to these languages. Insyd oda words, according to Obenga, we should only speak of “genetic kinship” common to languages, on de one hand if they present inherited similarities between them; on de oda hand if de regular evolution insyd time den space of say similarities can be highlighted by de method of historical linguistics. Although initially developed insyd de framework of de study of so-called Indo-European or Semitic languages, according to Emile Benveniste, historical linguistics can sana be applied to oda languages of de world; whether they be called "exotic", "primitive" or "without history". Théophile Obenga, believing dat de "ultimate goal of dis linguistics be to be able to carry out a general classification of all known human languages", undertook - following Cheikh Anta Diop - to apply de method of historical linguistics to “Negro-African” linguistic phenomena.

Bibliography

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  • L'Afrique dans l'Antiquité. Égypte pharaonique, Afrique noire. Paris: Présence Africaine. 1973.
  • Introduction à la connaissance du peuple de la République Populaire du Congo. Brazzaville: Librairies Populaires. 1973.
  • Afrique centrale précoloniale – Documents d'histoire vivante. Paris: Présence Africaine. 1974. ISBN 2708703129.
  • La Cuvette Congolaise. Les hommes et les structures. Contribution à l'histoire traditionnelle de l'Afrique centrale. Paris: Présence Africaine. 1976. ISBN 2708703250.
  • Le Zaïre, Civilisations traditionnelles et Culture moderne (Archives culturelles d'Afrique centrale). Paris: Présence Africaine. 1977.
  • La vie de Marien Ngouabi 1938-1977. Paris: Présence Africaine. 1977.
  • Stèles pour l'avenir: poèmes. Paris: Présence Africaine. 1978. ISBN 2708703498.
  • Pour une Nouvelle Histoire. Paris: Présence Africaine. 1980. ISBN 2708703781.
  • La dissertation historique en Afrique. A l'usage des étudiants de Première Année d'Université. Paris: Présence Africaine. 1980. ISBN 9782708703865.
  • Sur le chemin des hommes: Essai sur la poésie négro-africaine. Paris: Présence Africaine. 1984. ISBN 2708704397.
  • Littérature traditionnelle des Mbochi. Etsee le Yamba. Paris: Présence Africaine. 1984. ISBN 2708704370.
  • Les Bantu, Langues-Peuples-Civilisations. Paris: Présence Africaine. 1985.
  • Discours et écrits politiques de Jacques Opangault. Paris: Présence Africaine. 1987.
  • Astres si longtemps. Poèmes en Sept Chants. Paris: Présence Africaine. 1988. ISBN 2708705008.
  • La Philosophie africaine de la période pharaonique – 2780-330 avant notre ère. Paris: L’Harmattan. 1990.
    • English translation: African Philosophy – The Pharaonic Period: 2780-330 BC. Dakar: Per Ankh. 2004.
  • Saakana, Amon Saba, ed. (1992). Ancient Egypt and Black Africa: A Student's Handbook for the Study of Ancient Egypt in Philosophy, Linguistics and Gender Relations. London: Karnak House.
  • Origine commune de l'égyptien ancien, du copte et des langues négro-africaines modernes – Introduction à la linguistique historique africaine. Paris: L’Harmattan. 1993.
  • La Géométrie égyptienne – Contribution de l'Afrique antique à la mathématique mondiale. Paris: L’Harmattan/Khepera. 1995.
  • Cheikh Anta Diop, Volney et le Sphinx – Contribution de Cheikh Anta Diop à l'historiographie mondiale. Paris: Présence Africaine/Khepera. 1996.
  • L'histoire sanglante du Congo-Brazzaville (1959-1997)– Diagnostic d'une mentalité politique africaine. Paris: Présence Africaine. 1998.
  • Pour le Congo-Brazzaville – Réflexions et propositions. Paris: L’Harmattan. 2001.
  • Le sens de la lutte contre l'africanisme eurocentriste. Paris: Khepera/L'Harmattan. 2001.
  • L'UNIVERSITÉ AFRICAINE dans le cadre de l'Union Africaine. Paris: Pyramide Papyrus Presse. 2003.
  • L'Égypte, la Grèce et l'école d'Alexandrie – Histoire interculturelle dans l'Antiquité – Aux sources égyptiennes de la philosophie grecque. Paris: Khepera/L’Harmattan. 2005.
  • L'égyptien pharaonique : une langue négro-africaine : égyptien, dagara, doruba, baule, dogon, langues du Bhar el-Ghazal. Paris: Présence Africaine. 2010. ISBN 9782708708075.

References

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  1. ↑ Theophile J. Obenga, San Francisco State University
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 UNESCO (1978). The peopling of ancient Egypt and the deciphering of the Meroitic script. United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. pp. 83–84.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Unesco. International Scientific Committee for the Drafting of a General History of Africa (1981). Ancient Civilizations of Africa. University of California Press. pp. 64–65. ISBN 9780435948054.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 Mukhtār, Muḥammad (1990). UNESCO General History of Africa, Vol. II, Abridged Edition: Ancient Africa. University of California Press. pp. 40–42. ISBN 9780520066977.
  5. ↑ Fodor, István (1969). The Problems in the Classification of the African Languages: Methodological and Theoretical Conclusions Concerning the Classification System of Joseph H. Greenberg. Studies on Developing Countries (3rd ed.). Budapest: Center for Afro-Asian Research of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. OCLC 456591424.
  6. ↑ Kambon, Ọbádélé (2021). "Of Repatriation, Rivers and Rivulets". In Owusu, Abena Makini; Maisha, Hyman (eds.). A Smart Ghana Repatriation Guide. Washington, DC: Adinkra Group. pp. 1–25. ISBN 9781735800127.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 Imhotep, Asar. "Aaluja: Rescue, Reinterpretation and the Restoration of Major Ancient Egyptian Themes, Vol. 1". Scribd.
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 Dukuzumurenyi, A. The Book of the Tep-Heseb: An Afrikological Research Methodology – via Academia.edu.
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 "Théophile Obenga (Congolese Historian, Doctorate)". EENI Business School & HA University.
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