Ancient Egypt & Black Africa by Theophile Obenga

The argument concerning the peopling of ancient Egypt and the ethnic origin of its inhabitants have run the gamut of dynastic race, new race, mixed Libyo-Berber, etc. This debate reached its pinnacle in the 1974 Cairo Conference on the Peopling of Ancient Egypt in which the young Théophile Obenga provided linguistic evidence, while Diop provided historical, anthropological, and archaeological evidence. Since then the origins debate has become clearer: the inhabitants have been proclaimed as African. This book, comprising four essays, were specifically written for Obenga's first series of lectures at the School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London. Obenga places his arguments on a high scientific level: historical and comparative philosophical analyses of Kmt & Greece, linguistic comparison between Kmt and the rest of Africa on the one hand, and on the other Greece & the Asio-European world. The degree of depth can be measured by the range and extent of the comparisons, across different cultures.

The book also includes a short chapter on the role of women and how they were projected in the society in terms of no bars held in the pursuit of professions, their ability to inherit and disperse funds as they wished, and chose their own husbands.