Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "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).Obenga is a politically active proponent of Pan-Africanism. In 2009 he publicly promoted Denis Sassou Nguesso as presidential candidate for the Republic of the Congo.Obenga holds a PhD in Humanities from the University of Paris Sorbonne, France. His academic background include studies in Philosophy (in Bordeaux), Comparative historical linguistics, Prehistoric archeology (at College de France, Paris), Education sciences and Egyptology (in Geneva). His former lecturers include prominent scholars such as Émile Benveniste in Linguistics, Jean Leclant and Charles Maystre in Egyptology, Rodolphe Kasser in Coptic Language, Lionel Balout in Human Paleontology. He contributed as part of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and 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"."@en }
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- Théophile_Obenga abstract "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).Obenga is a politically active proponent of Pan-Africanism. In 2009 he publicly promoted Denis Sassou Nguesso as presidential candidate for the Republic of the Congo.Obenga holds a PhD in Humanities from the University of Paris Sorbonne, France. His academic background include studies in Philosophy (in Bordeaux), Comparative historical linguistics, Prehistoric archeology (at College de France, Paris), Education sciences and Egyptology (in Geneva). His former lecturers include prominent scholars such as Émile Benveniste in Linguistics, Jean Leclant and Charles Maystre in Egyptology, Rodolphe Kasser in Coptic Language, Lionel Balout in Human Paleontology. He contributed as part of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and 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".".