Aboubacry Moussa Lam Explained

Aboubacry Moussa Lam, also known as Boubacar Lam, was born in 1953[1] and is a Peul[2] Senegalese historian, disciple of Cheikh Anta Diop, who was his primary advisor on his major work, De l'Origine Égyptienne des Peuls, and a professor of Egyptology in the Department of History at the Cheikh Anta Diop University.[2] Lam has been credited with being the most important Diop scholar[3] and being "most helpful and inspiring in defining the nature of the Afrocentric school of thought."[4] Boubacar has been active in seeking to recenter Africans back in their own historical and social context.[5] Lam was also a signatory to an appeal to preserve the Timbuktu Manuscripts.[6] In January 2018, he was listed as a writer and lecturer at Dakar University as well as a participant in the Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA)'s and the Global Book Alliance (GBA)'s African Publishers and Other Book Industry Stakeholders Regional Meeting.[7]

The primary focus of Lam's work has been on Cheikh Anta Diop's migrations theory.[2] Continuing the African intellectual tradition of Africana Studies, Lam has used his linguistic skills for the purpose of translation and to assist in the recovery of African memory.[8] His linguistic work has helped establish connections between the ancient Egyptian language and black African languages, primarily Kongo-Saharan languages.[9] In particular, much of his work has focused on the cultural and linguistic similarities between West Africans (e.g., Peul, Serer, Wolof) and ancient Egypt.[2] [10] His research and demonstration of the Nile origin of the Peul has exampled the possibility of interactions between Africans in the western and eastern Sahel.[11] He has also made the case for km.t deriving from the skin color of Nile Valley Africans, who are viewed as black.[12]

Selected works

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Lam, Aboubacry Moussa 1953- . WorldCat Identities . OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc..
  2. Web site: Gaston . Lafayette . Past Afrocentricity: Reassessing Cheikh Anta Diop's Place In the Afrocentric Frame . Live From Planet Earth . The Liberator Magazine.
  3. Book: Boehm . Peter . Africa Askew - Traversing The Continent . 27 October 2014 . Babelcube Inc. . 9781633392946 .
  4. Book: Marable . Manning . Dispatches from the Ebony Tower: Intellectuals Confront the African American Experience . 1 March 2001 . Columbia University Press . 195–196 . 9780231507943 .
  5. Book: Davidson . Jeanette . African American Studies . Edinburgh University Press . 37 . 9780748686971 . 2010-10-19 .
  6. Web site: Timbuktu Manuscripts in DANGER! . West African Research Association . Boston University.
  7. Web site: Association for the Development of Education In Africa (ADEA) and the Global Book Alliance (GBA) Report: Regional Workshop for African Book Industry Stakeholders . Association for the Development of Education in Africa .
  8. Web site: What Black Studies Is Not: Moving from Crisis to Liberation in Africana Intellectual Work1 . Journal of the Research Group on Socialism and Democracy Online . 2018-08-18 . 2018-11-06 . https://web.archive.org/web/20181106092838/http://sdonline.org/55/what-black-studies-is-not-moving-from-crisis-to-liberation-in-africana-intellectual-work1/ . dead .
  9. Web site: Imhotep . Asar . AKAN AND EGYPTIAN SYMBOL COMPARISONS: PART 1 . AsarImhotep.com . The MOCHA-Versity Institute of Philosophy and Research . 2018-08-18 . 2018-03-29 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180329011305/http://www.asarimhotep.com/documentdownloads/Akan_and_Egyptian_Symbol_Comparisons.pdf . dead .
  10. Book: Cantone . Cleo . Making and Remaking Mosques in Senegal . 3 April 2012 . BRILL . 39 . 9789004217508 .
  11. Book: Asante . Molefi . The History of Africa: The Quest for Eternal Harmony . 2007 . Routledge . 97 . 9780415771382 .
  12. Web site: Fani-Kayode . Femi . Who Are The Yoruba People? (Part 3) . Premium Times . Premium Times Services Limited.
  13. Web site: African Philosophy: The Pharaonic Period: 2780-330 BC . Pambazuka . Pambazuka News .

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