Égypte ancienne et afrocentrisme

The Afrocentric paradigm aims at giving back dignity to the cultures of the continent while claiming an African identity which has made a powerful contribution to world history. After all, the Egyptian civilisation was considered as a real pan-African civilisation which had a direct influence on all the other African cultures including those of Senegal, Niger and Nigeria which are very far from Egypt geographically. With this article, I intend to make a small contribution with the aim of establishing how far one can consider the Egyptian civilisation as African, this, while tackling the three following points: 1) the origins of Egyptian civilisation; 2) the relationships between the Egyptian language and the neighbouring tongues; and 3) the perception which the Egyptians had of themselves and of their distinctiveness.