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Cheikh Anta Diop, an Uncommon card
Cheikh Anta Diop was a Senegalese historian, anthropologist, physicist, and politician who studied the human race's origins and pre-colonial African culture.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 75
- DEF
- 58
- Power
- 133
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 51,000
Power 133 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 65 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Diop's work is considered foundational to the theory of Afrocentricity, though he himself never described himself as an Afrocentrist.
- The questions he posed about cultural bias in scientific research contributed greatly to the postcolonial turn in the study of African civilizations.
- Diop argued that there was a shared cultural continuity across African people that was more important than the varied development of different ethnic groups shown by differences among languages and cultures over time.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Cheikh Anta Diop article was read about 51,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 75 and blocks with 58: each hit it takes is cut by 23 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Cheikh Anta Diop (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.