In his last major text, Civilization or Barbarism: An Authentic
Anthropology (published posthumously in English in 1991), the
brilliant Dr. Cheikh Anta Diop (1923-1986) pointed out that: “In
the first edition of the Nations negres et culture (1954), I
posited the hypothesis that the Yellow race must be the result of
an interbreeding of Black and White in a cold climate, perhaps
around the end of he Upper Paleolithic period. This idea is widely
shared today by Japanese scholars and researchers. One Japanese
scientist, Nobuo Takano, M.D., chief of dermatology at the Hammatsu
Red Cross Hospital, has just developed this idea in Japanese that
appeared in 1977, of which he was kind enough to give me a copy in
1979, when, passing through Dakar, he visited my laboratory with a
group of Japanese scientists. Takano maintains, in substance, that
the first human being was Black; then Blacks gave birth to Whites,
and the interbreeding of these two gave rise to the Yellow race;
these three stages are in fact the title of his book in Japanese,
as he explained it to me.” As to linguistics, in 1987 former
Senegalese president Leopold Sedar Senghor noted that, “The people
who populate the island of Japan today are descendants from
Blacks….Let us not forget that the first population of Japan was
Black…and gave to Japan their first language.”
