Théophile Obenga was born in Congo, Equatorial Africa. He was educated in Belgium, France, and the United States. He is considered as one of the foremost students and followers of the late Cheikh Anta Diop. In the preface to Obenga's most renowned book Africa in Antiquity, Diop introduced him as follows: "Obenga is a polyvalent scholar with a threefold training as a philosopher, historian and linguist and knowing Greek, Latin, French. English, Italian, and practicing Arabic and Syriac. More importantly, he is the first Black African of his generation able to read the pharaonic language in the texts: he holds a degree in Egyptology and is a member of the Societe Francaise d'Egyptologie". During the, UNESCO Colloquium on "The Peopling of Ancient Egypt and the Decipherment of Meroitic Writing" held in Cairo (January 28-February 3. 1974). Diop and Obenga's brilliant and eloquent demonstration on the African essence of Black pharaonic Egypt's culture and civilization was a major landmark in African studies and sanctioned the death of cultural imperialism's long lasting attempt to whiten ancient Egypt. Under Marien NGouabi's government in the Congo, Obenga was Director of the Ecole Normale Superieure where he created an outstanding method for teaching African historiography and later became Minister for Foreign Affairs. He is presently Director General of the International Center for Bantu Studies, the only high-tech African-oriented database and cultural center of its kind focusing on the Egypto-Bantu world and head-quartered in Libreville, Gabon. Obenga is the author of a massive scientific production partly published by Presence Africaine and including, in particular, Precolonial Central Africa, Zaire: Traditional Civilizations and Modern Culture. Stele for the Future (poetry), For A New History, Traditional Literature of the Mbochi, and The Bantu: Languages, Peoples and Civilizations. He just completed a major study on The African Philosophy in Pharaonic Times, 2780-330 Before the Christian Era, excerpts from which are published for the first time in English in this issue.