Shomarka Keita
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Dr. Shomarka Keita is an African American biological anthropologist from Howard University, specialising in reserching the origins and historical development of African peoples, which got him involved in the Black Egypt controversy. [1]
He holds that people with "Caucasoid" skulls such as those of Iman or Haile Selassie should be considered just as African, biologically speaking, as people who live in the Congo, and criticizes the tendency of some experts to restrict the definition of "African" only to those Africans who exhibit the most exaggerated "negroid" features (such as extreme prognathism).
Keita writes: "In general, this restricted view presents all tropical Africans with narrower noses and faces as being related to or descended from external, ultimately non-African peoples. However, narrow-faced, narrow-nosed populations have long been resident in Saharo-tropical Africa... and their origin need not be sought elsewhere. These traits are also indigenous. The variability in tropical Africa is expectedly naturally high. Given their longstanding presence, narrow noses and faces cannot be deemed `non-African.'" [2].
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.raceandhistory.com/cgi-bin/forum/webbbs_config.pl/noframes/read/1273
- ^ S.O.Y. Keita, "Studies and Comments on Ancient Egyptian Biological Relationships," History in Africa 20 (1993), page 134) [1].
