Théophile Obenga is an American scholar and professor who was born in Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo. He is trained as a philosopher, historian and linguist, utilizing Greek, Latin, French, English, Italian and practicing Arabic, Syriac and Egyptian hieroglyphs in his work. Obenga has obtained a wide range of degrees, which include:
- M.A. in Philosophy (University of Bordeaux, France)
- M.Ed. (University of Pittsburgh, U.S.A.)
- M.A. in History (University of Paris, Sorbonne)
- Advanced studies in History, Linguistics, and Egyptology (University of Geneva, Switzerland); in Prehistory (Institut de Paléontologie Humaine, Paris), and in Linguistics, Philology, and Egyptology (University of Paris, Sorbonne, and College de France).
Obenga contributed as part of the United Nations Educational and Scientific Cultural Organization (UNESCO) program, to the writing of the General History of Africa and the Scientific and Cultural History of Humanity. He was, until the end of 1991, Director General of the Centre International des Civilisations Bantu (CICIBA) in Libreville, Gabon. He is the Director and Chief Editor of the journal Ankh.

From January 28 to February 3, 1974 at Cairo, Egypt, Obenga accompanied Cheikh Anta Diop as Africa's representatives to the UNESCO symposium on "The Peopling of Ancient Egypt and the Deciphering of the Meroitic Script." This meeting remains one of the single most important and famous defenses of African intellectual and historical integrity in the modern era, and, according to Obenga's and Diop's followers, affirmed the African origin of Egyptian civilization.
Obenga's most recent work is African Philosophy: the Pharaonic period 2780-330 B.C.
Obenga is currently a professor at San Francisco State University, in the Africana Studies Center.
Obenga worked with Diop and helped encourage academic interest in Classical African Civilization. He also served as Congo's Minister of Foreign Affairs in several governments.

Sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Théophile_Obenga
http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~afrs/obenga.html