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Dierk Lange, professor of African History at the University of Bayreuth, Germany e-mail: Dierk.Lange@uni-bayreuth.de

Homepage: http://dierklange.com/

Recent publications: --- The Founding of Kanem by Assyrian Refugees ca. 600 BCE: Documentary, Linguistic, and Archaeological Evidence, Boston, Working Papers in African Studies, n° 265, 44 p.
 * 2011 "Origin of the Yoruba and the 'Lost Tribes of Israel'", Anthropos 106 (2011), 579-595.

--- "Abwanderung der assyrischen tamkāru nach Nubien, Darfur und ins Tschadseegebiet", in: B. Nowak et al. (eds.), Europejczycy Afrykanie Inni, Warszawa, 2011, 199-226.
 * 2010 “An introduction to the history of Kanem-Bornu: the prologue of the Dīwān”, Borno Museum Society Newsletter, 76/84 (2010), 79-103.


 * 2009 "An Assyrian successor state in West Africa: The ancestral kings of Kebbi as ancient Near Eastern rulers", Anthropos, 104,2 (2009), 359-382.


 * ---"Biblical patriarchs from a pre-canonical source mentioned in the Dīwān of Kanem-Bornu", Zeitschrift für Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 121, 4 (2009), 588-597.


 * ---"The early magistrates and kings of Kanem as Assyrian state builders ", Anthropos, 104, 1 (2009), 3-24.


 * 2008 "Immigration of the Chadic-speaking Sao towards 600 BCE", Borno Museum Society Newsletter, 72-75 (2008), 84-106.


 * ---"Islamic feedback or ancient Near Eastern Survivals?" Paideuma 54 (2008), 353-264.


 * 2007 "The Emergence of social complexity in the southern Chad Basin towards 500 BC: Archaeological and other evidence", Borno Museum Society Newsletter, 68-71.


 * 2006 "The Mune as the Ark of the Covenant between Duguwa and Sefuwa [in ancient Kanem", Borno Museum Society Newsletter 66-67 (2006), 15-25.


 * 2004 Ancient Kingdoms of West Africa: Africa-Centred and Canaanite-Israelite Perspectives - A Collection of Published and Unpublished Studies in English and French, Dettelbach.


 * --- "Preservation of the Canaanite Creation Culture in Ife", in: P. Probst und G. Spittler (eds.), Between Resistance and Expansion: Dimensions of Local Vitality in Africa, (Beiträge zur Afrikaforschung n° 18); Münster 2004, 127-157.

An outline of a future history of Ancient Africa:


 * 2010 "Afrika südlich der Sahara: Von den Sakralstaaten zu den Großreichen", J. Fried and E.-D. Hehl (ed.), Weltdeutungen und Weltreligionen 600-1500, Bd. III, WBG-Weltgeschichte, Darmstadt 2010, 103-116. (English transl.: "Sub-Saharan Africa: From the sacred states to the empires").

Dierk Lange