 Diop's work was well received by the political establishment in the post-colonial formative phase of the state of Senegal, and by the Pan-Africanist "Négritude" movement, but was rejected by mainstream scholarship.In drafting that section of the report of the UNESCO Symposium, Diop claimed that Diop and Obenga's linguistic reports had a large measure of agreement and were regarded as "very constructive".However, in the discussion thereof in the work "Ancient Civilizations of Africa, Volume 2", the editor has inserted a footnote stating that these are merely Diop's opinions and that they were not accepted by all the experts participating.