Aboubacry Moussa Lam, also known as Boubacar Lam, was born in 1953[1] and is a Peul[2] Senegalese historian, disciple of Cheikh Anta Diop, who was his primary advisor on his major work, De l'Origine Égyptienne des Peuls, and a professor of Egyptology in the Department of History at the Cheikh Anta Diop University.
[2] Lam has been credited with being the most important Diop scholar[3] and being "most helpful and inspiring in defining the nature of the Afrocentric school of thought.
[9] In particular, much of his work has focused on the cultural and linguistic similarities between West Africans (e.g., Peul, Serer, Wolof) and ancient Egypt.
[2][10] His research and demonstration of the Nile origin of the Peul has exampled the possibility of interactions between Africans in the western and eastern Sahel.
[11] He has also made the case for km.t deriving from the skin color of Nile Valley Africans, who are viewed as black.