Tidiane N'Diaye

Tidiane N'Diaye (20 August 1950 – 26 October 2025) was a Franco-Senegalese anthropologist, economist, and writer.

He was the author of a number of publications on the history of Black Africa and the African diaspora, as well as numerous economic studies of the Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques on the French overseas departments (Guadeloupe, French Guiana, Martinique).

N'Diaye's essays on the Arab slave trade (Le génocide voilé "the veiled genocide", Étude de la traite négrière arabo-musulmane "study of the Arab-Muslim negro slave trade") were nominated for the Prix Renaudot in 2008.

N'Diaye died in Toubab Dialaw, Senegal, on 26 October 2025, at the age of 75.