Complex sentence: It is named after the noted Senegalese historian and anthropologist Cheikh Anta Diop, who argued that Ancient Egyptians were more closely related to Subsaharan Africans than they were to Caucasians in West Asia.
Split into simpler sentences: It is named after the noted Senegalese historian and anthropologist Cheikh Anta Diop. He was an African Egyptologist who argued that Ancient Egyptians were more closely related to Subsaharan Africans than they were to Caucasians in West Asia.