Original sentence: Mainstream scholars contend that it is inadequate simply to list similar-sounding or possibly related terms in different languages as they can provide little more than an a priori case for investigating the possibility of common origins
Edited sentence: For example, Diop was a native Wolof-speaker, while Obenga came from a Mbochi-speaking background.Mainstream scholars  contend that it is inadequate simply to list similar-sounding or possibly related terms in different languages and they can provide little more than an a priori case for investigating the possibility of common origins.These writers, like some other Afrocentrists, try to make the connections between Egypt and their own ethnic background