Ivan Van Sertima, Was one of the great Scholars,Historians,Authors,Activist,Freedom fighters of our time(Along with Dr.Chiek Anti Diop), Ivan Van Sertima, Was the author of, 'They came before Columbus', Which depicted the history of Ancient Egyptians, As Black, Here's some more information on Ivan Van Sertima.
Much Respect
Mike Barnes
The Guyana Cultural Association New York Inc. /Guyana Folk Festival committee
yesterday announced the passing of Dr. Ivan Van Sertima, a former professor of
the University of Rutgers and an important son of Guyana’s soil.
Ivan Van Sertima, born January 26, 1935, is a Guyanese-British historian,
linguist and anthropologist noted for his Afrocentric theory of pre-Columbian
contact between Africa and the Americas.
Van Sertima was born in Kitty when Guyana was still a British colony and
remained a British citizen up until his demise. Van Sertima’s, father Frank
Obermuller, was a trade union leader. Van Sertima completed his primary and
secondary education then commenced poetry writing.
In 1959 he began pursuit of his university education in London where, in
addition to producing an array of creative writings; he completed undergraduate
studies in African languages and literature at the School of Oriental and
African Studies at the University of London in 1969, and graduated with
honours.
During his studies he became fluent in Swahili and Hungarian dialects.
He worked for several years in Great Britain as a journalist, delivering weekly
broadcasts to the Caribbean and Africa. In doing field work in Africa, he
compiled a dictionary of Swahili legal terms.
In 1970 Van Sertima immigrated to the United States, where he entered Rutgers
University in New Brunswick, New Jersey for graduate work.
Van Sertima began his more than 30-year teaching career at Rutgers as an
instructor in 1972 and completed his master’s degree in 1977. He was Associate
Professor of African Studies in the Department of Africana Studies.
Van Sertima has written books in which he argues that the Ancient Egyptians
were black and his 1976 book “They Came Before Columbus” was a bestseller
and achieved widespread fame for his claims of prehistoric African influences in
Central and South America.
It did not receive much professional attention when published, and has been
criticized by academic specialists.
On July 7, 1987 Van Sertima appeared before a United States Congressional
committee to challenge giving credit for the discovery of America to Christopher
Columbus.
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Ivan Van Sertima's books:
African Presence in Early America
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Book Description
This volume presents what is presently known about the links between Africa and America before the age of Columbus. It makes a convincing case for pre-Columbian contacts between Africa and America before the era of the slave trade. The contributors draw upon the evidence of cultures in private collections and findings from excavations, and evidence of ancient African mathematics, astronomy, map-making, scripts, navigations, trade routes, pyramidal structures, linguistic connections, and technological and ritual complexes. The volume is profusely illustrated. Many readers will find the evidence presented here startling.
African Presence in Early Asia
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The story of the African presence in early Asia is as fascinating as it is obscure. It covers a period of more than 500,000 years beginning with the first Homo erectus migrations out of Africa. Both Peking and Java Man were only regional varieties of these early Africoid hominids. The story continues with the first modern human populations (Homo sapiens), the Diminutive Blacks, who traveled and sojourned from one corner of Asia to the other, beginning perhaps 90,000 years ago. The Diminutive Blacks were followed by others of slightly larger bodily proportions and further distinguished by straight to wavy hair textures. Variously called Austrics, Austro-Asiatics, Mons, Mundas, Kolarians, and Veddas, these people were probably at their zenith 25,000 years ago, and are still prevalent in large numbers throughout Asia. Blacks were also the first in the development of Asia’s early civilizations. The hard factual evidence has borne this out in case after case.
African Presence in Early Europe
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Customer Review
There is so much information about the African contribution to world civilization that merely contemplating it and its spiritual/cultural implications will create a transformative hunger in you for knowledge that otherwise would have never materialized. This book is a great appetizer in that context--and a great introduction to more than two centuries of wonderful full course meals.
Blacks in Science: Ancient and Modern
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The lineaments of a lost science are now emerging and we can glimpse some of the once buried reefs of this remarkable civilization. A lot more remains to be revealed. But enough has been found in the past few years to make it quite clear that the finest heart of African world receded into the shadow while its broken bones were put on spectacular display. The image of the African, therefore, has been built up so far upon his lowest common denominator. In the new vision of the ancestor, we need to turn our eyes away from the periphery of the primitive to the more dynamic source of genius in the heartland of the African world.
Early America Revisited
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Customer Review
Another excellent work by Van Sertima! He investigates information from several disciplines to examine Pre-Columbian America. His notes/references are extensive as usual. Early America Revisited should be in every library, if not in every High School history classroom, right beside They Came Before Columbus....
Egypt: Child of Africa
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Book Description
Of the twelve anthologies by the Journal of African Civilizations, this is the fourth volume devoted to the study of ancient Egypt. The other three are: Nile Valley Civilizations (now discontinued) Great African Thinkers and Egypt Revisited. Our heavy concentration on this subject is neither accidental nor indulgent. It is the most hotly debated issue in the field of world civilization studies.
Egypt Revisited
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Egypt has created the greatest and most enduring of all ancient civilizations. Its remarkable achievements in the arts and sciences, its influence upon the philosophy of both Europe and Asia, is seldom denied. Few studies, however, admits the significant, indeed predominant, role of Africans in the building of this civilization. Migrants and invaders from the North and East, who made very little real impact upon the classical culture of the Egyptian until late in the day, are given all the credit for this most illustrious chapter in the history of civilization. This book and its successor (to be published in the summer of 1990) are designed to restore to the fountainhead of African civilization, even as Greece has been placed at the fountainhead of European civilization studies.
The Golden Age of the Moor
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It is generally assumed that the movement of Africans into Europe, in significantly large numbers and into positions of real power, did not occur until the Muslim invasion of Spain in 711 A.D. In Al-Makkary’s History of the Mohammedan Dynasties in Spain, however, we learn of a great drought that afflicted Spain about three thousand years ago, a catastrophe that was followed not long afterwards by an invasion from Africa. This, of course, had nothing to do with the medieval Moors, with which this book is primarily concerned, but it is worth noting here because it actually established an ancient African dynasty in Spain, a fact that is omitted from the official histories.
Great African Thinkers: Cheikh Anta Diop
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Book Description
It is not for us to say that the death of a man comes too early or too late. Fate is far too complex. But let us venture to say that we in America needed a guide and teacher like Diop. Africa, above all, needed a leader like Diop. Had he lived to become President of Senegal, he might have piloted some of the nations of West Africa into the first stages of a federated state. His passing, therefore, is a very great blow to us all. Yet history teaches us that men like these do not die at the time of their deaths. Often it is that the fall of a great teacher or prophet is the beginning of the rise of his ideas. So let it be with Diop…
Great Black Leaders
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One thing stands out above all else in our survey of these remarkable men and women. That the struggle for a changing world occupies both a tragic and hopeful dimension. That again the light of the human spirit shines brightest against the shadow of almost invincible odds and that disaster seems to stalk anyone who challenges things as they are in the hope of transforming them into things as they should be. Disaster strikes the hero in the form of an assassin’s bullet, a grievous slander, exile or the prison house, deportation or betrayal or (most tragic of all) the loss of the love of one’s people through a misinterpretation of one’s role or a misunderstanding of one’s actions. Heroes are usually tragic figures who seldom die quietly in their sleep, yet our memory and vision of them should bring us to a new faith, not deepen our sense of despair. It is often through the crucifixion of these figures that we glimpse something noble and beautiful beyond their suffering and their death. It is this light they spark in our souls against the overwhelming appearance of darkness that rekindles our hope in the possibilities of rebirth in the world.
They Came Before Columbus
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Book Description
This book makes it possible for us to see clearly the unmistakable face and handprint of Black Africans in Pre-Columbian America, and their overwhelming impact on the civilization they found here.
Black Women in Antiquity
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Customer Review
Without being too lengthy, this book thoroughly covers the real and mythical images of the Black woman. It is a wonderful collection of essays from various authors such as the late, great John Henrik Clarke. Historical without Afrocentricism. Balanced yet interesting. Do yourself a favor. Purchase the book and order tapes from the back of the book. Another fearless accomplishment by Van Sertima.
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