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"We have come to reclaim the house of history." - Dr.
Ivan Van Sertima.
In the following interview with the
TVO television network, Dr. Ivan Van Sertima discusses the cultural and scientific achievements of
Africa that were later eclipsed by slavery. He maintains that Africans were responsible for advances in metallurgy, astronomy, agriculture, medicine and other fields. He also believes that black Africans came to
North America long before the arrival of
Christopher Columbus.
This was originally broadcast in
1997.
Dr. Ivan Van Sertima was born in
Kitty Village,
Guyana,
South America on
January 26, 1935. He was educated at the
School of
Oriental and
African Studies at
London University where he graduated with honors. From
1957 to
1959, he served as a
Press and
Broadcasting Officer in the Guyana
Information Services. During the decade of the
1960s, he broadcasted weekly from
Britain to both Africa and the
Caribbean. He came to the
United States in
1970, where he completed his post graduate studies at
Rutgers University in
New Jersey. Dr. Van Sertima began his teaching career as an instructor at
Rutgers in
1972, and he is now
Professor of
African studies in the
Department of
Africana Studies.Van Sertima is a literary critic, a linguist, and an anthropologist, and has made a name for himself in all three fields. As a linguist, he is the compiler of the
Swahili Dictionary of
Legal Terms, based on his field word in
Tanzania,
East Africa in 1967. As a literary critic, he is the author of Caribbean
Writers, a collection of critical essays on the Caribbean novel. He is also the author of several major literary reviews published in
Denmark,
India, Britain, and the United States. He was recognized for his work in this field by being requested by the
Nobel Committee of the
Swedish Academy to nominate candidates for the
Nobel Prize in Literature from
1976 to
1980.The cornerstone of Dr. Van Sertima's legacy will probably be his authorship of They Came Before
Columbus:
The African Presence in
Ancient America.
More and more the history of Africa is being reconstructed upon the basis of hard, objective data rather than upon the self-serving speculations and racist theories about the black barbarians."Since
1979 the
Journal of African Civilizations has published works by and about many of the world's finest Africanist scholars in a series of magnificent anthologies. These works include
Blacks in
Science,
Nile Valley Civilizations, African Presence in
Early America,
Black Women in Antiquity,
Egypt Revisited, Egypt:
Child of Africa, African Presence in Early
Europe,
Golden Age of the
Moor, African Presence in the
Art of the
Americas,
Great Black
Leaders, Great African Thinkers (coedited with
Larry Obadele
Williams), and African Presence in Early
Asia (coedited with
Runoko Rashidi). In
1998 Transaction Press produced produced Van Sertima's newest text--Early America Revisited--the definitive statement on the subject.On July 7,
1987 Dr. Van Sertima appeared before a
Congressional Committee to challenge the Columbus myth. In
November 1991 he defended his thesis in an address to the
Smithsonian Institute. In this arena Ivan Van Sertima has emerged as an undefeated.
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