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"We have come to reclaim the house of history." - Dr.
Ivan Van Sertima.
The following video is a lecture given by Dr. Ivan Van Sertima discussing
African history. Van Sertima delivered perhaps one of the most brilliant lecture of his career. He essentially obliterated the
Columbus myth and explain how the earliest people in the
Americas were people of the Negritic African race, who entered the Americas perhaps as early as
100,
000 years ago
Recent discoveries in the field of linguistics and other methods have shown without a doubt, that the ancient
Olmecs of
Mexico, the forefathers of the
Mayans, known as the Xi
People, came originally from
West Africa and were of the
Mende African ethnic stock. According to
Clyde A.
Winters and other writers, the
Mende script was discovered on some of the ancient
Olmec monuments of Mexico and were found to be identical to the very same script used by the
Mende people of West Africa.
The video was recorded in
1986 at
Camden Town Hall,
London by the
Caribbean Cultural
International &
Karnak House, and transferred from
VHS.
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.
According to Van Sertima: "The African presence in
America before Columbus is of importance not only to African and
American history, but to the history of world civilizations. The African presence is proven by stone heads, terra cottas, skeletons, artifacts, techniques and inscriptions, by oral traditions and documented history, by botanical, linguistic and cultural data."They Came Before Columbus is a groundbreaking historical work and a literary hallmark. The ideas and themes presented in They Came Before Columbus were not novel. Indeed, many people had written on the African presence in pre-Columbian America before Van Sertima, notably
Leo Wiener,
Kofi Wangara,
R.A. Jairazbhoy, Legrand H. Clegg II, and
Floyd W.
Hayes III, but Van Sertima's book was the first such work of its type written by an African to comprehensively address the subject. In his own words, Van Sertima notes that:"What I have sought to do in this book, therefore, is to present the whole picture emerging from these disciplines, all the facts that are now known about the links between Africa and America in pre-Columbian times.
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