African History

They Came Before Columbus – Dr ivan Van Sertima, Part 2

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16 years ago

January 2, 2009

A celebrated classic, They Came Before Columbus, deals with a number of contacts — both planned and accidental, between Africans and Americans in different historical periods. Evidence for a physical/cultural presence of Africans in Early America is methodically examined.

Dr. Van Sertima reveals to us a compelling, dramatic and superbly detailed documentation of the presence and legacy of black Africans in ancient America.

With his considerable scholarship, Van Sertima examines the facts of navigation and shipbuilding, the sources of latitudinal and longitudinal coordinates, the scores of cultural analogies found nowhere else except in America and Africa, African languages and the transportation of plants, cloth and animals from Africa to the Americas. And from the diaries, letters and journals of the explorers themselves; from Carbon-14 dated sculptures found in the Americas; from the Arabic documents, charts, maps from the recorded tales of the griots to the Kings of Mali; from dated skeletons found as recently as 1975, the author builds his pyramid of evidence.

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6 Comments

@SKILLSPORTSPREP

January 23, 2009 at 2:12 am

The catholic church!

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@MichaelImhotep

February 7, 2009 at 2:09 am

Thenewend2012, thanks for your comment. The reason why Dr. Van Sertima is focusing on Africans is because he is of African descent and is preparing this video for African people. There are other videos that deal with the African Presence in Asia and India. Please see videos by Dr. Runoko Rashidi. I'm at a lecture right now given by him and I'm watching him in person.

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@pamt726

May 21, 2009 at 3:34 pm

Also, I believe the doctor is attempting to go to the origin — not what came afterward. The Celtics??? Don't we already have plenty of information on them and their culture?

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@keithexum

May 30, 2009 at 5:38 am

R.I.P. DR. Ivan Van Sertima
"We have come to reclaim the house of history. We are dedicated to the revision of the role of the African in the world's great civilizations, the contribution of Africa to the achievement of man in the arts and sciences. We shall emphasize what Africa has given to the world, not what it has lost."
–Ivan Van Sertima

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@MichaelImhotep

May 31, 2009 at 4:29 pm

We are focusing on African High Cultures because we are African people. The other groups can talk about their history.

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@boukan301

November 24, 2011 at 8:33 am

thanks for the knowledge

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