Dr. Ivan Van Sertima - Literary critic, linguist, anthropologist, writer

Ivan Van Sertima

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Guyanese Dr. Ivan Van Sertima passes:
January 26, 1935 to May 25, 2009

Dr. Ivan Van Sertima is a literary critic, linguist, anthropologist, and writer. In 1977 he wrote They Came Before Columbus: The African Presence in Ancient America, now in its sixteenth printing, for which he won the Clarence L. Holte Prize for excellence in literature and the humanities relating to the cultural heritage of Africa. He is the editor of the Journal of African Civilizations, and has edited numerous recent books including African Presence in Early America, Great African Thinkers, and Great Black Leaders: Ancient and Modern.

An author and editor, his prize-winning They Came Before Columbus: The African Presence in Ancient America is in its twenty-first printing; he has defended this highly controversial thesis before the Smithsonian, which has recently published his address.

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.

Egypt Revisited: Second Edition (Journal of African Civilizations)
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Edition: 2 Rev Exp
ISBN: 0887387993
Number Of Pages: 454
Publication Date: January 01, 1989
Publisher: Transaction Publishers

This volume represents a new departure in the examination of Egypt's place in the African context. It brings together the latest research on Nile Valley civilizations, what they achieved, and their impact on Africa and the world. The authors take an "Afrocentric" view in contrast to "Eurocentric" perspective in their studies of the birthplace of civilization.This volume includes sections on the race and origin of the ancient Egyptians' black dynasties and rulers, Egyptian science and philosophy, and great Egyptologists.

They Came before Columbus: The African Presence in Ancient America
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ISBN: 0394402456
Publisher: Random House, Incorporated
Format: Hardcover, 1st ed., 288pp.
Publication Date: August 1976

With the skill of a novelist, Ivan Van Sertima reveals to readers compelling, dramatic, and superbly detailed documentation of the presence and legacy of Black Africans in ancient America. It is the marriage of twin crafts--the artist's and the scholar's--in a book that makes it possible 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.

African Presence in Early Asia

ISBN#: 0887386377
Format: Paperback
Publication Date: January 1985
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Egypt Revisited
ISBN#: 0887387993
Format: Paperback
Publication Date: December 1990
Edition Description: REV Edition Number: 2
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