Van Sertima, Ivan Gladstone
1935-2009 · Contribution: 1976-2009
Education
Authored 'They Came Before Columbus' (1976), a widely read but scientifically rejected argument for pre-Columbian African contact with the Americas
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Van Sertima advanced one of the most widely circulated Afrocentric arguments about pre-Columbian contact, energizing popular interest in African antiquity even as specialists rejected his conclusions.
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