Quote of the day
In the past the man has been first; in the future the system must be first. This in no sense, however, implies that great men are not needed. On the contrary, the first object of any good system must be that of developing first-class men
Ivan Van Sertima

Born: January 26, 1935
Died: May 25, 2009 (aged 74)
Bio: Ivan Gladstone Van Sertima was a Guyanese-born associate professor of Africana Studies at Rutgers University in the United States.
Known for:
- They came before Columbus (1976)
- The Golden Age of the Moor (1992)
- African Presence in Early Europe (1985)
- Egypt Revisited (1982)
- Early America revisited (1998)