Quote of the day
Good authors, too, who once knew better words
Now only use four-letter words
Writing prose —
Anything goes.
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)