Quote of the day
If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.
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)