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The African presence in America before Columbus is of importance not only to African and American history but to the history of world civilizations. It provides further evidence that all great civilizations and races are heavily indebted to one another and that no race has a monopoly on enterprise and inventive genius.
Ivan Van Sertima
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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)
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