They Came Before Columbus - Ivan Van Sertima orisa constitute an ancestral treasury of

constitute an ancestral treasury of concepts and images

there is a direct relationship between the forced enslavement of Afrikan males into European society

many published for the first time

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The ideas in this book have been debated and discussed since its first publication in 1976

They Came Before Columbus - Ivan Van Sertima orisa constitute an ancestral treasury ofThis controversial book by Ivan Van Sertima, the Guyanese historian, linguist, and anthropologist, claims that Africans had been to the New World centuries before Columbus arrived there in 1492. Citingamong other thingsthe huge Negroid looking Olmec heads of Central Mexico and the similarities between the Aztec and Egyptian calendars and pyramid structures, Van Sertima pieces together a hidden history of pre Columbian contact between Africans and