In keeping with earlier themes, Van Sertima has explored in "They Came Before Columbus", this collection of essays explores the effect that Africans had on the Americas, thousands of years before Columbus.
This book offers varying historical papers and works that deal specifically with this topic. Edited by, and including an introduction by Dr. Ivan Van Seritma, the book also explores connections between Mainland China and the New World with evocative results.
Vibrant pictorially and drawing indelible lines between the old world of Ancient Egypt and the New. Using commonalities in artwork, forms of worship and other artifacts that have been found on both sides of the Atlantic and the Pacific, it becomes increasingly clear that Europeans were late starters in the exploration game, falling at the very least several thousand years behind.
The authors of the papers and essays here, painstakingly researched and presented their contributions to the 'new history'. For that they should be commended. For that reason you should read this book.
Article comments
1 - Damon
I have read this work and find it a positive addition in the library for seekers of truth as opposed to promoters of status quo politics. If your faith in the capabilities of the human mind don't extend to Africans, then it may be concievable that humanity despite hundreds of thousands of years in existence didn't realize any significant intellectual prominence until after the emergence of Greece. So let's see, within 100 years America could go from the telegraph to wireless communication, but inspite of eons of observation opportunities it was only after the coming of missionaries did Africans/Amer-Indians cease their barbarism.