Book – They Came Before Columbus by Ivan Van Sertima
Introduction This is an emancipatory book conveying fragments of lost/suppressed realities with civilizational implications for humanity particularly Africans. Its fertile contents, provoking arguments and resonating hypothesis are refreshed by contemporary dynamics on Africa/Africans while it throws in sharp relief the incompleteness of ‘accepted’ wisdom supporting most anti-African conclusions. Nevertheless it opened many illustrious doors about Africa/Africans towards closing the ever-hungry gaps for understanding, truth, goodness, beauty and love. Only from truth is genuine liberation, elevation of consciousness and collective healing effected for reversing intergenerational transmission of ignorance. This is one goal of the author, Ivan van Sertima, a Guyanese intellectual of African descent who invested his linguistic, anthropological and historical expertise to retrieve lived experiences of our venerable ancestors from remote antiquity. He boldly but rebelliously conc...
