He attended the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) at the University of London in 1959. He completed primary and secondary school in Guyana and started writing poetry. Van Sertima was born in Karina Village, British Guiana (now Guyana) when Guyana was still a British colony he retained his British citizenship throughout his life. While his Olmec theory has “spread widely in the African American community, both lay and scholarly”, it was mostly ignored in Mesoamericanist scholarship, or else dismissed as Afrocentric pseudohistory to the effect of “robbing native American cultures. He is best known for his Olmec alternative origin speculations, a brand of pre-Columbian contact theory, which he proposed in his book They Came Before Columbus (1976). Ivan Van Sertima reconstructed that lost history through decades of research.Ivan Gladstone Van-Sertima – (26 January 1935 – ) was an associate professor of Africana Studies at Rutgers University in the United States. When Europe came to conquer both Africa and Latin America this history was erased. African empires and kingdoms were interested in exploration. Mesoamerican civilization was active before European contact. Sertima states the way history is studied must take a new approach.

West African sailors and explorers like their European counterparts were looking for new trade routes. Christopher Columbus was attempting to get sponsorship from Portugal at first, but Spain was more willing to finance his voyage. Sertima bases his claim on the diaries of Columbus and Portuguese knowledge of African exploration. There was a possibility that sailors from Guinea reached Hispaniola. Olmecs produced large statutes in which their origin remains a mystery. Using archeology and available documents Sertima provides a different perspective about the history of the Americas. The Cape Verde islands could have been a launching point for African voyagers. Ivan Van Sertima (1935-2009) makes the argument that Africans also made the journey across the Atlantic Ocean making contact. The Amerindian peoples of the Americas were the fist to discover and settle North and South America. There were visitors to the Americas before Christopher Columbus. Documentaries, Lectures, and Interviews.

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