The work focuses largely on contact between Africa and America towards the close of the Bronze Age (circa 948-680 BC) and the Mandingo-Songhay trading voyages (from early fourteenth to late fifteenth century). In this collective work Van Sertima is joined by half a dozen other colleagues. Far more sophisticated analyses may now be presented of ancient African astronomy, map-making, scripts, navigation, trade routes, pyramidal structures, linguistic connections, technological and ritual complexes. A tribute to a great scholar, Ivan van Sertima, this book discusses the origins, the nature and the historical development of the Nile Valley civilisations. New stone heads have surfaced in recent excavations while a very old one with a seven-braided Ethiopian hairstyle has come out of a century of obscurity into sudden prominence. But since then many more sculptures have emerged from the earth or from the backrooms of private collections. Van Sertima ’ s father, Frank Obermuller, was a. Guyana was then a colony of Great Britain, and van Sertima retained British citizenship even after embarking on his scholarly career in the United States. Sixteen years have passed since They Came Before Columbus appeared, in which Van Sertima presented most of the facts that were then known about the links between Africa and America before Columbus. Ivan Gladstone van Sertima was born in Kitty Village in Guyana, a small country on South America ’ s Caribbean coast, on January 26, 1935.
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