Something like 100,000 years part in linguistic phylogeny. He could not know Gobekli Tepe, the surrounding settlements, the Natufian villages, etc., all going back to 12,000 years BC which is more than 6,000 or 7,000 years before the Egyptian civilization and 9,000 before the invention of the first known writing system in the Middle East, the Sumerian writing system too often identified as the Akkadian cuneiform writing system because the scribes were Akkadian speaking a Semitic language though the language was Sumerian, a synthetic-analytical language, probably post-agglutinative. We cannot of course reproach the author with what he could not know in 1976. It insists on the leading role it played in some periods and it tries to find out in what periods there existed contact between Black Africa and the Americas. It asserted the historical participation of Black Africa as far back as the birth of the Egyptian civilization. He was an associate professor of African Studies in the Department of African Studies.BLACK AFRICA’S HISTORY This book was salvational in many ways at the time of its publication. He later immigrated to the US where he entered the University of Rutgers in New Brunswick, New Jersey for graduate work and he has had over 30 years of teaching at the university where he also completed his Master’s degree. He also worked for several years in Great Britain as a journalist, doing weekly broadcasts to the Caribbean and Africa. In addition to producing an array of creative writing, van Sertima also completed undergraduate studies in African languages and literature and during his studies he became fluent in Swahili and Hungarian. After completing his primary and secondary schooling in Guyana, he travelled to London and went to university. Well known Guyanese-British literary critic, linguist, poet and anthropologist, Dr Ivan van Sertima, died recently, according to a release from the Guyana Cultural Association New York Inc/Guyana Folk Festival which expressed condolences to his family.Īccording to the release Dr van Sertima was born in January 1935 in Kitty when the country was still a British colony and remained a British citizen. Books by Ivan Van Sertima (Author of They Came Before Columbus) Books by Ivan Van Sertima Ivan Van Sertima Average rating 4. The Africanness or Negroidness of the heads is visually undeniable unless one.
At the heart of this magnificent volume is a group of huge stone heads, weighing ten to forty tons, dating to the Olmec culture of Mexico at least 800 years before Christ. Via Stabroek News – Ivan van Sertima dies: Van Sertima is most famous for his book, They Came Before Columbus, published in 1976.
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