You have permission to edit this article. In They Came Before Columbus, we see clearly the unmistakable face and handprint of black Africans in pre-Columbian America, and their overwhelming impact on the civilizations they encountered. Ivan Van Sertima is a fringe Afrocentric theorist (they all are), who argued that there was an African presence in America, long before Colombus set shore in the Bahamas in 1492. [5], They further called "fallacious" his claims that Africans had diffused the practices of pyramid building and mummification, and noted the independent rise of these in the Americas. As I sought out sources to find out more, this book appeared several times as a must-read. . My best guess would be from somewhere(s) in west and/or maybe central Africa. If anything, the only thing Van Sertimas book is good for is a good laugh into the delusions of someone with the conclusion in mind, working backward to prove it (meaning, hes using the type of reverse engineering that EPists use). Columbus actually said in the journal of his second voyage when he was in Haiti, then known as Espanola, Native Americans came to him and told him that Black people had come in large boats from the south and southeast trading in gold-tipped metal spears. Ocean currents such as the Guinea and Canary currents were likely to have aided Africans sailing to America as well. [6] He attended the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) at the University of London from 1959. ( Van Sertima, 1972: xiv; They Came Before Colombus) Ivan Van Sertima is a fringe Afrocentric theorist (they all are), who argued that there was an African presence in America, long before Colombus set shore in the Bahamas in 1492. . Laster that year he returned to this country to teach at Rutgers. However, Columbus actually sent back on a mail boat to Spain, samples of these gold-tipped metal spears. All Rights Reserved. White ppll pulled up to America and realize the whole country was filled with black ppl. They follow that quote with this statement: "In spite of the above evidence, education and curriculum development literature are generally silent on the Olmecs" (pg 5). Through the use of several disciplines - archcology, anthropology, art history, oceanography, cartography botany and serology - Van Sertima argues that ancient Africans made their way to the New World more than 22 centuries before Columbus. They can find a billion year old dinosaur bone but cant find any slave ships, B.o.B wrote in a 2017 Instagram post. What did we believe in? They Were Not Here Before Columbus: Afrocentricity in the 1990's Bernard Ortiz de Montellano Download Free PDF Related Papers Plant Evidence for Contact Between African and the New World Bernard Ortiz de Montellano Download Free PDF View PDF Robbing Native American Cultures: Van Sertima's Afrocentricity and the Olmecs Bernard Ortiz de Montellano [24] He was survived by his wife and four adult children. There have been a number of diffusion theories regarding the Olmec. Learn how your comment data is processed. Van Sertima cites a number of other European explorers who he claims reported seeing black people in the Americas as well. In doing this, primary source anecdotes are often the evidence cited by Van Sertima combined with inference and exaggeration, though he implies to his readers that the narrative is based in fact. Sometimes the conversation will somehow, turn into a history lesson about China. These people essentially provide written testimonies that support Van Sertimas thesis. Did we learn anything in there that I had simply forgotten? Keep supporting great journalism by turning off your ad blocker. Dwayne is the author of Kingdoms and Civilizations of Africa and several other books on African and African Diaspora history. ", Van Sertima said he didn't travel much to research the book. A celebrated classic, They Came . Despite this, some individuals would argue: A mass colony of Africans were not shipped from Africa to America. [15], A chapter is also devoted to the presence of bottle gourds originally from Africa found in ancient Mesoamerican graves. It was with the coming of Columbus that the twilight of the red and black races began. Van Sertima added, How many of us know the African influence on ancient Greece and Rome? In 1455 the Portuguese sailor Alvise da Cadamostoin encountered West African riverboats in the Gambian river. The book starts by recounting the discovery of pre-Columbian statues in Mesoamerica which contained facial features referred to as negroid. Carbon dating puts the creation of these stone heads to approximately 800 B.C. There are Egyptian-like pyramids in the Americas and mummified persons similar to those in Egypt. Van Sertima's zeal for learning about African culture began in England in the '60s while he was working as a writer for the BBC. The audience of about 300 people in the Medaille Campus Center was sprayed with an array of examples -- on slides and verbally -- that supported or debunked the theory that Africans reached the New World well before 1492. Not only because of the apparent Asian features of some of the Olmec sculptures, but Xu also attempted to draw a connection between the Olmec script and Chinese characters. "I kept quiet about my work. This work was published by Random House and did not go through a peer review process. I read They Came Before Columbus: The African Presence in Ancient America by Ivan Van Sertima. Van Sertima, 42, here Saturday for the concluding day of the third annual black writers conference sponsored by Howard University, said the pervious to original thought, who will letters exposed Daniel as "a man imnot even do honest battle with ideas he contends but tries to drown out in a sea of vituperation and abuse.". Other stone heads have been uncovered in Mexico. In the library of a Princeton professor, he came across three volumes, "Africa and the Discovery of America," written by a Harvard Linquist, Leo Weiner, and published more than 50 years ago. Also, some other West African countries had been known to both fish by boat and sail. According to Dr. Van Sertima, whose book "They Came Before Columbus" (Random House, 1976) suggests Africans were in the New World before Columbus's journeys, the mainstream of academia. I don't buy it. Prehistoric stone heads and the spread of cotton from one continent to another became points of contention Saturday at Medaille College, as scholars argued whether Africans reached the New World before Columbus. "A landmark . This view, of course, is seen as highly fringe in the field of anthropology. https://twitter.com/BreeNewsome/status/1404242564585246720?s=20&t=Lv4XscKZw3SR_tmBhetmbg, https://twitter.com/tariqnasheed/status/1501640824576110595?s=20&t=Lv4XscKZw3SR_tmBhetmbg, https://twitter.com/RDCRaissa/status/1503381403836293127?s=20&t=Lv4XscKZw3SR_tmBhetmbg, https://twitter.com/JaKaB0i_116/status/1503133876637638663?s=20&t=Lv4XscKZw3SR_tmBhetmbg, The Genetic Ancestry of African Americans, Latinos, and European Americans across the United States. "Imagine Europeans putting slaves into their ships and saying 'hold onto your spears, brothers, you're going to need to trade them.' "Human beings in any population have a great deal of variation," pointed out Barbour, whose methodical approach contrasted sharply with Van Sertima's more theatrical arguments. We need to know about the time when we had empires. We were taken from Africa, but who were we before slavery? This finding flatly contradicted the claim of the historian Herodotus that the Egyptians, compared to the Greeks and other European Caucasoids, were for the most part a black-skinned and wooly-haired people. When you push one door, other doors begin to open.". Anthropologists, archaeologists, historians and linguists alike have debunked much of the evidence that Menzies used to support his notion, which has come to be called the 1421 theory. In addition to his creative writing, Van Sertima completed his undergraduate studies in African languages and literature at SOAS in 1969, where he graduated with honours.[6][7][8]. I really have no idea. Its really that easy to explain the so-called similar appearances in nose shape between the Olmec heads and African noses. I'm trying to follow all the rules but forgive me if this is a bit vague. Also according to Polish craniologist Wiercinsky 13.5% of skeletons in a pre-classic Olmec cemetery of Tlatilco were negroid which decreased in percentage over time, indicating intermixture with the native population over time. Or purchase a subscription for unlimited access to real news you can count on. Occasionally, Ive been asked by my colleagues some form of the question, Where are you from?, No, like where is your family from? He died on 25 May 2009 aged 74. If each piece of evidence and argument was listed, the list would be as long as the index. Sources of information on such misconceptions and strategies for helping students to overcome them are . Van Sertima said: "Many people feel a certain kind of happiness when they read my book. What is the view of historians in general? Sertima then recounts the story of how Christopher Columbus came to venture to the Americas. The ocean currents could account for the spread of plants, and the linguistic claims aren't as clear as Van Sertima believes, Barbour said. In How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, Walter Rodney explained that if any African canoes reached the Americas (as is sometimes maintained) they did not establish two-way links. If these two-way links were established, Umar fails to cite specific examples because there are no examples. Read honest and unbiased product reviews from our users. Dwayne Wong (Omowale) is a Guyanese born Pan-Africanist and author. I saw Dr. Van Sertima lecture at Cornell University in 1979. The g-spot has been referred to as the female prostate (Puppo, 2014) and, 2550 words Steatopygia is an extreme accumulatation of large amounts of fat on the buttocks, and is also known as obesity in the coccyx (Wallner, 2400 words In the year 2000, psychologist Erik Turkheimer proposed three laws of behavioral genetics (LoBG hereafter): First Law. Listen to GHOGH with Jamarlin Martin | Episode 74: Jamarlin Martin Jamarlin returns for a new season of the GHOGH podcast to discuss Bitcoin, bubbles, and Biden. The others are unidentified. So what does Sabres GM Kevyn Adams do this week? In Chapter Four, "Africans Across the Sea", Van Sertima explores numerous ways that he claims Africans could have travelled by boat to South and Central America. Get up-to-the-minute news sent straight to your device. First discovered by Charles Spearman in 1904, noting that schoolchildren, 1550 words Introduction The role of the Jews in the slave tradeand in the civil warhas garnered a great amount of scholarly attention. "[20][n 2], In 1981 Dean R. Snow, a professor of anthropology, wrote that Van Sertima "uses the now familiar technique of stringing together bits of carefully selected evidence, each surgically removed from the context that would give it a rational explanation". In doing so, he also attempts to combat the perceived inferiority of black Africans due to their perceived lack of technological or cultural advancements prior to colonialism in Africa. Technically, Carthage was a part of Northern Africa too. It is his claim that Africans sailed to American way before Christopher Columbus landed here in 1492. Van Sertima claims that the Mixtecs and Aztecs were influenced by Bakari II. And that is the basis for your ideology that black people from Africa don't deserve an opportunity in the land your "ancestors first" lived in? Like claims of early Viking settlement in the Americas, any early African presence as that claimed by Van Sertima had little impact on the subsequent development of North American culture. "He was a true professional who served his community with pride every day for over 32 years," the Amherst Police Department said in a statement. This book is dense with presented evidence and deserves serious study. After divorcing his first wife, Sertima remarried in 1984, to Jacqueline L. Patten, who had two daughters. No man who believes his history began with slavery can be a healthy man. Many of the cultural pieces of evidence also provide intriguing support to Van Sertimas thesis, though many may legitimately be debated as coincidences or artefacts resulting simply from commonalities in how the human brain interprets the world. Did the Spanish also assay the spears of West Africa to know what ratio of gold, silver and copper alloys were found in the African spears? She also planned to publish a book of his poetry.[25]. But early African contact, by free peoples, is being viewed in school curriculum development as a source of pride for a large segment of the modern school population, to counter what Van Sertima termed "disrespect for the Africans" who had built early civilizations and empires in their own homelands long before European contact. Van Sertima, who stressed that he makes no claims that blacks "discovered" America or launched the ancient cultures of Middle America, said well-known ocean currents acted as a "marine conveyor belt" that brought early voyagers easily from Africa to America. Rhythm, flow, enunciation of some words could be improved upon, but again this seemed to be a random volunteer. He completed primary and secondary school in Guyana, and started writing poetry. Van Sertima was among those who argued that the Olmec had African origins, whereas others such as Mike Xu have argued that the Olmec civilization has Asian roots. However, anthropologists and archaeologists who specialized in Mesoamerican history, rightly, reject Van Sertimas storytelling. He posited that higher learning, in Africa as elsewhere, was the preserve of elites in the centres of civilisations, rendering them vulnerable in the event of the destruction of those centres and the loss of such knowledge. Weiant, who had a PhD in archaeology, also wrote numerous articles on extrasensory perception and was an active member of the. But Van Sertima always defended his book. If there were an African presence in the Americas, he asked, "why do we not find more African stylistic artifacts?". The books showed an African and Arabic influence on medeival Mexican and South languages prior to European contact. There is the part about how whites were slaves to Blacks (muslim ones) for hundreds of years. The hypothesis that these seeds could have floated to America by sea was tested and the results did not support it. Change). Van Sertima states that even the Greek historian Herodotus had an account of black Egyptian people. They also claim slave ships are a myth. Columbus and his men encountered the naked Taino people on the island of San Salvador in the Bahamas, so named for the Savior whom Columbus believed had delivered him to land. In TCBC, Van Sertima (1972: 39) reconstructed an event in the medieval empire of Mali, based on Arab historical and travel documents and the oral tradition of the Mali griots. Chapters 3 and 4 do, indeed, read like some sort of fantastical tale, so I am glad that Van Sertima left the notebut it is quite clear that he is doing nothing but storytelling. 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He was a . [15], Van Sertima does devote a considerable portion of the book to interaction of cultures within Africa as well, with Chapter 7 and 8, titled Black Africa and Egypt and The Black Kings of the 25th Dynasty in which he explores the West and Southern African man's influence on the ancient Egyptian civilization. Mike Harrington: His team looks good, even without Alex Tuch. Ivan Van Sertima's They Came Before Columbus is the first monographic treatment of this problem since Leo Wiener's Africa and the Discovery ofAmerica (3 vols., Philadelphia, 1920-1922), although M. D. W. Jeffreys has littered the intervening fifty years with articles on various aspects of it, often drawing heated responses They noted that no "genuine African artifact had been found in a controlled archaeological excavation in the New World." Most average 5-year olds with decent critical thinking ability can spot the cracks in the theory. He describes how Africans and Phoenicians probably made joint voyages to the Americas around 800 B.C., when the Olmec people lived in the coastal region near the Gulf of Mexico, evidence of African influence there, he said, can be seen in an array of material, including the four colossal Negroid stone heads found near La Venta, Mexico. The occasion was his first visit to the United States from Britain, where he was working in 1970. Im not sure how legal that is, but I say thanks. The Olmec heads, quite obviously, represent the peoples living in lowland Mexiconot Nubians who supposedly sailed across the Atlantic and made contact with pre-Colombian civilizations (Viera, de Montellano, and Barbour, 1997). In fact, that . 6 Pages. Recently, I've been handed a book called "They Came before Columbus" by Ivan Sertima, which asserts that Africans had discovered and traded with the native people of the Americas long before Columbus arrived. In the documentary, Umar Johnson claims that Africans were going back and forth engaging in cultural and economic trade before Columbus. Sign up for our newsletter to keep reading. Van Sertimas case in They Came Before Columbus is the best known, certainly not the only one. Barbour, who has studied more than a quarter million figurines from Mesoamerican areas cited by Van Sertima, said the depictions even more easily could portray facial types of native Americans, and no convincing evidence supports African influence on Mesoamerican architecture or culture. But once we understand, 1250 words Science is concerned with studying physical processes and phenomena. Experts have determined that the gourds floated across the Atlantic and washed ashore in the Americas to be adopted by Mesoamerican cultures. Saying slave ships are a myth is a whole new level of ignorance . I want to make a point of clarification here. The accounts of people such as Christopher Columbus himself, Spanish travelers, and Herodotus, though, are harder to debate. The word for tobacco also has African roots as well as the refinement of the practice of oral pipe smoking. Van Sertima uses written, archaeological, and cultural evidence to support his thesis. This is not a romantic idea. But where did Menzies come up with the idea that it was Asians, not Europeans, who first arrived in America from other countries? Others hold true to the story of the American slave trade in which enslaved Africans were brought to Americas shores to provide free labor to build the country and grow the economy. This two-way trade never happened. 'Before Columbus': Roots of a Dispute - The Washington Post By Hollie I. However, Columbus actually sent back on a mail boat to Spain samples of these gold-tipped metal spears. pic.twitter.com/c0OjXNOVqt, Black Americans Have the Highest Mortality Rates But Lowest Levels of Life Insurance Reading these volumes sparked his interest in carrying further what Weiner, with his lack of knowledge about anthropology and archeology, had only suggested: the idea that Americans came to the Americas - and stayed - 2,000 years before Columbus. In this book, the author presents evidence and arguments for the existence of black Africans in America before the arrival of Columbus and the beginning of the Atlantic Slave Trade in 1492. "They couldn't be slave blacks," he said. In doing field work in Africa, he compiled a dictionary of Swahili legal terms in 1967. I may hear about anything from the cultural revolution, to ancient Chinese dynasties, to Genghis Kan. On the cover of the book, John A. Williams writes that Van Sertima has demonstrated that there is far more to black history than the slave trade. Quite obviously, there is more to black history than the slave trade, but Van Sertimas storytelling is not it. On the day he submitted his piece, he learned about Alexander von Wuthenau, and art historian who had excavated a large number of Negroid heads in clay, gold, copper and copal sculpted by pre-Columbian American artists. Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. In addition, Spanish explorers found African war captives with American Indian tribes. Van Sertima reached larger audiences through chapters narrated by figures of the past, including Christopher Columbus and the Mali king Abu Bakr II. It was generally "ignored or dismissed" by academic experts at the time and strongly criticised in detail in an academic journal, Current Anthropology, in 1997. "While I was doing it," he recalls, "I asked myself why was I studying African writers in English.Why didn't I know an African language? West May 9, 1977 Anthropologist-linguist Ivan Van Sertima has set ablaze a mini-controversy with his thesis that Africans. One of the most baffling claims to me is the idea that the slave trade happened in reverse and that Native Americans were shipped to Africa, not the other way around. pic.twitter.com/GRHEgWZkZb. Despite this, there were however, agreed upon black kings of the 25th dynasty such as Taharqa. In this book, Ivan Van Sertima explores his theory that Africans made landfall and had significant influence on the native peoples of Mesoamerica, primarily the Olmec civilization. Even Van Sertima himself admits that the people who were trading these spears could be dark bronze people from South America as opposed to African. 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