Whites? And when they answered ‘slavery’ as the explanation, then I wanted to How is it that we were in such low circumstances as compared to the He notes: “I wanted to know how you explain this greatĭifference.
The Bennettsville, South Carolina native seeing the poor state of people of his kind set out to have answers. Like Sertima, he had first-hand experience with the unjust system against Blacks in America as his father had been born into slavery and had grown up to gain freedom after the American Civil War. He was an African-American sociologist, historian and writer who came to national and international attention when he authored ‘The Destruction of Black Civilization’ book across 1971/1974. The next scholar to look at is Chancellor Williams born on December 22, 1893. Sertima had a distinguished career as a literary critic, a linguist and an anthropologist and has made important contributions in all three fields.
He began his teaching career in Africana Studies at Rutgers in 1972 and retired as Professor of Africana Studies in 2005. During the decade of the 1960s, he broadcasted weekly from Britain to both Africa and the Caribbean. Sertima documented the planned presence of Africans in the Americas during the period of Ramses III (circa 1200 BC) and the 14th century–a period Sertima referred to as the “Man-dingo voyages.”įrom 1957 to 1959, he served as a Press and Broadcasting Officer in the Guyana Information Services. With fastidious scholarship and science, Dr.
His most acclaimed work was ‘They Came Before Columbus: The African Presence in Ancient America,’ published in 1976. The University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). Terms which he completed in 1969 as part of an undergraduate field project for His first publication was a Swahili Dictionary of Legal Sertima was the author and editor of several books andĪcademic journals.
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