Black History : They Came Before Columbus.. Excellent 47minute lecture by Ivan Van Sertima

[skuderjaymes]

REFERENCEs : The books on Columbus Mr. Sertima is speaking of in the beginning of the video

Christopher Columbus, his life, his work, his remains, as revealed by original printed and manuscript records, together with an essay on Peter Martyr of Anghera and Bartolomé de las Casas, the first historians of America by John Boyd Thacher.

Published 1903 by The A.H. Clark Co. in Cleveland .

Archive.org links:

Volume 1 : http://www.archive.org/details/christophercolum11thac
Volume 2 : http://www.archive.org/details/christophercolum02thacuoft
Volume 3 : http://www.archive.org/details/christophercolum03thacuoft

You can download a free digital copy or view each volume online.. I reccomend you save the FULL TEXT version along with a PDF version. The text version will allow you to search for keywords.. the EPUB format is incredibly compact.. Download SIGIL which is a EPUB format Writer/Reader to view and even EDIT these files.

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[skuderjaymes]

"..but as I come to close, i want you to bear this in mind: the history of the world is not written,
the history of Europe.. perhaps.. There remains a great deal to be done. There's a whole world out there[..] a whole new set of things are emerging.. this is no closed chapter.. this last chapter has been written with a certain eye.. an eye that has been blind to the genius of the African. Therefore it is only by opening another eye.. by having a different kind of illumination, a different kind of vision.. that the history of the Americas.. that the history of the African can truly be written."

-Ivan Van Sertima

 

[King Tubbs]

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Thank you for posting this informative video.

 

[cherryblossom]

..but as I come to close, i want you to bear this in mind: the history of the world is not written,
the history of Europe.. perhaps.. There remains a great deal to be done. There's a whole world out there[..] a whole new set of things are emerging.. this is no closed chapter.. this last chapter has been written with a certain eye.. an eye that has been blind to the genius of the African. Therefore it is only by opening another eye.. by having a different kind of illumination, a different kind of vision.. that the history of the Americas.. that the history of the African can truly be written.

-Ivan Van Sertima

I can most certainly agree with Ivan Van Sertima that "We Came Before Columbus;" but I have strong doubts that those kingdoms/civilizations in the Americas "Came Before Kemet" as some authors may hypothesize.

Science has even attested that LIFE (Mitochondrial Eve) originates in AFRICA.

So, I have strong mis-givings that Africans developed the Americas BEFORE we developed AFRICA.

 

[dunwiddat]

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Skuder I have a copy of this book They Came Before Columbus... It is an eye opener to say the least.