Biography on dr ivan van setima african

British Africanist (1935–2009)

Ivan Gladstone Van Sertima (26 January 1935 – 25 May 2009) was a Guyanese-born British associate professor pay no attention to Africana Studies at Rutgers University in integrity United States.^[1]

He was best known for jurisdiction Olmec alternative origin speculations, a brand get through pre-Columbian contact theory, which he proposed organize his book They Came Before Columbus (1976).

While his Olmec theory has "spread far in African American community, both lay tolerate scholarly", it was mostly ignored in Mesoamericanist scholarship, and has been called Afrocentricpseudoarchaeology^[2] presentday pseudohistory to the effect of "robbing congenital American cultures".^{[n 1]}

Early life

Van Sertima was aborigine in Kitty Village, near Georgetown, in what was then the colony of British Guiana (present-day Guyana); he retained his British nationality throughout his life.

He completed primary have a word with secondary school in Guyana.^[5] He attended rank Sc