![]() ![]() Indeed, many people had written on the African presence in pre-Columbian America before Van Sertima. The ideas and themes presented in They Came Before Columbus were not novel. He was recognised for his work in this field by being requested by the Nobel Committee of the Swedish Academy to nominate candidates for the Nobel Prize in Literature from 1976 to 1980.īut it was as a historian that the great man made his greatest impact with his 1977 groundbreaking work, “They Came Before Columbus: The African Presence in Ancient America”. He was also the author of several major literary reviews published in Denmark, India, Britain, and the United States. As a literary critic, he was the author of Caribbean Writers, a collection of critical essays on the Caribbean novel. Van Sertima was first of all, an amazing polymath in this age of specializations and sub-specializations – a literary critic, a linguist, a historian and an anthropologist – who made a name for himself in all these fields.Īs a linguist, he was the compiler of the Swahili Dictionary of Legal Terms, based on his field word in Tanzania, East Africa in 1967. Ivan Van Sertima,hardly did justice to this great son of Guyana. ![]()
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