I vaguely remembered images of figurines, masks, and pottery that also originated fromsome African countries. Van Sertimas main evidence for his claims regarding a pre-Colombian contact between ancient Africans (Nubians) and Olmecs rests on the supposed similarities between Negroid facial features and the colossal Olmec heads. This doesnt seem to be an official recording. 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. This is an inference that Van Sertima makes, but he presents his inference as a fact. Polynesians/Melanesians went to the Americas before Columbus. There is also a vast body of knowledge to be uncovered about Africa and America. Hip-hop artist B.o.B,who is also a flat Earth believer. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Van Sertima's Journal of African Civilizations was not considered for inclusion in Journals of the Century. What did we believe in? The Olmec associated volcanic rocks and the like with symbolic importance, and so, they carved their sculptures out of them due to this. Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Professor Ivan van Sertima, They Came before Columbus A review by Femi Akomolafe, 19 January 1995. So anything that isnt physical (like the mind/consciousness) cant studied by science. [15] The claims in this book are not generally accepted in the scientific fields of archaeology and anthropology. Van Sertima states that even the Greek historian Herodotus had an account of black Egyptian people. I was a friend of de Montellanos and many years ago we used to debunk Afrocentrists aka Afronuts on several forums (he posted as Quetzalcoatl on Egyptsearch), but he died I think in 2016. It could be dark, bronze people from South America. 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. Occasionally, Ive been asked by my colleagues some form of the question, Where are you from?, No, like where is your family from? Hidden Colors also makes the argument that Africans were in the Americas before Columbus. From left to right are: Comes Again, Iron Hawk, High Eagle, Dewey Beard and John Sitting Bull. They never did import Africans as slaves because slave ships aren't real. 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]. We need to know about the time when we had empires. 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. If each piece of evidence and argument was listed, the list would be as long as the index. The slave ship narrative is a myth. This interaction is not rooted in historical evidence and Van Sertima does not offer a cited source to back up his narrative. In the first place, there are no Egyptian historical records which suggest that the Egyptians ever sailed to America or even attempted such a journey. Columbus never claimed that he saw black people in the Americas. The book is a special May selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club and Tandom House is about to publish a second printing. 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. 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? Van Sertima believed that Mali seafarers sailed across the Atlantic and landed in Mesoamerica. Yeah, they forget about the actual red dark Indians in India. 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. Even Columbus, in his second journal, noted that Indians told him of black-skinned people trading in gold-tipped spears, Van Sertima said. The researchers wrote a systematic rebuttal of Van Sertima's claims, stating that Van Sertima's "proposal was without foundation" in claiming African diffusion as responsible for prehistoric Olmec culture (in present-day Mexico). Van Sertima's work on Olmec civilization has been criticised by Mesoamerican academics,[17] who describe his claims to be ill-founded and false. This video is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Ivan Van Sertima who made is transition on May 25th, 2009. However, some of the biggest resting points of his theory attribute Mesoamerican pyramids, mummification, symbolism, mythology, calendar technology, and much of the art to African influence and guidance. So again, thanks. Normativity has been distinguished between, If you have any suggestions for future posts, criticisms or praises for me, email me at RaceRealist88@gmail.com. [15] This is one of many examples of Van Sertima's theories that Mesoamerican mythologies are based on Pre-Columbian African contact theories. Kenneth L. FedderKenneth L. Feder, a specialist in archaeological pseudoscience, addresses prevalent misconceptions about the settlement of the Americas, discussing how they are stimulated by ethnic pride and religious faith, propagated uncritically in the media, and accepted by students. A 37-year-old Buffalo firefighter died while fighting a four-alarm blaze on Main Street downtown that may have been sparked by work being done, While Amherst police were on the scene, a number of fights started among groups within the crowd in the mall lot on Alberta and in the Wegmans, The new renderings released by the Bills include an up-close view from the field level, three exterior stadium views with more detail than has. [15] The Eurocentric view of history is being debunked by anthropologic research. So, Van Sertima had his conclusion in mind first, and looked for evidence for itmeaning he was telling just-so stories. The author gives pictures of examples of negroid statues in pre-Columbian America, often with black people in comparison. Most average 5-year olds with decent critical thinking ability can spot the cracks in the theory. From rhinoplasty to cataract replacement, the Hindu vedic text Sushruta Samhita documents the discovery of advanced surgical techniques centuries before they found their way into the operating theaters of western Europe. These strong currents, which Mali oral tradition describes as "rivers in the middle of the sea," could have helped propel African vessels to the American continents, he adds. [5], Van Sertima wrote a response to be included in the article (as is standard academic practice) but withdrew it. It was with the coming of Columbus that the twilight of the red and black races began. A celebrated classic, They Came . "How many of us know the African influence on ancient Greece and Rome? However, Afrocentrists then make the claim that the natives of Mesoamerica regarded them as gods, and so they sculpted these statues in order to honor them (sounds like Ancient Aliens, to me). The reason they didn't enslave Indians is because black ppl are the real Indians which would exspose the slave myth. Your email address will not be published. Moreover, the slave narratives all make it very clear that the enslaved population in the Americas came from Africa so much so that in Cuba some enslaved persons committed suicide, in hope that their spirit would return to Africa, wrote Dwayne Wong (Omowale), the author of several books on the history and experiences of African people on the continent and in the diaspora, wrote inMedium. The occasion was his first visit to the United States from Britain, where he was working in 1970. How can these accounts be explained away? "I nver expected any money," he explains. The sickle cell trait, an adaptation to ward off malaria found mostly in people from West Africa, was also discovered in the secluded Mayan tribe, the Lancodon Indians by Dr. Alfonso de Garay, Director of the Genetic Program of the National Commission for Nuclear Energy in Mexico. Change). He also points to the Negroid features of giant stone heads in Mexico, our of which have been radio carbon dated at 814 B.C. Back in December of 2015, I published an article refuting the notion that the Olmecsand other pre-Colombian civilizationswere started by Negroid peoples. In fact, Columbus writes that they were not black. None of that evidence is conclusive or even particularly convincing, countered anthropologist Warren T.D. Van Sertima focuses specifically on the Olmec colossal heads, saying that the characteristics of the stone faces are "indisputably" African, while Mesoamerican experts such as Richard Diehl disregards this claim, as the statues are stylized and generally accepted as representing native Mesoamericans. I really have no idea. (LogOut/ In Chapter 5, called "Among the Quetzalcoatls", Van Sertima narrates the arrival of Abu Bakr II to an Aztec civilization in Mexico in 1311, describing the Mali king as "a true child of the sun burned dark by its rays" in direct and explicit comparison to the Aztec "sun god" Quetzalcoatl, as Van Sertima writes. The belief that Africans were in the Americas before the Europeans were makes sense to me. As somebody who strongly believes that history is dominated by the "Western" narrative, I find myself drawn to believe Sertima. It was also concluded that it was not likely that these seeds were carried by birds. Van Sertima does not say, but he jumps the conclusion that the spears that were sent to Spain were African spears without providing a basis for why he believes so. Because the Olmec civilization is one that has been largely shrouded in mystery, there have been a number of theories about the historical roots of the Olmec. 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. "People have different definitions of realism," he added, pointing out stylistic conventions and showing slides that depicted convincingly similar but totally unrelated rattlesnake scale designs from the early American city of Teotihuacan and decorations on a Louis XVI commode. This is not a romantic idea. 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