Prof. Ivan Van Sertima Video Collection

Ivan Gladstone Van Sertimaย (26 January 1935 - 25 May 2009) was a British historian,linguistย andย anthropologistย atย Rutgers Universityย in the United States.ย He was noted for hisย Afrocentricย theory ofย pre-Columbian contact between Africa and the Americas.ย 

He began his teaching career atย Rutgers Universityย as an instructor in 1972. In 1977 he completed his master's degree. He was Associate Professor of African Studies in the Department of Africana Studies. As editor of theย Journal of African Civilizationsย and author of numerous books, he has addressed topics in literature, linguistics, anthropology and history. He wrote several books in which he argued that theย Ancient Egyptians were black.
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Van Sertima retired in 2006. He died on 25 May 2009 aged 74.ย He was survived by his wife and four adult children. His widow, Jacqueline, said she will continue to publish the Journal of African Civilization and plans to publish a book of his poetry
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