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Ivan Van Sertima

Contemporary historian whose work documents the African presence in the early Americas. From 1957-1959, he served as a press and broadcasting officer in the Guyana Information Services. He is a literary critic, a linguist, and an anthropologist. He is the author of “They Came Before Columbus: The African Presence in Ancient America” and “Early America Revisited.”

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