![]() ![]() Sertima had a distinguished career as a literary critic, a linguist and an anthropologist and has made important contributions in all three fields. He began his teaching career in Africana Studies at Rutgers in 1972 and retired as Professor of Africana Studies in 2005. During the decade of the 1960s, he broadcasted weekly from Britain to both Africa and the Caribbean. Sertima documented the planned presence of Africans in the Americas during the period of Ramses III (circa 1200 BC) and the 14th century–a period Sertima referred to as the “Man-dingo voyages.”įrom 1957 to 1959, he served as a Press and Broadcasting Officer in the Guyana Information Services. With fastidious scholarship and science, Dr. His most acclaimed work was ‘They Came Before Columbus: The African Presence in Ancient America,’ published in 1976. The University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). Terms which he completed in 1969 as part of an undergraduate field project for ![]() His first publication was a Swahili Dictionary of Legal Sertima was the author and editor of several books andĪcademic journals. ![]()
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