These anthologies include Blacks in Science: ancient and modern , Black Women in Antiquity, Egypt Revisited, Egypt: Child of Africa, Nile Valley Civilizations (now included within the pages of Egypt: Child of Africa), African Presence in the Art of the Americas, African Presence in Early Asia (co-edited with Runoko Rashidi), African Presence in Early Europe, African Presence in Early America, Great African Thinkers, Great Black Leaders: ancient and modern and Golden Age of the Moor.Īs an acclaimed poet, his work graced the pages of River and the Wall, 1953 and has was published in English and German. He was the Editor of the Journal of African Civilizations, which he founded in 1979 and published several major anthologies which have influenced the development of multicultural curriculum in the United States. Van Sertima was also Visiting Professor at Princeton University. Professor of African Studies at Rutgers University, Dr. Holte Prize, a prize awarded every two years “for a work of excellence in literature and the humanities relating to the cultural heritage of Africa and the African diaspora.” He also authored Early America Revisited, a book that has enriched the study of a wide range of subjects, from archaeology to anthropology, and has resulted in profound changes in the reordering of historical priorities and pedagogy. He is the author of They Came Before Columbus: The African Presence in Ancient America, which was awarded the Clarence L.

He was also the compiler of the Swahili Dictionary of Legal Terms, based on his field work in Tanzania, East Africa, in 1967. As a linguist, he published essays on the dialect of the Sea Islands off the Georgia Coast. He has also been honored as an historian of world repute by being asked to join UNESCO’s International Commission for Rewriting the Scientific and Cultural History of Mankind.

He was asked by the Nobel Committee of the Swedish Academy to nominate candidates for the Nobel Prize in Literature from 1976-1980. He was a literary critic, a linguist and an anthropologist. During the decade of the 1960s he broadcast weekly from Britain to Africa and the Caribbean.

From 1957-1959 he served as a Press and Broadcasting Officer in the Guyana Information Services. He was educated at the School of Oriental and African Studies (London University) and the Rutgers Graduate School and held degrees in African Studies and Anthropology.

Ivan Van Sertima was born on 26 January 1935 in Guyana, South America.

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