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Justin Johnson
March 25, 2003

They Came Before Columbus- Ivan Van Sertima

Ivan Van Sertima was born in Guyana, South America. He was educated at the School of Oriental and African Studies (London University) and the Rutgers Graduate School and holds degrees in African Studies and Anthropology. From 1957 to 1959 he served as a Press and broadcasting Officer in the Guyana Information Services. During the decade of the 1960's he broadcasted weekly from Britain to Africa and the Caribbean. He is a literary critic, a linguist, and an anthropologist and has made a
Africa and the Caribbean. He is a literary critic, a linguist, and an anthropologist and has made a name in all three fields. As a literary critic, he is the author of Caribbean Writers, a collection of critical essays on the Caribbean novel. He is also the author of several major literary reviews published in Denmark, India, Britain and the United States. He was honored for his work in this field by being asked ...