79th birthday of Ivan Van Sertima

(Born 26 January 1935, Karina, Guyana)

 Poet, linguist, journalist, historian, academic and author of the seminal They Came Before Columbus (1976) which explores thousands of years of African relationship with the peoples of the Americas, prior to the European invasion of these west continents beginning in the 15th century

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