Ivan Van Sertima
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| Gender | Male |
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| Death | 16 years ago |
| Date of birth | January 26,1935 |
| Zodiac sign | Aquarius |
| Born | British Guiana |
| Date of died | May 25,2009 |
| Died | Highland Park |
| New Jersey | |
| United States | |
| Spouse | Jacqueline Van Sertima |
| Known for | Pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact theories |
| Africa | |
| Job | Writer |
| Anthropologist | |
| Historian | |
| Education | SOAS University of London |
| University of London | |
| Rutgers University | |
| Books | Early America revisited |
| The Golden Age of the Moor | |
| Great Black Leaders | |
| African Presence in Early Europe | |
| Egypt Revisited | |
| They came before Columbus | |
| Field | Africana Studies |
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| Date of Upd. | |
| ID | 518325 |
Ivan Van Sertima Life story
Ivan Gladstone Van Sertima was a Guyanese-born British associate professor of Africana Studies at Rutgers University in the United States. He was best known for his Olmec alternative origin speculations, a brand of pre-Columbian contact theory, which he proposed in his book They Came Before Columbus.