they came before columbus by ivan van sertima

So complete was the Europeans falsification of history that several people, both black and white, will be shocked to know that there were historical, archaeological, even botanical evidence of Africans contact with the New World in Pre-Colombian times.Īs usual, Western scholarship popularized the myth that the history of the Indians started with their 'discovery,' by the pirate, ego-tripster and genius of mass-murder, Christopher Columbus.

How else do we explain the Western historians deliberate distortion of the truth to paint the picture of a Caucasian Master and an African Slave - even in the Americas, where evidence abounded that black people were respected, even venerated, by the old Americans (Occidental Indians)? In order to justify their colossal crimes of slavery and colonialism, Europeans have constructed a web of lies and prevarication and passed them as historical truth. So total is the Euro-Americans onslaught on black people that all military, missionary, scholarship, academic forces are mobilized to paint the picture of the African as an eternal slave of the white man. History, as taught in the Western and Western-dominated world, gives the impression that the first Africans to reach the Americas were brought as slaves, in shackles on slaves-ships. Most of the people of the world were forced to forget that over half of human history was over before anyone knew that a European was in the world.' - Professor John Henrik Clarke Every effort was made to wipe from their memory how they ruled a state and how they related to their spirituality before the coming of the Europeans. 'They denied the conquered people the right to see God through their own imagination or to address God in a word that came from their own language.

They came before columbus by ivan van sertima