![]() ![]() įrom 1957 to 1959, Van Sertima worked as a Press and Broadcasting Officer in the Guyana Information Services. In addition to his creative writing, Van Sertima completed his undergraduate studies in African languages and literature at SOAS in 1969, where he graduated with honours. He attended the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) at the University of London from 1959. He completed primary and secondary school in Guyana, and started writing poetry. ![]() Van Sertima was born in Kitty Village, near Georgetown, in what was then the colony of British Guiana (present-day Guyana) he retained his British citizenship throughout his life. While his Olmec theory has "spread widely in African American community, both lay and scholarly", it was mostly ignored in Mesoamericanist scholarship, and has been dismissed as Afrocentric pseudoarchaeology and pseudohistory to the effect of "robbing native American cultures". ![]() 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 (1976). ![]() Ivan Gladstone Van Sertima (26 January 1935 – ) was a Guyanese-born British associate professor of Africana Studies at Rutgers University in the United States. ![]()
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