![]() ![]() On September 24 th, 2016, the National Museum of African American History and Culture opened in Washington, D.C. It is grounded now upon an overwhelming and growing body of reliable witnesses.” –Ivan Van Sertima, They Came Before Columbus. ![]() ![]() The case for African contacts with pre-Columbian America, in spite of a number of understandable gaps and a few minor elements of contestable data, is no longer based on the fanciful conjecture and speculation of romantics. When the feasibility of African crossings of the Atlantic was not proven and the archaeological evidence undated and unknown, we could in all innocence ignore the most startling of coincidences. “The African presence is proven by stone heads, terra cottas, skeletons, artifacts, techniques and inscriptions, by oral traditions and documented history, by botanical, linguistic and cultural data. By The African United Front © 2016 Professor Ivan Van Sertima ![]()
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