From 1957 to 1959, worked as a Press and Broadcasting Officer in the Guyana Information Services During the 1960s, he worked for several years in Great Britain as a journalist, doing weekly broadcasts to the Caribbean and Africa. During his studies, he learned Swahili and Hungarian. 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 honors. He attended the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) at the University of London in 1959. He completed primary and secondary school in Guyana and started writing poetry. Van Sertima was born in Karina Village, British Guiana (now Guyana) when Guyana was still a British colony he retained his British citizenship throughout his life. While his Olmec theory has “spread widely in the African American community, both lay and scholarly”, it was mostly ignored in Mesoamericanist scholarship, or else dismissed as Afrocentric pseudohistory to the effect of “robbing native American cultures. He is 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 an associate professor of Africana Studies at Rutgers University in the United States.
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