Dr. Ivan Van Sertima
August 28th, 2008 by dom , 2 Comments
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When the new Nas album first dropped I was listening to the song “We are not alone” and this line caught my attention:
I used to worship a certain Queens police murderer
‘Til I read the words of Ivan van Sertima
He inserted something in me
That made me feel worthier
Now I spit revolution
I’m his hood interpreter
That line hit me in the head and made me wonder, who was Nas talking about?
So I did some research and as it turns out Ivan van Sertima is a Guyanese historian, linguist and anthropologist at Rutgers University. He also has some interesting studies on the achievements of Africans in science and wrote They Came Before Columbus: The African Presence in Ancient America. I like what he
I got schooled by Nas so now I’m schoolin you to it… Check out some of his discussions to learn more.
Afrikans in Science: Ancient and Modern
They came before Columbus
Tags: Guyana, Historians, History, Ivan Van Sertima, Linguists, Music, Nas
December 24th, 2008 at 7:54 AM
I have been researching Dr. Sertima and found some of his speeches on youtube. Check it out its mindblowing what he says and it has made me reevaluate my life and my way of thinking.
May 30th, 2009 at 3:14 PM
[...] scholars, Dr. Ivan Van Sertima, died earlier this week at the age of 74. We’ve spoken a bit about his work before, and now is as good a time as ever to give the man his due. Oscar Ramjeet wrote a peice on Van [...]