African Presence in Early Europe

This book places into perspective the role of the African in world civilization, in particular his little known contributions to the advancement of Europe. A major essay on the evolution of the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Print on Demand
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0887386644
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: Transaction Publishers
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.

Customer Reviews

SPLENDID & REPLETE

Just one of many in the vast portfolio of the master teacher Dr. Ivan Van Sertima. Splendid and replete. You will be sorely missed (RIP.)

Reply to "come again? "

I guess rather then Afrocentrist we should rely on "Eurocentric" bias. Van Sertima only uses records mainly from European sources that have been repressed. Pictures, manuscripts, eyewitness accounts, but that's not good enough for some people. They would rather believe Africa stood still for 1000's of years until the Europeans saw that the coast was clear,picked the fleas and ticks off of themselves, grabbed their dog, then their woman, crawled out of the caves, and lead everyone to civilization. I go with Dr. Naim Akbar, I think a lot of white america needs to be put on the couch. The younger generation though seems to be alot different than the old guard though. But many of you have what's called "perceptual distortion, denial of reality" So sad...

Absolutely Phenomenal Work

For many reviewers who lack an essential knowledge of their perceived history....The acclaimedd and respected anthropologist Sertimas assertions are wild and untethered..In truth All of which he has laid down gives serious weight the standard policy of colonialisic powers re-writing history..(It was done with the Indians, Hawaiians, Aborigines etc) The policy of re-education to the established order is basic and can be expected. Dis-information agents working forf the governemnt are out at full swing, seeking to discredit the truth that Africa the continent, the human birthplace gave birth to Also civilization, invention and human thought as we know it.. To know that Rome hated the British and controlled the Anglo society for over 400-700 years bringing in Africans, coupled with the fact the Europe is only 15-20 miles from Africa (not to mention the fact that between 1440 -1773 hundreds upon hundreds of thousands of Guineas were imported into Europe with no hint of these people today which were mulatooed into the populace) brings further the conclusion that there is no pure race of white..Einstein said that humans are a conglomeration of so many admixtures that no pure race remains... .Shopenhauer said there is no such thing as a white race...just a bleached one... DNA proves inexorably that we are ALL Africans out of exile!! All achievement and invention is African....Period!!

Hit Dogs up in Heah!

African/Black people are the original humans. Everyone else are the children of African people no matter what your physical being is. It is what it is. This is a great book. I am so happy that people of African descent are beginning to expose the truth. In fact, Europe was the last place to be peopled by the Africans.

How Racists Never Want to Admit Africa Was Diverse

To the person who asked the simplistic question on why Europeans, during and after the slave trade, only found 'primitive' cultures with 'no technology' I say this: YOU must learn how to understand historical records. What do you think Europeans found in African with the pyramids? Yeah, the pyramids were built BEFORE the Greeks came to Egypt. Egypt, no matter what museums have done, is PART OF AFRICA. Where did the Egyptians get the technology to BUILD the pyramids? FROM NUBIA. Oh, let's not forget that the Romans fought the Nubians to a draw (during the great Julius Ceasar rule), and when the Nubians sued for peace, the Romans were only too eager to say 'yes'. The Nubians took their technology of 'step pyramids' to western Africa, to most likely the Shonghai or Mali and from there to Mexico. The step pyramids in Mexico stem directly from the step pyramids of Nubia, and date AFTER the step pyramids of Nubia. And, according to carbon dating, the giant heads of basalt, the 'black heads' of the olmecs, are dated to AT LEAST 600-800 BC, which predates even the famed Greek Civilizations. Archeologists, for the most part, have conceded that these heads ARE that old and ARE of Western African design. The British found out about technology and strategy/tactics when the faced their own 'Custer's Last Stand' at the Battle of Isandhlwana in 1878, when almost 2000 British troops were annihilated by at the hands of the Zulu. I won't even get into the centers of learning in Africa such as Timbuktu and Alexandria. Oh, before he whines that Alexandria was founded by Alexander the Great, yes, I know that. However, the Greeks didn't view the world in 'color'. In fact, they sent many of their most brilliant minds to AFRICA (present day Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan) to study. The study of Philosophy, in fact, comes from ancient Egypt/Ethiopia. The Greeks who studied in what is today called 'Africa' wrote back in their correspeondance, free of racism, of what they learned. So, to the racists and Eurocentricists who simply MUST deny any good coming out of Africa, please understand that knowledge and ignorance is in ALL people and comes from ALL lands. If you don't understand this, then continue to live in ignorance.