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Genre/Form: | History |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Ivan Van Sertima |
ISBN: | 9780812968170 0812968174 |
OCLC Number: | 1000143833 |
Description: | xviii, 284 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
Contents: | Introduction -- Author's note -- The secret route from Guinea -- The visible witnesses -- The mariner prince of Mali -- Africans across the sea -- Among the Quetzalcoatls -- Mandingo traders in medieval Mexico -- Black Africa and Egypt -- The black kings of the twenty-fifth dynasty -- African-Egyptian presences in ancient America -- Plants and transplants -- Smoking, tobacco, and pipes in Africa and America -- The mystery of Mu-lan-p'i -- Postscript on other finds. |
Other Titles: | African presence in ancient America |
Responsibility: | Ivan Van Sertima. |
Abstract:
Examines cultural analogies between Native Americans and Africans, offering evidence of the presence of African explorers in the New World centuries before the arrival of Columbus.
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