Thus, he informed us (via com) that the journal “is the only historical journal in the English-speaking world which focuses on the heartland rather than on the periphery of African civilizations” and “… therefore, removes the “primitive” from the centre stage it has occupied in Eurocentric histories and anthropologies of the African”.
Van Sertima was the founder (1979) and editor of The Journal of African Civilizations, which published several major anthologies that helped change the way African history and culture is taught and studied. Tonight’s event is aimed at the general public, but may be of special interest to senior high school (CSEC and CAPE History) and university students. Runoko Rashidi, Uncovering the African Past: The Ivan Van Sertima Papers will be officially presented to the University of Guyana Library by another Guyanese, Stedman Aaron (Brother Inuni), co-founder of African Echoes, based in New Jersey, USA. After a discussion on the documentary, the new book by Dr. It features a documentary on Professor Van Sertima, followed by a discussion of the Transatlantic Slave Trade that brought into being the plantation societies of the so-called “New World’ and consolidated the destructive extractive capitalism that is our legacy today.
Ivan Van Sertima, one of the most outstanding Guyanese of all time. This evening at 5:30 PM in the Education Lecture Theatre, University of Guyana, the African Studies Research Group of the Department of Language and Cultural Studies, Faculty of Education and Humanities, will recognize the work of Dr.
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