“We
were trained to despise ourselves and all of Africa.
We felt that Africans were
either primitive or semi-primitive,
that they had no science and made no
significant contribution to civilization.
We did not realize that we were
looking at a looted Africa, a shattered Africa.
We did not realize that there
were two Africas;
Africa before and after the holocausts.”
- Ivan Van Sertima, in an interview, when asked why there is reluctance
in social acceptance of his theory of Africans being in the Americas prior to
Columbus.
