Anthropologist, linguist, educator and author with global
influence. We just lost one of the most significant Afrikan
world scholars to walk this earth. He leaped on the scene in the
late 1970s, early 1980s with the publishing of his major
pioneering work, They Came Before Columbus: The African Presence
In Ancient America. It demonstrated that Afrikans were sailing
and settling in the Americas during the period 1200 BC - 600 BC.
This virtually eliminated any story of Columbus discovering
America. The national uproar the book caused reached the highest
levels. Scholars were attacking him from every corner. The book
was so controversial; he was invited before a congressional
committee to present his findings. "Let me mention and clarify
my presentation before congress, and how it relates to this
work. I appeared on July 7th, 1987, before a Congressional
Committee that was overseeing the work of the Christopher
Columbus Quincentenary Commission. I was called upon to show due
cause why they should not refer to Co