They Came Before Columbus

Sertima has presented a thoery that is not "wild afrocentric babble." Its very plausible for the following reasons:


Most everyone is familiar with the time period of the Dark Ages, which lasted from the fall of the Roman Empire until about the 1200 or 1300's. It was a time when people were intellectually non-progressive, when the average peasent/serf never traveled 20 miles from the place of his birth. What people do forget is that the Dark Age was only a Western European phenomenon. The rest of Asia and Africa were steadily advancing.


One reviewer said that Africans had no ocean trade routes with other peoples. In fact, the East African coast was dotted with powerful city states that traded all over the Indian Ocean, including China. And on the West Coast, Africans did not need trade routes per se, because half of Europe was already under their complete domination through the Islamic Empire (black Moors).


Is it a coincidence that Spain and Italy were the first two European countries to climb out of the Dark Ages? No. Italy's trade routes with Africa long brought it into contact with Moslem and Chinese advances. And Spain; Spain was part of Islam! On the streets of Cardoba, Spain you would have seen Africans, Moslems, and a bunch of other races. By the way, the Moslems invented the magnetic compass and the astrolabe. This same Moslem learning flourished at the world first university; in Timbaktu. Timbaktu was in Mali, West Africa. In this climate how could West Africans not have known about sailing and trade routes?


Incidently, where was Columbus originaly from? Italy. Which country did he go to and got financing for his trip? Spain. Strangly, the same countries we just mentioned as having had close contact with Africa for centuries.


With this background, now you can look at Sertima's book with an open mind. Anyone who thinks that this book is "Afrocentric babble" is either unfamiliar with history or afraid of the truth.

The Making Of The White Man

Although it should be a school requirement I can understand why many wouldn't allow such to occur. It shatters all the lies told by a fairly recent addition to the Earth's population called caucasians to "educate" a melaninated world. The book traces the story told by Elijah Muhammad using the works of known and accepted "white" archaeologists as well as historians of both modern and ancient worlds.


People may argue that the story of a angry black scientist creating white people on a island is a myth and whites were the natural result from environmental adaptations. Those people arguing need to read the book first then verify it's sources.


This is just one of the many books written on the origins of "mankind" that don't argue but simply let so-called respected historians and documents of the past do it for them.


The whole point of Paul Guthrie's book was to prove or disprove the teachings of Elijah Muhammad which he successfully accomplished. Yes like many I heard the story via a old recording of a speech by Malcom X. I laughed and called it unsubstantiated afrocentric spouting so I discarded it as such until I read the "Making of The Whiteman" years later.


References are within the book if people want to verify for themselves Mister Guthrie's research as I've been doing. The author didn't write the book with a demeaning cruel edge as some would have but instead wrote it in a such a way as to EDUCATE.


Those folks preoccupied with maintaining the lies about the past won't like this book because they no longer have grounds to discredit the story of Elijah Muhammad. A good book and one of the many required to be read within my family.