Dr. Ivan Van Sertima is an esteemed scholar and author. His book, “They Came Before Columbus,” and clears the air on quite a few misconceptions in the world made by past historians. He starts by stating that Africans came to America as masters/kings before they were enslaved. He uses evidence from Columbus’s diaries when Columbus went on his second voyage. Columbus said in his diary that Native Americans told him that black people came on huge boats before he arrived and they brought goods and weaponry with them. One type of weapon, metal spears, was taken back to Spain for examination. They had the same compound as metals found in New Guinea. The Portuguese told Columbus they were aware of African navigation and they were also aware of a land mass to the south as a result of African migration. Before this point, they did not want to really acknowledge that Africans had been moving independently. The Portuguese also told Columbus that they had found cotton in the Cape Verde Islands and they thought it to be from Africa. It was definitely planted before Columbus. It had actually been grown in the South Caribbean. This evidence has commonly been disregarded. There is also evidence that said Africans were around before Christ even was. There has been destruction over the past few decades in Egypt and Europe of books and documents that showed things Africans had been doing for hundreds of years. There are skeletons, sculptures, and plants that map out what Africans accomplished before any other race did. Columbus actually never touched the American content. He documents that he actually went to Africa to find, “black animals.” There is also evidence that the currents moved from the Americas to the Caribbean, which corresponds with the early evidence of cotton found on the Cape Verde Islands. A stone head made of basalt stone (that was found to be vividly African with a helmet that had never been seen before in Europe) was d