BLACK DEATH IN CAUCASIAN MIND

FROM IVAN VAN SERTIMA (1976) TO DAVID IMHOTEP (second edition, 2021)

FROM They Came Before Columbus, The African Presence in Ancient America

TO The First Americans Were Africans, Expanded and Revised

I covered the first author and his book They Came Before Columbus, The African Presence in Ancient America, on Monday, May 05, 2014, https://www.academia.edu/6964467/IVAN_VAN_SERTIMA_THEY_CAME_BEFORE_COLUMBUS.

I will give this first article at the end of this second article which will cover a new book by David Imhotep Ph.D., The First Americans Were Africans, Expanded and Revised, (2017, 2021), ISBN: 978–1–7370745–1–9. I will start with this second book which is very disturbing for a standard Western audience. But let me push aside two remarks on David Imhotep’s book. All Homo Sapiens living on the earth are all the descendants, one way or the other, of the Black African Homo Sapiens who evolved in Southern Africa and Northeastern Africa, Ethiopia, and around. We, Homo Sapiens today, are all descendants of Black Africans and the whole history of our species is a complex set of mutations, developments, and migrations. I will also push aside the critical remark that the way this book was written, composed, and worked upon makes it very repetitive and that is bothering since we cannot be sure what we have already read and we read again does not contain something new, so that we read the repeat, but it would have been nice to get rid of some of these repetitions.

What I want to do is to list and specify the various migrations from Africa to America considered by David Imhotep, but just as an inventory without actually evaluating them as true, possible, or false. With human migrations everything is always possible if we understand the migrating communities collectively carry with them, here and there, now and then, some members who are inspiring the migration, leading mentally and spiritually, a desire to migrate and the need and possibility to adapt, be flexible, and integrate…