In the same year he founded the Journal of African Civilizations, editing and publishing the journal for decades. In 1977, Van Sertima received his master’s degree and became an Associate Professor of African Studies at Rutgers in 1979. The book achieved widespread attention in the African American community and gave a different insight into African history. The book introduced his argument that people of African origin came to Central and South America long before Christopher Columbus arrived in 1492. While earning his graduate degree, he published his most famous work, They Came Before Columbus, in 1976. In 1967, he published a dictionary of Swahili legal terms. Van Sertima began publishing before he came to the United States. After his divorce from Maria, he married Jacqueline Pattern in 1984 and gained two stepdaughters. In 1970, Van Sertima began his graduate work at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. He then attended the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) at the University of London, graduating in 1969 as an honor student with a Bachelor of Arts in African languages and literature. In 1964, Van Sertima married Maria Nagy and together they adopted two boys. In the late 1960s, Van Sertima did weekly broadcasts to Africa and the Caribbean as a journalist. After completing high school, he worked as a Press and Broadcasting Officer for Guyana Information Services. Van Sertima was born on January 26, 1935, in Kitty Village, Guyana when it was still a British colony. Throughout his career as a scholar and author, Ivan Van Sertima worked to transform the way people viewed and taught African history.
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