If you look in Basil Davidson's book which contains so many translations
from Arabic histories, you will see that the Emperor of Mali (14
century?))wanted to find out what lay over the ocean. He built a massive
fleet. Eventually one ship returned. Captain told the Emperor that he had
been afraid to sail on when he saw the rest of the fleet caught in a fast
'river in the ocean'. So he waited and waited for them to come back. They
didn't.
When I read that I looked in an atlas of currents - there's a strong current
from the west coast of Africa to Mexico. But not one coming back. I would
guess that even before this fleet, many fishermen would have been caught up
by this 'river in the ocean' and ended up in Mexico. There are no currents
coming back.
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Subject: Any objection's to Ivan Van Sertima's Olmec Heads/African presence
in Americas?
Hello, I want to underscore a presentation by making point of African
presence in the Americas pre-Columbus using Ivan Van Sertima's They Came
Before Columbus/Olmec Heads position
I know he has his detractors - anyone got any cogent argument against Van
Sertimas's positing Africans in the Americas based on Olmec Heads, etc?
Kwaku
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