Recollections of Ivan van Sertima, Friday, June 5, 7pm
“Recollections of Ivan van Sertima” by Runoko Rashidi
Friday, June 5, 2009 7:00 pm at Afiba Center
5730 South Crenshaw [map]
Runoko Rashidi is a historian, research specialist, writer, world traveler, and public lecturer focusing on the African presence globally and the African foundations of world civilizations. He is particularly drawn to the African presence in Asia, Australia, and the Pacific Islands, and has coordinated historic educational group tours to India, Aboriginal Australia, the Fiji Islands and Southeast Asia as well as Egypt, Ghana, Turkey, Jordan and Brazil.
Ivan Van Sertima was born in Kitty Village, Guyana, South America on January 26, 1935. He was educated at the School of Oriental and African Studies at London University where he graduated with honors. From 1957 to 1959, he served as a Press and Broadcasting Officer in the Guyana Information Services. During the decade of the 1960s, he broadcasted weekly from Britain to both Africa and the Caribbean. He came to the United States in 1970, where he completed his post graduate studies at Rutgers University in New Jersey. Dr. Van Sertima began his teaching career as an instructor at Rutgers in 1972, and he is now Professor of African studies in the Department of Africana Studies.
See Runoko Rashidi articles, “Hanging With The ‘Blackfellas’ Down Under” and “Alexander Pushkin and the African Presence In Russia” here in the kinté space.
For more information contact Runoko Rashidi at runoko@yahoo.com or call him at (210) 232-7272.