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Title: Check facts please - thankyou!
Review: To the reviewer below: Carthage may well be in North Africa, but as every school kid over four years old knows, it was settled by Phonecians from present-day Lebanon and Syria. It was these Carthagians who had the sailing fleets - doh!! As for ancient Egypt, exactly what amazing sailing fleets did they have? Do you know some "secret" that only you "know"? Somehow I doubt it.... Anyway, the point of Van Sertima's book is to claim that West Africans colonised America. Forget about "opening your mind", "being receptive to new idaes" etc - where is the EVIDENCE?? As a reviewer said below, if sao Tome and Principe was undiscovered until the Portuguese, how are we to believe that west Africans had ocean-going fleets? It simply defies logic and all historical and archaeological evidence.
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