Did Africans travel to America before Christopher Columbus? On the face of it most folks might consider that claim to be rubbish, but in the 1970s a young radical Guyanese professor who was educated at the University of London and once taught at Rutgers University and lectured at NASA said not so fast. He published his radical idea in a book appropriately called They Came Before Columbus. His controversial book caused waves throughout the academic world and was attacked by ma