"Economic hit men,” John Perkins writes, “are highly paid professionals who cheat countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars. Their tools include fraudulent financial reports, rigged elections, payoffs, extortion, sex, and murder.”

They Came Before Columbus reveals a compelling, dramatic, and superbly detailed documentation of the presence and legacy of Africans in ancient America. Examining navigation and shipbuilding; cultural analogies between Native Americans and Africans; the transportation of plants, animals, and textiles between the continents; and the diaries, journals, and oral accounts of the explorers themselves, Ivan Van Sertima builds a pyramid of evidence to support his claim of an African presence in the New World centuries before Columbus.

Ermilio Abreu Gómez nació en Mérida, Yucatán, en 1894. Narrador, ensayista, crítico literario y periodista. Se interesó profundamente en los cuentos y leyendas mayas, sobre los que escribió copiosamente.

The Neteru of the Metu Neter have existed since antiquity in Africa and have been given different names across different Cultures such us The Orisha of the Yoruba and The Ancient Dieties of Western Cosmogony in Ancient Greece and Rome such as Thoth and Zeus. The Tree of Life has also appeared as part of other traditions namely the Kabbalah but its origins lie in Ancient Kemet as a much older Civilization than the Judeo-Christian Civilization that produced the Kabbalah.

In the autobiography, Kalam examines his early life, effort, hardship, fortitude, luck and chance that eventually led him to lead Indian space research, nuclear and missile programs.