What to Read After They came before Columbus
Readers who loved They came before Columbus by Ivan Van Sertima keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where They came before Columbus is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after They came before Columbus
Before the Mayflower
The mis-education of the Negro
The Destruction of black civilisation
The Isis Papers
African origin of civilisation
Nigger
Stolen legacy
Revolutionary suicide
When and where I enter
Black Athena
100 amazing facts about the Negro
When we ruled
From Babylon to Timbuktu
Martin & Malcolm & America
Black Indians
Malcolm X Speaks
Race Matters
Soul on Ice
Blood in my eye
Blueprint for Black power
Manchild in the promised land
The Golden Age of the Moor (Journal of African Civilizations, Vol 11, Fall 1991)
Black Power
The Black Jacobins