Drawing on his landmark book They Came Before Columbus, Dr. Ivan Van Sertima presents the evidence for an African presence in the Americas long before 1492 — “not as slaves but as masters.” He walks through Columbus’s own diaries, the gold-alloy spear analysis matched to African Guinea, Portuguese awareness of African navigation, botanical evidence, and the geopolitical pressures that pushed Egyptian and Phoenician trade westward. Recorded in 1986 at Camden Town Hall in London. For Black Boys In Crisis, it is a confidence-building lecture in African achievement, navigation, and science that reframes the story of the “New World.”