I was very disappointed with this read. When I first heard of the book I was very excited to explore the theory of Africans visiting the Americas before Columbus. However, after a few chapters in, the book became heavily confusing with a lot of linguistic jargon and a lot of back and forth between evidence that made no sense. One big issue I had with the book was its structure. It seemed as if Van Sertima was dropping a lot of information and I felt that I didn't have enough time to understand his evidence.

Overall I was super unhappy while reading and felt his argument was very weak. Partially because he based a large portion of his finding on featurism and the Darwinist categorization of features such as skeletal remains. What I was hoping was substantial evidence that Africans could have visited America, I got a book that seemed to have been motivated to disprove racist assertions by white people who discredited African contributions. While I understand that Africa and its contribution to the world are greatly underappreciated and undermined, I believe Van Sertima's book just wasn't strong enough to present evidence on African arrival in the Americas. Though I wasn't too pleased with his findings, I am still open to the thought that Africans did travel to the Americas but this book doesn't seem to convince me that it actually happened.