Ivan Van Sertima will highlight Black History Month at Ferris State University. Dr. Van Sertima's appearance, sponsored by the Office of Minority Student Affairs, will be Tuesday, Feb. 23, at 7 p.m. in the Rankin Centennial Room.
Admission is free and the public is invited.
Van Sertima is a literary critic and linguist as well as an anthropologist and has made a name in all three fields. As a literary critic, he is the author of Caribbean Writers, a collection of critical essays on the Caribbean novel. He is the author of several major literary reviews and other works published in Denmark, India, Britain and the United States. The Nobel Committee of the Swedish Academy honored Van Sertima by asking that he nominate candidates for the Nobel Prize in Literature from 1976-1980. As a linguist, he has published essays on the dialect off the Sea Islands of the Georgia coast.