Answer: Some people insist that Africans couldn’t have made it to the New World first simply because
they didn’t have the skill and resources to sail across the Atlantic. As it turns out, that’s
completely false. Historians have discovered evidence that suggests Africans were masters at
building ships and that it was actually a part of their tradition. Shipbuilding and sailing are over
20,000 years old in the Sahara, and cave wall paintings of ancient ships were displayed
in National Geographic magazine years ago. With those shipbuilding skills and the navigation
skills that were noted by other historians of the time, the myth that Africans wouldn’t have been
able to sail to the New World becomes officially debunked. As Dr. Julian Whitewright, a
maritime archaeologist at the University of Southampton, explained, the voyage from Africa on
ancient ships was “quite a plausible undertaking, based on the capabilities of the vessel of the
period and historical material stating it took place
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