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Bookmark or Share- Black Africans in North Africa (12th-16th century)This is still an over simplification and there will be people that look different in every region. But it is a better way of looking at people in North Africa than just throwing everyone in one group. North Africa is between Europe, West Asia and Sub Saharan Africa it's only natural the region would be diverse.
- The difference between North Africa and Sub-Saharan AfricaOne of the biggest differences to the eye of a non-African is the phenotype of the populations of the two parts of Africa. In North Africa people tend to have phenotypical affinities with Middle Easterners and Southern Europeans, whereas Sub-saharan Africans - although they tend to have a lot of diverse phenotypes - they generally tend to have ...
- The black civilisational contribution to North Africa, the Almovarid ...North Africa was fertile ground for religious movements for a long time with Kairouan being one of the most important scholarly cities of the Muslim world for a period and the Atlas mountain valleys being able to hide groups of religious dissadents who could also fade away down into the Anti-Atlas or deserts to the south and east.
- Black Africans in North Africa (12th-16th century) - History ForumThe term 'imported Blacks' referred to 'Black' West Africans who had been enslaved and traded across the Sahara into North Africa. This trans-Saharan trade in slaves began at least two thousand years ago, but was not well documented until the spread of Islam across North Africa in the late seventh century.
- Is the image of North Africa as a "lost" ancient bread basket a myth ...North Africa crop production and exports only recently declined. Algeria was France's bread basket too. Something happened between Independence and the present that hurt agricultural production that wasn't weather related or the depletion of the soil, the culture and demographics of the resident land owning farming class changed.
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