Are all Africans Black?

Question

* Note. I mean indigenious Africans. I am aware that there are white, asian, and arab people that reside there.



I mean. It really doesn't matter much to me, but I keep hearing all these dumb arguments about how ethiopians and people from the eastern regions of Africa aren't Black because thay don't have "black feature"(notice how that is in quotes). People don't seem to realize that African-descended people are the most diverse people in looks. Everyone thinks that all African(Black) Has to have big lips and noses and really dark skin. I don't have any of these features(except the nose). And I am not apparently mixed.

I can except Noth Africans saying thay aren't because of the mixing that went on there. But now people are trying to seperate the east too. What the hell is that?

well pater, if all blacks did not oringinate from Africa, then where else could they have originated. African slaves had been sent to Latin American and the Carribean too.

Answer 1

No. And all blacks are not necessarily of African descent. Which makes the practice of referring to all blacks in the US as "African American" incorrect.

Good question - I give the lady a star.

Answer 2

No there are indigenous albino africans that are white and they have what you describe as "black features".
Africa is a continent and not the static home to a single people, there were migrations out of and back into Africa multiple times over history. Communication within the continent was massively more difficult than coastal voyages from its edges.
I think the black Central Africans never were a dominant population the North African shore, the desets of the Sahara prevented this. They were more accessble by the Mediterranan sea and are more a Mediterranean culture. Egyptian Pharoahs 4000 years ago also had relatively fair skins, yet their allegiances were more with Black Namibia in the South then the lighter skinned Syrians to the North East.
Ethiopeans have a semitic language which is closer to Arabic than to Central Africa. There was obviously much cultural interchange with teh Arabic peninsula. This was teh land of the Queen of Sheba, and the Fabled location of King Solomon's Gold Mines.

Answer 3

I am Nigerian and you have got to see the way in which african americans diss a few of us on twitter and tell us it can be just a comic story but after I white man will have to try to diss them then they begin going all Martin Luther king on them. Now not all african american citizens are this manner but some need to hit at folks however can not take successful. Secondly, I journey by and large and i've met some afro-caribbeans and they don't quite like relating with Africans, in fact they would as an alternative relate with an African American than a local african. They even seem at me funny, which I in finding annoying. I don't imply to generalise not everybody are the equal. Sorry if I offended any individual.

Answer 4

Fact from fiction, truth from diction. No. All indigenous African people are not dark skinned. But the perception is. When people think of Africa, they think of places like Niger, Swaziland, Kenya, Uganda, Nigeria etc. And the picture they get in their head is poor dark skin people half starved living in squalor. Then you have SOUTH Africa where it is thought to be mostly Caucasian, and the Africans living there, and afterthought or a people who lived a little better than cattle. And we have Egypt which is thought f as in the Middle East by proxy because they look more like Middle Easterners than Africans with dark skin. And you might as well throw Libya in that mix. Then there is the non-Africa Africa like Morocco. Strangely enough when you think of it None of these African areas where dark skin people were not exploited or plundered. What is seen as African" is all in the perception of the historians, media and popular culture more than anything. And the benefits of claiming or distancing yourself from the association of such.

Answer 5

I've got news for you -- NOBODY is "black." Take the person with the absolute darkest skin you've ever seen -- was it black? Nope. Very dark brown, yes, but not black. That term is a holdover from middle-ages europeans who thought their "white" skin (which isn't white, either -- more like pink or light tan) was superior. "Black" in many cultures thoughout history has had the secondary connotations of "dark, forboding, dirty, evil" -- which is why they used it to describe people with darker skin they thought were violent primitives.

Skin color varies widely in native Africans. So do facial features and body features. Both are evolutionary adaptations to specific environmental conditions. A broader, flatter nose is common in hot tropical environments like Africa, since the nasal cavity doesn't have to warm the air before taking it into the lungs. You find the same nose shapes in places like the Philippines and Polynesia, where they don't have "black" skin at all.
Northern europeans, who lived in colder climates, evolved large nasal cavities and large noses to warm the air they breathe before taking it into the lungs, which helped maintain internal heat in a cold environment. Same reason they don't have as much pigment in their skin -- with much less sun, they don't need heavy pigmentation for protection from the sun, while those in equatorial climates do.

Our modern lifestyles, with shelter, heaters, air-conditioners, etc. make many of these evolutionary features less important, and the racial mixing that's gone on for several hundred years now is reducing sharp differences between people -- groups aren't as isolated as they once were. Personally, I look forward to the day that we're so mixed up that nobody worries about "race" anymore...we're all just human beings with slight differences in physical appearance.
Peace.

Answer 6

No, and to those of you that think that South Africans are white, this is not correct. There are Black as well as White South Africans.

It is safe to say that all Africans are not Black but everyone born on the continent of Africa, regardless of color or physical features are African.

Answer 7

For the most part yes. But some south africans are white

Answer 8

Black is not a race but more so a description that has been accepted as a race. I believe that North Africans are a product of mixed races and may now be a race of their own. I guess it really doesn't matter that much except that I would ask what race do they label themselves as?

Answer 9

you've already answered your question.

1. people from the African continent are the most diverse group of people in the world (the indigenous people)

2. albinos come from Africa, clearly they aren't black

Answer 10

Maybe an indigenous African with Albinism.