How Africa Became Black Through The Colonization of Other Peoples' Lands

"Black" Africans Were The First Colonizers

How Africa Became Black | Discover Magazine

The story can be summed up succinctly as the study of linguistics can attest, the first people to inhabit what is now known as Africa were the Koisan peoples. I say peoples because being Koisan would have been like being European, coming in many diverse phenotypes but all of the same racial family.

"Black" farmers ("Black" meaning what is distinguishably understood as "African descent" in modern times) colonized the expansive lands of the Koisan killing off the massive population and replaced this non-"Black" people almost out of existence. If not for linguistics, which is essentially history as told through the study of language, this truth of the indigenous peoples of what we know as Africa would be lost to time. The Koisan were wiped out by the ancestors of the same individuals calling White people colonizers and accusing Whites of stealing from others. Hmmm, ironic.

"Blacks" were the first colonizers. East Africa was also colonized by "Blacks" and taken from Indonesian descent peoples that were widespread.

Khoisan boy (below)

Children of Indonesian tribe (below)