Is it really true that SSA's or at least Niger-Congo people rarely saw race prior to colonialism, focusing only on tribe?
>>18427999Why would you see race when it was ubiquitous? They didn't see race for the same reason fish don't see water. That doesn't mean race (or water) has no salience.
west africans have legends about red pygmieshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_African_hunter-gatherers#Oral_Traditions_About_West_African_Hunter-Gatherers
>did this racial group of people see race amongst each other when they had zero contact to anyone outside their race?No anon. No they did not.>purely ethnicityFrance natively has thousands of ethnicities, each one could trace their lineage back to an individual clan/tribe. They’re not special and African cope about borders are horseshit.
>>18427999>>18428017They did
>>18428017> zero contact to anyone outside their race?Cushite, Pygmy, Khoisan, and Nilotic people are all quite distinct from Niger-Congo people. Niger-Congo people were also in contact with MENA people.
didn't they specifically genocide pygmies and eat them?
>>18428031human cannibalism isn't what you think they only eat specific organs and they ate all of their enemies
Ethnic rivalries exist in Africa. Tell an Ethiopian that he looks Congolese and he will rage as if you uttered the n-word to an afroamerican
>>18428025Might also add Malagasy who are still ~1/3rd Austronesian after centuries of outbreeding.
