Africa and the origin of Human beings
Biologists now believe that as human beings moved about within and outside the African continent,
they retained the ability to interbreed, but their geno-phenotypes (often referred to as geographical “races”)
emerged as adaptations to different ecological zones.
No one knows what the earliest Homo sapiens in Africa looked like, but the so-called Negro-appearing people
became the dominant physical type in sub-Saharan Africa (pockets of these Negroid people also lived in the oases of the Sahara).
The Negroes in the Nile Valley tend to be taller and darker; eastward, in the Horn of Africa, the people appear
to be a mixture of Negroids and the so-called Caucasoids. Caucasoid populations live in northern Africa
and in the northern parts of the Sahara and the Nile Valley.
A short variety of Negroids, popularly known as Pygmies (Twa), live scattered among their taller neighbors in the central regions,
and in southern Africa live another fairly short population, yellowish in skin color and possessing wiry hair, known as the Khoisan.
Also in southern Africa and parts of eastern Central Africa are found Caucasoid and Caucasoid-like
populations of European and Indian provenance; Malayo-Polynesian populations are settled in Madagascar.
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Think Global: Celebrate Africa! is produced in association with Oxfam and explores Africa's extraordinarily rich
and exuberant musical heritage a heritage that is thriving from South Africa to Algeria and from Mali to Kenya.
Truly the most musical of continents, Africa has so much to celebrate!
Artists include: Syran Mbenza, Etran Finatawa, Nuru Kane, Akim El Sikameya, Saba,
Emmanuel Jal & Abdel Gadir Salim, Vakoka, Samba Touré, Mory Kanté, Daby Balde,
Sally Nyolo, Seprewa Kasa, Mabulu, Shiyani Ngcobo,Kenge Kenge
Celebrating the thriving musical creativity and traditions of Africa.
more and download...
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they retained the ability to interbreed, but their geno-phenotypes (often referred to as geographical “races”)
emerged as adaptations to different ecological zones.
No one knows what the earliest Homo sapiens in Africa looked like, but the so-called Negro-appearing people
became the dominant physical type in sub-Saharan Africa (pockets of these Negroid people also lived in the oases of the Sahara).
The Negroes in the Nile Valley tend to be taller and darker; eastward, in the Horn of Africa, the people appear
to be a mixture of Negroids and the so-called Caucasoids. Caucasoid populations live in northern Africa
and in the northern parts of the Sahara and the Nile Valley.
A short variety of Negroids, popularly known as Pygmies (Twa), live scattered among their taller neighbors in the central regions,
and in southern Africa live another fairly short population, yellowish in skin color and possessing wiry hair, known as the Khoisan.
Also in southern Africa and parts of eastern Central Africa are found Caucasoid and Caucasoid-like
populations of European and Indian provenance; Malayo-Polynesian populations are settled in Madagascar.
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Think Global: Celebrate Africa! is produced in association with Oxfam and explores Africa's extraordinarily rich
and exuberant musical heritage a heritage that is thriving from South Africa to Algeria and from Mali to Kenya.
Truly the most musical of continents, Africa has so much to celebrate!
Artists include: Syran Mbenza, Etran Finatawa, Nuru Kane, Akim El Sikameya, Saba,
Emmanuel Jal & Abdel Gadir Salim, Vakoka, Samba Touré, Mory Kanté, Daby Balde,
Sally Nyolo, Seprewa Kasa, Mabulu, Shiyani Ngcobo,Kenge Kenge
Celebrating the thriving musical creativity and traditions of Africa.
more and download...
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