The brownoid state of the people currently living in those regions is a warning against race mixing. Sure, (((modern artists))) like drawing them as niggers, but coins and busts from antiquity don't show nigger noses on their kings.
Don't underestimate what a tremendous barrier the Sahara is. Aside from Egypt having Nubia as a neighbor, the only contact with sub-saharans was from a few Phonecian explorers sailing down the West coast and one Roman expedition through the desert.
The brownoid state of the people currently living in those regions is a warning against race mixing. Sure, (((modern artists))) like drawing them as niggers, but coins and busts from antiquity don't show nigger noses on their kings.
https://snible.org/coins/hn/numidia.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juba_I_of_Numidia
Don't underestimate what a tremendous barrier the Sahara is. Aside from Egypt having Nubia as a neighbor, the only contact with sub-saharans was from a few Phonecian explorers sailing down the West coast and one Roman expedition through the desert.
AFAIK even the Ethiopians hated central African rapeapes. Still do.