content: There were a couple of short dynasties from Namibia. But over millenniums that's a drop in the ocean. Also, we are lucky enough to have paintings from the ancient Egyptians on papyrus. There were definitively brown (the place is pretty sunny), and definitely not black at all.    There is this weird thing that some American blacks think that all the people in Africa are black when that's not the case. North of the Sahara, there are no indigenous blacks.