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“Whether the African Negro was the first human colonizer of Africa or was preceded by a more brutish or more generalized type, such as the Galley-Hill man, is not yet known to us. But from the little we possess in the way of fossil human remains and other evidence it seems probably that every region of Africa, even Algeria and Egypt, once possessed a Negro population…In Egypt a dwarfish type of Negro seems to have inhabited the Nile delta some 10,000 years ago; and big black Negroes formed the population of Upper Nubia and Dongola as late as about 4,000 years ago.”

Source: John G. Jackson. Introduction To African Civilizations. pg. 226-227. 1970. (citing Sir Harry H. Johnston. A History Of The Colonization Of Africa. pg. 5.)