How long have humans lived in Africa?

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Muskan Anand

2 years ago

The first human lifestyles on Earth commenced in Africa extra than 7 million years ago. Our ape-like ancestors lived there. The ‘cradle of humankind’, a chain of limestone caves near Johannesburg in South Africa, is the oldest signal of human civilization that we recognise of. People who stay north of the Sahara desert are known as North Africans and those who stay south of the Sahara are known as sub-Saharan Africans. One of the earliest tribes, the Berbers, have been driven into the Sahara and the Sahel (the region bordering the Sahara) in the 7th century via way of means of the Arabs, who settled on the northern coast. Other tribes nonetheless determined in sub-Saharan Africa encompass the Bushmen of the Kalahari Desert, the Masai of Kenya, the Twa pygmies and the Tutsi of west and central Africa. Europeans, humans from the Middle East and Asians have additionally settled in Africa, wherein they colonized numerous nations. In the final century, maximum European international locations handed those colonies returned to the nearby humans. There are actually human beings from all around the international who stay in Africa.

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