Al-Jahiz (776-869) a black multidisciplinary scholar from Iraq, who is recognized as one of the greatest writers of Arabic language wrote this on his book "The Glory Of Blacks Over Whites;

“The Ethiopians, the Berbers, the Copts, the Nubians, the Zaghawa, the Moors, the people of Sindh, the Hindus, the Qamar, the Daliba, the Chinese, and those of beyond… The islands of the Seas… teem with blacks, up to the Hindustan and China“

Researchers believe that modern Homo sapiens migrated from Africa and across Asia about 50-100,000 years ago or more and there are numerous evidence to prove this. One is the result gotten from the remains of skeletons which were found in a Jebel Qafzeh cave near Nazareth that dates back to 93,000 years ago, and also from the skulls found in the Upper Cave at Zhoukoudian in China, believed to be those of the first Asian people who more closely resemble contemporary Africans and Europeans than they do modern Asians.

Africans (black people) are legendary migrants. From Palestine to the Philippines, passing by Arabia and China, to Asia was populated at the early times by black people. This article aims to briefly discuss black migrants and the places they first inhabited.

The First Black Inhabitants Of The Near East

Genesis chapter 10:6 - “And the sons of Ham are Kush, Mizraim, Punt and Canaan"

The name Ham is reminiscent to Kam which means "Black or Charcoal-coated" in ancient Egyptian language. It is from the word "Ham" that " Kamit" which is the original name of the Blacks come from. Therefore, Ham is the biblical ancestor of Blacks, and his children are Kush, Mizraim, Punt, and Canaan which are modern Sudan, Egypt, Great lakes region, Southern Africa and the Near East respectively. Even historical research has proven this biblical writing on Ham's genealogy to be true.

It is said that Canaan is also associated with the Kin-Anu. The Anu is the name of the black people who came from the Great Lakes and southern Africa who also founded the early Egyptian civilization. These people practiced African Spirituality and through their Phoenician descendants extended their origins and habitation to the frontiers of Africa including current day Palestine, Israel, Lebanon, and Syria.

The Phoenicians (Canaanite descendants) were black. This fact is proved by the result of the analysis of the skeletons found in the city of Tire in Lebanon and the colony of Syracuse in Italy. They later civilized Europe, introduced writing to Greece and also founded the Carthage civilization in present-day Tunisia.

It is also said that the primordial inhabitants of the Near East obviously interbred with the whites who came from the Middle East and with the defeated invaders of Egypt(Sea Peoples) who were deported by Ramses III( 2nd Pharoah of 20th dynasty Ancient Egypt) to give the current white people of the Near East.

The First Black Inhabitants Of The Middle East

The Sumerian people, also known as "Zalmat ga-ggadu" which means people of blackheads are a people who lived in Iraq before the Whites settled. These people also founded the kingdom of Babylon. Reference to support this can be drawn from the book of Genesis chapter 10:6-8 which discusses Nimrod(biblical ancestor of the first Black inhabitants of the Mesopotamia) the son of Kush, who later founded Babylon.

Also, the ancient Greek scholar Diodorus of Sicily spoke of the Chaldeans as a caste of Egyptian priests who migrated to present-day Iraq. The God of the Sumerians was also called Anu.

Also there are archaeological pieces of evidence that prove that the Elamites who lived in present-day Iran were related to a black dynasty.

The First Black Americans Of The Indias

 It cannot be disputed that the first Indians were blacks although of Sudanese (Egyptian) descent. These blacks were also at the origin of the first monumental civilization (Indus Valley) of Asia, whose culmination began at circa in 2200 before the explosion in Circa (1420) and the subsequent invasion by the Aryans (whites) which forced them to seek refuge in Egypt.