>>244797
>The common American pavement ape is descended from the Bantu
Only about 15%, and you can very much tell the difference, the vast majority are Yoruba (modern-day Nigerian) who have a kind of midling history, successfully re-organizing by 1300. This is way later than the Malinke but earlier than the people just north of the Congo who got obliterated by a one-two punch of more developed Muslims and Bantu raids. It also can't be understated exactly how terrible the African environment is for developing a civilization in the conventional sense, its human populace aside.
Rural Yoruba were regularly sold into slavery by Malinke because they had been trading slaves with Muslims for centuries and by the time Europeans came around the infrastructure to capture and export people was already in place.
Africans can't even be racist properly, because they have no idea 20ish percent of other blacks in America are descended from the people who sold them all into slavery, and 15% or so are descended from the people who snapped Africa in half. That's why it's just "Africans," while Europeans can be properly whiny about other Europeans based on their actual ethnicity.
>until about 1000BC, after which they got nuked by, in approximate order, the proto-Bantu-speaking peoples
Africa had a pretty normal iron age in most areas. Yoruba and Igbo Nigers hit it first but went the agrarian route, then Malinke. The timing is closer to 300 BC, which is why Africa had a big reset on development ~300AD in many places, it didn't give them much time before Islam spread and that became a new focal point of the sub-Saharan civilizations.
Purely for example, pic is Djado, a rare ghost city in the Sahara built by Africans and destroyed by Arabs. Without a reservoir of stone or true mountains, the buildings were pressed mud or carved into a plateau. The buildings have long been collapsed and imploded, second stories or even third stories crushed into the first, but you can easily visualize what they looked like towering over the desert. It's one of many now derelict Kawar oasis fortresses; rather than apes, one might imagine a city of industrious termites trying to ward off Arabs. The Tebu today ironically look more like North Africans, having been thoroughly colonized by Arabs and Berbers, much like how some southern Europeans get swarthy, olive looks to them from old Roman/Italian colonization.
A description of the people from the 1930s (bear in mind most oasis cities are in the Daza areas):
>The Teda are a Negro-Berber mixture inhabiting the Tibesti massif and adjacent territory, while the Daza to the south, the other main Tebu division, are more Negroid in their composition, and merge into the Negroid Kanuri and Kanembu further south.
Djado and other oasis cities would have supported thousands of people in one of the worst places on Earth to live. It would make for a great fantasy setting, probably a town in Monster Hunter, but there will never be one because Americans are too busy trying to afrika up random parts of Asian and European history instead.