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The Original Black African Arabs of Arabia (Part 3) - Black Kingdoms
by OGU EJI-OFO ANU

The Himyarites: Yemen, Hadramaut,
Oman
Yemen is one of the oldest inhabited
portions of the Arabian Peninsula. It
includes the entire southwest quarter,
which possesses many advantages in
climate and soil. Yemen was a colony of
early Black Africans until the Arabized
Arabs who are described in the
preceding paragraph gradually
infiltrated it. According to the Catholic
Encyclopaedia, the
Himyarites/Yemenites (and
Hadramutians) are the same group of
peoples as the African Ethiopians.

They are genetically,
linguistically, and physically
identical with Ethiopians.

This may perhaps explain the reason
why the ancient Greeks and Roman
writers believed that Arabia was a
political extension of Ethiopia Kush.
(See Catholic Encyclopaedia: Arab)
Even today, the similarity is so striking
that one cannot fail to observe the clear
connectedness between the Ethiopian
tribes who live on both sides of the Red
Sea.
Encyclopaedia Britannica states that:
“Yemenis of northern origin are thought
to have descended from Mesopotamians
who entered the region in the 1st
millennium BC (mixed breed Arabized
Arabs). The southern group represents
the South Arabian stock (original
African Ethiopian peoples), and the
Arabic of the rural areas of former South