Afro-Arabs , African Arabs , or Black Arabs are Arabs who have predominantly or total Sub-Saharan African ancestry. These include primarily minority groups in the United Arab Emirates , Yemen , Saudi Arabia , Oman , Kuwait , Qatar , Bahrain , Lebanon , Syria , Palestine , Jordan , Iraq , Libya , Tunisia , Algeria , and Morocco . The term may also refer to various Arab groups in certain African regions.
4-625: The Dawada (Duwwud, Dawwada) are an Afro-Arab ethnic group from the Fezzan region of southern Libya . They live around the Gabraoun oasis, at the town of Murzuk , where they harvest brine shrimp in the salty lakes. They dry the brine shrimp and sell them to caravans. The name Dawada means "worm-folk" in Arabic due to this practice. The appearance of the Dawada is distinctive and has been linked to
8-601: A relict population. They are mostly an endogamous group who rarely marry outside of their tribe. They speak an Arabic dialect. This article about an ethnic group in Africa is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Afro-Arab From the 7th century onward Muslim communities were established along the coast of Eritrea and Somalia , subsequently spreading inland. The Arab slave trade , which began in pre-Islamic times but reached its height between 650 AD and 1900 AD, transported millions of African people from
12-545: The Cape Road . From the 1700s to the early 1800s, Muslim forces of the Omani empire re-seized these market towns, mainly on the islands of Pemba and Zanzibar . In these territories, Arabs from Yemen and Oman settled alongside the local "African" populations, thereby spreading Islam and establishing Afro-Arab communities. The Niger-Congo Swahili language and culture largely evolved through these contacts between Arabs and
16-692: The Nile Valley, the Horn of Africa, and the eastern African coast across the Red Sea to Arabia. Millions more were taken from sub-Saharan Africa across the Sahara as part of the trans-Saharan slave trade . By around the first millennium AD, Persian traders established trading towns on what is now called the Swahili Coast . The Portuguese conquered these trading centers after the discovery of
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