>>6589778not talking about North Africa.
Taking about the difference between people in places like Cote D'Ivoire, Ghana, Nigeria. The people there vary a lot. If you hang out with an international crowd, you can distinguish people from Nigeria as opposed to those from Ghana, and certainly as opposed to people from East Africa - e.g. Kenya, and Ethiopia etc.
To be frank, they also acknowledged and apologies for their part in slavery, which is commendable.
the ancestors of most african americans came from more inland tribes and countries in that region