>>2748584There is a book called "the Forest People" by Jonathan Turnbull which talks about the "blacks" cutting back and pushing into the forests from the perspective of the Pygmies in the Congo.
Apparently the blacks feared the forests and avoided them until they started doing agriculture--that's when the Afrakans started cutting everything down in earnest to build plantations.
tl;dr blacks were never native to the forests--the Pygmies were.
