ORIGEN OF AFRICAN RACE.

T Sahara runs from East to West across the widest part of Africa, a vast desert dividing the continent into 2 main regions. North Africa consists of the Mediterranean coast from Morocco to Egypt and includes the Valley of Nile River as far as South as Ethiopia. South of the Sahara is the region inhabited by black Africans. They, in the past, had relatively little contact with the rest of the world.
Myths and legends developed in Africa, South of the Sahara, over thousands of years. About 7,000 years ago, the ancestors of Hot'Tent'Ot and the Bush'Men (hunter-gatherers), began moving from the Sahara toward Southern Africa. These people were part of the Khoi'San group (San, Khwe, Sho, Bush'Men, Bas'Ar'Wa) and are related to the traditionally pastoral Khoi'Khoi.
A broad study of African genetic diversity completed in 2009 found the San people were among the 5 populations with the highest measured level of genetic diversity among 121 distinct African populations sampled. The San are one of 14 known extant "ancestral population clusters" from which all known modern humans evolved. Their blood contains some of the oldest genetic markers, in a relatively pure form, found on Earth. All humankind can be traced back to the African continent. More recent analysis suggests that the San may have been isolated from other original ancestral groups for as much as 100,000 years and then rejoined at a later date, re-integrating the human gene pool.
The Bush'Men's Y-chromosomal DNA haplo-group (type A) is one of the oldest, splitting off around 70,000 years ago from those found in the rest of humanity (type BT)
The most important thing in the lives of the San people is water. Droughts can last for many months and water-holes may dry up. When this happens, they use sip wells. To get water this way, a San will scrape a deep hole where the sand is damp. Into this hole will be put a long hollow grass stem. An empty ostrich egg is used to collect the water. Water is sucked into the straw from the sand, into the mouth, and then travels down another straw into the ostrich egg. Villagers move constantly in search of budding greens to formalize rings, and in dry season they congregate around permanent water-holes.
Historically evidence shows that certain Bush'Men communities have always lived in the desert regions of the Kalah'Ari. Parallels between hunter-gatherers in Southern Africa and the Americas shows that healers, or ritual specialists, deliberately force themselves into a trance in which they travel to the spirit world. The visions they experienced on these journeys are very complex and the activity itself was taken and still is for the good of the community. They reason they go to the spirit world is to entreat with their guardian entities for the lives of the sick, to make rain, and control the movements of the game animals.
All humans have the capacity to see geometric shapes, because they are hardwired in the brain. As the trance deepens, and the subject tries to make sense of the shapes, they change into things which are governed by the particular culture in which that healer works. Coupled with this are experiences such as changing into animals. Going into deep ancient caves is likened to going into a deep trance. Some contain images of figures which are half human and half animal. The images likely derived from visions they had experienced at special ceremonies.
The people of Africa did not use written language until modern times. Instead, they possessed rich and complex oral traditions, passing myths, legends, and history from generation to generation in spoken form. Written accounts of African mythology began to appear in the early 1800s, and present-day scholars labor to record the continent's myths and legends before they are lost to time and cultural change.