Answer (1 of 32): The author of this post takes very selective t that North Africa , including Egypt, Carthage and the Moors, was largely black till the “white Arabs”(‘!!) invaded. Apparently, the Egyptians and Phoenicians in the north are black while the Arabs closer to Ethiopia are white!

North African Ethnicity. The North Africa region includes modern-day Morocco, Algeria, Western Sahara and Libya. These countries, along with Mauritania and Tunisia, are often referred to as the Maghreb. It’s an area of stark contrast, with the hospitable Mediterranean coast to the north and the vast, harsh Sahara to the south.

The time has come to discuss North Africa, but are they White, Black or Middle Eastern? What are the genetics of countries of Morocco, Algeria, Egypt, Tunisi...

Northern “white” and Sub-Saharan “black” Africa. Yet many North Africans identify more as Arab or Arab-Muslim than as African, and it is the case that the “countries south of the Sahara have long been considered authentically “African” [emphasis added] while those to the north have been perceived as the Mediterranean, Middle Eastern or Islamic” argues Egyptian journalist Shahira …

Certainly there is something to be said about north Africans trying to distance themselves from “black Africa”.

Lamia BarringtonFederal Way, WA. Although we (North Africans) are considered Caucasian, I always choose African American or Black.