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>>5744232
>Not if they were of different tribes. They would have fought for the right to use the river, the losers ending up being eaten
So every river in Africa was just a brawl waiting to happen since the beginning of civilization?

>or, if they were lucky sold to arab slave traders (and if they were really lucky sold to europeans and transported to america, where blacks had the highest standard of living of any blacks on earth)
The Arab slave trade and the European slave trade occurred at completely different periods.

>There were only a few kingdoms (Mali, Ethiopia,..) in precolonial africa, and today's Mali and Ethiopia both have similar borders than in precolonial times.
Does that elipsis refer to The Kingdoms of Dahomey, Matamba, and Koya? Or was it meant to denote the Oyo, Yoruba, and Kong Empires? Or did you just not want to get into the Aro Confederacy?

There was barely any civilization though.