you are. west africa is composed of dozens of tribes. google afroasiatic. this is all basic information.
I know the semite classification is based around language groups and regions. Did Africans from the SeneGambia region/Gold Coast/ eastern Nigeria (where most New World blacks are descended from) go around calling themselves semites in the 13th - 17th centuries?
Semite | Definition, Peoples, & Facts
Semite, member of a people speaking any of a group of related languages presumably derived from a common language, Semitic (
see Semitic languages). The term came to include
Arabs, Akkadians, Canaanites,
Hebrews, some Ethiopians, and
Aramaean tribes.
Mesopotamia, the western coast of the
Mediterranean, the
Arabian Peninsula, and the
Horn of Africa have all been proposed as possible sites for the prehistoric origins of Semitic-speaking peoples, but no location has been definitively established.
My issue with people like Griff and other Hoteps/Kemetics is they conflate a whole bunch of stuff from a whole bunch of different time periods and try to draw a direct line from these time periods to recent Africa and modern black folks.
"We are from Kemet"
Kemet was one region in Africa that was at it's height thousands of years ago. All Africans are not from Kemet. Yet the Hotepers will try to have you believe that we are direct descendants of people form ancient Egypt/Kemet. Ignoring the thousands of years of history since the peak of Black Egyptian civilizations.