Blackout
just your usual nerdy brotha
Well then we will go back to what you said about unless Kishi says so then we won't know what he based their appearance on.I said appearance as in characters appearance. Kumogakure doesn't have any African history resemblance but who's going to deny this guy is based on black appearance
Nonetheless there is still the issue of them passing off European features as japanese in many animes when the feature are anything but japanese. A few japanese looking characters doesn't change that any others who are supposed to be Japanese don't look the part.