[quote="FAH1223"]I get the same thing
Hausa friend of mine says "You guys came from Arabia, you are not even African. We should draw a line and say Africa is only Western Africa and Southern Africa"

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I think in general outside of horn of africa in africa, Somalis are seen as Arabs/Weird non-Blacks
During the apartheid in south Africa my dad was working there temporarly and he got labeled ''colored'' and not ''black'' by the racist regime