Hi will, are you a nigger by any chance? I am from the region and much of what is written is false and misleading. first of all, you cannot group all these diverse groups together, they don't even recognize the word berber. Southern mediterranean are white or Arab or berber, which is not of black descent. a black person, and no i am not going to capitalize, is a scary thing in North Africa. The studies that are cited are useless, as the sample used was of inhabitants alogn the mauritanian coast, who are naturally of sub-saharan descent or at least partially. Mauritanian, though consider part of north africa for some idiotic reason, is not recognized as part of north africa, and is considered black terriroty, western african territory. If the region were a democratic one, these absurdities wouldn't exist.