Egypt produced the earliest documented religion with written records, a religion with a highly developed system of beliefs and rituals. African religions have evolved independently from roots remote in time. Eastern Africa furnishes some of the oldest evidence of humanoid habitation. Skulls of Homo sapiens from 130,000 ago have been found in Ethiopia. From the last 20,000 years, remains have been found in caves, savannas, sand dunes and lake beds.
Peoples are as diverse as the geography.
Racial types include Pygmoid, Bushmanoid, Negroid and Caucasoid. There are more than 1000 distinct languages. Many African-Americans are descendants of peoples taken from the west coast. The Yoruba people of Nigeria believe that Oloroun gave them their fates at creation, but humans have forgotten then. While Olorun remains remote, a part of him, Esu, a trickster, mediates for humans.