In fact, the entire world was populated from Africa. Hence we the Blacks in Asia and the Pacific today descend from proto-African peoples. We were linked to Africa in the past. We are linked to Africa in the present. We will be linked to Africa in the future.
New Guinea is the largest and most populous of the Melanesian islands.
Indeed, it is the largest island island in the world after Greenland. It is tremendously wealthy in mineral resources including uranium, copper, cobalt, silver, gold manganese, iron and oil. The eastern half of the island became independant in 1975 under the name of Papua-New Guinea, with Michael Somare as its prime minister. The western half of New Guinea, however, along with a significant portion of the total population of the island, which is estimated to be three to four million people, has been seized by Indonesia as its 26th province. For the people of West New Guinea, Indonesia has been and continues to be a brutal and aggressive occupying power.