c. 8000 BCE · Africanapproximate

Egyptian is the language of the people who stayed put

The Chado-Amazigh speakers went west into a greening Sahara around ten thousand years ago.

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8000 to 6000 BCE · Africanspan

Drying pushed the Sahara's fishers aside and made herders the winners

Cattle, sheep and goats by the late seventh millennium, sorghum granaries by the later eighth.

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