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Much of the African diaspora was dispersed throughout Europe, Asia, and the Americas during the Atlantic and Arab Slave Trades.

Beginning in the 9th century, Arabs took African slaves from the central and eastern portions of the continent ( where they were known as the Zanj ) and sold them into markets in the Middle East and eastern Asia.

Beginning in the 15th century, Europeans captured or bought African slaves from West Africa and brought them to Europe and later to the Americas.

Both the Arab and Atlantic slave trades ended in the 19th century.

Most of these claims are rejected by mainstream ethnologists as pseudoscience and pseudoanthropology, as part of ideologically motivated Afrocentrist irredentism, touted primarily among some extremist elements in the United States who do not reflect on the mainstream African-American community.

Mainstream anthropologists determine that the Andamanese and others are part of a network of Proto-Australoid and Paleo Mediterranean ethnic groups present in South Asia that trace their genetic ancestry to a migratory sequence that culminated in the Australian aboriginals rather than from African peoples directly ( though indirectly, they did originate from prehistoric groups out of Africa as did all human beings on this planet ).