The Nubians have been living in the Sudan area of the horn of Africa in the Nile River Valley for thousands of years, and they were a southern part of the Egyptian Empire.  Under their King Piye, northern Egypt was conquered by the Kushites during the third intermediate period that began in the year 1070 BC (known as “The Nubian Dynasty”), with the Kushites ruling Egypt until 656 BC.  After that time, they continued to live in the southern region of Egypt, where they built many pyramids and they developed a form a writing called Meroitic Script.

Women had an active role in Kushite society, where they sometimes reigned as queens and fought in battles, such as Amanishakheto who reined in Kush when Rome had already conquered Egypt after the defeat of Mark Anthony and Cleopatra.  Amanishakheto refused to pay tribute money to Rome and she declared war against them, sacking Egyptian cities that were under Roman control and leading many battles against the Romans, eventually forcing Rome to recognize the Kingdom of Kush as an independent power in 20 BC.

This video explains that the 14th century African king Mansa Munsa was one of the wealthiest people who ever lived.

[NOTE: Mansa Musa was the ruler of the Mali Empire in Africa between 1312 and 1337 AD.  He was very wealthy due to that region of the world having vast amounts of gold, and he is often claimed to be “the wealthiest person of all time,” with his wealth being claimed to be $400 billion when adjusted for inflation, however I can’t imagine how it would be possible to actually realistically determine that value.  Musa is said to have owned 12,000 slaves that he brought on his well-known pilgrimage to Mecca.  Establishment media outlets try to avoid mentioning slavery in Africa as much as possible unless they are only talking about the trans-Atlantic slave trade, and they almost never mention the 1,400 year history of Islam’s extensive involvement in the slave trade.

Additionally, the video claims “the Islamic world was ‘flourishing’ at that time,” however I do not think that it was really “flourishing” due to the brutally repressive nature of the ideology, such as the death penalty for apostasy being enforced in many parts of the Islamic world even today.]

This documentary explains the growth of African east coast trading civilizations starting in 30 BC, including the “Great Zimbabwe” civilization in south-central Africa that dates between 1,000 and 1,400 AD.