African style village

Yemen / Hajjah / Hhajjah /
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African style village on the Yemen coastal plain.

A friend who travelled in Yemen about 20 years ago told me about these villages. They belong to an ethnic group that many hundreds of years ago crossed the Red Sea from Africa.
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Coordinates:   15°41'58"N   43°6'12"E

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  • The building style of these villages alone does not prove that their inhabitants are from Africa. Genetic studies have proven that 90% of Yemeni's are Arabs of the Y-haplogroup J1 (the remaining 10% are from other races such as Sub-Saharan Africans who came as part of slave trades) This housing style was adopted by people in this region because of it's simplicity and ease of construction and the ability to dismantle these houses and re-build them with the same material in another location. Which means, these people are semi-nomadic. They move one river valley to another according to drought conditions.
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