How has sub-Saharan African culture influenced Arabian culture?

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I'm well aware of the influence of Arabian and Islamic culture on sub-Saharan Africa, as well as the Arabic influence on some of the native languages there. But in my readings it often seems like the cultural influence has long been a one way street. Certainly, black Africans must have influenced Arabs in some ways. In which ways have black Africans influenced the Arabs?
Anoshora, they were also brought to the Americas as slaves and have had a profound influence on the culture of both Latin America and North America. This is especially true of music, and dance, and the influence is so strong it is hard to imagine American music without the Afro-American influence.
One of the reasons I am asking this is because we often hear about people in the U.S and Europe being racist against Arabs and other Middle Easterners. While there is bigotry against Middle Easterners, we often don't hear about how racist many Arabs are against Africans, and how this may be one of the causes of the war in Sudan. It seems to be mainly a race war - the Arab-Sudanese northerners consider the southern "black" Sudanese are "savages".
 
I agree with you completely and have experienced this “one way” Arabian influence growing up, but I have no concrete examples of the reverse. I think a person who has been raised in an African-Arab family could answer it best.
 
more like created. from what i know contemporary evidence has shown what you call "arabian culture" originated in eastern africa millenniums ago. from language to culture, food etc. all spawned by black african tribes and made uits way through the southern parts of saudi arabia. for example tribes in the yemen are different from northern arabs and consist of a significant higher amount of admixture from africa. not to mention the fact the language spoken in saudi arabia is rather different in south than the north.

are you aware that semitic languages originated from africa?
 
they have not influenced the middle east in any way because they were brought over there as slaves. they assimilated into the culture so no influence what so ever.
 
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