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When the 12th-century West African scholar Ibrahim al-Kanemi moved to the city of Seville in Spain and became one of the most celebrated Andalusian poets, he wasn't the first from his region to visit the Moorish kingdom.
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Africans were already present on the European mainland by the time Herodotus —the so called father of history— wrote his monumental work, The Histories.

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