Black African kingdoms waged extended wars against Rome

Evidence

The Romans, however, achieved familiarity with peoples along the Nile but also assumed relations with African peoples of northwestern Africa (that is Libya and west of Libya) and as far south as Cameroon and the Sudan. As the Greeks had in Egypt, the Romans found in north Africa peoples such as the Garamantes who were Black or mixed. … Peace, however, was elusive, as evidenced by the successive wars fought against the armies of the Ethiopian queen Candace during the last third of the first century B.C. In addition, an Ethiopian people, the Blemmyes, fought continuous wars with Roman armies from 250 A.D. to 545 A.D. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 443

Categorization

• XREF: Queen Candace’s wars against Rome parallel the figure of Candace in the biblical Acts account (the Ethiopian eunuch of Candace) — connects scripture to history.
• CANDY: A Black Ethiopian queen fighting successful wars against Rome for decades is a striking counter-narrative to assumptions about ancient African military weakness.