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Over 4000 years ago, Enheduanna, a Summerian lady, was the first known female writer to sign her work. I'm sure that in Africa, there were also ladies writing whatever their interests were. And maybe in the rest of the American Continent, there were black writers, because whitin the Hispanic Empire
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there were black men with University degrees. Like Juan de Sessa (aka Juan Latino), an Ethiopian who was professor at Granada's University (Spain) in Grammar and Latin language (there his nickname). He published poetry. The Spanish soldier from Congo, Juan Garrido, who was one of the men with Cortes
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*Sumerian
African history pre-dates Sumerian civilisaation