Afro-Saudis

[2] While some black Saudis descend from slaves brought through the Arab slave trade,[3] the majority descend from Muslim pilgrims, primarily from West Africa, who settled in the cities of Mecca and Jeddah.

[4] The term "takarnah", meaning people of takrur, is sometimes used to refer to Hejazis of West African descent,[5] though their origins are diverse.

[4] Arabia and Africa have been in contact starting with the obsidian exchange networks of the 7th millennium BC.

Anthropologists have indicated the likely existence of settlements in Arabia, from the people of the Horn of Africa, as early as the 3rd and 2nd millenniums BC.

[9] Many activists amongst Afro-Saudis complain that they are not given media representation and are unable to find opportunities to improve their social condition.

Bilal ibn Rabah , an Abyssinian who was enslaved by Pre-Islamic Arabs was Islam's first Muezzin