Guinesid is a distinct subrace within the African population (the negros).
This article will describe who the Guinesids are, where they live, and their distinctive characteristics.
Who are the Guinesids?
The Guinesids/Palaenegrids are a subrace of the negroids. A group that includes the Khoisanid, Sahelid, Sudanid, Nilotid, and Bantunid, among others.
These groups are black African, but European anthropologists had to make these distinctions because Africa is so diverse.
Indeed, Africa is home to the most genetic diversity.
Black Africans are indeed the world’s most diverse race. They are more diverse than all other “races” combined.
Guinesids are indigenous to the West African forest along the coast of the Gulf of Guinea.
They extend from Guinea to Cameroon and or sometimes as far as northwest Angola.
Guinesids are typically the Susu, Konyanke, Krou, Kuranko, Kissi, Guerz, Kpelle, Yakoba, Temne, Bidyogo, Baule, Dida, Nago, and Yoruba peoples, as well as the Ekoi, Kongo, and Teke, and related people.
The Guinesid subrace can be found in the yellow color portion of the map above.
Physical Traits of the Guinesid
The physical features of this distinctive group – the Guinesids, are as follows:
- They are usually dark brown skin, sometimes light brown.
- They have kinky hair.
- Medium height, sometimes rather short, mesoskelic, mesomorph to endomorph.
- They have a relatively long skull (dolichocephalic), medium high-skulled (orthocranic) or mildly high skull (mildly hypsicranic).
- Possesses a beautiful broad-nose (hyper-)platyrrhine, depressed, often the funnel-shaped nose.
- They have wide-set eyes and faces.
- The face is low with thick lips but thinner than in Sudanids.
- Their legs are shorter, and their body hair slightly stronger.
- They are Prognathous.
- They have a strong body build due to their adaptation to living conditions in near-equatorial western Africa.
It is evident from this narrative that the Guinesid are special and beautiful West African people. Africa is a diverse race with different subgroups. It is proud to be an African. Africa is beautiful.
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