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Nintendo is not really known for having a lot of black /dark skinned characters.

North African were blacks the modern day North Africans aren't even Arabs by lineage/genes they're mixed race with Black, Greek, Roman, French and Armenian, they've only chosen to identify as Arabs because their region is close to the Middle East and the French conquest making them interact with the Middle East, North Africans were still black as close as 2000 years ago as the Romans and Greeks depicted them as dark skinned black people.

Also to people arguing about skin tone black people doesn't mean only dark skin black means African descent (Africa was derive from a name that meant land of the blacks) which has the most diverse skin tones of any group Gerudo's for one are likely based off Middle Eastern, North and East Africans the latter being one of the most diverse in cultures for example:

These two women are Ethiopian blacks a country in East Africa, people from countries like Ethiopia and such are often mistaken for Middle Eastern/Asian, where my family are from (Zambia) the are people of multiple tones as well (dark, olive, light etc...).

Afri was the name Romans gave to Black people who they encountered outside of Egypt and they called the continent Afri-Terra which translates to Land of the Afri.

"Afri (singular Afer) was a Latin name for the inhabitants of Africa"

You don't need to read anything related to skin colour because that is already provided in the Roman and Greek images of the people showing them as dark skinned so Romans calling them Afri and depicting them as nubian/black means Afri-Terra is Land of the Blacks, they gave race a name instead of calling them by description so essentially you can just add people after the word black if you want to nitpick.

Egyptians weren't called Afri because the Romans and Greeks claimed the region for themselves they saw it as their own empire it's no different to being called Black British etc..., the flaw in your England comparison is that it's named after the tribe not the people Afri is what native black people were called in other words non Roman and Greek parts so effectively it is land of the black people where as England is Land of the Angles tribe who were a German tribe. So yes it is nitpicking.

I havent seen anyone point out Elma from Xenoblade Chronicles X yet

Also, yikes, this thread. A guy just wanted to acknowledge dark-skinned video game characters in the wake of all that is happening in the world right now, and some people are so touchy that theyve incited a full on race dispute. You just look like trolls

This can still go in a good direction,the intent was good but try to focus on the positive and try to steer this thread in a positive direction.

Mario. According to 1920s America.