Why are Africans or African descendant called Black?

If we are to define the meaning of Black, the whites will come up with there own definition and so also will the blacks, but the word black although primarily referring to those dark in skin and with kinky hairs have been corrupted into many definitions. In the mid to late 1800’s where someone had a trace of black in them although being physically light in skin are generally referred to as blacks and was discriminated on that basic. In other to apply the word “Black” on a person, we must first go back in history where the name was formally introduced. 

Pre Colonial Era

Before the colonist came from the other side of the globe, “Africans” as they were formally known, was by no means associated with the name “Black”. At the arrival of the colonist who came into the shores of these people, at first site, the people were dark to them and since they could not speak their language, they decided to call them “Blacks”. 

“Ones we were known as Africans, they came and called us blacks”

On the arrival on the west coast, they introduce their newly captured/bought slaves as “Blacks” and when the auctions was held, the means of identifying these people was to call them by names such as “Black Niggers”

I have my theory that the word “nigger” might have come from the names of these places that the colonist visited such as River Niger (A place located in the west side of Africa) and since they couldn’t pronounced the name of these places, they began to call them “Niggers” instead of “Niger”. When the white men saw these slave, they asked them where they had bought them from and they said they found them at a river called “Nigger” (Miss spelling) and so they in laughter began to call them “Black Niggers” meaning that these blacks where found at River Niger.

Years as passed since they first called them “Black Niggers” and today, the name stock to them and has gradually moved from an insult to a means of identification even with Blacks.