The Arabs are the only people on the continent who have managed to wrest control of their natural resources (oil) from the clutches of the west. Their heads of state more closely approximating the way whites look, the west is more comfortable with them than 100% black African heads of state.... not to mention it was black Africans and NOT half-breed Arabs that the same white West tore from the bosom of the motherland and dispersed as slaves in the diaspora as sub-human
inferiors. Blacks in non-Arab countries are comfortable with Arab people because so very many of them are almost indistinguishable from other black Africans. In short, the half-breed Arabs are acceptable to persons of all religions and races because their population spans all religions and races. As a result, I think black Africans have been lulled into believing Arabs to be more their friendly neighbors than a threat.
Remember, it was Kaddafi who reached out to black African states (but only after his Pan-Arabism organizing efforts were rejected by his fellow Arabs) to unite against their former colonial oppressors, the white West. The Tuaregs, destroying as much of ancient, black Timbuktu history as they could before being deposed by the French, from pix and videos I've seen of them, are mostly black-SKINNED (black Arab Islamists with no "black" consciousness). And once the little black Egyptian ruler (forget his name, came after Nassr) forged OPEC with the oil-producing Arab countries, Arabs are the monied people on the continent.... and they use it to bring black African leaders and nations into
their sphere of influence in opposition to the white West.
There's really no comparison of the Deacons for Defense with continental Africans. For one, the Deacons knew EXACTLY who their enemy was and forged in the crucible of American slavery, every last one of them was of tribe Africa-America. Blacks in the motherland have allegiance to hundreds (if not thousands
) of tribes. Their "enemies" are not so clear-cut, as in the case of the Tuaregs as well as the Northern Sudanese, both of which are MAJORITY black-skinned.... like them.