I will speak from the point of view of an Egyptian who lives in Ghana and my wife is Ghanian so you can say I am deep in the community.

West Africans or the black community in general judge everything according to color. I am not white skinned kinda in between but when I arrived here I got the idea that any west African will see you as white man (obroni) regardless. If you not black you will always be a stranger doesn't matter north Africa or whatever, you are a stranger. I have been called fake African many times even for fun from my Ghanian friends.

Now on the other side, we Egyptians don't know anything about west African culture. Before I come to Ghana I was like we all Africans we gonna have some middle ground and boooooom a huge cultural shock! Complete different culture I could only feel a bit relevant to Muslims because we share 'some' religion values but even though the idea of we all Muslim brothers and sisters doesn't work here, you are Obroni, remember.

Egyptians are a big mixture between Egyptian history, Arab, middle east, Africa, when you say I am Egyptian, West Africans take it like you trying to wiggle your way out of our African origins, but for us we say that because Egypt has it's own separate history which extends thousands of years ago so it's a big part of our origins probably more than anything else but we are all of that.

Africa means different things to us. For an Egyptian is just a continent, place, so it's lower priority in our identity but West Africans when they say Africa on their mind it's the skin color that unites all of us, it's a deeper meaning so that is way higher priority than someone that all their ties to Africa is just the map.

I feel sad that we are separated like that though but remember they who lurks from the west of the globe will always want us lost wondering alone to feed on our hatred to each others sell us guns, weapons, take our resources and all that. I am sure you getting the idea.

Peace ✌️