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Is there an ancient African philosophy analogous to ancient European or ancient Asian philosophies?

Discussing comparative philosophy the terms, "ancient European philosophy" and "ancient Asian philosophy" were being thrown around until somebody asked, "Is there an ancient African philosophy?"

The presenter talked about the Middle East and ancient Egypt (technically part of Africa), which led me to think that perhaps there isn't a particularly African brand of ancient philosophy, there are just ancient philosophies that took place in Africa, usually Mediterranean countries near Europe and Asia.

Is that mostly correct? Wildly incorrect?

If someone were interested in reading ancient African thinkers other than North Africa, where would you suggest they start?
gpt
A few of Greek Historians (Philostratus and Heliodorus) record a lot of the teachings of the "gymnosophists" (which basically function as the proto-philosophy of both the pre-Socratics and post-Alexandrian philosophy) coming into Greece as coming from Ethiopian priests. In the same way, Plato confidently tells us most of his philosophical innovations can be traced back to Egypt.

That said, there's not much documentation simply because there's not much documentation of the period in general, a lot of the gymnosophists preferred to spread their teaching only by word-of-mouth among dedicated students anyways, and the Greek historians don't always take tremendous interest in sorting out the different strains in the philosophy of the gymnosophists.