Why isn’t North Africa considered Africa??

Recently I was talking to somebody ( an American ) who was basically trying to tell me that no civilisation has ever come out of Africa. Whilst Europe built Africa was mud huts when I provided examples he essentially told me that North Africa may as well be Europe??? And that most people couldn’t ever consider someone white an indigenous African. Why and how do you think we could make people in the west essentially acknowledge are complex existence.

People have a very white and black view on the world.

Recently I was talking to somebody ( an American ) who was basically trying to tell me that no civilisation has ever come out of Africa. Whilst Europe built Africa was mud huts when I provided examples he essentially told me that North Africa may as well be Europe??? And that most people couldn’t ever consider someone white an indigenous African. Why and how do you think we could make people in the west essentially acknowledge are complex existence.

People have a very white and black view on the world.