Our Ancestors, the ancient Greeks primarily called sub-Saharan Africans and other dark-skinned peoples south of Egypt Aithiopes, or Ethiopians. The word literally means burnt-faced or burnt-skin people, from aithō meaning to burn and ops meaning face. They used it because of the much darker skin caused by the intense southern sun.
Homer first mentioned them as mythical tribes at the edges of the world. Herodotus described real Aithiopes living south of Egypt in Nubia and Kush, noting their dark skin and woolly hair, and clearly separated them from the lighter North African Libyans. The term became the standard catch-all for sub-Saharan Africans.
These Aithiopes played no role whatsoever in creating Greek civilization. Greek culture arose from local Neolithic peoples in the Aegean, Indo-European migrants, and nearby influences from Anatolia and the Near East through ordinary trade.
Greeks saw Aithiopes as distant, exotic outsiders with almost no contact until long after the main foundations of their civilization were already in place.
There is zero archaeological, genetic, linguistic, or historical evidence that sub-Saharan Africans founded, colonized, or meaningfully shaped Greek language, cities, philosophy, art, or institutions.
Any later interactions were minor and one-way, with Greek culture reaching Africa rather than the reverse.
So no, the Hellenic civilization was not invented in any shape or form by Africans. Anyone who claims otherwise is either ignorant of the evidence or pushing an agenda.
Hostin: "If you think Helen of Troy cannot be black, you don't know history"
She says Greek culture is from Africans