Japan and Black Africa.........

I always thought that Japan and Black Africa had some significant interesting common points. 1) A lot of Black African proper names can be easily written in Japanese Kanjis （漢字）: - Bamako→バマコ→場間庫 - Mali→マリ→万理 - Congo→コンゴ→今後 - Kinshasha→金紗車 - Kilimanjaro→キリマンジャロ→霧万蛇路 2) Black African people that come from the above mentioned places can speak and pronounce very well Japanese (including the right prosody). A few examples from the Japanese show biz world （芸能界） - Bobby Ologun - Bernard Ackah 3) Bambara (バンバラ), the language of Mali and Ivory Coast is similar to Japanese. My favorite word is Bele Bele (ベレベレ) meaning "plump buttock". It's similar to those Japanese onomatopoeia like かさかさ、チャラチャラ or even ぴちぴち. By the way, Bambara is a SVO (SOV) language like Japanese language. 4) Japanese pichipichis and Black African pichipichis can be very similar. Compare this and this. 5) In food, there is a common ground between pounding millet and pounding mochi Please tell me if you find some other similarities. ^^ I will sound naive or simplistic for certain people. But I really believe that the difference can be very slight between Japan and certain countries of Black Africa, regarding a limited number of criteria.