I’m not Afrocentric, but first kings of the old Kingdom were clearly more SSA

[Midas]

Yes, it’s a coherent theory that fits known migration patterns, linguistic links, and anthropology.
The donkey domestication part is actually a clever angle — mobility tech changes like that do explain sudden expansions in prehistory.
The only thing missing is more direct archaeological evidence tying early Horn cultures to Naqada/Badarian sites.

They found 6,000 year old obsidian in predynastic eygptian settlements that was traced back to mines in the afar region

 

[Saleh]

The SSA–West Eurasian mix of early Upper Egyptians was probably very close to what we see in modern Horn of Africa populations:

• ~50–70% Sub-Saharan African ancestry
• The rest ancient Levant/Egypt-related West Eurasian ancestry

there are already adna samples in circulation from old kingdom egypt and they were quadroons. 50%-70% ssa kulaha

 

[Midas]

there are already adna samples in circulation from old kingdom egypt and they were quadroons. 50%-70% ssa kulaha

Those quadroon samples are not upper eygptians but lower eygptians who trace a huge chunk of thier ancestry back to berber/eef mixed farmers who arrived in Morocco around 5000 b.c and then arrived in eygpt several centuries after that.

We clearly see them depicted as very distinct from upper eygptians in wooden models from the old Kingdom.

 

[Angelina]

there are already adna samples in circulation from old kingdom egypt and they were quadroons. 50%-70% ssa kulaha

Not from upper Egypt walal. The founders of the old kingdom originated from upper Egypt.

 

[NidarNidar]

Iberomaurusian men who were all E-M78 15,000 were roughly 50-63% Basal Eurasian the rest being SSA related, E-M78 formed around the border between Egypt and Libya and expanded south eastwords.

Van de Loosdrecht et al. (2018) modeled the ancestry of Taforalt individuals as approximately 63.5 % West-Eurasian–related (Levantine/Near Eastern) and 36.5 % sub-Saharan African–related, I Lazaridis et al.

Summarizing later, modeled them as about 55 % Dzudzuana-like (a West Eurasian component) and 45 % from an “Ancient North African” component, possibly older than Basal Eurasians.

Basal Eurasian refers to a deeply diverged non-African lineage that split early from other non-Africans and is characterised by lower Neanderthal admixture

In Natufians, models estimate around 50 % Basal Eurasian ancestry, but Taforalt people do not neatly fit that profile. Iberomaurusians are better understood as a mix of West-Eurasian–related and an indigenous North African component, rather than a straight Basal Eurasian split.

Our ancestors domesticated the Donkey somewhere in lower Nubia/ Upper Egypt adjacent to t he Red Sea hills.