Not to mention, just as a for example, Flamenco which is incredibly North African. And then there are all the ones you don’t think of like Bulgarian or Macedonian let alone Georgian or…
I mean Christianity is a middle eastern.religion. it’s not white in origin. And many strands of liturgical music reflect this let alone folk musics.
About Ginger Baker though, he was an absolute fucking monster to be fair. I only listened to his stuff with Tony Allen (one of my two favourite drummers) when Baker died the other year. Never got round to it as I had so very much stuff Tony Allen played on to listen to. The guy was non-stop.