Science Daily reported that the first humans to migrate out of Africa were sub-Saharan Africans. They took a southern route through the Bab-el Mandeb strait beteween Djibouti and Yemen.
Some anthropologists had thought the first migration route was out of Egypt into the Sinai Peninsula. This now appears to be unlikely.
The latest findings suggest the first humans to migrate from Africa were black and the early migration routes were into Asia and Oceania. Eventually some central Asian settlers moved West into Europe, one of the last areas to be settled on the Asian land mass.
This is also why some geneticists call Caucasians west Asians. Genetically, there is not much difference in Asians and Caucasians. There is far more genetic varition in African populations.
source: http://mbe.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2011/09/01/molbev.msr213.abstract
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