That's interesting, Wesley. It hadn't even occurred to me that there were no Black Africans in Disney's Tarzan movie, but it was mostly just about the animals living around Tarzan while he was growing up.

I suppose that the Disney people would have had to complicate the plot considerably to work some Native Africans into it...and they would have been tiptoeing through the minefield of possibly coming up with a scene that someone might have interpreted as "racially offensive"...........after all, Native Africans generally hunted those wild animals around Tarzan, didn't they? How would one avoid casting them in an adversarial role?

So they just skipped the whole thing altogether.

Edgar Rice Burroughs lived in a different time, so he had no hesitation about depicting situations where Tarzan battled various Black African tribes, who were often depicted as pretty vicious. It wouldn't go down so well today, would it? Disney would have had to find a way of putting Blacks in the story and making them good guys. Instead, they just avoided the subject.