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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Age#Africa
Not sure what you find Eurocentric about this meme.
That article states that there were Bronze Age developments across Africa. So I still don't see what that meme is suggesting beyond some sort of crude attempt too paint Africa as not having the same historical developments as the rest of the world. Or maybe I'm reading it wrong?!
As the wiki article linked notes, most places in Africa didn't have a sustained bronze age. This isn't some 'crude attempt' or anything, it's recognition that technological development is not always linear. Africa came out swinging on iron bloomeries before just about anyone else. The invention and spread of the bloomery in Africa meant that they never went through a sustained period, like Europe or China, where iron was hard to refine and work, but bronze could still be handled by more primitive furnaces.
Bronze is just not worth it, except for decorative purposes and the like, if you can smelt iron.
Not quite how I read it but I'm happy you've taught me something about African metallurgy and history