The interview in question (or, at least, an interview - I don't think this is the one I was thinking of) is preserved here: http://www.enworld.org/forum/archive-threads/121380-gary-gygax-q-part-viii-9.html#post2071627. What Gygax said was, "I can say that the Flan were not meant to be anything like the American Indians. they were of Hamatic-like racial origin, Negroes if you will. Little is known of them because they were generally absorbed into the waves of other peoples immigrating eastwards through the continent, so their culture was generally lost."
So yes, it does sound like they were meant to be African in appearance, though as noted in the 1983 boxed set [page 13] their skin ranges from a lighter, almost coppery tone to "deepest brown."
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