Tribes
 The Afar people live primarily in Ethiopia and the areas of Eritrea, Djibouti, and Somalia |
 The Anlo-Ewe people are today in the southeastern corner of the Republic of Ghana |
 The Bambara are a large Mande racial group located mostly in the country of Mali. |
 The Ashanti live in central Ghana in western Africa approximately 300km. away from the coast |
 The Bakongo live along the Atlantic coast of Africa from Congo Brazzaville to Luanda, and Angola. |
 Berbers have lived in Africa since the earliest recorded time. References date back to 3000 BC. There are many scattered tribes of Berber |
 The ‘Bushmen’ are the oldest inhabitants of southern Africa, where they have lived for at least 20,000 years |
 The Fulani people of West Africa are the largest nomadic group in the world. |
 The Dogon are a cliff-dwelling people who live in Southeastern Mali and Burkina Faso |
 The Fang are especially known for their guardian figures which they attached to wooden boxes containing bones of the ancestors |
 Having migrated to their current location about four centuries ago, the Kikuyu now make up Kenya’s largest ethnic group |
 The Maasai, famous as herders and warriors, once dominated the plains of East Africa |
 The Mandinka are an ethnic group that live in West Africa, primarily Senegal, Gambia, and Guinea-Bissau, but some also live in Burkina Faso, Mali |
 There are many different ‘Pygmy’ peoples – for example, the Bambuti, the Batwa, the Bayaka and the Bagyeli (‘Ba -’ means ‘people’) |
 The Samburu are related to the Masai although they live just above the equator where the foothills of Mount Kenya merge into the northern desert |
 The Senufo are a group of people living in northern Cote d’Ivoire and Mali. Made up of different groups who moved south to Mali and Cote d’Ivoire |
 The Tuareg people are predominently nomadic people of the sahara desert, mostly in the Northern reaches of Mali |
 The Wolof are one of the largest people groups that inhabit modern-day Senegal. They live anywhere from the desert area of the Sahara to the rain forest |
 The Yoruba people live in Southwest Nigeria and Benin. They have developed a variety of different artistic forms |
 The Zulu are the largest South African ethnic group, living mainly in the province of KwaZulu-Natal |
 From Nigerian the Ibos live in villages that have anywhere from a few hundred to a few thousand people comprised of numerous extended families |
