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