Culture & Literature

The Samburu are a Nilotic people of north-central Kenya. Samburu County is mostly dry barren land, and the Samburu tribe...

The Wolof people are a West African ethnic group located in northwestern Senegal, Gambia and the southwestern coast of Mauritania....

The Dogon are a branch of the Niger-Congo language group, a tribe of anything between 400,000 and 800,000. They live...

The Himba live in the northern part of Namibia and number around 50 000. Traditionally, they were one of the...

The Hamar tribe resides in the Southwestern part of Ethiopia, specifically in the Omo River valley. This region, known for...

Akan, ethnolinguistic grouping of peoples of the Guinea Coast who speak Akan languages (of the Kwa branch of the Niger-Congo...

The Ewe people are an ethnic group in the western part of the African continent. They are peoples living in...

The Songhai people are an ethnolinguistic group in West Africa who speak the various Songhai languages. Their history and lingua...

Pedi, a Bantu-speaking people inhabiting Limpopo province, South Africa, and constituting the major group of the Northern Sotho ethnolinguistic cluster...

Chewa, Bantu-speaking people living in the extreme eastern zone of Zambia, northwestern Zimbabwe, Malawi, and Mozambique. They share many cultural...