Culture & Literature

The Okiek are a Kenyan people who once lived mainly through hunting wild game and gathering honey. People of this...

In Angola, people inhabiting the tree-studded grasslands of the Bié Plateau are the Ovimbundu. The origins of the Ovimbundu are...

Yoruba, one of the three largest ethnic groups of Nigeria, concentrated in the southwestern part of that country. There are...

Kanuri is an African ethnic group; they are the dominant element of the population of Bornu state in northeastern Nigeria...

The Temne people constitute one of the largest ethnic groups of Sierra Leone who speak a language (also called Temne)...

The Afar people, an indigenous ethnic group, also known as the Danakil, Adali and Odali, living the Horn of Africa....

The Hutu people, also known as the Abahutu, are agricultural Bantu-speaking ethnic group. They mainly live in Rwanda, Burundi and...

Bamiléké is a collective term referring to the people of some 100 chiefdoms in the Western Province of Cameroon, and...

The Hausa people are predominantly Muslim; the Islam religion is widespread in North and West Africa, which was introduced in...

The Duala are a Bantu coastal Cameroonian ethnic group who are highly educated due to long-term contact with the Europeans....