Culture & Literature

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....

The Bamoum, sometimes called Bamum, Bamun, Bamoun, or Mum, are a Grassfields ethnic group of Cameroon with around 215,000 members....

The Zande people of Central Africa speak a language of the Adamawa-Ubangi branch of the Niger-Congo language family. The regions...

Shona, are a Bantu ethnic group native to Southern Africa, primarily living in Zimbabwe where they form the majority of...

The Tigre people are an ethnic group indigenous to Eritrea. Eritrea is one of the three non-member states of the...

Zulu are a branch of the southern Bantu and have close ethnic, linguistic, and cultural ties with the Swazi and...

Kirdi, a collective name for many cultures and ethnic groups who inhabit Cameroon, Nigeria, and Chad. The group makes up...