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There are many different people groups and tribes across the continent of Africa - with their culture varying from

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tribe to tribe. We have included only a few on this page and will be adding to the list regularly. President Barack Obama of the United States belonged to the East African Luo tribe.

Central Africa/ Camelot[]

Central Africa generally includes the lands mainly of the Congo River basin, south of the Sahara and west of the East African Rift.

  • Pygmy peoples: Central and Western Africa

East Africa/ Jurassic Park[]

East Africa is the eastern part of the African continent, including the countries of Kenya, Uganda, and

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Tanzania.

  • Acholi : Uganda
  • Afar : Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia
  • Agaw : Ethiopia
  • Akisho : Ethiopia
  • Alur : Uganda
  • Ambo : Zambia
  • Amhara : Ethiopia
  • Ankole : Uganda
  • Anuak : Ethiopia
  • Antalote : Comoros
  • Aushi : Zambia
  • Aweer : Kenya, Somalia
  • Ayoup : Ethiopia
  • Babongo : Gabon
  • Baganda : Uganda
  • Bahima/Ankole : Uganda, Rwanda
  • Bagisu : Uganda
  • Bagwere : Uganda
  • Bakiga : Uganda
  • Bakonjo : Uganda
  • Basoga : Uganda
  • Batoro : Uganda
  • Beja : Eritrea
  • Bemba : Zambia
  • Bertat : Ethiopia
  • Betsileo : Madagascar
  • Bilen : Eritrea
  • Bisa : Zambia
  • Borana : Ethiopia
  • Bunyoro : Uganda
  • Daasanach : Ethiopia
  • Cafre : Comoros
  • Chagga : Tanzania
  • Chewa : Malawi
  • Chikunda : Zambia
  • Chokwe : Mozambique, Zambia
  • Chopi : Mozambique
  • Cishinga : Zambia
  • Dorze : Ethiopia
  • Gova : Zambia
  • Gumuz : Ethiopia
  • Gurage : Ethiopia
  • Hadzabe : Tanzania
  • Hamer people: Ethiopia
  • Haya : Tanzania
  • Hedareb : Eritrea
  • Hehe : Tanzania
  • Hutu : Burundi, Rwanda
  • Ila : Zambia
  • Inamwanga : Zambia
  • Iteso : Uganda
  • Iwa : Zambia
  • Jeberti : Ethiopia
  • Jopadhola : Uganda
  • Kabende : Zambia
  • Kalenjin : Kenya
  • Kamba : Kenya
  • Kaonde : Zambia
  • Karamojong : Uganda
  • Kichepo : Ethiopia
  • Kikuyu : Kenya
  • Kisii : Kenya
  • Kosa : Zambia
  • Kunama: Eritrea
  • Kunda: Zambia
  • Kwandi: Zambia
  • Kwandu: Zambia
  • Kwangwa: Zambia
  • Lala: Zambia
  • Lamba: Zambia
  • Lango: Uganda
  • Lenje: Zambia
  • Leya: Zambia
  • Lima: Zambia
  • Liyuwa: Zambia
  • Lomwe: Malawi
  • Lozi: Zambia
  • Luano: Zambia
  • Lucazi: Zambia
  • Lugbara: Uganda
  • Luhya: Kenya
  • Lumbu: Zambia
  • Lunda: Zambia
  • Lundwe: Zambia
  • Lungu: Zambia
  • Luo: Kenya, Tanzania
  • Luvale: Zambia
  • Luunda: Zambia
  • Maasai: Kenya and Tanzania
  • Makoa: Comoros
  • Makoma: Zambia
  • Makonde: Mozambique
  • Makua: Mozambique
  • Mambwe: Zambia
  • Manyika: Mozambique
  • Mashasha: Zambia
  • Mashi: Zambia
  • Mbowe: Zambia
  • Mbukushu: Zambia
  • Mbumi: Zambia
  • Mbunda: Zambia
  • Mbwela: Zambia
  • Me'en: Ethiopia
  • Merina: Madagascar
  • Meru: Kenya
  • Mukulu: Zambia
  • Mulonga: Zambia
  • Munyoyaya: Kenya
  • Mursi: Ethiopia
  • Nara: Eritrea
  • Ndau: Mozambique
  • Ndembu: Zambia
  • Ng'umbo: Zambia
  • Ngonde: Malawi
  • Ngoni: Malawi
  • Nguni: Mozambique
  • Nkoya: Zambia
  • Nsenga: Zambia
  • Nuba: Sudan
  • Nubians: Egypt, Sudan
  • Nuer: Ethiopia
  • Nyakyusa: Tanzania
  • Nyamwezi: Tanzania
  • Nyangatom: Ethiopia
  • Nyanja: Malawi, Zambia
  • Nyengo: Zambia
  • Nyiha: Zambia
  • Ogiek: Kenya
  • Oimatsaha: Comoros
  • Oromo: Ethiopia
  • Pare: Tanzania
  • Qemant: Ethiopia
  • Rashaida: Eritrea
  • Rer Bare: Ethiopia
  • Rundi: Uganda
  • Rwanda: Uganda
  • Saho: Eritrea
  • Sakalava: Comoros
  • Seba: Zambia
  • Sena: Malawi, Mozambique
  • Senga: Zambia
  • Sengwer: Kenya
  • Shangana: Mozambique
  • Shanjo: Zambia
  • Shanqella: Ethiopia
  • Shila: Zambia
  • Shona: Mozambique
  • Sidama people: Ethiopia
  • Simaa: Zambia
  • Soli: Zambia
  • Somalis: Somalia
  • Subiya: Zambia
  • Sukuma: Tanzania
  • Suri: Ethiopia
  • Swaka: Zambia
  • Swahili: Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique
  • Tabwa: Zambia 
  • Tambo: Zambia
  • Tigre: Eritrea
  • Tigray-Tigrinya people (Tigrinya): Eritrea
  • Tigray-Tigrinya people (Tigray): Ethiopia
  • Toka: Zambia  Totela: Zambia
  • Tumbuka: Malawi, Zambia
  • Tirma: Ethiopia
  • Tonga: Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia
  • Tutsi: Burundi, Rwanda Twa peoples (Pygmy): Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Congo, Rwanda, Namibia, Zambia, Uganda
  • Unga: Zambia
  • Wandya: Zambia
  • Watha: Kenya
  • Welayta: Ethiopia
  • Welega Oromo: Ethiopia
  • Yao: Malawi, Mozambique
  • Yiaku/Yaaku: Kenya
  • Yombe: Zambia
  • Zay: Ethiopia
  • Zulu: South Africa with significant population in Zimbabwe, Swaziland, Malawi, Mozambique,Zambia and Tanzania

North Africa aka Atlantis[]

North Africa generally includes African countries with borders on the Mediterranean and northern Red Sea and Atlantic Ocean, bounded largely by the Sahara Desert to the south.

  • Beja
  • Berber (or Amazigh): (Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, Libya, Egypt)
  • Egyptians
  • Tuareg: (southern Sahara and Sahel regions of Algeria, Libya, Morocco)

Southern Africa aka Pangea[]

Southern Africa generally includes lands from the Cape of Good Hope northwards to the borders of Democratic Republic of the Congo and Tanzania, and islands such as Madagascar.

  • Bushmen: Kalahari Desert, Botswana/Namibia
  • Khoikhoi: South Africa
  • Namaqua: South Africa West Africa West Africa generally includes the region bounded by the Sahara Desert to the north and the Gulf of Guinea to the south.
  • Baka: Cameroon, Congo (Brazzaville), Gabon, and Central African Republic
  • Balengue: Equatorial Guinea
  • Benga: Equatorial Guinea
  • Bubi people: Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea
  • Bujeba: Equatorial Guinea
  • Combe or Ndowe: Equatorial Guinea
  • Duala people: Cameroon
  • Beti-Pahuin#Fang: Equatorial Guinea
  • Ogoni people: Nigeria
  • Tuareg: the Sahel
  • Toubou: southern Sahara
  • Velociraptors
  • El chupracabra
  • Bigfoot
  • Swamp Men
  • Monster in the Goo lagoon
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