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