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Wednesday 5 June 2013

African Ethnic tribes

Africa
The second largest continent in the World and the birthplace of mankind. The fossils of earliest humasn were found in East Africa. Africa accounts for more than 50 countries speaking hundreds of languaes including non-African alnguages such as English, French and Portuguese. The continent was divided in the 19th century into different European colonies during the Berlin conference. Most of Africans countries acquiered their independances in the 1960s. Africa the vibrous continent is also the one to have a huge cultural diversity that was also spread in the Americas and Europe. Geneticits have found Africans to have the largest genetical diversity.
Africa has amazed many European explorers by its beauty and landscape. Africa is aslo very diverse in ecosystems which can range from deserts and savannah to tropical rainforest and toundra in the mountain.
Here a fascinating compilations of different ethnic groups living  in Africa picutres of today and yesterday, outfit of today and yesterday.

Maghreb
Berber girls
Berber are the last native of Northern Africa. They live in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Lybia. They are related to the Ancient Egyptians. Today theses countries are dominated by people from Arabic ancestry. Horn of Africa:

Somalians:

Somalia ex-president





                     




Islam is one of the predominant religion in Africa. Present in Norhern Africa, Western Africa and Eastern Africa.

Ethiopians


Ahmaric man

Ahmaric woman



Falasha(Ethiopian Jews)
                                                         
Djibouti


Islam is one of the predominant religion in Africa. Present in Norhern Africa, Western Africa and Eastern Africa.

West Africa

Woodabee(Niger-Sahel)
                                                             
Peul girl

Tuareg
                                                                 
Dogon cave painting

Dogon statue

Dogons (Mali)
                                       

Yoruba


                                                         



Ashanti

Baule

Central and Eastern
Samburu(Kenya Tanzania)

                                                         
Maasai
                                                     
Aka pygmy

Aka

Mbuti pygmies                                


                                               

                                                                 
Southern Africa
Basotho

Xhosa

Xhosa men
                                                 
San people
                                                                   
Gwi children

Swazi Kingdom

Zulu Kingdom
                                         
Zulu wome,


Tswana

Ndebele
                                                
Nama
                                           
Coloured (Cape province)


Afrikaners


                                               

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