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The ethnic groups of Africa number in the thousands, with each ethnicity generally having their own language (or dialect of a language) and culture. The ethnolinguistic groups include various Afroasiatic , Khoisan , Niger-Congo , and Nilo-Saharan populations.
A given group should be placed in its appropriate regional sub-category(ies), and optionally perhaps also its main regional category, rather than the overall parent category indigenous peoples. See also: parent category Category:Indigenous peoples; See also: parent regional category Category:Indigenous peoples of Africa
For example, in West Africa, the Dogon people of Mali and Burkina Faso, [1] [2] the Jola people of Guinea-Bissau, The Gambia, and Senegal, [3] and the Serer people of Senegal, The Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, and Mauritania, and formally North Africa, [4] [5] have faced religious and ethnic persecution for centuries, and disenfranchisement or ...
The larger of the individual Bantu groups have populations of several million, e.g. the large majority of West Africa, notably the most populous African nation Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya, Burundi (25 million), the Baganda [5] people of Uganda (5.5 million as of 2014), the Shona of Zimbabwe (17.6 million as of 2020), the Zulu of ...
The Fula, Fulani, or Fulɓe people [a] are an ethnic group in Sahara, Sahel and West Africa, widely dispersed across the region. [22] Inhabiting many countries, they live mainly in West Africa and northern parts of Central Africa , South Sudan , Darfur , and regions near the Red Sea coast in Sudan .
The Dyula (Dioula or Juula) are a Mande ethnic group inhabiting several West African countries, including Mali, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, and Burkina Faso.. Characterized as a highly successful merchant caste, Dyula migrants began establishing trading communities across the region in the fourteenth century.
The Yoruba people (/ ˈ j ɒr ʊ b ə / YORR-ub-ə; [24] [25] Yoruba: Ìran Yorùbá, Ọmọ Odùduwà, Ọmọ Káàárọ̀-oòjíire) [26] are a West African ethnic group who mainly inhabit parts of Nigeria, Benin, and Togo. The areas of these countries primarily inhabited by the Yoruba are often collectively referred to as Yorubaland.
The Kissi people are a West African ethnolinguistic group. [5] They are the fourth largest ethnic group in Guinea, making up 6.2% of the population. [6] Kissi people are also found in Liberia and Sierra Leone. They speak the Kissi language, which belongs to the Mel branch of the Niger–Congo language family. [7]