Podcast
Tribes of Africa
Episodes — page 3
- The Kavango Tribe
The Kavango people, also known as the vaKavango or haKavango, are a Bantu ethnic group that resides in the Kavango region of Northern Namibia on the Angolan border along the Kavang…
- The Ovambo Tribe
The Ovambo people, also called Aawambo, are a Southern African tribal ethnic group. They are found in Namibia’s northern regions and more often called Ovambo. The Ovambo people are…
- The Twa Tribe
Twa, also called Batwa, one of the best-known of the many Pygmy groups scattered across equatorial Africa. Like all other African Pygmies, the Twa, averaging about 5 feet (1.5 m) i…
- The Chewa Tribe
Chewa, Bantu-speaking people living in the extreme eastern zone of Zambia, northwestern Zimbabwe, Malawi, and Mozambique. They share many cultural features with their Bemba kinsmen…
- The Mongo Tribe
Mongo, any of several peoples living in the African equatorial forest, south of the main Congo River bend and north of the Kasai and Sankuru rivers in Congo (Kinshasa). They includ…
- The Mursi Tribe of The Southwestern Ethiopia
The Mursi are an agro-pastoralist ethnic tribe living in southwestern Ethiopia, Africa. They inhabit the lower valley of the Omo River near the border of Ethiopia with South Sudan.…
- The Kuri Tribe
The Kuri's are known as stevedores and fishermen throughout the west coast of Africa and have established colonies in most ports from Dakar, Senegal to Douala, Cameroon. They occup…
- The Bodi Tribe
Ethiopia is a land of many cultures that have been preserved despite western civilization. Along the Lower Omo valley river in Southern Ethiopia resides one of these kinds: the Bod…
- The Baka Tribe
The Baka people, known in the Congo as Bayaka (Bebayaka, Bebayaga, Bibaya),[1] are an ethnic group inhabiting the southeastern rain forests of Cameroon, northern Republic of the Co…
- The Nubian tribe
Nubians are an ethno-linguistic group of people who are indigenous to the region which is now northern Sudan and southern Egypt. They originate from the early inhabitants of the ce…
- The Songhai people
The Songhai people (also Ayneha, Songhay or Sonrai) are an ethnolinguistic group in West Africa who speak the various Songhai languages. Their history and lingua franca is linked t…
- The Zulu Tribe
Zulu, a nation of Nguni-speaking people in KwaZulu-Natal province, South Africa. They are a branch of the southern Bantu and have close ethnic, linguistic, and cultural ties with t…
- The Mangbetu Tribe
Mangbetu, also spelled Monbuttu, peoples of Central Africa living to the south of the Zande in north-eastern Congo (Kinshasa). They speak a Central Sudanic language of the Nilo-Sah…
- The Chaga tribe
The Chaga or Chagga are a Bantu-speaking indigenous Africans and the third largest ethnic group in Tanzania. They traditionally live the slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro and eastern Mou…
- The Karo Tribe
The Karo tribe, Ethiopia Located in Southern Ethiopia, the Karo or Kara Ethnic group reside along the east banks of the Omo River, seemingly untouched by the outside world. It is t…
- The Isoko Tribe
Isoko people are an ethnolinguistic group who inhabit the Isoko region of Delta State, and Bayelsa State Nigeria. They are people of southern Nigeria, near the northwestern Niger d…
- The Afar Tribe of Africa
The Afars, also known as the Danakil, Adali, and Odali, are an ethnic group inhabiting the Horn of Africa. They live in the Afar Region of Ethiopia and in northern Djibouti, as wel…
- The Somalis Tribe of Africa
Somalis are an East Cushitic ethnic group belonging to the Cushitic peoples, native to Greater Somalia who share a common Somali ancestry, culture, and history. Constituting one tr…
- The Ijaw Tribe of Africa
Ijaw people are people in Niger Delta in Nigeria, inhabiting regions of the states of Ondo, Bayelsa, Delta, Edo, Akwa Ibom, and Rivers state. The Ijaws were one of the first of Nig…
- CHAGGAA TRIBE OF AFRICA.
The Chagas who are also called Chagga or Wachagga are Bantu-speaking indigenous Africans and the third largest ethnic group in Tanzania. They traditionally live on the southern and…
