Facts About Africa Tribes in Africa 2010

Africa is perhaps the only nation that has hundreds of ethnic groups or tribes with different languages, dialects and culture. Africa is the land of people with wide range of social traits, customs, diverse origins, cultural difference, languages and dialects, diverse lifestyle, varying climates, and inhuman living conditions across its deserts and jungles, due to which there are hundreds of diverse ethnic groups and tribes in Africa.




For example, Bantu language speakers are common in southern, eastern and central Africa, Nilotic groups in east Africa and Pygmy in central and south Africa, to name the few. Some of the major ethnic groups and tribes with more than 10 million people include Arabs, Berber and Egyptians; Hausa in Nigeria, Niger, Ghana, Chad and Sudan; Yoruba in Nigeria and Benin; Somali in Somalia, Djibouti, Ethiopia and Kenya; Zulu in South Africa; Fula in Nigeria, Cameroon, Mali, Central African Countries, Ghana, Chad, Sudan, Niger and Senegal; Shona in Zimbabwe and Mozambique; Amhara in Ethiopia, Sudan, Djibouti and Somalia; Oromo in Ethiopia and Kenya; Igbo in Nigeria and Cameroon; Ljaw in Nigeria.