Library: African History by Credo Reference: Peoples

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Cassell's Peoples, Nations and Cultures
A unique and comprehensive historical guide to the world's peoples, from the earliest times to the present.

Peoples

Afrikaners or Boers
From Cassell's Peoples, Nations and Cultures
Descendants of the original Dutch settlers in South Africa who went to the Cape of Good Hope in the decades after the first settlement in 1652.
Asante or Ashanti
From Cassell's Peoples, Nations and Cultures
Twi-speaking Akan people who inhabit southern Ghana and adjacent Togo and Ivory Coast.
Bantu
From Cassell's Peoples, Nations and Cultures
A linguistic classification identifying the 60 million or so people occupying almost the whole southern projection of Africa, or roughly one third of the entire continent.
Berbers: Topic Page
Aboriginal Caucasoid peoples of N Africa, called Imazighen in the Tamazight language.
Carthaginians
From Cassell's Peoples, Nations and Cultures
Inhabitants of the city of Carthage (‘New City’), now a suburb of Tunis, and its extensive territories bordering the North African coast.
Dogon
From Cassell's Peoples, Nations and Cultures
Inhabitants of the upland plateau region centred on Bandiagara in Mali, West Africa.
Egyptians
From Cassell's Peoples, Nations and Cultures
The people of Egypt. Almost all Egyptians live in the well-watered and fertile Nile Valley and Delta region leading to the Mediterranean.
Fulani
From Cassell's Peoples, Nations and Cultures
A predominantly Muslim people originating in modern-day Senegal and now widely dispersed across the Sahel region of West Africa as far east as Lake Chad and Cameroon.
Hausa
From Cassell's Peoples, Nations and Cultures
A large agglomeration of linguistically related people of West Africa, concentrated in the Muslim emirates of northern Nigeria and adjoining southern Niger.
Kongo
From Cassell's Peoples, Nations and Cultures
Culturally related BANTU-speakers concentrated in the western Congo basin in central Africa.
Maasai or Masai
From The Columbia Encyclopedia
a largely nomadic pastoral people of E Africa, chiefly in Kenya and Tanzania. Cattle and sheep form the basis of the economy that they have maintained in resistance to cultural change.
Malinke
From Cassell's Peoples, Nations and Cultures
A people who mainly occupy the western Sudan.
Moors
From Cassell's Peoples, Nations and Cultures
An ethnolinguistic group of northwest Africa, concentrated in Morocco, Mauritania, Senegal, Mali and Gambia, although the term is sometimes applied to Muslim groups further afield.
Ndebele
From Cassell's Peoples, Nations and Cultures
The second-largest ethnic group of Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia).
Nuba
From Cassell's Peoples, Nations and Cultures
Member of a minority ethnic group forming many small autonomous groups in southern Sudan.
Oromo
From Cassell's Peoples, Nations and Cultures
Cushitic-speaking pastoralists of southeastern Ethiopia who constantly extended their territory in search of pasture for their cattle.
Pygmies
From Cassell's Peoples, Nations and Cultures
Central African pygmy groups include the Western Aka; the Central or Twa (or Tswa) cluster; the Eastern Mbuti, who have an Aka sub-group; and the southeastern group, also known as Twa, of the Rift Valley.
San
From Cassell's Peoples, Nations and Cultures
A people who have traditionally been marginalized by stronger societies and who survive today in the deserts and marginal regions of Botswana and Namibia, sometimes as pastoralists and sometimes as traditional hunter-gatherers.
Somali
From Cassell's Peoples, Nations and Cultures
A people who inhabit the Horn of Africa, divided among several states in the region because of colonial boundaries.
Sotho
From Cassell's Peoples, Nations and Cultures
A BANTU Sesotho-speaking people occupying the high grasslands of southern Africa, where they are one of the largest ethnic groups.
Tswana
From Cassell's Peoples, Nations and Cultures
A cluster of Bantu Sotho-speaking peoples who occupy the temperate grassland and dry thorn-veld of the edge of the Kalahari Desert, the territory of the modern-day Republic of Botswana.
Tutsi
From Cassell's Peoples, Nations and Cultures
The traditionally dominant peoples of Rwanda and Burundi (though forming less than 10% and 15% of their national populations respectively), and among the Ha of western Tanzania.
Wolof
From Cassell's Peoples, Nations and Cultures
Cattle farmers and agriculturists of Senegal and Gambia.
Yoruba
From Cassell's Peoples, Nations and Cultures
This large ethnic group is divided into numerous subgroups possessing different cultural identities and speaking various dialects of Yoruba, a Kwa language of the Niger-Congo family.
Zulu
From Cassell's Peoples, Nations and Cultures
A Northern Nguni people who live mainly in northern Natal, where their South African apartheid ‘homeland’ was known as KwaZulu.

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