About 18,000 members make up the unknown Dowayo or Namchis people of Cameroon, who live around the city of Poli in the northern region of the country. The English anthropologist Nigel Barley put them on the map by describing their rites and customs in the novel ‘Innocent Anthropologist’ (1983). Economy and social organization The Dowayo […]
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With a population of over 30 million, the Hausa are one of the largest ethnic groups in all of Africa. Primarily, the Hausa people are found in the Sahel northern Nigeria and southeastern Niger. They are governed by Muslim emirs and their economy is based on agriculture, livestock and trade. The majority of the Hausa […]
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The Gerewol Festival has brought great worldwide fame to the Mbororo tribe, a subgroup of the Fulani. This ethnic group can be found throughout the Sahel, mainly in Cameroon, Nigeria, Chad and the Central African Republic. The nomadic communities are herders and practice transhumance, following the rhythm of the seasons in search of water and […]
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The Anyi ethnographic group (a subgroup of the Akan nation) stretches from Yamoussoukro east to the border with Ghana, with more than 1.2 million members. This tribe of the Ivory Coast use the word ‘Komian’ to refer to trance, that is to say a spiritual possession. This term can also be applied to people and […]
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The Hakaona tribe of Angola live in the wooded savannah and rocky hills in the outskirts of Oncocua town, near the Cunene River. They are mainly goat herders, their heads of cattle being a marker of social status. They are known as the Black Himba and they often take care of the Himba’s herds as […]
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Jun
Asmara, testimony of Modernist architecture in Eritrea Asmara, the capital of Eritrea, was proclaimed a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2017, as it constitutes “an exceptional testimony of early 20th century modernist architecture and its application in an African context.” How have these architectural samples ended up in this small corner of the Horn of […]
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After being mothers for the first time, the young women of the Ntombe and Ngombe tribes (originating from the region of Ecuador in the D. R. of Congo) become Walé (women who breastfeed) and begin a life of seclusion in which they will spend several years dedicating themselves exclusively to the care of their children. […]
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The Rashaida, the most conservative tribe in the Horn of Africa Some 80,000 Rashaida or Bani Rashids live along the desert coast of Eritrea. They are dedicated to the grazing and commercialization of dromedaries, as well as to the general trade with Arab countries. The Rashaida arrived on the coasts of Eritrea and Sudan a […]
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The Batwa tribe is said to have been the first inhabitants of the mountain forests of the Rift Valley and one of the world’s first Homo sapiens, along with the Kalahari San people. The forest was their home, and they were its guardians and main benefactors. Life in the forests provided them with forestry skills, […]
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The Pokot of Kenya, the Lake Baringo tribe of Kenya Pokot population and ecosystem The Pokot are semi-nomadic, semi-pastoralists who live near Lake Baringo in Kenia. It is an area of bush savanna with scarce rain. They belong to the Nilotic language group and speak Pokot. At present, there are around 826,000 Pokot living in […]
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