How many tribes in africa?

Not all tribes fit the predominant western conception of a tribe as a group of people living together in a camp-like setting with little to no modern amenities. Throughout Africa, tribe members live in urban as well as rural settings. Association with one's tribe, in many cases, is more symbolic than anything else. read more

1996 map of the major ethnolinguistic groups of Africa, by the Library of Congress Geography and Map Division (substantially based on G.P. Murdock, Africa, its peoples and their cultural history, 1959). read more

Introduction On this page is a list of a few of the estimated three thousand African tribes. On this African tribe list we have included some of the largest, most interesting, and best known tribal groups. read more