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  2. Indigenous peoples of Africa - Wikipedia

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    The Indigenous Peoples of Africa Co-ordinating Committee (IPACC) was founded in 1997. It is one of the main trans-national network organizations recognized as a representative of African indigenous peoples in dialogues with governments and bodies such as the UN. In 2008, IPACC was composed of 150 member organisations in 21 African countries.

  3. List of ethnic groups of Africa - Wikipedia

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    The ethnic groups of Africa number in the thousands, with each ethnicity generally having their own language (or dialect of a language) and culture. The ethnolinguistic groups include various Afroasiatic , Khoisan , Niger-Congo , and Nilo-Saharan populations.

  4. List of Indigenous peoples - Wikipedia

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    Painting of Bimbache of El Hierro by Leonardo Torriani, 1592 The San are the oldest inhabitants of Southern Africa. Indigenous communities, peoples, and nations are those which have a historical continuity with pre-invasion and pre-colonial societies that developed on their territories, and may consider themselves distinct from other sectors of the societies now prevailing on those territories ...

  5. List of ethnic groups in Tanzania - Wikipedia

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    There are more than 100 distinct ethnic groups and tribes in Tanzania, not including ethnic groups that reside in Tanzania as refugees from conflicts in nearby countries. . These ethnic groups are of Bantu origin, with large Nilotic-speaking, moderate indigenous, and small non-African minoriti

  6. San people - Wikipedia

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    Map of modern distribution of "Khoisan" languages. The territories shaded blue and green, and those to their east, are those of San peoples. The San peoples (also Saan), or Bushmen, are the members of any of the indigenous hunter-gatherer cultures of southern Africa, and the oldest surviving cultures of the region. [2]

  7. List of ethnic groups in Nigeria - Wikipedia

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    Nigeria is a very ethnically diverse country with 371 ethnic groups, the largest of which are the Hausa, Yoruba and the Igbo. [1] Nigeria has one official language which is English, as a result of the British colonial rule over the nation.

  8. Category:Indigenous peoples of East Africa - Wikipedia

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    Reference sources should be cited, particularly if the identification as indigenous may be controversial or contested. This (sub-)region includes the territories as outlined in the Wikipedia geographical article, East Africa, consisting of: countries of the Horn of Africa (Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia and Somalia), Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda;

  9. Tuareg people - Wikipedia

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    They are a semi-nomadic people who mostly practice Islam, and are descended from the indigenous Berber communities of Northern Africa, whose ancestry has been described as a mosaic of local Northern African , Middle Eastern, European (Early European Farmers), and Sub-Saharan African, prior to the Muslim conquest of the Maghreb.