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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.
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.
Sub-Saharan Africa has some of the oldest and most varied style of rock art in the world. [245] Although sub-Saharan African art is very diverse, there are some common themes. One is the use of the human figure. Second, there is a preference for sculpture. Sub-Saharan African art is meant to be experienced in three dimensions, not two.
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.
The scientists used data from a vast genomic analysis of more than 2,000 samples taken from individuals in 57 populations throughout Sub-Saharan Africa to trace the Bantu expansion. During a wave of expansion that began 4,000 to 5,000 years ago, Bantu-speaking populations – some 310 million people as of 2023 – gradually left their original ...
Population Language group n A B E1a E1b1a E1b1b E2 J R1b T Reference Alur: Nilo-Saharan: 9 22 0 0 11 0 67 0 0 0 Wood 2005 [1]: Amhara () : Semitic: 48 14.6 2.1 0 45.8 0 33.3
The third most frequently observed paternal DNA marker in the Maasai was E1b1a1-M2 (E-P1), which is very common in the Sub-Saharan region; it was found in 12% of the Maasai samples. Haplogroup B-M60 was also observed in 8% of the studied Maasai, [ 31 ] which is also found in 30% (16/53) of Southern Sudanese Nilotes.
West African hunter-gatherers may have spoken a set of presently extinct Sub-Saharan West African languages. [ 5 ] [ 19 ] In the northeastern region of Nigeria , Jalaa , a language isolate, may have been a descending language from the original set(s) of languages spoken by West African hunter-gatherers.