A unique and comprehensive historical guide to the world's peoples, from the earliest times to the present. Covers myriad discrete ethnic and cultural groupings that have inhabited our planet over the past 6000 years: from the Assyrians of the ancient Middle East to the modern-day Armenians, from the Belgae of ancient Europe to the modern-day Basques.
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.
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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.
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Inhabitants of the city of Carthage (‘New City’), now a suburb of Tunis, and its extensive territories bordering the North African coast.
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The people of Egypt. Almost all Egyptians live in the well-watered and fertile Nile Valley and Delta region leading to the Mediterranean.
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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.
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A large agglomeration of linguistically related people of West Africa, concentrated in the Muslim emirates of northern Nigeria and adjoining southern Niger.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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A people who inhabit the Horn of Africa, divided among several states in the region because of colonial boundaries.
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A BANTU Sesotho-speaking people occupying the high grasslands of southern Africa, where they are one of the largest ethnic groups.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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A Northern Nguni people who live mainly in northern Natal, where their South African apartheid ‘homeland’ was known as KwaZulu.
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