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Cassell's Peoples, Nations and CulturesA 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.
Peoples
- Afrikaners or BoersFrom 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. - Asante or AshantiFrom Cassell's Peoples, Nations and Cultures
Twi-speaking Akan people who inhabit southern Ghana and adjacent Togo and Ivory Coast. - BantuFrom Cassell's Peoples, Nations and Cultures
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. - BerbersAboriginal Caucasoid peoples of N Africa, called Imazighen in the Tamazight language.
- CarthaginiansFrom Cassell's Peoples, Nations and Cultures
Inhabitants of the city of Carthage (‘New City’), now a suburb of Tunis, and its extensive territories bordering the North African coast. - DogonFrom Cassell's Peoples, Nations and Cultures
Inhabitants of the upland plateau region centred on Bandiagara in Mali, West Africa. - EgyptiansFrom Cassell's Peoples, Nations and Cultures
The people of Egypt. Almost all Egyptians live in the well-watered and fertile Nile Valley and Delta region leading to the Mediterranean. - FulaniFrom Cassell's Peoples, Nations and Cultures
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. - HausaFrom Cassell's Peoples, Nations and Cultures
A large agglomeration of linguistically related people of West Africa, concentrated in the Muslim emirates of northern Nigeria and adjoining southern Niger. - KongoFrom Cassell's Peoples, Nations and Cultures
Culturally related BANTU-speakers concentrated in the western Congo basin in central Africa. - Maasai or MasaiFrom 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. - MalinkeFrom Cassell's Peoples, Nations and Cultures
A people who mainly occupy the western Sudan. - MoorsFrom 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. - NdebeleFrom Cassell's Peoples, Nations and Cultures
The second-largest ethnic group of Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia). - NubaFrom Cassell's Peoples, Nations and Cultures
Member of a minority ethnic group forming many small autonomous groups in southern Sudan. - OromoFrom Cassell's Peoples, Nations and Cultures
Cushitic-speaking pastoralists of southeastern Ethiopia who constantly extended their territory in search of pasture for their cattle. - PygmiesFrom Cassell's Peoples, Nations and Cultures
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. - SanFrom 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. - SomaliFrom Cassell's Peoples, Nations and Cultures
A people who inhabit the Horn of Africa, divided among several states in the region because of colonial boundaries. - SothoFrom Cassell's Peoples, Nations and Cultures
A BANTU Sesotho-speaking people occupying the high grasslands of southern Africa, where they are one of the largest ethnic groups. - TswanaFrom Cassell's Peoples, Nations and Cultures
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. - TutsiFrom Cassell's Peoples, Nations and Cultures
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. - WolofFrom Cassell's Peoples, Nations and Cultures
Cattle farmers and agriculturists of Senegal and Gambia. - YorubaFrom Cassell's Peoples, Nations and Cultures
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. - ZuluFrom Cassell's Peoples, Nations and Cultures
A Northern Nguni people who live mainly in northern Natal, where their South African apartheid ‘homeland’ was known as KwaZulu.
