Africa has a rich culture distributed in over 3000 tribes. This presentation is a photo-essay sharing these.

1. Nations and Tribes
Africa’s Vanishing Tribes
A Photo‐essay
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August 2012
“In the end it really comes down to a choice: do we want to live in a monochromatic world of monotony or do we want to
embrace a polychromatic world of diversity?”
‐ Wade Davis

2. O mankind! We have
created you from a male
and a female, and made
you into nations and tribes,
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that you may know one
another (Holy Quran)

3. Disclaimer
• This Photo‐essay is meant to reflect the beauty, dignity, and
humanity of various tribes, ethnicities, and races.
• Many of them are either marginalized, or do not form part
of the mainstream popular culture which consumes our
desires, attention and mindshare.
• There may be unintentional inaccuracies, but the overall
intent, is to show the one humanity that we all are.
• As there were so many sources and research for the
photos, we have not been able to credit them. They are the
copyright of the respective source. We do not profit from
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them, we just share them in a more easy to see format, and
have been liberally used from the web as a public domain
source. Thank you for your generosity.

4. Over 3000 tribes in Africa
Over 3000 tribes in Africa

5. Some of the more well known
Some of the more well known
Masai
Mandinka
Ashanti
Wolof
Zulu

8. Pascal Mannaerts

44. All images copyright of
respective holders
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