African Tribes [Photos]

The ethnic composition of Africa is extremely complex. According to rough estimates, the continent lives about 50 nations and nationalities and 3000 various tribes who speak a thousand languages.

On the African continent 107 ethnic groups, there are more than 1 million people each make up 86.2% of the total population.

The largest of them - Egyptian Arabs, Hausa, Yoruba, Algerian Arabs, Moroccan Arabs, Fulani, Igbo, Amhara, Aroma, Sudanese Arabs. It should be borne in mind that almost every ethnic group has its own language, with the exception of the Arabic language, which is spoken by one-fifth of the African continent.

Check out beautiful pictures from some tribes in Africa under;

Sakalava young woman with painted floral patterns on the face, photographed in Nosy Komba. Photo Pierre-Yves Babelon.

The woman photographed in Madagascar

Kenya. A woman from the Masai tribe

Kenya. A mother and child of the Samburu tribe. Photo Michele Burgess

South Africa Cape Town

  Sudan

Ethiopia. Danakil. A mother with a child of Duncan (nomads). Photos Victor Engelbert.

Portrait of a Lady with Senossa in Mopti, Mali. Photo by Ferdinand Reus.

 Mali. The bride

Ethiopia. A young man from the tribe of Karrayyu. Photo Eric Lafforgue.

African goddess

Kenya. Turkana tribe

 Masai tribe

Ethiopia. Valley of the Omo. Surma tribe

Senegal. Photos Andrea Maini

Niger. The bride. Photos Carol Beckwith and Angela Fisher.

 Samburu tribe.

 Kenya. Man of the Samburu tribe.

Niger. Man of the Tuareg tribe

Niger. Azaouak Valley. Woman Wodaabe (Bororo Fulani-) dressed to participate in gerewol, dance, who is also a male beauty contest. Photos Victor Engelbert.

Nigeria. Man of the Himba tribe

Turkana tribe

Portrait of King Bonoua, Côte d'Ivoire. The photo was taken in December 2009 in Bonoua, Sud-Como. Photos Georges Courreges

    Botswana

 Eritrea. A woman from the tribe of Afar

Mozambique. A woman from the tribe Muziro. They are usually coated with a tinted face white mask. This product from the bark and roots, which are ground and mixed with water and which protects and soothes the skin

Nigeria. A young woman from the Fulani tribe. This is one of the few photos where beautiful glass beads is an example of "Agate" old Venetian school. Venetians made ​​these large glass beads to trade with the Yoruba (African trade).  milky white beads, translucent with veins, very similar to the present agate.

Kenya. A woman from the tribe of Kukui. 

 Ethiopia. A woman from the Mursi tribe

  Kenya. Male warrior of the Masai tribe

Zimbabwe. A woman from the Ndebele tribe. Bears the traditional beer container.

A woman from the Fulani tribe

Algeria. A woman from the Tuareg tribe

Egypt. South Sinai

Incredibly beautiful woman of Tuareg tribe with a child

Cameroon. Young women from the tribe of Fulani (Peule)

Sudan. Girl  Jie. Jie and live in the south and in the west of Sudan. Compete with Topos for pastures and women.  Gert Photo Henau.

Angola. A young woman from the tribe Mumuhuila

Kenya. A mother and child of the Samburu tribe. Photo Michele Burgess

Kenya. A woman from the Samburu tribe. Photo Chris Jordan

South Sudan. A woman from the Nuer tribe with traditional scarification. Photo Swiatoslaw Wojtkowiak.

Uganda. A woman from Tepeth.

A woman from the Pokot tribe. Photos Rita Willaert.

Kenya. Women of the Rendille tribe wear a hat out of the mud. Photo Eric Lafforgue

Ethiopia. A woman from the tribe of Afar. Photo Sylvain Savolainen.

Kenya. A woman from the Turkana tribe. Photos Rita Willaert.

The girl from Afar tribe. Photo Sylvain Savolainen

Ethiopia. A woman and a child from the tribe Arbor (Erbore).

Eritrea. Rashaida bride. Photos Carol Beckwith and Angela Fisher