The popuulation totals about 3 million people. They also inhabit the Awash Valley and the forests of northern Djibouti. They are a nomadic people who eke out a living in a rocky, arid enviroment. The Afar people inhabit the Horn of Africa are and are concentrated in Ethiopia and areas of Eritrea, Djibouti, and Somalia. This is not a subject we know much about, but as with much of HBC, wecare interested in leaning more and encourage readers to add their insights. We have begun to collect information on some of these tribal groups. And many tribal groups populate multiple countries. Thus modern African states commonly are composed of multiple tribal groups. This mean that tribal groups were often fracrtured and separated by the European imposed boundaries. The Europeans commonly ignored tribal and linguistic afinities among African peoples. Most modern African states reflect the boundareies drawn by European colonial powers in the 19th century during the scramble for Africa. Note thetraditionl clothing the children are wearing.Įurope over more than two millenia of over devestating conflict has organized itself along ethnic and linguistic lines.
This 1962 photograph from Natal shows women and children clapping and swaying to accompany a war dance that the men are stageing. Figure 1.- Perhaps the best known African tribal groups is the Zulus in South Africa.
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