This photo essay from the website nations2tribes.wordpress.com showcases the diversity of tribes and ethnic groups in Sub-Saharan Africa. It discusses over 300 tribes in Africa including the Berber people, Kanuri Muslims, Kotokoli Muslims, and tribes in Timbuktu. The document promotes embracing diversity over monotony and highlights the shared humanity across different groups. It provides attribution for the photos but notes inaccuracies may exist given the large number and sources of images.

1. Nations and Tribes
Sub‐Saharan Africa PART 2
A Photo‐essay
nations2tribes.wordpress.com
A K2Vista Production
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. Tribes
• There are over 300 tribes in Africa. Some of those that are included are:
• Berber: indigenous ethnic group of North Africa west of the Nile Valley
including Morocco ,Algeria as well as Tunisia, Libya, Mauritania, Mali and
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Niger
• Kanuri Muslims of Central Africa including Nigeria, Niger and Chad
• Kotokoli Muslims of Togo
Muslims of Togo
• The Tuareg, Fulani, Arabs and Songhai of Timbuktu

53. All images copyright of
respective holders
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