Top 10 African tribes/ethnic groups that are globally known.In no particular order.

Top 10 African tribes/ethnic groups that are globally known.
In no particular order.

Top 10 African tribes/ethnic groups that are globally known.
In no particular order.
1) Zulu 🇿🇦 South Africa – The Zulu tribe is popular outside Africa. They’ve been featured in music, documentaries and movies. Shaka the Zulu was a warrior king whose popularity is well spread. Famous Zulus, Lucky Dube, Nasty C, black Coffee, Big Zulu, Sphiwe Shabalal, Tyla, Saulosi Chilima, Toya Delazy, Lucius Banda, Priddy Ugly. In MALAWI 🇲🇼 and ZAMBIA 🇿🇲 they’re known as NGONI.

2) Yoruba 🇳🇬 Nigeria – The Yorubas are globally known for their history, culture, art and literature. Fela, Wole Soyinka, Wizkid, Davido, Tiwa Savage, David Oyelowo, John Boyega, Anthony Joshua etc are a few Yorubas who have taken their culture to the world. The Yoruba culture has been featured in many Hollywood movies.

3) Masai 🇰🇪 Kenya and TANZANIA 🇹🇿 – The Masai are perhaps one of the most documented tribes in Africa, with alot of documentaries shown about them and books written about their culture.
They are known for their traditional clothing and hunting skills. The most famous Massai is Julius Nyerere

4) Hausa 🇳🇬 Nigeria – The hausas are very popular. Often known as the Igbos of the North, The richest black man in the world Aliko Dangote is Hausa along with his brother from the same state Kano Abdulsamad Rabiu (BUA). Their culture has also been well written about and have featured in a few Hollywood movies including the Amazon prime series were a woman was seen eating Tuwo shinkafa.

5) Igbo 🇳🇬 Nigeria – The Igbos are undeniably known world wide. Chinua Achebe wrote about the Igbo culture alot. They are known for their history, culture and literature.
The popularized the kolanut and palm wine through books, movies and music
Chinwetalu Ejiofor, Zain Asher, Ckay, Flavour, Chimamanda, phyno, P-square are Igbos who have taken their culture to the world. Igbo are known in Nollywood movies. They are regarded as the most intelligent/smart and richest tribe in Africa.

6) Swahili 🇹🇿 Tanzania , KENYA 🇰🇪 , ETHIOPIA 🇪🇹, UGANDA 🇺🇬, MALAWI 🇲🇼, ZAMBIA 🇿🇲, DRC 🇨🇩- This tribe have phenomenal spread their language in East Africa and a few central African nations.
In the 70s, their language was part of the African-American black pride movement been pushed forward. The most Famous Swahili are Diamond Platnumz, Ravanny, and Tiao Cruz who was very popular in UK in 2000’s

7) Edo/Bini 🇳🇬 Nigeria – The Binis are perhaps the culture in Africa with the most famous artworks outside Egypt.
Binis are known for their history, culture and art/architecture.
The famous Benin bronze, ivory and brass artworks are known globally. The country Benin republic gets their name from them. Benin art and culture have been featured in Hollywood movies including black panther. Many Nigerian cultures have roots in Benin. The bronze mask of Queen Idia is perhaps the most famous mask in Africa and one of the most famous in the world. Popular Edos are Kamaru Usman, Rema, Odion Jude Ighalo, Victor Osimhen, Dave, Sam Loco Efe etc.

8) Asante 🇬🇭 GHANA , Ivory coast 🇨🇮- This tribe are known for their history and culture. Popular American hip hop artist was named after this tribe Asante. Their Kente is perhaps the most popular African attire outside of Africa and were known to be masters of the gold craft. The most famous Asante are Sarkodie, Majid Micheal, Asamoah Gyan and Michael Essian.

9) THE NYANJA/CHEWA ZAMBIA 🇿🇲, MALAWI 🇲🇼 and ZIMBABWE 🇿🇼, DRC 🇨🇩- This is the biggest tribe in Central Africa. They originated from Zaire now DRC 🇨🇩. Their Paramount Chief is in Zambia where important cults are held annually. They are the most friendly tribe in Africa. They believe in Farming and not white collar jobs. In Zambia they’re mixed with Bemba, in Malawi they’re mixed with YAO and lomwe in the south Ngoni in the central. These mixtures make the Chewa language diverse making it hard for Chewa from DRC to understand fellow Chewa from Zambia or Malawi. However Malawi and Zambia Chewa have a very good relationship making these countries treat each other as one country. The most famous Nyanja/chewa are Christopher Katongo, JK,Tay Grin , Roberto, Third eye, and Gemini Major.

10) Berbers/Amazigh – They are predominantly found in North Africa. They are predominantly found in Morocco 🇲🇦 and Algeria 🇩🇿 They known for their use of silver silver. Their culture and history well documented and have a unique language and writing system that traces back to ancient Egypt. Books are currently being written about them including a book titled salt by Haitian-American Pascaline Brodeur. The most famous Amazigh are French Montana, Ashraf Hakimi, king Mohammed 4

Disclaimer: Every African tribe and culture is beautiful, unique and important. No one culture is more important than the other. This only highlights tribes known outside the continent overall, this doesn’t mean there aren’t other cultures that aren’t known.

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