Browse by People and Tradition
The African literary record organized by the peoples themselves: the Yoruba and the Akan, the Maninka and Mandinka of the jeli tradition, the Dogon, the Waswahili of the coast, the BaKongo and many more. Each page begins with the people and their lore, then the writers and books written from inside the tradition. Where a name is a language family, such as Bantu, Nguni or Nilotic, the page says so and names the peoples it holds.
Akan / Anansi
Southern and central Ghana and eastern Côte d’Ivoire. 0 books
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Akan / Ashanti
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Amazigh / Tuareg
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Ancient Egyptian / Kemet
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BaKongo / Cosmogram
The lower Congo River and the Atlantic coast: DR Congo, the Republic of Congo,… 0 books
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Bantu Traditions
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Dogon
The Bandiagara Escarpment, the plateau above it and the Séno plain below, in Mali. 0 books
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Dogon Cosmology
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Ganda
The northern shore of Lake Victoria, in Uganda. 0 books
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Gikuyu
The central highlands of Kenya, around Kirinyaga (Mount Kenya). 0 books
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Habesha / Ge’ez
The highlands of Ethiopia and Eritrea; the old Kingdom of Aksum. 0 books
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Igbo / Odinani
South-eastern Nigeria, east of the Niger. 0 books
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Kemet / Maat
The Nile Valley, from the First Cataract at Aswan to the Delta. 0 books
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Kongo Cosmology
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Mandé / Griot Tradition
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Maninka & Mandinka / Jeliya
The Manden heartland on the upper Niger, and the Sahel and savannah around it:… 0 books
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Mbuti, Baka & Aka / Forest peoples
The equatorial rainforest of Central Africa: DR Congo, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, the… 0 books
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Nguni-speaking peoples / Zulu, Xhosa, Swazi, Ndebele
KwaZulu-Natal and the Eastern Cape in South Africa, Eswatini, and Matabeleland in Zimbabwe. 0 books
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Nilotic Traditions
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Nilotic-speaking peoples / Dinka, Nuer, Maasai, Acholi
The Nile Basin, the South Sudanese savannah and the grasslands of the East African… 0 books
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San / Khoisan
The Kalahari: Botswana, Namibia and South Africa, reaching into Angola and Zimbabwe. 0 books
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Shona
Zimbabwe and central Mozambique; the builders of Great Zimbabwe. 0 books
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Sotho
Lesotho and the Free State of South Africa. 0 books
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Swahili Coast Tradition
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Ubuntu / Southern Bantu-speaking peoples
South Africa, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Lesotho, Eswatini, Namibia and Mozambique. 0 books
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Waswahili / Swahili Coast
The coast and islands from southern Somalia to northern Mozambique: Lamu, Pate, Mombasa, Zanzibar,… 0 books
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Wolof
Senegal and the Gambia; the old kingdoms of Jolof, Kajoor and Waalo. 0 books
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Yoruba / Ifá
South-western Nigeria, Benin Republic and Togo. In their own account, the world was first… 0 books
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Yoruba / Ifá Tradition
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