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Culture of Africa From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search This article does not cite any references or sources.Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. May 2008 The Culture of Africa encompasses and includes all cultures which were ever in the continent of Africa. The main split is between North Africa, and Sub-Saharan Africa, which is in turn divided into a great number of ethnic and tribal cultures. The main ethno-linguistic divisions are Afro-Asiatic North Africa, Chad, Horn of Africa , Niger-Congo mostly Bantu in most of Sub-Saharan Africa, Nilo-Saharan in parts of the Sahara and the Sahel and parts of Eastern Africa, and Khoisan indigenous minorities of Southern Africa . Also including parts of Oceania, and India. The notion of a Pan-African culture was discussed in seriousness in the 1960s and 1970s in the context of the Négritude movement, but has fallen out of fashion in African studies. The wide distribution of Bantu peoples across Sub-Saharan Africa, encompassing parts of Western Africa, Eastern Africa, Central Africa as well as Southern Africa is a result of the Bantu expansions of the 1st millennium AD. The wide use of Swahili as a lingua franca further establishes the Bantu peoples as a nearly Pan-African cultural influence. Contents [hide] 1 People 2 African Art and Crafts 3 Folklore and traditional religion 4 Languages 5 Cuisine [edit] People Main articles: African people and demographics of Africa The vast majority of Africas inhabitants are of indigenous origin. Africa is home to innumerable tribes, ethnic and social groups, some representing very large populations consisting of millions of people, others are smaller groups of a few thousand. Some countries have over 20 different ethnic groups, and also are greatly diverse in beliefs. [edit] African Art and Crafts Main article: African art Africa has a rich tradition of arts and cra