1. Arab, Ashanti, Bantu & Swahili
African Ethnic Groups
Arab, Ashanti, Bantu & Swahili

2. Most found in Southwest Asia and NORTHERN Africa Speak Arabic
Arabs
Most found in Southwest Asia and NORTHERN Africa
Speak Arabic
Usually practice Islam

3. Ashanti Large etnhic group found off the west coast of Africa in Ghana
Speak mostly Twi as their main language
Live with extended family members
The Ashanti religion is a mixture of spiritual and supernatural powers. They believe that plants, animals, and trees have souls. “GOLDEN STOOL”
They have many tribal ceremonies

4. Ashanti
The Ashanti live in central Ghana in western Africa approximately 300km. away from the coast. Ghana, previously the Gold Coast, was a British colony until It is now politically separated into four main parts. Ashanti is in the center and Kumasi is the capital. To the Ashanti, the family and the mother’s clan are most important. The Ashanti live in an extended family. The family lives in various homes or huts that are set up around a
courtyard.

5. Bantu Mostly found in Central & Southern Africa
They speak Bantu as their main language
Bantu is usually known more as a language than an ethnic group
Bantu makes up over 400 different ethnic groups combined

6. The Bantu Migration
Today, close to 100 million people across the southern half of Africa speak related languages, collectively known as Bantu languages. Linguistic evidence shows that the root Bantu language emerged in what is now Nigeria and Cameroon by 2000 BC. By 1000 BC, in a series of migrations, Bantu speakers had spread south to the savanna lands of Angola and east to the Lake Victoria region. Over the next 1500 years they scattered throughout central and southern Africa, interacting with and absorbing indigenous populations as they spread.

7. Swahili Mostly found in East Africa (especially in Kenya)
The language they speak is Swahili
-This is a mixture of Arabic & Traditional African Languages!
Most Swahili people are strict Muslims