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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 96. Chapters: Tuareg people, Ababda people, Fula people, Lebou people, Dagomba, Somali people, Temne people, Sahrawi people, Mandinka people, Mandingo people of Sierra Leone, Soninke people, Fur people, Gnawa, Hausa people, Jola people, Kanuri people, Wodaabe, Wolof people, Dir, Balanta people, Afar people, Toubou people, Baggara Arabs, Yao people, Warsangali, Soninke Wangara, Riffian people, Swahili people, Yalunka people, Fula people of Sierra Leone, Warsangeli Daraawiish, Zaghawa people, Nupe people, Hiraab, Zarma people, Kanembu people, Ogaden, Shirazi, Vai people, Leelkase, Siddiqis in the Horn of Africa, Qallu, Silt'e people, Jeberti people, Tunjur people, Saho people, Maguzawa Hausa people, Tekna, Wabeeneeye, Toucouleur people, Jebala, Mozabite people, Rashaida people, Musgum people, Bilala people, Bozo people, Benadiri people, Werji people, Lisi people, Nara people, Hausa-Fulani, Hedareb people, Shukria clan, Abdalla people, Daza people, Funj people, Reerow-Xassan, Siwi people, Teda people, Yerwa Kanuri people, Fertit people, Jumjum people. Excerpt: The Dagomba are an ethnic group of Northern Ghana. They inhabit the sparse savanna region below the sahelian belt, known as the Sudan. They speak the Dagbani language which belongs to the More-Dagbani sub-group of Gur languages. The More/Mossi now have their homeland in present day Burkina Faso, while the Dagbani sub-group today has broken up into three ethnic groups: the Dagbamba, the Mamprusi and the Nanumba. Even though these groups today constitute three apparently distinct ethnic groups, their people still identify with each other and the bond is strongest among the Dagbamba and Nanumba. The homeland of the Dagbamba is called Dagbon and covers about 20,000 km2 in area and has a total population of about 8,655,700. Tribes that have also inhabited Dagbon include the Mamprus...
