Africa & Africans

Africa is the second-largest and second-most populous continent in the world, covering about 30.37 million square kilometers (11.7 million square miles). It is located mainly in the Eastern Hemisphere and is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the west, the Indian Ocean to the southeast, and shares land borders with Asia at the northeast.

• In Africa, rich and diverse cultures exist from country to country while distinctive and peculiar cultures also survive within each state.
• The continent is home to a large number of ethnic and social groups each of whom have their own set of tribal customs and traditions.
• Looking at African culture in such an expansive manner may be deemed too simplistic and not worthy or reflective of the depth and scope of this continent’s many societies.

Africa is essential to all cultures since human life originated on the continent, its inhabitants migrating to other areas of the world some 60,000 years ago.
Over the centuries, people from other parts of the world migrated back to Africa bringing their own influences and eventually being integrated into the existing systems.