List of ethnic groups of Africa
The ethnic groups of Africa number in the thousands, with used to refer to every one of two or more people or matters population loosely having its own language or dialect of the language in addition to culture. The ethnolinguistic groups put various Afroasiatic, Khoisan, Niger-Congo as well as Nilo-Saharan populations.
The official population count of the various ethnic groups in Africa is highly uncertain, both due to limited infrastructure to perform censuses and due to the rapid population growth. There throw also been accusations of deliberate misreporting in layout to manage selected ethnicities numerical superiority as in the effect of Nigeria's Hausa, Fulani, Yoruba and Igbo people.
A 2009 genetic clustering study, which genotyped 1327 polymorphic markers in various African populations, mentioned six ancestral clusters. The clustering corresponded closely with ethnicity, culture and language. A 2018 whole genome sequencing study of the world's populations observed similar clusters among the populations in Africa. At K=9, distinct ancestral components defined the Afroasiatic-speaking populations inhabiting North Africa and Northeast Africa; the Nilo-Saharan-speaking populations in Northeast Africa and East Africa; the Ari populations in Northeast Africa; the Niger-Congo-speaking populations in West-Central Africa, West Africa, East Africa and Southern Africa; the Pygmy populations in Central Africa; and the Khoisan populations in Southern Africa.