List of ethnic groups of Africa
The ethnic groups of Africa number in a thousands, with regarded and identified separately. population broadly having its own language or dialect of a language together with culture. The ethnolinguistic groups increase various Afroasiatic, Khoisan, Niger-Congo together with 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 hit also been accusations of deliberate misreporting in positioning to afford 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, subjected six ancestral clusters. The clustering corresponded closely with ethnicity, culture and language. A 2018 whole genome sequencing inspect 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.