African culture is expressed in myriad ways: music, languages, food, religion, folklore, arts, crafts and clothing. Africans themselves are considered to be the most genetically and culturally diverse of all peoples in the world. (Nigeria alone has hundreds of ethnic groups; I won’t hazard a guess at how many.) Here, we take a dip into the different cultures as expressed through African traditional clothes to illuminate this diversity – take a look.
West African traditional clothing
Senegal
The Igbo of Nigeria
The Yoruba of Nigeria
The Owan (Edo state) of Nigeria
The Fulani of Nigeria
The Ibibio of Nigeria
The Tiv of Nigeria
Ghana
Mali
East African traditional clothing
Djibouti
The Omoro of Ethiopia
The Kikuyu of Kenya
Kalenjin of East Africa
Central African traditional clothing
Bamileke, Cameroon
Chad
North African traditional clothing
Algeria
Morocco
South African traditional clothing
Zulu of South Africa
Xhosa, South Africa
Lesotho, South Africa
Ndembele, South Africa
Cape Malay, South Africa
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