African communities

Saharan and sub-Saharan societies

African communities are groups of people sharing African heritage, geography, or cultural identity.

The phrase appears in discussions of diaspora populations African communities in London, continental populations rural African communities lack clean water access, or as a politically neutral alternative to "Black communities" in policy and academic contexts.

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Yoruba · village elders · extended family · Berber · ubuntu · initiation rites · Fulani · griots · oral traditions · storytelling circles · call and response · drum circles · palm wine · traditional healers · herbalists · Ashanti · spiritual leaders · liberation struggles

Opposites
geographic/continental identity

African communitiesArctic communities

Populated areas near poles

social organization

African communitieshermits

People choosing isolation

recluses · loners

colonial/power dynamics

African communitiescolonial powers

Nations that colonized others

Family

African, Africa, Africans, Africanize, Africanization, community, commune, communal, communally

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