Maps of Bamanankan
African Ethnic Groups (Public Content)
Ethnic Groups of Africa
Source: Africa Ethnic Groups
Data Source: Murdock, G. P. 1959. Africa, Its Peoples and Their Culture History. McGraw Hill.
Usage Notes/Copyright Status: This work is in the public domain in the United States under the terms of Title 17, Chapter 1, Section 105 of the US Code.
Date Downloaded: 1996
Map Description:
This map displays the ethnic groups of Africa as researched by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency in 1996. Areas with large populations of two or more major ethnic groups have been represented with one feature being superimposed over the other as represented by the Shared Areas layer.
Please note that the classification presented does not reflect current scholarly consensus.
Data Source: Murdock, G. P. 1959. Africa, Its Peoples and Their Culture History. McGraw Hill.
Usage Notes/Copyright Status: This work is in the public domain in the United States under the terms of Title 17, Chapter 1, Section 105 of the US Code.
Date Downloaded: 1996
Map Description:
This map displays the ethnic groups of Africa as researched by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency in 1996. Areas with large populations of two or more major ethnic groups have been represented with one feature being superimposed over the other as represented by the Shared Areas layer.
Please note that the classification presented does not reflect current scholarly consensus.
Note: Scanned or downloaded images have been geo-registered for compatibility with our project interface. Slight imperfections are an inevitable result of the registration process. View original image(s) to see the unaltered map(s).
Ethnographic Regions of Africa (Felix and Meur)
Ethnographic Regions of Africa (Felix and Meur)
Map Creator:
Meur, Charles
Source: Felix, Marc Leo. 2001. Peoples of Africa: An Ethnolinguistic Atlas of Africa, map by Charles Meur, Brussles: Tribal Arts s.p.r.l.
Contact: Ben Lewis: blewis
cga.harvard.edu
Usage Notes: This georeferenced version of the People's Atlas of Africa is made available by permission from Marc Felix. This data is made available for non-commercial purposes and may be shared with others provided that this attribution and the license file is provided along with the data.
Date Uploaded: 29-JUN-2011
Map Description:
The shapefiles for this map are used with permission from Marc Felix. They depict ethnicity data based on the "People's Atlas of Africa" by Marc Felix and Charles Meur, Copyright 2001. The languages codes associated are from the Multitree project.
Due to the vast amount of data being displayed, it is recommended to view this map using the 'zoom' feature.
Source: Felix, Marc Leo. 2001. Peoples of Africa: An Ethnolinguistic Atlas of Africa, map by Charles Meur, Brussles: Tribal Arts s.p.r.l.
Contact: Ben Lewis: blewis
cga.harvard.edu
Usage Notes: This georeferenced version of the People's Atlas of Africa is made available by permission from Marc Felix. This data is made available for non-commercial purposes and may be shared with others provided that this attribution and the license file is provided along with the data.
Date Uploaded: 29-JUN-2011
Map Description:
The shapefiles for this map are used with permission from Marc Felix. They depict ethnicity data based on the "People's Atlas of Africa" by Marc Felix and Charles Meur, Copyright 2001. The languages codes associated are from the Multitree project.
Due to the vast amount of data being displayed, it is recommended to view this map using the 'zoom' feature.
Note: Scanned or downloaded images have been geo-registered
for compatibility with our project interface. Slight
imperfections are an inevitable result of the registration
process.
Senufo Languages (Public Content)
Senufo Language Area
Source: Wikimedia
Data Source:
Carlson, Robert (1994) A Grammar of Suppyire. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
Garber, Anne (1987) A Tonal Analysis of Senufo: Sucite Dialect (Gur; Burkina Faso). Unpublished PhD thesis, University of Illinois.
SIL language maps of Ghana, Burkina Faso, Cote d'Ivoire, and Mali
Date Downloaded: February 7 2005
Note: The maps with different individual Senufo languages highlighted may be found at their respective webpages: Karaboro Mamara Nafaanra Nanerige Palaka Supyire
Note: Scanned or downloaded images have been geo-registered for compatibility with our project interface. Slight imperfections are an inevitable result of the registration process. View original image(s) to see the unaltered map(s).
Sudan: Rising and Falling Empires in West Sudan (Newman)
Rising and Falling Empires in Western Sudan
Source:
Newman, James L. 1995. The Peopling of Africa. New Haven: Yale University Press. 111.
Date Digitized: 2009
Map Description:
As shown by Newman, this map shows the locations of the various empires in Western Sudan between the ninth and sixteenth centuries. Newman notes that the first polity to gain prominence was Ghana, which did so by trading. Historians do not know for sure, however, what caused Ghana's decline.
Since Mali surrounded an area of agricultural lands and controlled routes to the goldfields, Mali was able to overthrow Soso in the 1330s. The Mali Empire continued to expand, but internal factionalism during the latter half of the fourteenth century contributed to its decline.
The Songhai took possession of Timbuktu and Djenne and then drove out the Mossi. After obtaining a considerable amount of wealth, battles over royal sucession during the sixteenth century and a Moroccan invasion contributed to the decline of the Songhai military empire.
Date Digitized: 2009
Map Description:
As shown by Newman, this map shows the locations of the various empires in Western Sudan between the ninth and sixteenth centuries. Newman notes that the first polity to gain prominence was Ghana, which did so by trading. Historians do not know for sure, however, what caused Ghana's decline.
Since Mali surrounded an area of agricultural lands and controlled routes to the goldfields, Mali was able to overthrow Soso in the 1330s. The Mali Empire continued to expand, but internal factionalism during the latter half of the fourteenth century contributed to its decline.
The Songhai took possession of Timbuktu and Djenne and then drove out the Mossi. After obtaining a considerable amount of wealth, battles over royal sucession during the sixteenth century and a Moroccan invasion contributed to the decline of the Songhai military empire.
Note: Scanned or downloaded images have been geo-registered for compatibility with our project interface. Slight imperfections are an inevitable result of the registration process. View original image(s) to see the unaltered map(s).
The Migrations and Emirates of Fulbe (Newman)
The Migrations and Emirates of Fulbe
Source:
Newman, James L. 1995. The Peopling of Africa. New Haven: Yale University Press. 53.
Date Digitized: 2009
Map Description:
This map displays the origin areas of the Fulbe people (Fulfulde speakers) and the migration paths they took. Also pictured are important cities of the times and the large civilizations which were influenced by the Fulbe group. Newman states that the original impetus for migration may have been the increasingly powerful, Islamacized Takrur. He also discusses their culture and how their movement affected government systems and other sedentary peoples (Newman 1995: 51-54).
Date Digitized: 2009
Map Description:
This map displays the origin areas of the Fulbe people (Fulfulde speakers) and the migration paths they took. Also pictured are important cities of the times and the large civilizations which were influenced by the Fulbe group. Newman states that the original impetus for migration may have been the increasingly powerful, Islamacized Takrur. He also discusses their culture and how their movement affected government systems and other sedentary peoples (Newman 1995: 51-54).
Note: Scanned or downloaded images have been geo-registered for compatibility with our project interface. Slight imperfections are an inevitable result of the registration process. View original image(s) to see the unaltered map(s).