Masaman's 2021 Ethno-Racial Map of the World (Part 1: Africa)

[@Daniel-jm7ts]

you madman did what all mapper fear the most: a detailed ethnic map of the african continent

[@samaalehiil3221]

F&%#ing A

[@Dudeyo101]

Now a map of 14-15th century HRE

[@Mateo-oq7ui]

Just wait till he gets to South East Asia tho

[@Austine1452]

Detailed my ass, only Nigeria would drive him mad.

[@Deemelanin7]

@@Austine1452 exactly 😂

[@markfarnsworth1387]

As a 15 yr old kid who’s hyper fixation is geography, culture, ethnicity, and history, I love you to the deepest depths of my heart.

[@starmaker75]

So how many enthic groups you have? Western and Central Africa: Yes

[@momo-cchi5978]

The rest of the African language families looking at The Niger-Kordofanians: Gurrrrl, you doing too much. 🙅🏾‍♀️🤦🏾‍♂️🙍🏿‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦‍♂️

[@jacksonp2397]

Chad, Nigeria: *uhhhhhhh*

[@sonikku956]

Fucking hell, Nigeria has over 200

[@sepulcher8263]

@@sonikku956 the fuck

[@Anedoje]

@@sepulcher8263 actually 500 some are extinct now

[@Amesang]

The map must have taken it's toll; Masa sounds like he's aged a decade…

[@samgamgee7384]

Yeah, I had thought it wasn't him at first.

[@kamelhaj6850]

I caught that too!

[@chamm_0]

Not age, wisdom

[@OleOlson]

He needs a new mic.

[@samuelrothlisberger4962]

Yes i thought the same

[@003mohamud]

From a Somali, love your work!

[@eternalhistory4706]

Why do so many Somalis and Ethiopians deny they're mixed African and West Eurasian?

[@ayatollahvladimirputin3844]

Cuz WE WAZ KANGS

[@003mohamud]

​@@eternalhistory4706 Ethiopians are Semites who originated in the Habash mountains in Yemen (hence the name Habesha or Abyssinian). The West Eurasian Admixture in Somalia happened in the neolithic age, thousands of years ago. At that point migrations out of Africa were still happening, and a back-migration occured from north africa back to the source(the horn). For both peoples it is something at this point that we have always practically had even before the cultures evolved. The African base was probably some sort of proto-Nilotic. While us Somalis have thin noses, curly/straight hair, we lack the semetic noses and lighter skin of semeto-ethiopians. At his point the features have stabilized in both peoples. You won't see the huge discrepancies in looks like you would creole populations in cape verde, and in the Sahel which has mix middle eastern and black groups, because we have loooong ago passed the point of being mixed race and evolved and stabilized into our own race. We are the indigenous black Africans in the area. We deny because it makes no sense to count such an ancient event. Would you say Native Americans have the same looks and culture as Asians due to them migrating away from central Asia? No, because they have since long ago evolved to be compatible to their environment like everyone else on earth. Somalia is a windy place so a thin nose makes sense to prevent sand going in your lungs, just like how west Africans and bantu people evolved wide noses and features in increase air flow due to heat. If we are mixed, then 90% of people on earth are too, due to neolithic events. Are the bantu mixed, due to the bantu expansion mixing bantu pops with native african populations in other areas like, nilotes, khoisan and pygmies who are more pure? Would you say that Japanese are mixed due to the combination of Jomon(siberian group), Kumaso(a polynesian group), and Yayoi(group originating in China) in the neolithic age? You gonna start saying Japanese aint asian?

[@hassanabdikarimmohamed2505]

@@eternalhistory4706 bro, this mixtured happened over 10,000 years ago as our dna show, we are a mixture of ancient levantine neolithic natufians and ancient East african (ancestors of nilotes who hadn't mixed with bantu)

[@belikova01]

@@003mohamud Great reply. I thought the Ethiopians were originally "Cushites" who adopted a Semitic language due to contact with Southern Arabians. And as far as I know this is supported by genetic evidence as they are closely related to other horners and cluster with them genetically.

[@sipp5657]

yeah Africa is extremely diverse with 2000+ ethnicities. EXCELLENT job grouping and categorising and demonstrating them!

[@douche8980]

Most diversity is actually found in Sub Saharan Africans than those of the Mashriq and Maghreb.

[@edgelord8337]

This stuff should be in schools.

[@TheEnabledDisabled]

Schools: what?

[@exandra.]

Tbh... Not really. Like... What for? Sounds like a cool topic for a lesson or two on geography or something, but it's way, way, way too complex of a subject.

[@Pfsif]

There's not enough "Safe" places.

[@subject8776]

Better for university.

[@sebastianhunter144]

@@exandra. I agree, it would probably be an interesting topic for a quick lesson, but not really worth spending a significant amount of time on.

[@abibnoor]

Love from *SOMALIA* you are doing an awesome job Masaman.

[@toobeast673]

The Christian Afro-asiatic speakers map is interesting because of how much it’s changed over time. Coptic Christianity was once the dominant religion in Egypt and Sudan before the Islamic conquests.

[@whoreofdragonstone1031]

and now they dont lol, law of the jungle

[@samaalehiil3221]

Brother don't give Masaman more ideas just imagine what would happen if he did a similar map that also displayed the changes over time... U don't want to push a brother over the edge

[@F.7PFaisail]

Egypt was not Christian before the Roman conquest

[@mo_zaky]

@@F.7PFaisail no one said it was

[@BootsofBlindingSpeed]

I feel sorry for the Coptic Christians, especially the ones still there. I hope they have a brighter future.

[@ash_phoenix3282]

As a potentially autistic, but definitely ADHD diagnosed person with extreme hyper fixations on ethnicity, history, ancestry, etc, this was fantastic. I’m excited for you to cover South Asian ethnicities, since I’m a Gujarati with Garasia-Bhil adivasi tribal ancestry.

[@SanFranFan30]

I wish I knew my exact ethnic background, but as I am half Eastern-European Jewish and half African American I only really know the background of my white ancestors.

[@corkonianmapping2074]

@@SanFranFan30 im irish 100% very ethnicaly diverse

[@FOY43]

@@SanFranFan30 damn you're a nazis nightmare

[@SanFranFan30]

@@FOY43 haha true.

[@SanFranFan30]

@@FOY43 haha true.

[@mahmudshiil135]

Finally Mason doing Justice to Click sounds and Somali ethnic group, we Somalis are more than 26 Million tho, few millions are scattered across the globe we easily exceed 30 million globally making us one of the biggest single african tribes with also the biggest territory. Thank you for your Maps and knowledge shared of these topics. You the best Mase

[@003mohamud]

source? Last I read it's 16 mil in Somalia proper, with Oromos being the largest cushitic people

[@windsurfer8824]

Nah Nigerian ethnic groups are largest, in the south west Nigeria Yorubas are 50 million (not counting those outside the country), igbo 45 million, the Hausa 64 million (not counting those outside the country) .

[@thesilencevevo9839]

@@003mohamud Somalis are 60million or more outside somalia what u think inside is like 🤣😂

[@thesilencevevo9839]

@@windsurfer8824 Yuruba is the 2nd or 3rd After the Cushitic people of East Africa 🇪🇹🇸🇴🇩🇯🇰🇳🇰🇪🇸🇸

[@003mohamud]

@@thesilencevevo9839 i need an official source bro.

[@Danwade7979]

Thanks Man for the update, greetings all the way from Somalia 🇸🇴

[@wahuigi6843]

This is amazing, imagine if this guy worked for the census...

[@formeitsmcchickenthebestfastfo]

His talents would probably be wasted there though... ☹️

[@xXxSkyViperxXx]

he should work for the UN

[@kungsjanis5139]

Then it would be aknolaged that europians are minority in the USA.

[@nowdefunctchannel6874]

@@kungsjanis5139 well no shit America isnt in Europe

[@kungsjanis5139]

@@nowdefunctchannel6874 America was Europe 2.0, just like new England was England 2.0

[@vtron9832]

My goodness, this one is so detailed! Very proud of you Mason!

[@annoyedbrox4851]

this work has defenately taken a lot of sweat and blood, your work is always a major contribution to the geo and history nerd community, i appreciate it

[@uwotm8153]

These maps will become the gold standard outside of academics. Incredible work.

[@abdiumar8641]

It is incredibly academic!

[@uwotm8153]

wo di di

[@Stick-a-fork-in-Gmorks-tort]

@@abdiumar8641 Once someone introduces 'race or racial' into the species of Homo Sapiens Sapiens academia has flown out of the window. Race/racial categorization of human beings is pseudo-science. He's decent with the more biological stuff but the pseudo-scientific racial constructs are just silly, evil, and destructive. They create more racist pseudo-science proxies to poison future generations of the our species.

[@sweetLemonist]

He did a s#ity work on Europe. I have no idea how accurate this video is tho..🤔

[@uwotm8153]

@@sweetLemonist yes europe video was not very good

[@joze838]

Yesterday night I thought about doing such a map and than I remembered you and that you already did the effort to start with it. It is nice to see, that you are still improving and honestly I never came across other ethnic maps for the whole planet. So thank you very much! It is a great service to humanity.

[@fyreboi83]

The fact that you put SO MUCH work and passion into these maps and expand them every year makes you a "mapping god" to me. You, Sir, are AWESOME! It truly brings me joy to experience your work! Thank you very much! 😍

[@GabrielaMendoza-bu2tk]

Just as we thought you left us for good, you came back with an incredible video on africa and good news of future videos. You're the Avatar of anthropology based youtube content.

[@fvhjwuwjsk636]

MASONNNNN, YOU'RE BACKKKKKK! Love from Somalia 😁

[@kandre7619]

AAAAAYEEE this is the earliest I've been!!!! Love your channel!!!❤❤❤🤩🤩🤩

[@halyeydhaladah5831]

🇸🇴🇸🇴 somalia is ethnic somali and we speak somali. We are ancient people . Good work on this video.

[@kaydod3190]

He we go again with “WE WUZ KANGZ AND SHEIT BS” no you are not ancient

[@kappa3399]

@@kaydod3190 Somalis have never claimed to be “kangz” go bother some other Africans with that shit

[@kaydod3190]

@@kappa3399 STFU

[@bobbuilder155]

Now you aren't ancient as you are a mixture between Asian and Banta not that long ago maybe even less than 500 years

[@عقبةبننافعبنالقيسالفهري]

@@kappa3399 ay bantus still proud people

[@jacobkazco1584]

wow this is so good. i could stare at this for years. thanks so much for making this. i can’t even fathom how long it took you to make this.

[@AF-tv6uf]

Amazing job! This video showcases exactly why I watch this channel and what's missing from mainstream history channels. Bravo!

[@CyrilGazengel]

Amazing job... and this map is the best way to debunk those who see Africa as a single uniform entity.

[@ダニエル-x5d]

This is amazing and I can't wait for the release of the rest of the series and the full map.

[@HistoryforThinkers]

*I bless the ethno-racial maps down in Africa.*

[@Ggdivhjkjl]

Are you Toto?

[@HistoryforThinkers]

@@Ggdivhjkjl yes

[@HistoryforThinkers]

@@Ggdivhjkjl send toto your Bitcoins

[@MiThreeSunz]

Mason, I truly enjoy your channel and the topics you choose to explore. Your passion for these interesting topics is obvious in the quality of your work. I also very much like your narration. Please keep up your ever fascinating and informative work!

[@michaeljf6472]

Maan...I don't know what Masaman does for living or what formal education he has...but he better be publishing this amazing work in scientific papers or something.

[@bysuave]

Respect for your efforts bro!

[@thedenskan3440]

The fact that this video dragged me in is so rewarding to watch. Nicely done!

[@AwesomeSauce696969]

This is incredible. I absolutely cannot wait to see the upcoming maps!

[@j0nni235]

This is friggin awesome, great great job!

[@terrence6674]

Mason, your humble nature is honestly a gemstone upon the growing wisdom you pass on- Keep kicking ass!

[@pagani4488]

Worth waiting, thanks for the amazing work, Masaman !

[@conornorris6815]

your maps are so cool I have all the ones you've released saved, thanks for the good work

[@jaiwhy5212]

I absolutely LOVE your content. Thank you for putting in the time, I'm sure it takes a lot of research.

[@brendatrujillo2666]

Your knowledge and work on this is astonishing! God has blessed you with a tremendous intellect. Thank you for all that you do to bring such interesting information to the world.

[@bishargellowmahad1074]

Greatly made video.. Respect from Kenya 🇰🇪🇰🇪

[@malekaltayari3936]

💖 God Bless all of Africa from Tunisia 💖

[@jackyex]

This is an amazing work, congratulations masaman!

[@wingman4356]

thank you, not just for your incredible effort, but perhaps the greatest virtue of all; having the confidence to admit you made some mistakes (or misleading generalizations) and correcting them. Great work!

[@pathfinderwellcare]

Outstanding work. Far superior to any university human geography or anthropology classes. Thank you for your excellent good work. Love it.

[@momo-cchi5978]

Oh, so you're still alive. Good to know. 😂 Edit: Just finished watching the video and after doing so.... yeah, I could kinda see why it took you so long to be uploading any videos lol.

[@shawnreed7876]

Holy shit this is amazing. I am a big time traveler (been to 25 African countries) who has interest in the various cultural groups on the continent (and world at large). This is very interesting. Thank you.

[@jacquespansegrouw5513]

Masaman, this is like a Master's research project! Congrats on the map and looking forward to more content

[@jacquespansegrouw5513]

@loveiuilove love yes nice, I saw your reply on another thread :)

[@jacquespansegrouw5513]

@@ExistentialismEnjoyer hey, thanks for your thoughts! I actually do understand the point of view of that comment, or at least entertain the idea that "white race" was a mutation of a "black race" migrating out of Africa. Neanderthal DNA played a role in some maybe even most Northern Hemisphere peoples. But yeah, thanks again for following your moral will and giving a supporting comment.

[@chuave152]

This is incredible. Much thanks from Argentina.

[@lazarusgrey8721]

Masaman you've done it again. Thanks brother

[@Zeyede_Seyum]

*Wtf is your PFP* 🤣🤣🤣

[@vivetv3710]

People: What race are you? Hausa people: *Yes* Amazigh people: *All of them!*

[@kungsjanis5139]

Hausa? Id say african.

[@vivetv3710]

@@kungsjanis5139 I said Hausa because they specifically have long been classified as multi-racial due to HUGE amounts of Niger-Congo, Nilo-Saharan, Middle Eastern and/or Amazigh/Berber ancestry depending on where they live. It’d argue they might be more diverse that Arabs because they have higher diversity in ethnicity and looks in proportion to their population.

[@kungsjanis5139]

@@vivetv3710 I dont accept multiracial as an answer.

[@vivetv3710]

@@kungsjanis5139 Uh, okay?

[@kingvxv6438]

@@vivetv3710 he saying that he is African not multiracial

[@mofoftriangle]

Amazing. Good work bro, it goes beyond entertainment, it contributes to science!

[@kailam1679]

I am so happy! Looking forward for the rest!

[@dinil5566]

Thanks man. U know u are our hero. Back in school these things were super boring when I studied. But your videos made me super interested in these stuffs. Thanks alot.

[@leban9958]

The somalis are 40 million devided into 4countries let alone those lost within the neighbouring and far away countries

[@smithasmr0750]

I missed your videos finally you posted

[@sbmoulin9603]

Thanks, Mason. Fascinating as ever. You're some man for one man. Keep up the good work!

[@galernagr843]

Incredible work! Your aim is what I've always thought about.

[@AI-tc8fv]

This channel is so so good, especially with the African vids. I knew the Yoruba were big but I didn't think we were the biggest damn. Important to note that due to slavery there's a large cohort of Yoruba identifiers in South America too till this day

[@sonicdash761]

My mother is a Gurunsi from Ghana. Apparently, our people are related to the Yoruba.

[@AI-tc8fv]

@@sonicdash761 I'd always heard of languages in Ghana being really similar to Yoruba. With all the migration west of Yorubas into Africa it's probably true

[@afrocubano-americano9696]

A large number of Afro-Cubans have Yoruba ancestry to the point to where certain aspects of Yoruba culture are still held onto by the population. My uncle got an ancestry test and 70% of his DNA goes to Nigeria, I’d suspect that would be mostly Yoruba ancestry.

[@goldbluetears]

@@afrocubano-americano9696 Lukumi!!! I watched a documentary on afro-cuban religion with my father who is Igbo but speaks fluent youruba and when the priestess spoke her incantations he could understand everything and said this language is even more pure than modern youruba in nigeria!

[@formeitsmcchickenthebestfastfo]

Totally blown away by how detailed this is. Amazing work Mason ❤️❤️❤️

[@liveinwisdom3610]

Southern African's (Namibia, South Africa, Lesotho, Swaziland/Eswatini, Botswana) "Bantu" ethnicities, are very different from central and west African's, we are shorter, very different customs and incorporate more clicks in our language, we also have high counts of Hunter Gatherer ancestry (Khoi-San), with the Nama people of Namibia, having 50-60%, Xhosa's/Tswana's/Sotho's 30-40%,. Also about the "Colored" population in South Africa, its very complicated, because its a vague category, only those found in Namaqua Land, have high Khoi ancestry (40-50%). Majority of the Cape "Colored's" are European, Asiatic(Indian/Malay) and Nguni mix, with miniscule Khoi ancestry being obtained through their Nguni (Xhosa/Zulu) ancestry. The reason why they tend to claim to have higher Khoi-san ancestry, is because of the history of Southern Africa, it is looked down upon to have "Bantu" ancestry, and there is politics surrounding who has the rights to land, so they over inflate, native Khoi ancestry. It's the same thing with Black Americans inflating Native American ancestry because being "African"/Descendants of slaves is a sore point for some of them.

[@jontheb123]

Thing about the coloureds claiming Khoi ancestry is also related to the fact that the Khoi have been given "first nation" status. This has led to movements for Cape Independence - there are at least 4 that I know of - where the Western and Northern Cape are being claimed as Khoi territory.

[@accountretired9479]

Finally someone who actually understands Southern Africa and the different ethnicities.

[@ownpetard8379]

""It's the same thing with Black Americans inflating Native American ancestry....." No, that is not reality - not a "thing". If there is a lighter skin black, then the first assumption is that there is mixture with whites. Yes, blacks and Native Americans "inter-mixed" some, but no inflation talk garbage. I think any concern of blacks having ties to Africa disappeared with the general acceptance of the "out of Africa" migration hypothesis.

[@accountretired9479]

@@reignz6968 lmfao hahahahahaha I don't even know how to respond to such nonsense, Afrikaaners really did a number on you people they really did but unfortunately reality can be very disappointing.

[@liveinwisdom3610]

@@reignz6968 False, during the invasion of the Dutch, majority of Khoi san people fled into other African tribes for refuge. Mainly Nambia, Botswana, and Eastern regions of South Africa ( mainly where Xhosa people inhabited). The inter-mixing is evident in the language, names and culture, the Nama people of Namibia, 60-70% of their language has Khoi-san roots, 40% of the Xhosa's language has Khoi-san roots, hell even the distinctive clicks and the tribe name XHOSA comes from the Khoi. Colored people in the Western Cape, do not have the names, the language or the culture of any African group, it is mostly Asiatic and European, because that is their dominant heritage. You also mentioned ancestry from other African groups, which is a ridiculous point because they ranged in the few 100s, I do not know how you can confidently assign that to a population of 6 million coloreds. I am not denying that ancestry but it is moot, you are much more likely to have Zulu or Xhosa bantu ancestry.

[@creex7118]

Outstanding job Massaman! I really appreciate your work. Keep the videos coming.

[@k0mm4nd3r_k3n]

Your Xhosa pronunciation is pretty on point for a non African.

[@yonasberhane6257]

Am sure it'll take ages to prepare this kinda clean work. Trust me am willing to wait for what's next. Good job!

[@syllavilla]

This is amazing. Keep up the good work👍🏿

[@sarakunb621]

I've been watching you for years...love your content, it's so original and valuable. I always learn something new and interesting. I love learning about cultures and history, and you teach it all in such a fun yet engaging way. Keep it up! 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾

[@burcotogdheer7898]

Somalia 🇩🇯🇸🇴❤️❤️

[@AdamDavidRusso]

Beautiful work! Can't wait for the release. You're awesome!

[@beproud5447]

this is amazing, thank you for your work🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

[@bungalo50]

So stocked to see the complete map! Take all the time you need Masa!

[@LakshaDeirwa]

Cushitic people 🇩🇯 🇸🇴 🇪🇷 🇪🇹 🇸🇩 🇪🇬 one ❤️

[@farahhersi9380]

Don’t forget other cushites Iraqw people = Tanzania Rendile people = Kenya

[@thesilencevevo9839]

@@farahhersi9380 theres so many bro we need a kushitic family tree lol

[@charlibravo371]

Egypt and Sudan are not cushitc, not even close. Sudan is a mix between the Arabs and Nubians and egyptians are almost fully arab, Berber, copt mix.

[@LakshaDeirwa]

@@charlibravo371 am talking about the Beja

[@sara-jc2eh]

@@charlibravo371 nubains arent arab watch your mouth they are nubian cushites lol come correct not sure about berbers

[@MrDeikas]

To see this map in complete is like putting HUGE fooprint into world history. I probably would compare your work with 1915 Europe's ethno map, both very important and just will be more important when some of the time will pass. Great work, glad you finished it

[@el4668]

m a s a m a p

[@oooceanman]

M A S A M A P

[@pistolen87]

You're back! Nice to see!

[@georgios_5342]

You're a true ethnologue. I was surprised to see that you knew about the Greeks in the Northern Balkans, not a lot of people know this but in fact the Greek Revolution of 1821 started in the Wallachian town of Iasi, modern day Romania. In fact a problem that the Greeks always had way that they were scattered across a large area, roughly corresponding to Byzantium by 1040, however they were sandwiches as large minorites in almost all regions by other nations such as the Albanians, Bulgarians, Romanians and Turks. Even though the Greeks were richer, more educated, and often times more numerous than other Balkan nationalities, it was very hard to build a Greek nation state even when the Ottoman empire was unstable, because more compact ethnicities would engulf islets of Greeks. That's why Greece has had numerous population exchange deals and in the end suffered many different genocides.

[@003mohamud]

The Greek and Romanian languages are 2 of my 5 favorite European languages. Love from a Somali!

[@georgios_5342]

@@003mohamud Really cool, thanks!

[@tigermagda]

You are amazing! Becoming one of my favorite nerds.

[@anonymouslyopinionated656]

Man, I've been gunning for you to make a matrixed etho-linguistic + religious map of the middle east for a few years at this point. even created several YT accounts to make the comment and upvote. unlikely my efforts contributed to this, but i can help look forward to the west asia version of this!

[@michellebeard8066]

Your hard work is definitely appreciated!

[@daltonmiller5590]

Holy fuck man good work. I just got interested in African history while playing EU4 and started looking into it. Began drawing a few maps and putting to memory the main language groups and notable ethnic groups. I had no idea you were doing it too. Your maps are 2000x better than mine of course! This is exactly the kind of material I've been looking for to reference. Thank you for making this. Your level of detail and perfection is astounding and it only gets better with time. Keep it up Masaman.

[@003mohamud]

hey it's been 7 months, did you finish the map? I'd love to see it!

[@WezaBeatz]

Great work as always Masa, and ofc you will keep improving again and again 👌

[@markw999]

This could have gotten you a Master's degree. Maybe a PHD.

[@wabdab3459]

eh more like a good college paper eudcation is hard

[@Daron7181]

Not enough well rounded knowledge about Africa. Thank you for putting in the work. Lots of people wouldn’t have been this thorough.

[@AyeeeItsCam]

This map was incredible! You put in the time for this one! The only part for me is that I've never heard that some of those tribes you mentioned have "non-African" DNA. Those populations are some of the oldest in Africa

[@bruninhojr3582]

Your work is incredible my Friend.

[@da.a1728]

Good job mate. 👌🏾

[@andresfelipelynett3576]

I really love your work on these maps, great job!

[@waymilky442]

It seems someone reported my comment saying that North Africans are only linguisticlaly Arab and are not of West Asian descent cause it got deletes but that's the truth. Most North Africans are of Indigenous Arabized Amazighen descent. Why did it get deleted?

[@momo-cchi5978]

I'm guessing brainwashing and self-hatred?🤷🏾‍♂️

[@waymilky442]

@@momo-cchi5978 Yeah, I was so suprised it got deleted. And so fast!

[@waymilky442]

@S E P What? Why?

[@momo-cchi5978]

@S E P And it doesn't help that folks love to report comments that dont agree with their narrative

[@waymilky442]

@S E P How is it wrong to say that North Africans are descendants of Indigenous groups. Everyone knows that. I'm not suing anything offensive or hateful to get shadowbanned.

[@conejeitor]

we love your work man, with passion

[@skywatchers9675]

Somalia, Until recently, many people perceived Somalia as a country with a population of 7,000,0000 people who share one culture, one language and one religion. This was the impression given during previous regimes in order to sustain the illusion of homogeneity. One of the things that were deliberately downplayed was the existence of minority groups. Although the population of minority groups living in Somalia has not as yet been established, estimates indicate that they constitute one third of the total Somalia population; approximately 2,000,000 people. The minority groups include Bantu, Bravenese, Rerhamar, Bajuni, Eyle, Galgala, Tumal, Yibir and Gaboye. These groups continue to live in conditions of great poverty and suffer numerous forms of discrimination and exclusion. Minority Clans Bantu The Bantu are believed to be descendants of Bantu communities in East and Central Africa from regions like Tanzania and Malawi, brought into Somalia by Arab slave traders. However, there are also other Bantu who are believed to be non-Somali, who lived in Somalia before the arrival of the aforementioned Bantu. Most of the Bantu are small-scale farmers who live in the riverine areas along the Juba and Shabelle rivers, the only permanent rivers that run through southern Somalia Rerhamar and Baravnese The Rerhamar and Baravnese are believed to be descendents of Arab immigrant settlers from Yemen and Far East countries. They settled in coastal towns of southern Somalia some ten centuries ago. Most of them are traders. Bajuni The Bajuni are a people related to the coastal people (Waswahili) along the Eastern African Coast. They live in Kismayo and the Islands of Jula, Madoga, Satarani, Raskamboni, Bungabo, Dudey, Koyoma and Jovay (Bajuni Islands). They are a seafaring community. Gaboye, Tumal, Yibir and Galagala The Gaboye, Tumal, Yibir and Galgala are ethnically associated with the Samale, which forms a dominant clan in Somalia. However, cultural stigma and traditions have excluded them as outcastes from the Samale clan. They engage in the activities of blacksmithing and shoemaking, as well as being hunters/gatherers. They live mainly in central and northern Somalia. Most of the minority groups have assimilated into other Somalia clans with whom they live. For example, the Galgala have assimilated into the Abgal in Jowhar and Mogadishu. However, they identify themselves as Nuh Mohamud, a sub clan of the Majerten clan. Some Gaboye, Tumal and Yibir assimilated into the Isak in Somaliland, while others yet have assimilated into the Darod in Puntland and central regions. There are also other Gaboye, Tumal and Yibir who assimilated with Hawadle, Murasade and Marehan clans in Galgadud region. With the exception of the Bantu, Rerhamar, Bravanese, Bajuni and Eyle who have distinct "non-Somali" physical appearance, all other minorities have physical appearances similar to that of the dominant clans, as well as having ethnic and cultural similarities. What distinguish the assimilated minorities are their distinct economic livelihoods. reliefweb.int/report/somalia/study-minorities-somalia

[@kalenooc4938]

Somali minorities don't reach 2million properly its 1.5 or 1 million

[@skp8748]

Bravanese, bajuni and bantu are not somali. The rest are somali just minority clans.

[@hartmannyosef3244]

That is so awesome! Can't wait to see your map about southeast asia!

[@mohammedadam8685]

Thanks for sending this awesome history, and I’m from Chad 🇹🇩

[@daniverson5860]

Love it! I always learn so much when I check in. Thanks!

[@amadoudiallo8557]

As a fulani man, i find your work fascinating!

[@mitchellgolston2726]

I love this type of stuff - I recently found out I have Italian and Barbadian along with Nigerian , Gambian , Sierra Leone. That’s my dads side - moms side is German , Irish , English , welsh . Thank you for your work man

[@ordinarylestibourne2252]

Should get this peer reviewed to make it an official map, have countries recognize it so it can be used in school.

[@scotfugger9373]

Great work!! Can't wait to look at all the maps!

[@dukekenny9340]

They need more diversity

[@Foreign0817]

Not according to native Africans. If you're even from a different tribe, you're alien to them. Nothing against people sticking to those similar to them, polls show people often tend to trust those that look like them. But some folks out there need to chill. And that goes for everyone, no double standards. Not everyone is racist, but every race is racist.

[@abby4115]

@@Foreign0817 pretty sure he was being sarcastic

[@Foreign0817]

@@abby4115 Ö. My båd.

[@chocolatecrud]

@@Foreign0817 poor education and xenophobia lead to racist tendencies, it’s not some inherent characteristic of humans, much less any race. Race isn’t even a biological concept.

[@andyc9902]

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[@GregStefaniuk]

Mason, wow! I only just discovered your work. Extraordinary effort, sir! Highly commendable! I teach high school Comparative Cultures and will certainly highly your efforts in the future.

[@acctadmin4073]

i haven't listened in a while. This dudes voice is way different

[@newworldassociatesla9883]

Really great maps, great work and great presentations!!!

[@Kingofportals]

I’m glad you showed the Coptic people as separate from the Muslim “Arab” Egyptians, well done!!! 👍🏻

[@warlord733]

Hey mildly autistic folks interested in ethnography. I really appreciate your content, Ive been curious about these topics, and you display it so well