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

The beginning of the Masaman 2021 ethno-racial map of the world is here.
Well, it took almost 2 years, but my final map of humanity is almost at an end. It's been a wild ride and this journey has taught me more than I ever thought possible about fascinating ethnic, racial and religious groups across the world from far and wide. In today's video we'll be doing a brief overview of some of my work so far, particularly on the continent of Africa, which was probably the most difficult and time-consuming out of any region, but one of the most fun as well.
I'll be releasing the full map and all iterations of it in the upcoming weeks, and will include all of the sources I used as well. Thank you for your patience and thank you all so much for watching!

[@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

[@edwardsnowden8821]

Detailed my ass, only Nigeria would drive him mad.

[@DEEORM]

@@edwardsnowden8821 exactly 😂

[@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

[@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.

[@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!

[@chammbone8645]

Not age, wisdom

[@OleOlson]

He needs a new mic.

[@samuelrothlisberger4962]

Yes i thought the same

[@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.

[@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.

[@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

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@abibnoor]

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

[@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

[@user-vl2mr8mr5u]

@@kappa3399 ay bantus still proud people

[@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

[@TheWorldHasGoneNuts]

I cannot wait to get hold of these maps, looking forward to the release date very much. You deserve a massive standing ovation, dude, the level of detail you showed in just this first video is crazy. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[@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! 😍

[@vtron9832]

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

[@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.

[@HistoryforThinkers]

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

[@Ggdivhjkjl]

Are you Toto?

[@HistoryforThinkers]

@@Ggdivhjkjl yes

[@HistoryforThinkers]

@@Ggdivhjkjl send toto your Bitcoins

[@Danwade7979]

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

[@jaiwhy5212]

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

[@kandre7619]

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

[@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!

[@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.

[@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!

[@user-be7pw3sm7d]

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

[@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! 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾

[@AwesomeSauce696969]

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

[@conornorris6815]

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

[@thedenskan3440]

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

[@jackyex]

This is an amazing work, congratulations masaman!

[@pagani9742]

Worth waiting, thanks for the amazing work, Masaman !

[@j0nni235]

This is friggin awesome, great great job!

[@formeitsmcchickenthebestfastfo]

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

[@adamrusso4912]

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

[@bysuave]

Respect for your efforts bro!

[@malekaltayari3936]

💖 God Bless all of Africa from Tunisia 💖

[@creex7118]

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

[@andresfelipelynett3576]

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

[@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.

[@kailam1679]

I am so happy! Looking forward for the rest!

[@terrence6674]

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

[@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.

[@fvhjwuwjsk636]

MASONNNNN, YOU'RE BACKKKKKK! Love from Somalia 😁

[@syllavilla]

This is amazing. Keep up the good work👍🏿

[@bungalo50]

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

[@WezaBeatz]

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

[@CyrilGazengel]

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

[@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.

[@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!

[@michellebeard8066]

Your hard work is definitely appreciated!

[@burcotogdheer7898]

Somalia 🇩🇯🇸🇴❤️❤️

[@chuave152]

This is incredible. Much thanks from Argentina.

[@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!

[@conejeitor]

we love your work man, with passion

[@beproud5447]

this is amazing, thank you for your 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.

[@scotfugger9373]

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

[@mbathroom1]

300th. Also glad you're back and this map looks amazing. I love them.

[@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!

[@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

[@smithasmr0750]

I missed your videos finally you posted

[@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.

[@bishargellowmahad1074]

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

[@pathfinderwellcare]

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

[@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

[@daniverson5860]

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

[@sbmoulin9603]

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

[@da.a1728]

Good job mate. 👌🏾

[@hartmannyosef3244]

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

[@kel2040]

Hey Massaman Great video Good to see you back

[@winterglue274]

I love this, these are just fun to watch. How did you do it? So detailed.

[@el4668]

m a s a m a p

[@oooceanman]

M A S A M A P

[@manolodequeretaro]

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

[@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

[@leban9958]

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

[@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!

[@dansouthlondon9873]

this is great mate, keep up the good work

[@pistolen87]

You're back! Nice to see!

[@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

[@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!

[@AMBELLINA77]

Great job! I enjoy your work because you enjoy your work.

[@josephniedermeyer4874]

Love your work, thank you man!!

[@billwieworka7250]

Having attempted a similar project some years ago. Your work looks very interesting! I hope you don't mind some technical questions? 1. I assume this was done in a GIS rather than graphics package. Do you have an idea of the resolution of your data. Is your final intended as dataset or graphic? 2. Is there documentation available? 3. Can the datasets be queried and manipulated in order to create country specific results.

[@markw999]

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

[@wabdab3459]

eh more like a good college paper eudcation is hard

[@dennismakuwa]

Great stuff. I love your work. 🖤

[@kamelhaj6850]

You are very meticulous in your map drawings! Great job, as always!

[@louleloup2607]

Mason, honestly, you ought to get paid for your work, or to get a phd or something, your work is excellent!

[@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

[@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.

[@wouterpop1]

great work, looking forward to seeing the rest.

[@amadoudiallo8557]

As a fulani man, i find your work fascinating!

[@closmasmas9080]

This map will be used on so many google slides presentations in the future

[@M_Dun]

Excellent work, Mason, thank you.

[@superfluous85]

This is amazing! I love this! thank you so much. So much diversity, beautiful!

[@heiskanbuscadordelaverdad8709]

you made an incredible work this should be taught at universities

[@bolajix905]

Would it be possible to add a source list when you release them

[@jasankristo2383]

This is amazing! Great work!! 🙂

[@newworldassociatesla9883]

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