Africa has some of the most amazing traditions and culture with very important meanings some easily known and others hidden with deep wisdom. Travitude safari tours has the best knowledge and experience to getting you to the sources and most resourceful cultural sites to know about different social and cultural lives of the different ethnicities like the Bantu, Nilotic, Nilo-Hamites and coastal people who are since the days of old have held to their various practices in agriculture, pastoralism, pottery, fishing, fruit gathering, iron smiths, craft making, unique traditional dances, outstanding dressing codes, political set up in chiefdoms and kingdoms.
The rich African culture that is inseparable from their ways of life will enrich you with great information has trans versed since ancient times into modernity. The African tribal set up has made the diversity possible as each tribe has their own political, social and economic ways of life that more over differ from the ways of life of each of the tribes; though some may have similarities for example if they are of the same ethnic background say when all from the bantu ethnic background, Nilotic ethnic background among others. This will always trigger your mind to have more revelations into the lives of people of different African tribes.
Many of these tribes have different beliefs about their coming existence and beliefs of how these ancestors came into being and how they lived or even left this earthly world to live in another supernatural world. These beliefs have a lot of cultural sites to support these theories and these are part of our destination journeys at your request like ancient rock paints, caves, tombs for ancient kings, sacred hills and trees, lakes, rivers, rock carvings and ancient palaces to chiefdoms and kingdoms.
Tanzania has 120 tribes most of which are of bantu ethnic background like the Chagga people that live around the mountain Kilimanjaro and are farmers with others like the Masai of Nilotic ethnic back who are pastoralists who herd and take care of cattle. They display a whole range of differences in the local activities they carry out, dress codes, dances, languages and whole different political setup of their chiefdoms and kingdoms.
Uganda has 52 tribes also speaking different languages though some maybe similar for the tribes having the same ethnic backgrounds. These have different traditional dances, foods desires and dress codes. The economic activities of these tribes also differed according to their environmental surrounding like lakes, rivers, hills, mountains, lowland plains and their life requirements and beliefs for example cattle keepers believed that their cattle are the source of all food requirements and support to their livelihoods while those who settled around lakes and rivers depended on the lakes and some believed they are the source of their lives and also the home to their gods that support them in life.
Kenya has 42 tribes with the most vibrant being the Masai people known for their, pastoralism, strong culture and hospitality, the Kikuyu people given their political impact and organization in the country’s political history and their strong ancient kingdom, the Luo also known for their strong culture ancient chiefdom, warriorism and influence in the country’s political setup, the Kamba people among others. Also having different dressing codes, ways of life, food cuisines, traditional dances and crafts that they used to support their lives among others.
Rwanda has 3 indigenous tribes, the Hutu, the Tutsi and the Batwa people. The Hutu were farmers, the Tutsi were pastoralists and cattle keepers and the Batwa are gatherers who live in the mountainous Virunga. These also have different cultural setup and leader still preserved till today and more of their cultural heritage can be found at the ethnographic museum and King’s palace in Rwanda’s southern province.
A cultural trip with Travitude safari tours to the East African region will leave you at the pinnacle of knowledge of the local people and their cultures with unmatched adventures into the different food cuisines, traditional dances, crafts, dress codes and hospitality of these African people will guarantee unforgettable life memories.