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The Ewe people are a people of southern Ghana and Togo. They speak the Ewe language and are related to other speakers of Gbe languages as the Fon and the Aja of Togo and Benin. They have come to their present territory from the east. The Ewe are essentially a patrilineal people, the founder of a community became the chief and was usually succeeded by his paternal relatives. Ewe (pronounced /eβe/) is a Niger-Congo language spoken in Ghana and Togo by approximately three million people (Capo 1991). ... Map showing the distribution of the various Gbe languages Introduction The Gbe languages form a dialect continuum stretching across the area between eastern Ghana and western Nigeria. ... Fon is a major West African ethnic and linguistic group in the country of Benin or Dahomey. ... The Aja are a group of people now living in what is now Benin and what used to be Dahomey. ... Patrilineality is a system in which one belongs to ones fathers lineage; it generally involves the inheritance of property, names or titles through the male line as well. ...


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Ewe people - Biocrawler (94 words)
The Ewe people are a people of southern Ghana and Togo.
They speak the Ewe language and are related to other speakers of Gbe languages as the Fon and the Aja of Togo and Benin.
The Ewe are essentially a patrilineal people, the founder of a community became the chief and was usually succeeded by his paternal relatives.
African People and Culture -Tribes (889 words)
The Afar people live primarily in Ethiopia and the areas of Eritrea, Djibouti, and Somalia in the Horn of Africa.
Among the people groups in Africa they are unique in that they have kept and continued to develop their own culture even in the midst of Islamic invasions which have conquered and adapted many of the current people groups
The Tuareg people are predominently nomadic people of the sahara desert, mostly in the Northern reaches of Mali near Timbuktu and Kidal.
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