HISTORY
THE MUSLIM WORLD AND AFRICA
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stateless.
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pastoral groupings.
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Bantu conical clans.
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Islamic tribes.
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proto-empires.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Stateless societies: Societies of varying sizes organized through kinship and lacking the concentration of power found in centralized states.
Detailed explanation-2: -Another form of culture that was popular in ancient Africa was the stateless society. A stateless society is a non-nomadic civilization that is not governed by any sort of central authority.
Detailed explanation-3: -A collection of people united by tradition, norms, values and culture that emphasise idolatry, polygamy, extended family practice, peasant farming, victims of slavery, low economic potentials, etc. Published in Chapter: Social Class and Consumer Behaviour in Sub-Saharan Africa: Implications for Cross Cultural Marketing.
Detailed explanation-4: -This and other aspects of patrilineal social organization can be found among the ARABS, BERBERS, and other Islamic peoples of North Africa. Many other pastoral groups, including the Nuer of SUDAN and the ZULU and Swazi of southern Africa, are patrilineal.
Detailed explanation-5: -Traditionally, African societies and even states functioned through an elaborate system based on the family, the lineage, the clan, the tribe, and ultimately a confederation of groups with ethnic, cultural, and linguistic characteristics in common.