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African family knowledge centre
African family history lives with our elders, in our languages and in what families remember. This is a free place to learn it, and to add what you know.
Guides
How to start your family treeBegin with the elders, write down what they remember, and keep where each fact came from.Why birth order belongs on a family tree
Who was born first can change what a whole branch of the family calls someone.Why relation words matter
One English word, uncle, can be several different people in an African family.
Languages
- Sesotho Lesotho, South Africa
- Setswana Botswana, South Africa
- Sesotho sa Leboa Sepedi, South Africa
- isiZulu South Africa
- isiXhosa South Africa
- isiNdebele South Africa
- siSwati Eswatini, South Africa
- Xitsonga South Africa, Mozambique
- Tshivenḓa Tshivenda, South Africa, Zimbabwe
- chiShona Zimbabwe
- Kiswahili East Africa
- Yorùbá Yoruba, Nigeria, Benin
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