Africa is home to several language families and hundreds of languages all these different cultures countries and people have something in common they can be found now world wide and one way of keeping and telling others about your roots is African Surname and there for it is considered as very important in todays African culture. The people can be divided into over a thousand different ethnic groups. Some practice various tribal religions, others Islam or Christianity.
This complex background makes summing up African naming traditions in a few paragraphs very difficult.
