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What Does It Mean for an Ethnic Group to Be "Influential" in Africa? Influence can be more complex currency than wealth in some situation. An ethnic group can be economically powerful without being politically dominant. It can be politically dominant in one era and marginalised in the next. It can shape culture across continents without controlling a single government ministry. The most genuinely influential ethnic groups in Africa are those whose reach operates across multiple dimensions simultaneously shaping economies, governments, religions, languages, arts, and international perception in ways that extend far beyond the borders of the countries they inhabit. Africa is home to an estimated 3,000 distinct ethnic groups and societies according to Encyclopaedia Britannica a number so large that any shortlist inevitably involves judgment calls. The groups examined in this article were selected based on four criteria: the depth of their historical imprint on African gove...