The culture of Africa encompasses and includes all cultures within the continent of Africa. There is a political or racial split between North Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa, which is in turn divided into a great number of ethnic cultures. African cultures are diverse and varied and not static, and like most of the world have been impacted upon by both internal and external forces.
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