Huwandu hwekondinendi yeAfrica hwakasiyana zvakanyanya mumitauro uye magariro nehupfumi uye tsika. Mitauro yehuwandu hweAfrica inogona kukamurwa kuita mapoka makuru anotevera: 1) Semitic-Hamitic; 2) mapoka emitauro akati wandei anogara muchikamu kubva kumadokero kweSahara kusvika panotangira Nairi uye aimbove akaiswa seboka re "Sudan"; mabasa ekupedzisira enyanzvi dzemitauro akasimbisa kuti mitauro iyi hairatidzi kushamwaridzana kwakanyanya kune mumwe nemumwe, uye mamwe acho ari padyo nemitauro yeBantu; 3) Bantu kumaodzanyemba kwekondinendi; 4) boka duku revaKhoi-san muSouth Africa; 5) vagari vechitsuwa cheMadagascar, vane mutauro weboka reMalaya-Polynesian; 6) maEuropean colonist nevazukuru vavo.