Minorities and indigenous peoples in Africa suffer numerous challenges or barriers to their progress in social economic and political development due to high levels of marginalisation and exclusion. In most countries they are not granted recognition and their needs thus not integrated into government priorities and programmes. This often result into loss of claim to their lands, territories, and natural resources, which is also closely related to the capability of these groups to survive as peoples, develop and be able to exercise other fundamental individual or collective rights.
