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Authentic Kwatu.

Every Kwatuan state:

Acholi 
Adal Sultānat 
Agikuyu 
Al-Kufrah 
Al-Magrib 
Asanteman 
As-Sultānat As-Zarqa 
Attakhoe
Aussa Sultānat 
Azande 
Bagirimi Sultānat 
Baherero 
Bahr El Ghazal 
Bakomo 
Balozi 
Bamum 
Banyarwanda
Barqah Sultānat 
Basongye 
Benin 
Biaka 
Bobangi 
Botswana 
Brakna Imārat 
Bubi 
Buganga 
Bula 
Chinet 
Chinguetti 
Chokwe 
Cochokhoe 
Dahomey 
Damagaram Sultānat 
Dan 
Dār Banda 
Dār Fertit 
Dār Fur
Dār Runga 
Eswatini
Ewondo 
Fazzan Sultānat 
Fouta Jalon 
Fouta Tooro
Gaza 
Gbaya 
Geledi Sultānat 
Gonakhoe 
Gonja 
Guro 
Hafsid Khilāfat 
Hamasien 
Hesse Khoe
Hiraab Sultānat 
Hlubiland 
Ixam San 
Kabadougou 
Kano Imārat 
Katanga 
Katsina Imārat 
Kel Ahaggar 
Kel Aïr
Kel Ajjer 
Kel Gress 
Khomani San 
Khwe 
Komori 
Kondo 
Kong 
Kongo 
Koya 
Kraoh 
Kuba 
Kung 
Kurdufān 
Kwanhama 
Lesotho 
Maasai 
Majeerteen Sultānat 
Mandara 
Manding 
Mangbetu 
Mangista Ityop'p'ya
Maravi 
Mbini 
Merina 
Misr Sultānat 
Mpofana 
Mthwakazi 
Namakhoe 
Nhlangwini 
Nri 
Nzakara 
Omo Aro 
Ovimbundu 
Oyo 
Pediland
Rundi 
Sokoto Khilāfat 
Songhay 
Swahili 
Tadjoura Sultānat
Taqali 
Tagant Imārat 
Tarābulus Sultānat
Tekna 
Tembuland 
Tibesti 
Trarza Imārat  
Ufipa 
Ugogo 
Uhehe 
Ukambani 
Unyamwezi 
Vakavango 
Venda 
Waddai Sultānat 
Walata 
Warsangele Sultānat 
Wayao 
Wogodogo 
Wolof 
Wukari 
Xaaso 
Xhosaland 
!Xoo 
Yao Sultānat
Zululand 

Precolonial Kwatuan civilizations. 

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