Cultural Competence Of Culture In Africa

There have been over a hundred different cultures that have occurred within Africa, and every one of them has transferred into this current time. This paper will discuss what culture is, the cultural competence and how the cultural norms and viewpoints affect Africa’s peoples, their actions and attitudes towards the outside world, as well as each other? Another question I will discuss is how has the culture changes in light of outside influences? Also what type of effect has globalization on culture in Africa had on the people in Africa?

What is culture? Culture is commonly defined as the set of values and beliefs people have about how the world(both nature and society) works as well as the norms of behavior derived from that set of values.Culture is just a way of life shared with a group people. However,cultural competence refers to an ability to interact effectively with people of different cultures and socioeconomic backgrounds, non-profit organizations, and government agencies whose employees work with persons from different cultural/ethnic backgrounds. To really understand what cultural competence is you have to first get the full meaning of what culture is. Cultural competence may also be associated with diversity and from an organizational communication perspective, a diverse culture. Developing cultural competence results in an ability to understand, communicate with, and effectively interact with people across cultures. Africa is divided into a great number of ethnic cultures.

The culture of Africa is manifold and varied. Africa is a product of the different diverse populations that today inhabit the continent of Africa and the communities throughout the world that are descended from the historic movement of people...

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... from parents and other social group members and social facts that happen in the environment in which the person lives (Ritzer,2008).

In African tradition, collective socialization is important in the process of personality formation.A fundamental unity between the different human beings in the community, i.e., a unity of human relationship, underlies traditional African ethics. African ethics places considerable value on conformity of the individual to the social group in order to preserve the unity of human relationship. It could be said that in a way African thought is, indeed, more concerned with the relationship than with the different entities which constitute the relationship. All human behavior is expected to conform to this value to ensure social harmony. Human relationship and social harmony are vital elements in the African sense of moral aesthetics.