African Cultures Africa has more than 800 languages native to its continent. African cultures are so diverse that they are different from any other culture of the world. African cultures contain many different languages. African languages range from common French to languages unheard of to most people such as Swahili. African arts are much different than American arts. Their art involves much more creative pottery, masks, and paintings. Africa has a very interesting culture. Reasons being the people
Benin and northern Togo. Currently, there are more than 20 million Yoruba people, but overall they speak a language of the Benue-Congo branch of the Niger-Congo language family. There are 900 languages of the Benue-Congo Branch that are further divided up into 11 unequal groups, but the first 10 of the 11 groups ar spoken almost entirely within Nigeria. Yoruba falls under the Defoid language cluster, with the largest amount of mother-tongue speakers. This may be surprising considering that Swahili
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Differences in meaning and grammar are shown using high and low tones. It belongs to the Niger-Congo family. Reincarnation is a big belief in the Igbo culture. They believe the world is occupied by the living, the dead, and those who haven't been born. The spirits aren't feared and are looked at as friends. There is one supreme God
The English language has expanded and developed crossing borders between countries; therefore, the lexicon has progressed in different ways, to the extent that English has acquired characteristics that were not originally intrinsic in its nature. While, Africa, certainly had its impact on English, during the British colonization of Africa, American English has a large historically significant connection to the content as well. During the peak Transatlantic slave trade years from 1741-1810, a large
The Word “Igbo,” in the Compendium of the World’s Languages, represents both a race and their Language which remains an inseparable part of Africa, especially West Africa, and should be understood as such in this project. Igbo as language is usually assigned to the Kwa group of Languages of Niger-congo, though certain affinities with the Bantu language and Efik have been pointed out. Central Igbo is of a compromise standard based from Onitsha and Owerri to Calabar. Its codification was recognized
method? Africa was divided by their religions and different languages they spoke. Europeans tried to come to Africa and spread their religion, such as David Livingstone, who tried to spread Christianity. American newspaper reporter Henry Stanley went to look for Livingstone because he had not return to Africa. Stanley had explored the Congo, which interested King Leopold II of Belgium. By 1882, King Leopold II had control of much of the Congo lands. Many Congolese died because of Leopold, so they took
and Britain, who oppressed the natives, exploited them for slave labor and manipulated their economic wealth for their natural resources. Chiefs in the 17th century developed the concept of growing and spurring kingdoms to spread their culture and language in effort to create a larger population with one identity. Nationalism in The Gold Coast did not evolve until the late 1700’s because of overly proud ethnic groups who hindered the unions necessary to nationalise.The growth of nationalism can be
the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In a span of twenty-five gruesome years, over ten-million Congolese were slaughtered and mutilated ("Congo Free State, 1885-1908"). In fact, the genocide is considered one of the worst in history because of the number of people massacred. Although this genocide is not as well known as more infamous ones such as the Holocaust, the Belgian-Congo genocide is still considered one of the deadliest. The Democratic Republic of Congo is located in the central region
The renown first great Kingdom of Africa was Ghana or Shama and means; Warrior king, or King of the warriors/war lord, from the Mandi language “Wagadu.” Since 300 AD Ghana was respected as the land of gold and salt. During the Sahara gold trade in 800A.D. it came to great prominence. Shama warriors (Asafo) protected the gold from invaders and would-be thieves with giant fifty pound Iron Swords. The Soninke were the first true organized army of West Africa and held the center of world trade (even
diverse due to large cultural, language, and differences in morality. But in this project, I’ll focus more on the cultural history of the igbos’ and a comparison of three igbo’s ‘’ndi igbo’’ diversity in culture with that of Yoruba culture.
(p.343), who refuses to grant human expression and language on Africans. He criticizes Conrad for having an antipathy towards Black people and accuses Heart of Darkness for depicting the Western culture’s stereotype of Africa and therefore giving a false impression of the continent and its people to readers. On the contrary, Hawkin’s essay in a certain degree agrees with Achebe that Conrad’s work has some parts which are racist, and its language dehumanize the Africans. However,
American Vernacular English (AAVE),"Jive," "Rappin," even the derogatory term of "Nigger Talk"(Shabaz). The words "language" and"dialect" are ambiguous and often interchanged when they should not be, because of the confusion they can elicit. For my own use of the terms, I draw on the commonly available reference book, Webster's New World Dictionary. I will use the word "language" to signify " the vocal sounds, words, and the ways of combining them, common to a particular nation." When the term
District proposed the inclusion of what is known as "Ebonics" into its curriculum. Ebonics, or Black language, has been referred to in various ways over the years: "African American Vernacular English," "Pan-African Communication Behaviors," "African Language Systems," or "West and Niger-Congo African Language Systems." By any name, Ebonics, when studied over the years, has been proven to be a real language with its own phonology, syntax, morphology, sentence patterns, and double interpretations of words
CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN POLITICS 3204- DR. KWASI DENSU Taking Root The Vision of Wangari Maathai Lloyd Mickens Florida A&M University: Spring 2014 The contents in this document are a critique of the documentary Taking Root. This Paper takes a systematic and analytical approach to the video and uses class and chapter concepts from CPO 3204 Contemporary African Politics. Lloyd Mickens CPO 3204 Dr. Kwasi Densu Taking Root Movie Critique Taking Root, The Vision of Wangari Maathai is a documentary
This kingdom was the first great trading state in west africa, as early as A.D. 500. Ghana was located in the upper Niger River valley, which was a grassland region between the sahara and the tropical forest along the west african coast. Most people in this area were farmers that lived in villages under the authority of a local ruler. The kings of Ghana were strong rulers
From the suicide of Okonkwo to the abandonment by other tribe members, it becomes apparent how difficult it was for the African’s to adjust to the change. Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness tells of an English man named Marlow and his journey into the Congo and interest in a colonist named Kurtz. Marlow is the narrator of the novel. He describes the natives and the Europeans from a somewhat objective view. He finds colonialism questionable, but also cannot relate to the Africans. Kurtz is the antagonist
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others are outright infuriated with the concept. To most, Ebonics has a very negative connotation; it implies lower-class, ignorance, and laziness. In some circles, slang and Ebonics are often used interchangeably. Some even believe that it is another language altogether, one that should be stamped out for good. It is seen as a bastardization of “proper” English. John R. Rickford’s article, Suite for Ebony and Phonics, argues that these ideas are false, and perpetuate harmful stereotypes about the community
Africa, bordering Kenya in the east, Tanzania in the south, The Dominican Republic of Congo in the west and Sudan in the north. According to my fifteen years of adventure in Uganda, I will say it is a very good place to be which I am proud to call home. My family's origin is traced way back from one of the earliest migrations in Africa, the Bantu migration. The Bantu people are believed to have migrated from the Niger Basin in West Africa by 1000 A.D. Due to a big increase in population, the Bantu