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Chapter Twenty The People and Cultures of Africa

Chapter Twenty The People and Cultures of Africa. Afropop: African World Music. Tribal Drumming. Drums  are made of local native materials (hollow tree trunks) and served as an early form of long distance communication. They are also used during ceremonial 

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Chapter Twenty The People and Cultures of Africa

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  1. Chapter TwentyThe People and Cultures of Africa Afropop: African World Music

  2. Tribal Drumming Drums are made of local native materials (hollow tree trunks) and served as an early form of long distance communication. They are also used during ceremonial  and religious functions.

  3. Congotronics: Postmodern African Music

  4. Religion and Society in Early Africa • Common cultural inheritance • Basic languages • Animist beliefs • Oral traditions • Reverence for elderly, ancestor worship • Emphasis on family, community • Evolution of powerful kingdoms

  5. Three Early African Kingdoms:Ghana, Benin, Zimbabwe • Ghana • Caravan routes • Increased wealth from exported goods • Conquered by Berbers • Benin (Nigeria) • New food crops, metalworking techniques • Ruled by an Oba • Decline after massive slave deportation

  6. Bronze frieze of a Benin Oba (15th century)

  7. Altar to the Hand and Arm, Benin (17th century)

  8. Three Early African Kingdoms:Ghana, Benin, Zimbabwe • Zimbabwe • Stone Age settlements (bushmen) • “Great Zimbabwe” complex • The Shona • Ancestral spirits as birds, eagles

  9. African Literature • Somalian oral traditions • Raage Ugaas (18th century) • Qamaan Bulhan (mid-19th century) • Swahili-Arabic script • Recording traditional, new songs • Saiyid Abdallah (c. 1720-1810)

  10. African Literature • Negritude • Leopold Senghor (1906-1989) • Compromise with Neo-Colonialism? • African vs. Western language • Thomas Mofolo (1875?-1948) • Chinua Achebe (b. 1930)

  11. Traditional African Art in the Modern Period • Functional, traditional • Religious objects • Maternity figures • Masks • Complexity of influences • Western tendencies

  12. Maasai feather headdress

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