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Learning Goals

Learning Goals. Today you should be able to . . . explain the differences between an ethnic group and a religious group. Because . . . t his will help you understand the different aspects of Africa’s culture. Learning Goals. Today you should be able to . . .

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Learning Goals

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  1. Learning Goals Today you should be able to . . . explain the differences between an ethnic group and a religious group. Because . . . this will help you understand the different aspects of Africa’s culture.

  2. Learning Goals Today you should be able to . . . compare and contrast the different African ethnic & religious groups.Because . . . this will help you understand the different aspects of Africa’s culture.

  3. http://www.adherents.com/Religions_By_Adherents.html

  4. Major Religions of the WorldRanked by Number of Adherents (Sizes shown are approximate estimates, and are here mainly for the purpose of ordering the groups, not providing a definitive number. This list is sociological/statistical in perspective.) • Christianity: 2.1 billion • Islam: 1.5 billion • Secular/Nonreligious/Agnostic/Atheist: 1.1 billion • Hinduism: 900 million • Chinese traditional religion: 394 million • Buddhism: 376 million • primal-indigenous: 300 million • African Traditional & Diasporic: 100 million • Sikhism: 23 million • Juche: 19 million • Spiritism: 15 million • Judaism: 14 million • Baha'i: 7 million • Jainism: 4.2 million • Shinto: 4 million

  5. Sooo, what ARE African traditional beliefs?

  6. Africa’s traditional beliefs • vary from region to region • polytheistic • usually centered around the powers and spirits of nature and ancestors • indigenous to Africa • pre-date Christianity & Islam

  7. gods not ALL ethnicities ethnicities

  8. How do the top maps explain the bottom maps?

  9. What do you See? Think? Wonder?

  10. Map Directions ETHNIC GROUPS • Use the reading “Africa’s Ethnic & Religious Groups” to determine where each of the ethnic groups is located. • Choose a color to represent each ethnic group. Add the colors/patterns to your key. • Color the areas on the map where each ethnic group can be found. RELIGIOUS GROUPS • Use the reading to determine which religion(s) each ethnic group practices. • Create a symbol to represent each religion. Add the symbols to your key. • Add the religion symbols to the areas of the map corresponding to the ethnic groups that practice it.

  11. Arabs • North Africa - Egypt to Morocco • Sahara Desert • Sahel • East coast - Kenya, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zanzibar • Mediterranean coast • Countries along the Indian Ocean Ashanti • Ghana • Burkina Faso • Ivory Coast (Cote d’Ivorie) • Togo Bantu • South of Sahara • Central & southern Africa • Southern tip of Africa Swahili • Coast of east Africa • Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique

  12. KEY Ethnic Groups Arab Ashanti Bantu Swahili Religious Groups Islam Christianity Traditional beliefs

  13. Bantu

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  15. Nation Golden Stool

  16. KEY Ethnic Groups Arab Ashanti Bantu Swahili Religious Groups Islam Christianity Traditional beliefs

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