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African Cultures

African Cultures. Words to Know. Arab Ashanti Bedouin San Swahili Bantu. Graphic Organizer. Religion. Life Style. Culture. Location. Language. Ethnic Groups: In an ethnic group they share characteristics such as physical features, language, traditions, and customs.

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African Cultures

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  1. African Cultures

  2. Words to Know • Arab • Ashanti • Bedouin • San • Swahili • Bantu

  3. Graphic Organizer Religion Life Style Culture Location Language

  4. Ethnic Groups: In an ethnic group they share characteristics such as physical features, language, traditions, and customs. Ethnic Groups and Religion VS Religion: They are not a certain ethnic group, but they do share a common belief system.

  5. 1000 different languages; 1000+ different tribes

  6. Africa Religious Groups • In Africa the three major religions are Traditional Beliefs, Christianity, and Islam. • Traditional beliefs may include worship of ancestors, spirits, gods, animals, land, inanimate objects, and/or natural phenomena.

  7. What is“Traditional” African Religion? ANIMISM 1. Belief in one remote Supreme Being. 2. A world of spirits (good & bad) in all things. 3. Ancestor veneration. 4. Belief in magic, charms, and fetishes. 5.Diviner mediator between the tribe and God.

  8. African Diviner (Shaman) Dogon “Spirit House”

  9. Arab • Arabic culture was first spread in the Middle East beginning in the 2nd century as ethnically Arab Christians such as the Ghassanids, Lakhmids and BanuJudham began migrating into the Northern Arabian desert and the Levant. The Arabic language gained greater prominence with the rise of Islam in the 7th century AD as the language of the Qur'an.

  10. Arab • Genealogical: someone who can trace his or her ancestry to the tribes of Arabia - the original inhabitants of the Arabian Peninsula - and the Syrian Desert. • Language is Arabic, including any of its varieties. • Location-througout the world however mostly in North Africa and the Middle East.

  11. Graphic Organizer Sunni Islam Modern(Varies between affluent to poverty Arab Middle East and North Africa Arab

  12. Ashanti 2:00 • The Ashanti people speak TWI. It is a language spoken in Ghana. • Their lifestyle is modern.

  13. Ashanti • The Ashanti people of today live primarily in Ghana and number about 7 million. While the majority of Ashanti are Christian, traditional religious beliefs are the second largest religious group. A very small number are Muslim. The Ashanti their traditional beliefs are a mixture of spiritual and supernatura powers.

  14. The Ashanti are one of Africa's matrilineal societies where line of descent is traced through the female. Historically, this mother relationship determined land rights, inheritance of property, offices and titles. • The Ashanti require a bride price - various goods given by the boy's family to that of the girl. Sometimes nuptial arrangements were arranged before the birth of the couple. Parents allowed boys some initiative, but he must receive the consent of the households, the only formalities required.

  15. Where are the Ashanti? Arab Ashanti Bantu/Swahili

  16. Graphic Organizer Traditional(Spiritual and supernatural powers)/Christianity Modern (Poverty) Ashanti West Africa, Ghana TWI

  17. Bantu • The people speak Bantu. Over 400 groups of people in Africa share the language. • They are located in Sub-Sahara Africa and make up 2/3 of Africa’s population. • The Bantu lifestyle is modern. • The Bantu expansion was a millennia-long series of physical migrations across Africa. It diffused their language and knowledge between populations. • All of the mother’s side of the family own land rights, inheritance of property, offices, and titles.

  18. Bantu • The Bantu migration, which spanned many centuries, influenced the development of many ethnic groups and languages in sub-Saharan Africa. It is estimated that as many as two-thirds of the people living in Africa today have roots in the Bantu language and ethnic group. Traditional beliefs, Islam, and Christianity are found among the Bantu people.

  19. Graphic Organizer Traditional (Ancestors), Christian, and Islam Modern (Poverty) Bantu Sub-Sahara Africa Bantu

  20. San • The Bushmen, San, Basarwa, Kung or Khweare indigenous people of southern Africa which spans most areas of South Africa, Zimbabwe , Lesotho, Mozambique, Swaziland, Botswana, Namibia and Angola. They were traditionally hunter-gatherers. • Genetic evidence suggests they are one of the oldest, if not the oldest, peoples in the world — a "genetic Adam" according to Spencer Wells, from which all humans can ultimately trace their genetic heritage.

  21. Where are the San? Arab Ashanti Bantu/Swahili

  22. Graphic Organizer Traditional Nomadic San Southern Africa Khoisan languages

  23. Swahili • Bantu is the language and ethnic group from which the Swahili language and ethnic group developed. While the Swahili language is spoken by over 90 million people, the Swahili ethnic group numbers about 1.3 million. They primarily live in East African countries like Kenya and Tanzania. Their primary religion is Islam.

  24. Where are the Swahili? Arab Ashanti Bantu/Swahili

  25. Graphic Organizer Sunni Islam (traditional minority) Modern Swahili East Africa Swahili (Arab+Bantu)

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