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African Society and Culture

African Society and Culture. Today we are learning how the Bantu migration shaped African cultures and how the slave trade disrupted them. Bantu. Left the Benue River Overcrowding? Soil wore out? Drifted? Migrations Reason people all across Africa share common ideas and traditions.

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African Society and Culture

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  1. African Society and Culture Today we are learning how the Bantu migration shaped African cultures and how the slave trade disrupted them

  2. Bantu • Left the Benue River • Overcrowding? • Soil wore out? • Drifted? • Migrations • Reason people all across Africa share common ideas and traditions

  3. Importance of Family • Extended families – include several generations • Matrilineal – traced through mothers • Children • Link between the past & future • Could be your ancestor reborn

  4. Education & Community • Families/Villagers/Griots – were the teachers • Oral History – stories passed down from one generation to the next. • Taught lessons about living • Lessons about life given through proverbs as well. • “ A good deed will make a good neighbor.”

  5. Women • Rights – men controlled what women did • Women’s jobs – wives/mothers • Exceptions: some were soldiers, rulers • Queen Dahia al-Kahina – fought Muslim invasion • Queen Nzinga – fought Portuguese slave traders for 40 years.

  6. Slavery • Not invented by Europeans • Criminals and POWs were slaves • Freedom was a hope as long as they remained in Africa • Muslims could not be slaves • Traded horses& cotton for slaves. • Europeans brought a new market to slave trade • They brought guns which they gave to Africans to gather more slaves • Portugal – the selling of gold was a thing of the past…slaves working as laborers on Portuguese settlements in the Atlantic raising grapes, cotton, and sugarcane.--- hard labor, no one free wanted to do it. • Africans had farming & toll making skills, they were fed cheaply, and not paid. • In the late 1400s Europeans set up sugar plantation in the Americas and need slaves. • They were also used on Tobacco, rice, and cotton plantations.

  7. African culture • African Diaspora – the spreading of African people/culture around the world • Earliest African art were cave paintings that show people hunting, dancing, and everyday events. • Art always had religious meaning • Some immortalized leaders, everyday people, and European explorers

  8. African culture • Music played a part in all aspects of African life • Expressed religious feelings • Help with everyday task – planting a field • Dance – all danced to celebrate important events. • Storytelling – few recorded their stories, most retold tales taught by griots • Popular stories told of small animals outsmarting bigger ones.  Click here to hear traditional African music

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