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African Culture Chapter 3 Question #1 Describe what you think African culture is lik e. I. African Society and Culture. The family was the basis of Africa society. Lived in extended families, or families made up of several generations.
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African Culture Chapter 3 Question #1 Describe what you think African culture is like.
I. African Society and Culture • The family was the basis of Africa society. • Lived in extended families, or families made up of several generations. • Matrilineal societies that traced their descent through their mothers rather than fathers.
A. Education • Children learned the history of their people and skills they needed from their family and the village. • Griots, or storytellers kept alive their village’s oral history through stories passed down by word of mouth.
B. Traditional African Religions • Varied from region to region. • Most believed in one Creator. • Provided rules for living and helped people stay in touch with their history. • Believed that spirits of the dead stayed with the community. • They believed these spirits could talk to God and could help solve problems.
C.Women’s Roles • Women were mostly mothers and wives. • Men had more rights and controlled much of what women did. • In some African kingdoms women served as soldiers. • Some women were famed rulers: • Queen Dahia al-Kahina led a fights against Muslim take over of her kingdom in 600 A.D. (modern day Mauritania) • Queen Nzinga spent 40 years battling Portuguese slave traders. (she ruled where modern day Angola and Congo is)
D. African Art and Dance • Masks and statues were made to celebrate African religious beliefs. • Artist worked in wood, ivory, or bronze to show faces of important leaders. • Music and dance allowed them to express themselves and to celebrate important events such as birth and death.
I. Who were the Bantu • 3000 B.C. fishing groups along the Benue River packed their belongings and began moving throughout Africa. • The wonders called themselves “Bantu” meaning “wonderers.” • They spread throughout Africa bringing their culture. • 120 million Africans speak hundreds of Bantu languages
II. Trade Caravans Begin • The vast Sahara kept the Bantu from migrated to Northern Africa. • For 1,000 of years the North was isolated until 400 B.C. the North African Berbers found a way across the Sahara to West Africa, and trade began. • Romans introduced camels to N. Africa-this revolutionized trade.
