African culture
African culture
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The concept of the culture of the whole of Africa was discussed carefully in 1960 and 1970 in the context of the movement of Négritude , but lost model in African studies.
Rip capital is among South America (including the Horn of Africa ), which is part of the world of Islam , and South Africa to the Sahara , which is divided into a number major cultures of ethnic .
The main ethnic tribal is Afro-Asiatic (North Africa, Chad , Horn of Africa), Niger-Congo ( Bantu-Kibantu ) in the southern part of sub -Saharan Africa , Nilo-Saharan in the Sahara and Sahel areas and the suburbs of Africa. Eastern and Khoisan (a few Tanzanians and South Africa .
Broad distribution of Bantu in southern Africa, kunakojumuisha areas of West Africa , East Africa , Central Africa as well as South Africa , is the result of the spread of the Bantu in the 1st millennium AD . The broader use of Swahili as the lingua franka shows more Bantu as the effect of cultures of "whole Africa".
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[ Hide ]People [ edit | Edit source ]
Most of the population of Africa is being native.
Africa has many tribes that can not be found, with ethnic and social groups. Some of these groups represent the majority of people who are millions of people. The other groups are small groups of several thousand people . Some countries have more than 20 distinct tribes, and they are very different from the faith .
Language [ edit | Edit source ]
The African continent has hundreds of languages, and if dialects speaking to different tribes are included, the number is larger. Through many estimates, Africa has more than a thousand languages . Both languages and dialects do not have the same significance: some are spoken only by a few hundred , others are spoken by millions.
Among the most popular languages spoken are Arabic , Swahili and Hausa . A few African countries use one language and for this reason, several official languages are used, African and export. Some Africans also can speak different languages such as Malagasy , English , French , Portuguese , Spanish , Bambara , Sotho and others.
African languages reflect the unity of character and diversity, as it is clear in all African dimensions. The four main and most popular local languages are:
- African-Asian languages are a family of over 240 languages consumed by 285 million people spreading in the Horn of Africa, North Africa , West Asia and Sahel areas.
- The Dialogue of the Nine-Saharan languages includes more than one hundred languages spoken by 30 million people, especially in Chad , Ethiopia , Kenya , Sudan , Uganda and northern Tanzania .
- The Kiniger-Congo family is involved in a large part of southern Africa in the Sahara region and probably: it's the largest language family in the world among other languages. Their large number is language of Bantu spoken widely in Africa in the Sahara.
- Khoisan languages contain a number of fifty languages and are spoken in southern Africa with around 120,000 people. Some of the Khoisan languages are in the stages of extinction. The Khoi and San communities are considered as native inhabitants of this African region.
The early script of the text was African Ink Road .
Along with a number of renowned countries in East Africa , almost all African countries do not speak the official languages that have been developed from the continent and spread through colonial or human migration . For example, in different countries, English and French are used to communicate in public areas , such as governments , businesses , education and the media . Arabic , Portuguese and Afrikaansare examples of non-native African languages that are used by millions of Africans today, in public and private sectors. The difference is the Malagasy island in Madagascar , where Africans migrated from the countryside to locate locals from Indonesia .
Art and Africa [ edit | Edit source ]
Africa has a rich traditions of art . African art describes itself in a variety of wooden shapes, bronze and artistic works. African art also includes sculpture, painting , pottery , body dress and headwear at festive and religious meetings.
Africa's culture has always stressed the emphasis on the person's appearance and the joke has left a significant personal pill. Many joints of the joke are made of iron material such as metallic material. Similarly, mock designs are carefully developed and are an integral part of African culture. Slander is used in various festivals to denote spirits and ghosts, characters in stories and gods.
In most cultures of African art, some of the most important themes for African culture are repeated as two lovers, women and children, men and animals or animals, and a foreigner or a stranger. Two lovers can represent spirits, community founder, two sex partners, or twins. The theme of two rare lovers shows the depth of men and women. The mother and children or children undermine the great desire for African women to get children. The theme also denotes mother-in-law and people as her children. The theme of the person with a weapon or animal theme is a symbol of pride and strength. A guest may have been from some ethnic groups or has become a foreigner, and more alien reactions show a gap from a foreigner.
Fathi Hassan is regarded as a representative of modern African art.
Folklore and traditional religion [ edit | edit source ]
Like all human cultures, African follore and narratives point to the various cultures of Africa [1] As almost all civilizations and cultures, flood stories have spread throughout Africa. For example, depending on the story of the leopard or the dog , when the cord heard a strange noise in the fig tree, the stem of the tree was opened and the water was poured out like a flood that spread throughout the earth. The first human lovers emerged from the water. Similarly, one story from Cote d'Ivoire states that one donor gave everything he had. His god, Ouende , rewarded him with wealth, advised him to leave the area, and sent six months of rain to destroy his neighbor.
Catering [ edit | Edit source ]
Africa is a large continent with its food and drinks related to the local attractions, and the use of traditional colonial foods , including pepper, peanut and maize , which were originally created by colonial people. African cuisine is a mixture of traditional fruits and vegetables , milk and meat products. An African village meal often is dairy and dairy products. Animals and fish are collected from the vast African continent.
African traditional catering concerns the use of Mys as seriously, followed by a steam or vegetable stew, or both. Gums and potatoes are the main vegetables. Africans also use hot and medium- sized vegetables . Vegetable or boiled vegetables, peas, beans and cereals , cassava, potatoes and sweet potatoes are consumed in bulk. In every area of Africa, there are a variety of wild fruits and vegetables that are used as food. The reader, bananas and pipes are some of the most popular fruits.
Differences are known in eating and drinking habits in Africa. Thus, North Africa, together with the Mediterranean from Morocco to Egypt, have a different dietary diet than the Sahara Africans who eat a dietary diet. Nigeria and West African coastal areas love pepper foods. The number of non-Muslims also use alcoholic beverages, which goes well with many African foods. The most commonly known alcoholic in Africa is the Ethiopian wine called Tej made from honey.
West African cooking methods often combine fish and meat, as well as dried fish. The cuisine of South Africa and neighboring countries significantly zinapika food confection, to get influences from immigrant couple who include Wa hindi who brought soup adesi, (dals) and muchuzi, Malays who came and sauces their ingredients, and Europeans and "mixed grills" which now combine African animal meat. Traditionally, East African foods are different in that meat products are not generally available. The cattle , the sheep and the goatswere considered as a kind of coin, and generally these animals are not used as food. Arabic sprouts occur in catering in East African cuisine - rice cooked in some formats, cocaine, cinnamon and many other ingredients, and juices.
Ethiopians claim to be the first to grow coffee , and they have many kinds of coffee, such as a Japanese tea ceremony. From Ethiopia, coffee ran to Yemen , from there to Arabia, and from there it spread throughout the world.
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