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African Culture

Subject : culture
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1. In childhood - where does the child move to before puberty?


2. What is the Sahel?






3. Located in Southern Africa






4. What happens after completion of an Age-Rite ceremony?






5. What are two main ethnic groups in Southern Africa?






6. What is animism?






7. In African society - what item do most have in their homes dedicated to a certain family?






8. What do Africans believe about death?






9. Islam






10. What is the savanna?






11. What is a gerontocracy?






12. What do African women do when they fail at birth and why?


13. What are two cities in Southern Africa that have a population of more than one million people?






14. African Masks






15. Ashanti






16. In Africa - is premarital sex allowed? Why or why not?






17. What is the difference between a push and a pull factor?






18. What is the African diaspora?






19. How are Bantu-speaking people important to African culture?






20. What are 'bride-wealth' gifts?


21. What is quinine?






22. What is importance of Swahili language?






23. What power are elderly women believed to possess in African society?






24. What two types of leadership can you find in Africa? Explain them.






25. What was a religious motive as to why Europeans took over Africa?






26. How is death responded to in African culture






27. What is initiation?






28. In childhood - where does the child spend most of his/her first years with?






29. What was a political motive as to why Europeans took over Africa?






30. What is an Age-Rite ceremony?






31. Name the three main groups of people of European ancestry in Southern Africa.






32. Who held the Berlin Conference and how many nations were invited?






33. What are the two largest ethnic groups in North Africa?






34. Animism






35. In African society - who picks the spouse for a woman/girl?






36. What key objective was in the minds of each and every European colonial power?






37. Griot


38. Located in North Africa






39. What was an economic motive as to why Europeans took over Africa?






40. What are Africans' main method of communication?


41. Swahili






42. Located in East Africa






43. Located in Central Africa






44. In Africa - what is considered one of the greatest honors (by a woman)?






45. In the slave trade - what were African slaves traded for to the Europeans?






46. What do Africans consider twins as?


47. Mila






48. Who was considered to be the 'biggest winner' of land after the meeting






49. What does 'scarification' represent?


50. Arab