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African Culture

Subject : culture
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1. What two types of leadership can you find in Africa? Explain them.






2. Arab






3. What is the Sahel?






4. What do Africans consider twins as?


5. African Masks






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






7. Located in West Africa






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






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






10. Located in Southern Africa






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






12. What is the African diaspora?






13. How is death responded to in African culture






14. Located in East Africa






15. What are 'bride-wealth' gifts?


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






17. Islam






18. Griot


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






20. What is initiation?






21. Located in North Africa






22. What is a gerontocracy?






23. What is importance of Swahili language?






24. In childhood - where does the child move to before puberty?


25. Animism






26. What does 'scarification' represent?


27. What is animism?






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






29. What is an Age-Rite ceremony?






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






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






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


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






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






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






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






37. Non-centralized government






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






39. What is quinine?






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






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






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






43. Ashanti






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






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






46. Why is African immigration so important?






47. Swahili






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






49. What do Africans believe about death?






50. Located in Central Africa