African American Culture

The class lectures and discussions in Cultural Anthropology have enhanced my observation of the past, present and future of the many nations of our tiny planet. The semester has left my little grey cells intoxicated with a deeper understanding of how the dynamics of culture continues to change the world. Here is my brief Etic view of the globalization of the African continent. The Afri people have endured many changes throughout its seven million year history. Over the course of time, pre-colonial African’s had foraged across the landscape for survival until finally settling around agricultural communities. Within its beginnings, the continent had over 10,000 different states, each being invaded and conquered by its neighbors at one time or another, forcing them to adapt to new rules and cultures. Research data universally accepts that language first evolved in the Middle Stone Age of sub-Saharan Africa. From this spring board, Africa boasts a tradition of higher education institutions that predates Western colonization. Example manuscripts of pre-colonial African oral literature are estimated to be over 300,000, mostly written in Arabic. The …show more content…
The Christian Portuguese trading post displaced the Arab commerce and Islam dominance along the African coast. Senegal in West Africa was first set up as a trading post in a friendly alliance between its local king and the Portuguese. At the end of the slave trade, Portugal’s commerce was crushed and the Senegal’s had to adjust again, when the French colonized the Muslim communities, converting much of its population to Christianity. The country’s population is composed of the Bantu people, whose society speaks a common native language of Swahili, Makhuwa, Sena and Portuguese; nothing more than a Sociolinguistics salad