Sub-Saharan African Culture

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Sub-Saharan African culture and overall community were created and unified through the people themselves and were absent from tyrants or modern-day social classes. In fact, many African communities were based and morphed with pure the intention of survival amongst each other. Peace within societies was prominent during these times. Due to agricultural, environmental, and seasonal changes, consistent movement of communities was a necessity for their own survival and way of life. Reader states that “many if not most of the numerous communities that marked the spread of coping, herding and iron-making complex throughout Africa formed initially around small groups who moved from established communities to the relatively unpopulated frontiers” (Reader

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