Bantu

The Bahamas is the traditional music of Gombe, is a product of traditional African music and European colonial culture combination. "Gombe" is the Bantu, rhythm, rhythm, also refers to the sheepskin drum that used to play this style of melody. Early in the period of slavery, some very simple band began playing music Gombe, when black slaves without much material for making musical instruments. Traditional…

Stage 1 of this genocide was classification/ identification of the Tutsi population. They were identified by being tall, speaking Bantu and looking more like Europeans. The next stage was symbolization, each person had to carry an identity card with there name, age, and ethnicity. The Tutsi population was easily identified by being taller and having lighter skin than the Hutu population…

Khoisan languages are facing a decline of speakers and subsequently these figures can further decline for the reason that minority languages usually have a decline in speakers rather than a gain. In Tanzania there are 126 languages so it would take an enormous growth of population in the Khoisan region for the minority language to become a majority language among all the other languages in Tanzania. Minority languages have a small amount of speakers belonging to a minority group. Khoisan is a…

Stalin to Fascism Review Sheet Vocabulary: Amritsar Massacre an incident in 1919 in which British troops fired on an unarmed crowd of Indians performing acts of civil disobedience Balfour Declaration statement issued by the British government in 1917 supporting the establishment of a homeland for the Jews in Palestine civil disobedience illegal nonviolent refusal to obey unjust laws collective large farm owned and operated by peasants as a large group command economy economic system in…

Africa and its people have been molded and grown into the prosperous place that it is today. Factors that led to this are the African slave trade, the survival of slavery, the economic and social development of America and the south, and went on to conquer slavery in 1865. Africa is home to a large majority of the world’s population. In this day and age when getting a blood test numbers as low as 1% of African American decent can be found in almost every body tested. In fact occasions of…

South Africa has been the scene of a number of momentous social engineering projects from colonialism and segregation to apartheid and currently, the democratic transformation (Christopher 2001). The system of racial segregation in South Africa, known throughout the world as apartheid, effectively found its way into every dimension of black people’s lives. The apartheid regime under authoritarian leadership of the National Party (1948-1994), sought to control black lives from the cradle to the…

What is the history of Somalia? Somalia, an African Country located between Ethiopia and Arabia, provides a home for 10 million people. Somali’s, Bantu and Arabs are the main ethnic groups. The languages spoken there consist of Somali (official), Arabic (official, according to the Transitional Federal Charter), Italian, and English. Somalia has a huge youth population, 43% of the population is under 30. Sunni Muslim’s dominate the religion in Somalia. Somalia has experienced a lot of political…

on it. A good example of people who are famously known to cultural appropriate are Kardashians. They Cornrows is an ancient African that has been worn for centuries in the black community, but as soon as Kardashians their called “boxer braids”. Bantu knots is another hairstyle that has been worn for decades but, now that is become popular a trend is being called “mini buns”. I find it beautiful that people love the African culture has an…

This is because during the times of Apartheid in South Africa, whites had a better standard of education compared to blacks, due to the Bantu Education Act. This law affected millions of black people in South Africa because it limited them to professions with a low salary or wage. These restrictions are the likely cause of what eventually led Serote to his ‘thin, ever lean wallet’. These…

On the 12 of September 1977 Steve Bantu Biko died in his prison cell in Pretoria. His death sparked national and international protest. The police interrogated them at security police headquarters in Port Elizabeth about their alleged involvement in distributing "subversive" pamphlets in…