Bantu

Father, Adikan, said as the Bantu family were rushing out the door. “ Don’t forget your wedding masks.” *The Bantu family are descendants of the Bantu people that wear African Kuba Masks for any special occasion. Each of the masks are unique in their own way.* “Excuse me father…” Aren asked. “ Yes son what do you need?” Adikan responded. “ Why do we wear these masks for a special occasion, why not any occasion?” Aren questioned his father. *As the conversation about Bantu African Kuba Masks…

Great Zimbabwe Zimbabwe is located near Lake Mutirikwi and close to the Chimanimani Mountains in Africa. I’ve learned of many different expression of their culture. Economic Great Zimbabwe While I was visiting there i found out that the country is considered the central of gold and trading. Political Great Zimbabwe The trade of gold is not the only thing that made Great Zimbabwe prospure. The trade of cattle and…

the Pygmies, but other cultures too. One way the conflicts between the Bantu and the Pygmies can be resolved is through kindness. Being acceptable and reasonable will reduce aggressive and negative actions amongst others. Studies show that the Pygmies have lower level of illnesses compared to the Bantu populations. The Pygmies may reach an agreement with the Bantu to help them reduce the illness levels they have and the Bantu will give them land-owning rights and help them achieve recognition.…

Tutu began to grow frustrated with racism growing throughout South Africa. After being taken over by National Party 1948, the government passed a law in 1953 Bantu Education Act, a law that lowered the standards of education for black South Africans to ensure that they only learned what was necessary for a life of servitude. In 1957, Tutu gave up his job as a teacher. After his teaching years, Tutu began studying…

Desmond Tutu, a South African Anglican cleric who went on to become one of the world’s most foremost spiritual leaders, was born on October 7th, 1931, of mixed Xhosa and Motswana heritage in Klerksdorp, South Africa. While Tutu was growing up, South Africa was thoroughly segregated. Black Africans were denied the right to vote and had to live in specific areas, whereas white Africans could do as they pleased. Despite this, Desmond Tutu managed to have a happy childhood, as he loved to read and…

In time, the populations of these regions adopted Bantu agriculture as well as language and other lifeways. By the year 1000 CE, the people south of the rainforests were not only successful farmers but also miners, especially of gold, copper and iron. They were also specialists in ceramics, patterned cloths…

Kenyan coast, eventually establishing Arab and Persian colonies. In addition to the Arabs and Persians, during the first century AD, the Bantu and Nilotic people also moved into this specific East African region, settling inland. It was because of these peoples settling down here that the Swahili language was formed, as it evolved from a mixture of the Arabic and Bantu languages. Swahili developed as a lingua franca for trade for the different peoples. However, the dominance of the Arabs on the…

Tutu attended the Bantu High School in a Western native Township, where he later matriculated in 1950. He studied at the Pretoria Bantu Normal College from 1951 to 1953 and pursued a diploma in teaching (Thefamouspeople.com, 2015). Tutu was accepted in to the University of Witwatersrand to study a medical degree but could not attain a bursary. He then decided to follow in his father’s footsteps of teaching. After completing the course he went to teach at the Johannesburg Bantu High school in…

Cross-Cultural Interactions Communities would start to interact more with one another during this time period. Starting with the Nomadic Turks that would travel from one place becoming the sultans of areas in Persia, Anatolia, and India. I would not always sacrifice the people of these areas, but if allowed them to be apart of there communities if they convert to the Nation of Islam. At the same time, a Mongol Empire was thriving who often had an alliance with the Nomadic Turks. The nomadic…

The Republic of South Africa, according to its first democratic constitution, officially speaks 11 languages, of which there are two West-Germanic languages (Afrikaans and English), and nine Bantu languages (isiNdebele, Sesotho, Sepedi, Setswana, siSwati, Tshivenda, Xitsonga, isiXhosa and isiZulu). Due to such diversity, South Africa represents a highly valuable source of information for studying the phenomenon of multilingualism. The essay will first focus on South Africa’s peculiar historical…