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History is important because it helps to understand not only the past, but it also helps us to understand and predict the future. Africa is so influential to part of how humankind came to be...Africa is known as the motherland, and is known as the birthplace of humankind. (add who said that) “History is the mother of all social science”. This is why African history is so important, being that it is the birthplace of humankind everything that has happened in Africa is vitale and important. There…

Many dynamics and traditions are linked with sabar drumming, meaning there is more than enough research to be done on the performance genre. Patricia Tang, author of Masters of the Sabar, spent numerous years researching Wolof Griot percussionists in Senegal. Proposing that I travel to Senegal myself, I will be doing preliminary research for two months with a budget of $10,000. Specifically, I will be researching the answer to this question: How complex is the meaning of family to Wolof géwël? I…

In this argumentative essay, it consists of three texts: Beowulf, The Saga of the Volsungs, and Sundiata. Each of these epics involve characters who fight or become monsters (or half-monsters). However, one of the epics show most successful in incorporating the monsters to deliver its central theme. Monsters are motifs that can help develop the text's major themes. It usually symbolizes a dangerous presence in a community and are destructive or harmful to people in the society. It is successful…

of women were very much unequal to men, were given very limited power and rights, were excluded from any governmental positions and were treated very unfairly as a human being. The story of Sundiata is a story of history of Mali narrated by Griot, Mamadou Kouyate about the prophecies of a hunter telling…

Bryant Brogdon 5/4/2016 Crime and Social Order “My Beliefs” Should rap music lyrics and videos be used as evidences in criminal trials? Critical discuss the argument in favor and against the use of evidence in trails? Firstly, I do not believe that rap music lyrics and videos should be used as evidence in criminal trials. Rap has a long history in this world to be many things than just negative. I believe that if rap music lyrics and videos were used as evidences in trials it…

The Characters of Wilson has mastered one of the creation of complex, which is three-dimensional human characters- those characters which come to life on stage as well as on the page. They also engender an appreciation for the crisp, accurate manner in which Wilson captures the speech patterns of his characters. In the Play "Joe and Alice" both of whom are African American, readily identify with the cultural and gender-related issues with which African American had to contend half a century…

There were serious clashes between the police and the rioters as they try to control the slave over the next ten years. Over the years Trinidad and Tobago’s Africans, Arawaks, Caribs, and Indian culture fused into new forms of popular music . The Griot or Lyric Poet known as the Chantwell singers (master singer) is now called calypsonians. Calypso is also known as Kaiso and is the equivalent to Jubilee songs. It is presently identified as the popular music throughout Trinidad and Tobago,…

The Ghana Empire The Ghana Empire was one of the three major West African empires, and first started when Berbers, group of nomadic people came to an area called Kumbi, or Kumbi Saleh, which is near the modern day southeastern Mauritania and Mali, close to the Sahara desert. Ancient Ghana was not in the same location as the present day Ghana. Instead, it was located about 400 miles northwest of the present day Ghana. Eventually, Soninke clans began to control the kingdom. The name ‘Ghana’…

Henry Grant Dale English 8 9/23/15 Comparing and Contrasting heroes Amari and Sundiata both have their own hero’s journey, but how can we compare and contrast their stories? Such as Amari is a slave trapped inside a plantation but Sundiata is a King who is fighting for his country. Sundiata, the hero from the African Epic Legend Sundiata by David Wisniewski, is a disabled prince who becomes king and who wants to protect his land, while…

converse in an open and by the 1960’s it was used as a slang term referring to an oration or speech. By the 1970’s Rap could be described as talking in a stylistic manner on records. Rap can be traced back to its African roots where centuries ago the griots of West Africa told stories rhythmically and over drums. Rap can also be found in the Blues, which are work songs and spirituals of slavery and influenced greatly by West African musical traditions. It was argued that the blues were being…