of dances but did you ever hear of the West African dance form? If you haven’t then we will tell you about‚ if you have then you will learn more about it. African dance refers mainly to the dance of Sub Saharan Africa‚ and more appropriately African dances because of the many cultural differences in musical and movement styles. These dances must be viewed in close connection with Sub Saharan African music traditions and Bantu cultivation of rhythm. African dance utilizes the concept of polyrhythm
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The “discovery” of the New World by Christopher Columbus in 1492 linked the worlds of Europeans‚ West Africans and Native American Indians. The Portuguese and Spaniards led the colonization of the Americas‚ but were soon followed by the French‚ English and Dutch. The slave trade created a trading triangle in between Europe‚ Africa and the Americas. European and West African societies are similar in their hierarchal social order‚ involvement in the slave trade and farming societies; yet differ in
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Essay TOPIC: Discuss the evidence of a West African presence prior to 1492 in the New World West Africans’ presence in the New World‚ prior Christopher Columbus‚ has always been downgraded‚ simply because historians and teachers have failed for years to recognize their actual existence in the Americas. Individuals must pay homage to dedicated historians‚ such as: Ivan Van Sertima‚ Leo Wiener and Alexander Van Wuthenau; they have proven that Africans were actually present in the New World prior
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In 1492‚ West African societies are currently under Songhai rule‚ but Sonni Ali is dying and Askia Mohammed is going into rule gaining everything left from Sonni Ali‚ including Timbuktu. Timbuktu was the trading and cultural center for the Mali. Askia Mohammed is focused predominantly on expansion of the empire through strengthening Muslim ties and reforming government‚ banking‚ and education. European societies discussed in these sections include Spain‚ Portugal‚ France‚ and England. Spain‚ Portugal
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location of the three West African kingdoms of Ghana‚ Mali and Songhai? Ghana‚ Mali and Songhai were the three largest Kingdoms to exist in the history of West Africa. They were located in West Africa during the 11th‚ 14th and 15th century. West Africa is the region in the western part of the African continent‚ it lies approximately 15° north of the equator. Geography is the study of the physical features of the earth and its atmosphere. These three prominent western african kingdoms flourished due
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A New Empire In The West The Early Middle Ages‚ 500-1000 Introduction The first dominant kingdom to emerge from the decentralization of the early Middle Ages was that of the Germanic tribe of the Franks. From 714 to 814‚ the Carolingian House of the Franks brought stability and progress to northern Europe. A large portion of the West enjoyed military and political security as well as religious unity. This accomplishment was not to last‚ however. The Frankish empire did not endure
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conquering African regions with the use of the Maxim Machine Gun. Both England and France attempted to extend their power to Africa‚ however England did this in an effort to gain natural resources to fuel their industrial revolution while France
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the biased opinion towards the European community is quite unfounded. The Europeans had little knowledge of the Western African people; they heard stories of sacrifice cannibalism‚ slavery and the worship of fetishes a savage race. These stories would be reflected in the articles and publications that would be written about the people of Benin‚ a powerful kingdom on the West African Coast after its invasion in 1897 by the British Armed Forces‚ stories that had been told by people who had visited Benin
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slave. The “flesh” on the slave ship is nothing more than just an object that can be overworked and thrown out once it no longer functions. The white-man/owners do not care for this loss because there is an excess of the supply of slaves coming in from West Africa. Soto’s character is a lot like the slaves that Yaeger illustrates because the Chicano is overworked and suffers from fatigue much like the slaves do in the New World. Mexicans come into the Americas looking for a new living and a new source
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“They call me Rain. I have long forgotten my real name as I was very young when they came into my village and took me. I can’t remember much from my life before being a slave girl‚ but my masters have told me I am from a small village in West Africa.” Late one night‚ in a small village in Africa‚ when all had gone to sleep‚ they came like ghosts in the darkness. They took Rain from her mother’s arms and bond her father. They were crammed into pens on the back of carts like
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