Africa, Uncolonized: A Detailed Look at an Alternate Continent | Big Think What if the Black Plague had killed off almost all Europeans? Then the Reconquista never happens. Spain and Portugal don't kickstart Europe's colonization of other continents. And this is what Africa might have looked like. The map – upside down, to skew our traditional eurocentric point of view – shows an Africa dominated by Islamic states, and native kingdoms and federations. This map is the result of an entirely different course of history. To arrive at this map, Cyon constructed an alternative timeline. Allohistorical Africa, seen from our North-up perspective. European colonies in Africa in 'our' 1913. Cyon borrowed this counterfactual hypothesis from The Years of Rice and Salt, an alternate history novel by Kim Stanley Robinson. Cyon focuses on Africa – or rather, Alkebu-Lan – which in his version of events doesn't suffer the ignomy and injustice of the European slave trade and subsequent colonization. The Arabic is no accident. Some familiar-sounding names around the Great Lakes.
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Home - Africa vernacular architecture Music of Africa Women from the Masai tribe, singing. The music of Africa is as vast and varied as the continent's many regions, nations, and ethnic groups. The African continent comprises approximately 20 percent of the world's land mass and has a population of roughly 934 million. African music is as diverse as its cultures and peoples and has flowered in many indigenous forms as well as been shaped by foreign influences. Although there are many different varieties of music in Africa, there are a number of common elements to the music, especially within regions. African music also helps to connect people together in a variety of ways, strengthening the fabric of the community, which in turn reinforces people's commitment to support each other and the community, toward mutual health and prosperity. Traditional music Drummers, part of a large celebration marking the arrival of running water to their village, Ojumo Oro, Kwara State, Nigeria, in April 2004. Musical components Form Rhythmic Structure Texture
Miriam Makeba | Biography, Songs, Miriam Makeba, in full Zensi Miriam Makeba, (born March 4, 1932, Prospect Township, near Johannesburg, South Africa—died November 10, 2008, Castel Volturno, near Naples, Italy), South African-born singer who became known as Mama Afrika, one of the world’s most prominent black African performers in the 20th century. The daughter of a Swazi mother and a Xhosa father, Makeba grew up in Sophiatown, a segregated black township outside of Johannesburg and began singing in a school choir at an early age. She became a professional vocalist in 1954, performing primarily in southern Africa. By the late 1950s her singing and recording had made her well known in South Africa, and her appearance in the documentary film Come Back, Africa (1959) attracted the interest of Harry Belafonte and other American performers. With their help, Makeba in 1959 settled in the United States, where she embarked on a successful singing and recording career.
Xhosa - Introduction, Location, Language, Folklore, Religion, Major holidays, Rites of passage PRONUNCIATION: KOH-suh LOCATION: South Africa (eastern, urban areas) POPULATION: 6 million LANGUAGE: Xhosa (Bantu) RELIGION: Traditional beliefs (supreme being uThixo or uQamata ); Christianity The word Xhosa refers to a people and a language of South Africa. Well before the arrival of Dutch in the 1650s, the Xhosa had settled the southeastern area of South Africa. Christian missionaries established their first outposts among the Xhosa in the 1820s, but met with little success. Under apartheid (a government policy requiring the separation of races), the South African government created separate regions that were described as Bantustans (homelands) for black people of African descent. These regions were proclaimed independent countries by the apartheid government. Before the arrival of the Europeans in the late 1600s, Xhosa-speaking people occupied much of eastern South Africa. The Xhosa language is properly referred to as isiXhosa . Ramphela, Mamphela. Switzer, Les.
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List Of Music Genres In Africa There's more to African music than it just being "African"! Music genres are plentiful on this continent. Here's a short list of just a few of them: AfrobeatFela Kuti created Afrobeat by fusing traditional Nigerian music, jazz and highlife. Today, it is often mixed with hip hop or makossa and well known even outside Africa. ApalaApala is a percussion-based style of the Muslim Yoruba people in Nigeria, West Africa. AssikoAssiko is a rhythmic dance from Cameroon. BikutsiThis dance music developped from the traditional music of the Beti in Cameroon. Benga musicPopular music in Kenya. Bongo Flava (Tanzania) Cabo-Love (Cape Verde) Chimurenga musicPopular style from Zimbabwe. Coladeira (Cape Verde) Coupé-DecaléPop music from the Ivory Coast/France with danceable percussion and deep bass. Desert BluesThe people living in the Sahara desert have been making blues music long before it got famous in the West. FujiPopular music genre from Nigeria, based on traditional Muslim Yoruba music. Gbema (Liberia)
Miriam Makeba - Her Music And Her Role In Democracy Miriam Makeba was not only the first African singer who gained popularity in the West. She was also a fighter against the colonial oppression in her country - she was a witness to the re-birth of her continent - she was and will always be: Mama Africa. Enjoy more of Miriam's videos with song lyrics:Pata Pata, Malaika, Khawuleza, Click Song No. 1, Click Song No. 2, Soweto Blues Miriam Makeba and her Role in Democracy On March 4, 1932 she was born into a poor family of the Xhosa and Swazi tribes in South Africa. 1959, Miriam left to Europe and moved on the to USA, where her music became very popular. During these years, many African nations were fighting to re-gain independence. Two times, Miriam spoke at the UN on behalf of the South African people, who still struggled under the oppression. Miriam sang for justice and humanity until the last minutes of her life. Her Music Like all black South Africans, Miriam had suffered under the racist Apartheid regime.