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Languages:
• Bantu Family• Include 5 language
clusters:– Kore Kore– Zesuru– Manyika– Nadau– Karangua
United in early 19th century
Gender Roles• Men hunt and fish to
supplement the family’s diet
• Women create and sell baskets and pottery to supplement the family income
Political Systems• National States led by a Head Chief who
makes important decisions & is paid tributes
• Traditionally organized in small groups– 1-2 elderly men & their extended families
Religion
• Believe in 2 types of spirits– Vadizimu Spirits: ancestoral
• Ancient heroes/ recent ancestors• All that is good in society
– Shave spirits:Wandering spirits• Foreigners/ animals• Inspire talent/ cause harm through witchcraft
Aime Cesaire, Communist and Negrity.
• Other Important Books on the Anti-Colonialism include
• W.E.B. DuBois' Color and Democracy (1945) and The World and Africa (1947)
• Frantz Fanon's Black Skin, White Masks (1952)
• The Wretched of the Earth. (1961)• George Padmore's Pan-Africanism or
Communism?: The Coming Struggle for Africa (1956),
• Albert Memmi's The Colonizer and the Colonized (1957),
• Richard Wright's White Man Listen! (1957), • Jean-Paul Sartre's essay, "Black Orpheus"
(1948), • Their works were boosted by journals such
as Présence Africaine and African Revolution.