Truth is Like a Baobab Tree :
Truth is Like a Baobab Tree No One Person Can Embrace it
Ethnic Peoples :
Ethnic Peoples
Migrations of African Peoples and Bantu :
Migrations of African Peoples and Bantu
Bantu Culture :
Bantu Culture unification of family, village and extended family groups (tribes)
“Communalist" system
Strong conflict resolution system
Spiritual life
Religion is a late creation in human history
All kinds of forms of worship
nature, earth, "Phallup" (worship - capacity to unite and create a human being - "holiness")
Rift Valley & Kongo Basin (Middle Africa) :
Rift Valley & Kongo Basin (Middle Africa)
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Azania ("Land of the Zanj (Blacks)")
Cities of Mombasa, Kilwa, Brava Mafia, & Zeila
Kilwa
10th - 16th C.
One of most important and beautiful trading ports
Swahili People
Trade-based
Principal sources of Gold (Asia and Arabia), Ivory (India & China), cotton, & silk
Hova people=Madagascar (1787-1897) East African Kingdoms
Swahili and KiSwahili :
Swahili and KiSwahili People, culture and language
Sawahil = “Coastal Dwellers”
Maritime Culture
Trade
Ki-Swahili is spoken by an estimated 50 million people
Official language of Tanzania and Kenya and is used extensively in Uganda, the eastern provinces of Zaire, and parts of Burundi and Rwanda.
Bantu language with considerable Arabic Influence
East African Trade :
East African Trade Participation of East African port towns in lucrative South-Seas trade was ancient
Arabs, Indonesians, some Indians
Many absorbed into Bantu-speaking population
Area from Somalia south
Islam – Arab and Persian sailors and merchants
Arabs called the land Zanj (“Blacks”)
Muslim traders began to dominate coastal cities
Mogadishu to Kilwa