Module 5 Lecture: Pulling It All together

Pulling It All Together : 

Pulling It All Together "One who lives near the Niger should not wash their hands in spittle" 1

Africana Studies : 

Africana Studies Human Centered African Centered Sankofa Interdisciplinary Humanities Social Sciences STEM Meta-Disciplinary 2

Africana Studies -Humanities : 

Africana Studies -Humanities History Literature Linguistics Religion Creative and Expressive Production Music Dance Pottery Carving Sculpture Painting Ghanaian Dance Troupe Photograph by Kwesi Soti Mtundu, 2008 3

Ourstory : 

Ourstory Oral Written Anthropological Archaeological Genetic Cultural A Niger Griot (Oral Historian) 4

African Languages : 

African Languages 5

African Languages : 

African Languages “Official” Languages Amharic Arabic English French Kinyarwanda Kirundi Kiswahili Portuguese Setswana Spanish Tigrinya 6

African Religions : 

African Religions 7

African Creative Expression : 

African Creative Expression 8

Africana Studies -Social Sciences : 

Africana Studies -Social Sciences Economics Political Science Sociology Psychology Evolutionary Linguistics 9

Africana Studies - STEM : 

Africana Studies - STEM Physical Sciences Technology Engineering Mathematics Walls of GreatZimbabwe Mosque atSankore 10

Meta-disciplinary : 

Meta-disciplinary Behavioral Sciences Anthropology Archaeology Sociobiology Meta-Constructs Culture World View Oppression Justice Environmental Sciences Human Geography Development Studies 11

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Development Studies : 

Development Studies Environmental /Ecological History and Consequences Politico-Economic History and Consequences Socio-Psychological History and Consequences 16

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Final Thoughts : 

Final Thoughts Continual New Knowledge and Understanding History is too often a story of the few, not the common Men, Conquerors, Elite, Rulers, Benefactors Caste, not Race Humanity = day-to-day living “Until the lioness has her own storyteller, the best part of the tale will always go to the hunter.”African Proverb Photographer: Kwesi Soti Mtundu, 2006Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania 18