What do you know about Africa?
15 years ago
Posts: 707
I feel like I only know bad things about Africa... wars and disease and genocide...
But there are also lots of good things of course, like the music and the people. But I want to know more, so tell me all the good things you know about Africa~
Nigeria: The happiest place on earth
15 years ago
Posts: 37
Africa's an entire continent so I agree that their has to be positive things coming from it (of course that doesn't mean we ignore the negatives)
I think music is the biggest one, with a lot of the music we listen to now being connected to it
I guess that when I think of good things about africa its usually about history and wonder about all the cultures. Morocco comes to mind, its supposed to be a beautiful country and after their world cup run I always think of nigeria when I think of positive african things
that and all the times that they try to work well together (things like the African Union come to mind)
15 years ago
Posts: 1036
I know that I really want to try some Ethiopian spices. P: Hopefully I'll get around to ebaying some to use in my food.
And I always thought the dance and music was really cool. Unfortunately this is only as a generality, as I don't know about each country individually yet.
I remember watching the documentary God Grew Tired of Us and it was really good. It isn't necessarily about the great things of Africa, but realistically about the people who come from there. Specifically a few of the surviving Sudan Lost Boys.
Have you ever watched an old movie named The Gods Must Be Crazy?
It's ;lol;
The Bushmen :
The indigenous people of southern Africa, whose territory spans most areas of South Africa, Zimbabwe, Lesotho, Mozambique, Swaziland, Botswana, Namibia, and Angola, are variously referred to as Bushmen, San, Sho, Basarwa, Kung, or Khwe. These people were traditionally hunter-gatherers, part of the Khoisan group and are related to the traditionally pastoral Khoikhoi. Starting in the 1950s, and lasting through the 1990s, they switched to farming as a result of government-mandated modernization programs as well as the increased risks of a hunting and gathering lifestyle in the face of technological development. There is a significant linguistic difference between the northern Bushmen living between Okavango (Botswana) and Etosha (Namibia), extending into southern Angola on the one hand and the southern group in the central Kalahari towards the Molopo, who are the last remnant of the extensive autochthonous San of South Africa.
The Bushmen have provided a wealth of information for the fields of anthropology and genetics, even as their lifestyles change. One broad study of African genetic diversity completed in 2009 found the San people were among the five populations with the highest measured levels of genetic diversity among the 121 distinct African populations sampled. source: wiki


