Written and Oral Traditions
This is a process where learning and cultural ideas are passed down orally, from one generation to the next.
What is Oral Tradition?
These African textiles are made to be beautiful and symbolic while also telling stories.
What is kente?
This form of art is created by meshing different sounds together (Usually with instruments or vocals) to express emotions, expressions, and beauty.
What is music?
This song style features a singer or musician that leads with a call and a chorus that answers.
What is call and response?
Rolling Stone magazine celebrated this person for being the most famous singer alive.
Who is Youssou N'dour?
An account of the line of ancestry within a family
What is genealogy?
They brought their basket-weaving tradition to the Americas.
Who were the Enslaved West Africans?
This instrument is like a xylophone or marimba and is played by a musician striking the bars with a mallet, or hammer, to make melodies.
What is a Bafalon?
Call and response songs were sang by this type of person.
What is a Griot?
The artist Youssou N'Dour was born in this nation.
What is Sengel?
This oral tradition includes hundreds of old stories.
What are folktales?
This material was used for sculptures in Nok (500 B.C.E. to 200 C.E.)
What is Terra-Cotta?
This occupation of talented poet-musicians tells stories, sings songs, and recites poems to share important history in their village.
What is a griot?
Call and response influenced these genres of music.
What are gospel, jazz, blues, rock and roll, and rap?
Youssou N'Dour was born in this year.
When is 1959?
West African oral tradition includes popular sayings. These sayings are also in many other cultures.
What is a proverb?
This technique uses smaller pieces of fabric that are attached to a larger, background piece to form designs and pictures.
What is appliqué?
This object is used to connect dancers to the spirits to wish for blessings to happen to their commuinty.
What is a mask?
Just like other oral traditions, call and response came from this region.
Where is West Africa?
This person's mother was known as a griotte.
Who is N'Dour?
Many proverbs came to the Americas by this factor.
What is enslavement?
This 20th-century Spanish painter was influenced by Western African mask artists.
Who is Pablo Picasso?
These traditional musical instruments were used in Western Africa.
What is the Balafon, the Ngoni, and the Kora?
This Call and Response song was used by MLK Jr.
What is "Everybody Ought to Know?"
Who is Nelson Mendela?