Geography
This is the longest river in West Africa and a kind of trading highway in early times.
This is a style of song in which a singer or musician leads with a call, and a chorus responds.
What is "call-and-response?"
He was the first West African ruler to practice Islam devoutly.
Who is "Mansa Musa?"
This is a medieval civilization and empire in West Africa, that pre-dates Mansa Musa.
What is "Ghana?"
This is an item left by an earlier culture.
What is "Artifact?"
This is the name of a large, hot desert in North Africa that covers about 3.5 million square miles
What is the "Sahara?"
This is a story that is passed down orally and becomes part of a culture's tradition.
What is a "Folktale?"
This is a woven cloth.
What is a "textile?"
This is the term for a family line traced through the mother.
What is "matrilineal?"
This is a payment made by one ruler or country to another for protection or as a sign of submission.
What is a "tribute?"
This is the name of a zone of semi-desert, south of the Sahara, where short grasses, small bushes, and a few trees grow.
This is a technique in which shaped pieces of fabric are attached to a background fabric to form a design or picture.
What is "appliqué"
This is the term for a family line traced through the father.
These are talented poet-musicians of the Mande people, who tell stories, sing songs, and recite poems to share history.
What are "griots?"
It is a baked clay that is used to make pottery, tiles, and sculptures
What is "terra-cotta?"
This is the trade between peoples north and south of the Sahara.
What is the "Trans-Saharan Trade?"
This is the process of melting ore to produce iron or other metals from it.
This is the name of a West African empire ruled by the Mande that became a major crossroads of the Islamic world.
Who are the "Mali?"
This is the name of a people living in West Africa in the 500s B.C.E. who mastered ironworking.
Who are the "Nok?"
It means "King"
What is "Mansa?"
This is an ancient West African city built along the Niger River.
What is "Jenne-Jeno"?
This is a traditional form of cloth produced in West Africa.
These are a people who broke away from the empire of Mali and eventually built their own vast empire in West Africa
Who are the "Songhai?"
This is an account of the line of ancestry within a family.
What is "genealogy?"
This folktale is a common one in English, descending from West African Culture, and encourages the audience to show consistent effort and perseverance.
What is the "Tortoise and the Hare?"