A style of popular music incorporating elements of African music and jazz, soul, and funk
A member of a class of traveling poets, musicians, and storytellers who maintain a tradition of oral history in parts of West Africa
The name of the era where there were strict rules about segregation between white and black South Africans
A disease caused by plasmodium parasites that spread from human to human by anopheles mosquitoes; most deaths that occur because of this occur in Africa
The musical family/classification that the mbira belongs to
What is a lamellophone?
A total of 28,652 people in West Africa were infected with this disease in 2014–16, of whom 11,325 died
An example of African material culture created by the Yombe people, depicting the Yombe king chewing a hallucinogenic root
What is the "Finial of a Royal Scepter"?
The African song sung by Solomon Linda with the Evening Birds that inspired the modern version of the song "The Lion Sleeps Tonight"
The work written by William Butler Yeats that inspired Chinua Achebe to write his book "Things Fall Apart" about Ibo life before and after the arrival of Christian missionaries in Africa