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Friendly Alert:. Test # 2, this Friday (11 April 14) covers Indonesia and Japan (Review sheets & PowerPoint Slides posted on web). The World. Africa (physical features). Africa (population density). Africa (climate). Languages of the World. Language Groups of Africa.

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  1. Friendly Alert: Test # 2, this Friday (11 April 14)covers Indonesia and Japan (Review sheets & PowerPoint Slides posted on web)

  2. The World

  3. Africa(physical features)

  4. Africa(population density)

  5. Africa(climate)

  6. Languages of the World

  7. Language Groups of Africa

  8. Bantu languages – Southern Africa(400 languages, 100 million speakers) Language Approx. # of speakers Main geographic areaFang 560 000 Cameroon, GabonBoulou CameroonEwondo CameroonDouala 400 000 CameroonBamileke 2 million CameroonLuva 6.3 million Congo-KinshasaTshiluba 6 million Congo-KinshasaLingala 8 million Central African Republic, Congo-Brazzaville, Congo-KinshasaKikongo 6 million Angola, Congo-Brazzaville, Congo-KinshasaKituba 5 million Congo (South)Luganda 4 million UgandaMakoua UgandaKinyarwanda-Kirundi 15 million Rwanda, Burundi

  9. Bantu languages – Southern Africa(cont’d) Language Approx. # of speakers Main geographic areaSwahili 30 million Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Congo DR, Rwanda, BurundiKikouyou 4.6 million KenyaSukuma TanzaniaBemba ZambiaNyanja (chewa, chinyanja) 3.2 million Malawi, ZambiaKimbundu 3 million AngolaUmbundu 4 million AngolaShona 10 million Mozambique, Zambia, ZimbabweSotho 3.5 million South AfricaTswana 3 million South Africa, BotswanaZulu 5 million South AfricaNdebele 1 million Zimbabwe, South AfricaXhosa 4 million South AfricaComorian languages 900 000 Comoros

  10. MAJOR TRIBES OF AFRICA (1) • Afar Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti, Somalia • Amhara Central highland plateau of Ethiopia • Anlo-Ewe SE corner of Ghana • Ashanti Central Ghana • Bakongo Atlantic coast of Africa from Pointe-Noire, Republic of Congo to Luanda, Angola • Bambara Mali • Bemba NE Zambia • Berber Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt • Bobo W Burkina Faso, Mali • Chewa Zambia, Zimbabwe, Malawi • Dogon SE Mali, Burkina Faso • Fon Benin • Fulani West Africa

  11. MAJOR TRIBES OF AFRICA (2) • Ibo Nigeria • Kikuyu Kenya • Mandinka Senegal, The Gambia, Mali, Guinea-Bissau, Burkina Faso, Cote d’Ivoire • Masai East Africa • Pygmy Democratic Republic of Congo, Cameroon, Gabon, Central African Republic, Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, Republic of Congo • Samburu Kenya • San Kalahari Desert in southern Africa • Senufo N Cote d’Ivoire, Mali • Tuareg N Mali • Wolof Senegal • Yoruba SW Nigeria, Benin • Zulu South Africa  

  12. African Tribal Groups (1929)

  13. West African Tribes

  14. More African Tribal Groups West Central Africa (Congo River Basin) East Africa (Tanzania)

  15. Benin (West Africa) Tribal groups Political

  16. Africa(Colonial)

  17. Africa(political)

  18. General African Music Traits • Emphasis on Rhythm • Use of Percussion • Density of Timbre (“buzzy sound”) • Use of Ostinato • Use of interlocking parts • Call and Response • Controlled Improvisation

  19. Mbira • Plucked Idiophone • Lamellaphone (Lamella = “Tongue”) • Mbira – common name in Zimbabwe and most of Sub-Saharan Africa • Called Kalimba in Kenya, Ikembe in Rwanda, Likembe in Congo • Called “thumb piano,” “gourd piano,” “finger harp,” etc. in West

  20. Mbira

  21. Mbira

  22. Zimbabwe(formerly Rhodesia)

  23. Mineral Reserves (South Africa)

  24. A Shona Village

  25. Shona Farmlands

  26. Bira

  27. Bira • Ceremony for spirit of a dead ancestor • Burial of the body (flesh = black shadow) • Worm (gonye) emerges from grave and the spirit (white shadow) wanders about 1 year • Bira (ceremony) – welcomes spirit home- food (ground corn & meat, beer, etc.)- music (played by Mbira and Hosho) • Spirit admitted back into family circle

  28. Mbira on YouTube • Mbira - Spirit of the People (Thomas Mapfumo, Oliver Mtukudzi) • YouTube - Lessons from the Mbira at Duke University

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