2. INTRODUCTION
AFRICAIS THE WORLD'S SECOND-LARGEST AND SECOND-MOST-
POPULOUS CONTINENT. AT ABOUT 30.2 MILLION KM² INCLUDING ADJACENT
ISLANDS. WITH 1.0 BILLION PEOPLE, IT ACCOUNTS FOR ABOUT 15% OF THE
WORLD'S HUMAN POPULATION.

3. AFRICAIS CONSIDERED BY MOST PALEOANTHROPOLOGISTS TO
BE THE OLDEST INHABITED TERRITORY ON EARTH, WITH
THE HUMAN SPECIES ORIGINATING FROM THE CONTINENT.
DURING THE MIDDLE OF THE 20TH CENTURY,
ANTHROPOLOGISTS DISCOVERED MANY FOSSILS AND EVIDENCE OF
HUMAN OCCUPATION PERHAPS AS EARLY AS 7 MILLION YEARS AGO.

4. AFRICA IS CONSIDERED AS THE “DARK
CONTINENT” BECAUSE OF ITS
UNPREDICTABLE CLIMATE, UNTAMED
WILDERNESS AND SENSATIONALIZED
PRESS COVERAGE OF DISASTERS.

5. TODAY, MANY ENVIRONMENTAL
ISSUES ARE BEING FACED BY AFRICA.
IT IS N0W FACING ISSUES LIKE SOIL
EROSION, THREATS TO FRESHWATER
ECOSYSTEMS, AND WILDLIFE
CONSERVATION AND MANAGEMENT.
AFRICA IS NOW BEING DAMAGED BY
OUR FOOLISHNESS.

6. AFRICAN LITERATURE
& CULTURE
AFRICAN LITERATURE REFERS TO
LITERATURE OF AND FROM AFRICA.

7. AFRICAN LITERATURE
ORAL LITERATURE
PRECOLONIAL LITERATURE
COLONIAL LITERATURE
POSTCOLONIAL LITERATURE

8. ORAL LITERATURE
ORAL LITERATURE MAY BE IN PROSE OR VERSE. THE PROSE IS OFTEN
MYTHOLOGICAL OR HISTORICAL AND CAN INCLUDE TALES OF THE
“TRICKSTER” CHARACTER. ORAL LITERATURE IS OFTEN DELIVERED BY
POETRY, SINGING, NARRATIVE EPIC, OCCUPATIONAL VERSE, RITUAL
VERSE, PRAISE POEMS TO RULERS AND PROMINENT PEOPLE.

9. PRECOLONIAL LITERATURE
ONE POPULAR FORM OF TRADITIONAL AFRICAN FOLKTALE IS THE
“TRICKSTER” STORY, WHERE A SMALL ANIMAL USES ITS WITS TO
SURVIVE ENCOUNTERS WITH LARGER CREATURES. ANIMAL
TRICKSTERS WERE POPULAR IN THESE TIMES.

10. COLONIAL LITERATURE
IN THIS PERIOD, AFRICAN WORKS BEST KNOWN IN THE WEST
FROM THE PERIOD OF COLONIZATION AND THE SLAVE TRADE ARE
PRIMARILY SLAVE NARRATIVES, SUCH AS OLAUDAH EQUIANO’S
“THE INTERESTING NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE OF OLAUDAH EQUIANO
(1789).”

11. POSTCOLONIAL LITERATURE
WITH LIBERATION AND INCREASED LITERACY SINCE MOST
AFRICAN NATIONS GAINED THEIR INDEPENDENCE IN THE 1950S
AND 1960S, AFRICAN LITERATURE HAS GROWN DRAMATICALLY IN
QUANTITY AND IN RECOGNITION AND SEVERAL OF THIS WORKS
APPEARED ON “BEST OF” LISTS COMPILED AT THE END OF 19TH
CENTURY

13. AFRICAN CULTURE
AFRICA’S CULTURAL TRADITIONS
ARE EXTREMELY DIVERSE.
TRADITIONALLY, ART, MUSIC, AND
ORAL LITERATURE SERVED TO
REINFORCE EXISTING RELIGIOUS
OR SOCIAL PATTERNS.

14. RELIGION
VAST IN NUMBER, STAYS
WITH EACH OTHER

15. ISLAM
ISLAM IS THE LARGEST RELIGION IN AFRICA. 40% OF THE
POPULATION IS MUSLIM LESS THAN 15% OF THE TRADITIONAL
RELIGION OF AFRICA.

16. CHRISTIANITY
CHRISTIANITY IS THE SECOND LARGEST RELIGION IN
AFRICA. 45% OF ALL THE POPULATION IN AFRICA IS CHRISTIAN.

17. OTHER RELIGIONS
SMALL NUMBER OF AFRICAN ARE HINDU, BUDDHIST,
CONFIUCIANIST OR BAHA’I, AND THE OTHERS HAVE BELIEFS
FROM THE JUDAIC TRADITION.

18. AFRICAN PEOPLE
THEY SPEAK VAST NUMBER
OF LANGUAGES
PRACTICE VAST NUMBER OF
RELIGIONS

19. AFRICAN PEOPLE
Traits
History
Tribes

20. TRAITS
AFRICAN TRAITS ARE MIXED UP OF AMERICAN CULTURAL TRAITS
AND INDIGENOUS AFRICAN TRAITS.

21. HISTORY
IN THE EARLY TIMES, AFRICANS SPECIALIZED THEIR SKILLS IN
FINDING FOOD ACROSS THE REGIONS OF AFRICA THAT’S WHY THEY
ARE EXPERTS IN MIGRATING

22. AFRICAN TRIBES
AKA
Ashanti
Hutu
Khoikhoi
Fang
Ewe
Zulu
Afrikaners
Fulani
Fante

23. AKA
NOMADIC PYGMY TRIBE DWELLING AROUND THE BORDER
BETWEEN THE CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC AND THE REPUBLIC OF
THE CONGO.

24. ASHANTI
ALSO KNOWN AS ASANTE. THEY’RE AFRICAN PEOPLE OF TWI
LINGUISTIC STOCK, LIVING PRINCIPALLY IN THE ASHANTI REGION
OF GHANA.

25. HUTU
THEY’RE PEOPLE WHO MAKE UP MOST OF THE POPULATION OF
RWANDA AND BURUNDI, SMALL NEIGHBORING COUNTRIES IN EAST
CENTRAL AFRICA.

26. KHOIKHOI
KHOIKHOI, TOGETHER WITH SAN, OCCUPIED THE WESTERN REGION
OF WHAT IS NOW SOUTH AFRICA DURING 1000 AD

27. FANG
ETHNIC GROUP AT ACOACAN, IN MAINLAND EQUATORIAL GUINEA.
THIS IS THE TRIBE OF THE FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE EQUATORIAL
GUINEA, TEODORO OBIANG NGUEMA MBASOGO.

28. EWE
INDIGENOUS PEOPLE INHABITING THE COASTS OF THE REPUBLICS
OF GHANA, TOGO, AND BENIN. THE NAME IS ALSO APPLIED TO THEIR
LANGUAGE.

29. ZULU
BANTU-SPEAKING PEOPLE OF SOUTHERN AFRICA. NUMBERING
BETWEEN 8 AND 10 MILLION, THEY LIVE MAINLY IN THE PROVINCE
OF KWAZULU-NATAL, SOUTH AFRICA

30. AFRIKANERS
FORMERLY KNOWN AS BOERS, SOUTH AFRICAN CULTURAL GROUP
DESCENDED FROM EUROPEANS. THEY SPEAK AFRIKAANS AS THEIR
NATIVE LANGUAGE.

31. FULANI
PEOPLE OF AFRICA NUMBERING ABOUT 13 MILLION AND
DISPERSED IN VARYING, OFTEN SIZABLE, CONCENTRATIONS
THROUGHOUT THE GRASSLANDS AREAS OF WEST AFRICA

32. FANTE
ALSO KNOWN AS FANTI. THEY’RE AFRICAN PEOPLE INHABITING THE
TERRITORY OF THE FORMER NATIVE AFRICAN KINGDOM OF FANTE

33. MUSIC
AFRICAN MUSIC MAY BE
DIFFERENT TO OUR EARS, BUT FOR
THEM, IT IS REALLY SIGNIFICANT

34. MUSIC (PAST)
BETWEEN 1950S AND 1970S, AFRICANS WERE INFLUENCED BY THE
STYLE OF MUSIC THAT VARIES OVERTIME. “AFROBEAT” AND
“HIGHLIFE” ARE EXAMPLES OF IT

35. MUSIC (PRESENT)
LATER, AFRICANS WERE INFLUENCED AGAIN AND ACCEPTED THE
SOME STYLE OF MUSIC SUCH AS SAMBA, BLUES, JAZZ, REGGAE,
HIP-HOP AND ROCK.

36. “
”
I KNOW NO NATIONAL BOUNDARY
WHERE THE NEGRO IS CONCERNED. THE
WHOLE WORLD IS MY PROVINCE UNTIL
AFRICA IS FREE.
MARCUS GARVEY (1887 – 1940), JAMAICAN-BORN
NATIONALIST LEADER AND PUBLISHER, 1923

37. “
”
WE BELIEVE IN THE FREEDOM OF AFRICA FOR THE
NEGRO PEOPLE OF THE WORLD, AND BY THE PRINCIPLE
OF EUROPE FOR THE EUROPEANS, AND ASIA FOR THE
ASIATICS, WE ALSO DEMAND AFRICA FOR THE
AFRICANS AT HOME AND ABROAD.
MARCUS GARVEY (1887 – 1940), JAMAICAN-BORN
NATIONALIST LEADER AND PUBLISHER, 1923

38. SOURCES
WIKIPEDIA, THE FREE ENCYCLOPEDIA
MICROSOFT ENCARTA PREMIUM 2009

39. MEMBERS
KARLO ALONZO GUIANG
REYMAR MELCHOR TUTAAN
MARK ELY NAMORO
JAYSON CUBALIT
PATRICIA JANE MATTERIG
PRECIOUS JANE GUERRERO
JESSA MEI ALONZO