World Cultures- African Tribes' Culture Facts and Vocab
Random, intersting facts about African culture and history.
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- beans gravy
- a food made in Africa that almost tastes like refried beans and has beans, bean skins, and perhaps some peppers
- thumb piano
- musical instrument that has little pieces of tin cut different sizes glued to a piece of wood or metal
- griot
- a storyteller or history-memorizer for a certain tribe
- fu-fu
- a white-tan starch mash made of boiled and squished manioc roots that bloats your stomach, but is eaten by families in poverty in Africa because it fills their stomach, although it has no nutritional value
- Lingala
- one of the main African tribal languages
- pigme
- short person who lives in the jungle
- Mobutu Sese Seku Kuku Waza Banga
- name of African dictator who always wore a leopardskin cap because the leopard is strong, had 19 wives, and harmed anyone who didn't like him
- clothes an African woman wears
- dress that wraps around, head wrap used to cushion the skull from the heavy objects oftenly carried on the head, and maybe a pouch-sack on the back for carrying a baby in
- cassava/manioc
- poisonous root used to create fu-fu
- galimoto
- a wire toy, often in the shape of vehicles
- emupati
- a bracelet or wrap made of reeds or earth-colored yarn that is wrapped around a sick patient's body part that is injured to let the patient know that the doctor is trying their best to heal them