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  2. African textiles - Wikipedia

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    The smocks, although originated from Northern Ghana, is worn by all across West Africa. Yoruba Aso Oke : Aso oke meaning top cloth, is the most prestigious hand-woven cloth of the Yoruba. It requires a level of expertise and time to weave the cloth.

  3. Garnish (cooking) - Wikipedia

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    A garnish is an item or substance used as a decoration or embellishment accompanying a prepared food dish or drink. [1] In many cases, it may give added or contrasting flavor . Some garnishes are selected mainly to augment the visual impact of the plate, while others are selected specifically for the flavor they may impart. [ 2 ]

  4. Kente cloth - Wikipedia

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    Historically the fabric was worn in a toga-like fashion among the Asante, Akan and Ewe people. According to Asante oral tradition, it originated from Bonwire in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. In modern day Ghana, the wearing of kente cloth has become widespread to commemorate special occasions, and kente brands led by master weavers are in high ...

  5. Malagasy peoples - Wikipedia

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    In a recent island-wide survey the male-only Y chromosomes of African origin are more common than those of East Asian origin, but it varies depending on the study (70.7 vs. 20.7 or 51% vs 34%). [6] However the mtDNA lineages, passed down from mother to child, are the opposite (42.4% African origin vs. 50.1% East Asian origin).

  6. History of clothing and textiles - Wikipedia

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    A second group of researchers, also relying on the genetic clock, estimate that clothing originated between 30,000 and 114,000 years ago. [10] It is important to note that some of these estimates predate the first known human exodus from Africa.

  7. Afrikaners - Wikipedia

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    In South Africa, an Afrikaner minority party, the National Party, came to power in 1948 and enacted a series of segregationist laws favouring White people known as apartheid, meaning "separateness". These laws allowed for the systematic persecution of opposition leaders and attempted to enforce general white supremacy by classifying all South ...

  8. Swazi people - Wikipedia

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    People of Swati descent in South Africa are typically identifiable by speaking siSwati, or a dialect of that language. There are also many Swati migrants in South Africa and the United Kingdom. The number of emaSwati in South Africa is slightly larger than that of emaSwati in Eswatini, which is approximately 1.2 million people.

  9. Culture of Africa - Wikipedia

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    Sample of the Egyptian Book of the Dead of the scribe Nebqed, c. 1300 BC. Africa is divided into a great number of ethnic cultures. [17] [18] [19] The continent's cultural regeneration has also been an integral aspect of post-independence nation-building on the continent, with a recognition of the need to harness the cultural resources of Africa to enrich the process of education, requiring ...