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Moribayassa is a powerful and energetic West African dance that reflects the spiritual and cultural traditions of the Malinke people. It has evolved over time to reflect current concerns and experiences while remaining true to its origins.
With exception to some parts of West Africa (e.g., Ntereso, Kintampo), prior to the late first millennium BCE, West African hunter-gatherers, who were the most widely spread cultural group of socially organized populations, were likely the only group to populate the forest and savanna regions of West Africa. [4] The expansion of West African ...
West Africa: Word, Symbol, Song was a major four-month exhibition at the British Library in London – the first of its kind in the UK to explore in detail the cultural history of the region, through literature, artefacts, art, music and performance [1] – which ran from 16 October 2015 to 16 February 2016. It has been described as ...
The ethnic groups of Africa number in the thousands, with each ethnicity generally having their own language (or dialect of a language) and culture. The ethnolinguistic groups include various Afroasiatic , Khoisan , Niger-Congo , and Nilo-Saharan populations.
Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Pages in category "West African people" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total.
During the Pleistocene, Middle Stone Age peoples (e.g., Iwo Eleru people, [3] possibly Aterians), who dwelled throughout West Africa between MIS 4 and MIS 2, [4] were gradually replaced by incoming Late Stone Age peoples, who migrated into West Africa [5] as an increase in humid conditions resulted in the subsequent expansion of the West ...
Utilizing Western Africans (e.g., Esan of Nigeria, Mende of Sierra Leone, western Gambians), the divergence of a set of early modern or archaic humans, numbering around 25,000 or between 23,000 and 27,000, from either the last common ancestor of the San people and all other modern humans, or humans and Neanderthals, is approximated to have occurred between 1,020,000 BP and 360,000 BP. [4]
The years between 1100 and 1600 were known as the "golden age" of trade, when West African gold was in high demand. [1] This led to an increase in the need and use for trade routes. [ 1 ] From 1300 the Trans-Saharan trade routes were used for trade, travel, and scholarship.