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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. Traditional African religions - Wikipedia

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    In contemporary Africa, many people identify with both traditional African religions and either Christianity or Islam, practicing elements of both in a form of religious duality. This syncretism is evident in rituals, festivals, and the spiritual lives of individuals who draw on the strengths of both their indigenous traditions and the newer ...

  4. History of clothing and textiles - Wikipedia

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    People in many countries dressed differently depending on whether they identified with the old Romanised population, or the new invading populations such as Franks, Anglo-Saxons, and Visigoths. Men of the invading peoples generally wore short tunics , with belts, and visible trousers, hose or leggings.

  5. Waaqeffanna - Wikipedia

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    Waaqeffanna is an ethnic religion indigenous to the Oromo people in the Horn of Africa. [1] The word Waaqeffanna is derived from Waaq which is the ancient name for Creator in various Cushitic languages including the Oromo people and Somali people.

  6. Clothing in Africa - Wikipedia

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    The other groups of people in South Africa are the Sotho-Tswana peoples (Tswana, Pedi, and Sotho), while the group of people in the north-eastern areas of present-day South Africa are Venda, Lemba, and Tsonga. [5] All of these groups of people, share the common home of South Africa, have for themselves distinctive languages and culture.

  7. Rendille people - Wikipedia

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    In terms of creed, the Rendille come from a practice of traditional religions centered around the worship of Waaq [3] denoting the monotheistic archaic pre-Abrahamic religion adhered to by Cushitic groups. [22] More recently, the Rendille have come to adopt Christianity due to Christian missionary work throughout the 20th and 21st century. [23].

  8. 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 ...

  9. Soninke people - Wikipedia

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    The rulers and Soninke people of the Ghana Empire converted to Islam in the 11th century, and they have been Muslim ever since. Some Islamic sources suggest that the conversion was triggered after the 1076 Almoravid conquest of the Ghana Empire. [8] The Soninke people, like other Mande peoples, typically adhere to the Maliki school of Sunni ...