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Title: Historical and Artistic Traditions of West Africa


1
Historical and Artistic Traditions of West Africa
  • Chapter 6 Section 4

2
Review African Empires
  • Ghana
  • Controlled trade and became wealthy
  • Through controlling the trade, Ghana built an
    Empire
  • Ghanas decline was caused by attacking invaders,
    overgrazing, and the loss of trade
  • Key words and People
  • Silent Barter
  • Tunka Manin

3
Review African Empires
  • Mali
  • A ruler named Sundiata made Mali into an Empire
  • Mali reached its height under the ruler Mansa
    Musa
  • Mali fell to invaders in the late 1400s
  • Key words and people
  • Sundiata
  • Mansa Musa

4
Review African Empires
  • Songhai
  • Sunni Ali built a new empire in West Africa
  • Askia the Great ruled Songhai as an Islamic
    Empire
  • Songhai fell to Moroccan invaders, ending the
    great era of West African Empires
  • Key points and people
  • Sunni Ali
  • Askia the Great

5
Historical and Artistic Traditions
  • Key words and people
  • Oral History
  • A spoken record of past events
  • Griots
  • West African storytellers responsible for
    reciting oral history
  • Proverbs
  • Short saying of wisdom or truth
  • Kente
  • Hand-woven, brightly colored cloth made in West
    Africa

6
Storytellers Maintain Oral Traditions
  • Timbuktu and Djenne cities of the academics and
    arts
  • Arabic (written Language)
  • Read and understand government and religious
    officials
  • Result small percent were literate
  • Solution Oral history in native language
  • History entrusted to Griots
  • Spoke in
  • Epic poems
  • Proverbs
  • Memorized hundreds of names and dates

7
Visitors Write Histories
  • West Africa did not have any written histories
  • Result Visitors from other parts of the world
    would record Africa's History
  • What we know comes from
  • Travelers and scholars from Spain and Arabia
  • Al-Masudi
  • Al-Bakri
  • Idn Battutah
  • Leo Africanus

8
West Africans Value Arts
  • Other Art forms
  • Sculptures
  • Wood, brass, clay, ivory, stone, and other
    materials
  • Mask-making
  • Bright colors reflect Animism
  • Cloth-making
  • Kente (worn by Kings and Queens)
  • Music
  • Entertainment/celebrations
  • Dance
  • Entertainment/celebrations
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