Leading transformational change: inner and outer skills
UNIT 1 _LESSON 1 AFRICA_ THE DARK CONTINENT.pptx
1. Africa
● Called the Dark Continent
● Covers an area as large as the
United States, Western Europe,
India, and China.
● Covers one-fifth of the entire
land surface of the entire the
globe.
2. Africa
● Contains 98% of the diamond
mines and 55% of the gold mines.
● Produces two-thirds of the
world’s supply of cocoa and
three-fifths of the world’s supply
of palm oil.
3. Africa
● Archeologist are sure that the
first man appeared in Africa.
● Stone implements have been
found in certain parts of Africa.
5. National Parks in Africa
● Animals alone in Africa make the
continent extremely interesting
and unique.
● Africans have always lived very
close to wild, savage animals.
6. National Parks in Africa
● The people fear them, eat them,
and worship them.
● Animals play a dominant role in
African mythology and folk stories.
7.
8. ● The national parks are zoos in
reverse.
● Animals roam around freely
without wires or cages and
people have to remain safely
enclosed in cars or trucks.
National Parks in Africa
9. National Parks in Africa
● There are two basic rules to follow
when in national parks:
1. never get out of cars
2. never use, fire off, discharge, or
explode any kind of firearm.
● The parks are very extensive, some
are over forty square miles.
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11. National Parks in Africa
● The British, the Rhodesians, the South Africans,
and the Portuguese have created national parks
● The Albert National Park in Congo is over a
million acres.
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African Art
● Primitive African art has been
copied and imitated by
Western nations.
● Government museums and
private collectors have
completed in acquiring
primitive African ceremonial
masks.
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African Art
● African art is closely associated
with religion.
● Primitive in nature and is closely
associated with superstition.
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African Art
● Mask are terrifying because they
are intended to frighten away evil
spirits.
● Contemporary dance music is
based on African music with its
short rhythm based largely on the
drum beat
● African music is bound up with
religious ceremony,composed as
a prayer for rain and for success in
hunting and in war,
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African Art
● Drums may be entirely wood,
hollowed, and slit
● The invention of drum was
related to the ritual of driving
spirits of the dead way.
● African drums are so
constructed that the sound
travels over long distance,
more than 8 or 9 miles.
18. African Literature
● Literature that has been written for or by African
people is called African literature .
● Often oral in nature, prose, or in poetry.
19. African Literature
● Storytellers in Africa often tell stories using the call-
and response technique
● Poetry is often sung or recited in a singsong voice.
20. African Literature
● Poetry types include the narrative epic, occupational
verse, ritual verse, and praise poems for rulers or
other prominent people
● The “praise” singers, bards sometimes known as
“griots”, tell their stories with a musical backgrounds.
● Also recited, but often sung, are love songs, work
songs, children’s songs, epigrams, and riddles.
The purpose are very varied like bringing fertility, rain, good harvest; warding off disease, natural calamities, evil spirits; helping with social decisions and judgments; commemorating important events and making political statements.
