Things Fall Apart

By: Randy Burgen

 The culture of Africa
• In African traditions they have a very different concept of
culture.
• Everything in African culture is interconnected.
• All aspects of culture are tied together: the spiritual with
the economic, with the educational, with the arts, with
linguistics, and with the social.
• Children of traditional African cultures will be educated in
very different ways from the European societies.
The history of Stereotyping in Africa
• Some people think that Africa is a country, not a
continent.
• People say that all Africans look alike, with their dark
skin, big lips and wooly hair.
• They either wear really bright colorful clothes or nothing
at all.
• The speak a “mumbo-jumbo” language.
• Africa is nothing but a bunch of naked savages.
• Every war they fought has 12 year-old boys with
machine guns.
• Genocide is a common practice in Africa.
 Threads of Storytelling
• Ancient writing traditions do exist on the African
continent, but most Africans today, as in the past,
are primarily oral peoples, and their art forms are
oral rather than literary.
• Every human culture in the world seems to
create stories as a way of making sense of the
world.
• Chinua Achebe explains that the trickster
Tortoise is a favorite in Igbo children's stories, for
he is a character that children can relate to .
 The art of Rhetoric
• The art of Rhetoric is the art of writing or speaking
effectively.
• The oral history of the Ibos traces their origins to Egypt
• Wrestling was one of many "olympic" contact sports that
existed in the ancient world millennia before the
existence of Greece. Wrestlers and lovers of architecture
may want to research the fact of the immense popularity
of these sports in antiquity and explore the influence
Ancient Egypt would later have on Grecian culture
including its architecture and its god and goddess
systems as well as on contact sports in general including
stick fighting
 Works Cited
• ALL PICTURES BY GOOGLE
• http://abagond.wordpress.com/2010/06/19
/stereotypes-about-africa/
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