Facebook Twitter Instagram Pinterest The Maasai community -History and Culture The Maasai are an indigenous African ethnic group of semi-nomadic people that live in Kenya and northern Tanzania. The Maasai are one of the most well-known African ethnic groups, thanks to their distinct traditions, rituals, and apparel, as well as their proximity to many of …
Facebook Twitter Pinterest Instagram THE KIKUYU OF KENYA HISTORY AND CULTURE The Agikuyu community of Kenya are a central Bantu community. They share common ancestry with Embu, Kamba, Tharaka and Meru. Traditionally they inhabited the areas around Mount Kenya inclusive of counties such; as Muranga, Nyeri, Nyandarua, Kirinyaga and Nakuru. They are among the communities …
Facebook Twitter Pinterest Instagram THE UBUNTU PHILOSOPHY – MEANING AND IMPORTANCE Rene Descartes is frequently referred to as the “first modern philosopher,” and his famous phrase “I think, therefore I am” formed the foundation for how we think about ourselves.But what if there’s a non-Western concept of personal identity that rejects this stress on individuality? …
Facebook Twitter Pinterest Instagram CUSHITES IN AFRICA – LANGUAGE GROUPS IN AFRICA The Afroasiatic language family includes the Cushitic languages. They are mostly spoken in the Horn of Africa, with minorities speaking Cushitic languages in Egypt and Sudan to the north and Kenya and Tanzania to the south. Oromo, Somali, Beja, Afar, Hadiyya, Kambaata, Saho, …
NILOTES IN AFRICA NILOTES The Nilotic language family is part of the wider Nilo-Saharan phylum, which is found throughout Africa. A Nilotic language is a group of East African languages that, according to the classification of the American scholar J. Greenberg, belong to the Chari-Nile branch of the Nilo-Saharan family of languages. The Nilotic …
Facebook Instagram Pinterest Twitter LANGUAGE GROUPS IN AFRICA – BANTU In Africa there are three language groups. Bantus, Nilotes and Cushites. Several hundred ethnic groups speak Bantu languages and are scattered throughout a broad territory including Central Africa, Southeast Africa, and Southern Africa. Several hundred Bantu languages exist. There are thought to be between 440 …
The Origin of Kiswahili Swahili, also known as Kiswahili, is a Bantu language spoken as a mother tongue or as a fluent second language on Africa’s east coast, from Lamu Island in Kenya in the north to Tanzania’s southern border in the south. (The Bantu languages are a subgroup of the Niger-Congo language family’s Benue-Congo …
Share Via: Culture is a broad phrase that incorporates human societies’ social behavior, institutions, and conventions, as well as the knowledge, beliefs, arts, laws, customs, abilities, and habits of the people who make up these civilizations. Culture is the people. It is attributed to places and seasons. Throughout generations culture has maintained its importance and …
