What Is African Culture?

you and who?

Hospitality is different cases of mistaken identites.

If she want naturalise, make she talk so. She no fit become African by force

@crude oil,

abeg na how much u dey cost per barrell as sanction don hit iran?


between ,  . . . . . hhhhmmnn. . . . . .made some sense though. but many times many of these cultures are similar. similar in many ways

This statement really cracked me up  But you do have a point.

Crudeoil,

Did you forget the last 600 year culture of oppression that all Black people have shared, despite their own different cultures?

This alone tells me that there are many common things that African people by the blood and by the blood and soil have shared.

DRUGilla

The drugs doth maketh thee mad

African culture is that we 'r predominantly black and anyone else is a visitor.

Naijaway,

Being  predominantly black might answer the question of who is African but it does not seem to be able to answer for what is African culture?

Originaly,you found Black peoples all over the planet:Asia,America,Europe,, Everywhere.
Originaly there was only one ocean and many landmasses. Before the separation of the land due to explosions and continental drift, the masses were all one Continent. Others races came after us.

@Drusilla
This is correct.Now why we should use  names (Africa,African) given to us by invaders who still oppress us today?.
Kemetians (us) where ruling everywhere on this planet in the past.
There is also more than 80 Millions of Blacks in Brasil,and most of them still follow  the Kemetian culture some time even more than the so called africans.

The caucasian knows exactly who he is and where he came from however, he has skillfully danced in and out of the truth, adding and subtracting anything that he doesn’t like! The thing he obviously knows is that he is not the builder of the great pyramids of Khemet (Egypt, of which he claims his civilization is a part of) and that the people who did build them were Nubians.

Please go and claim Egytian Nationality

IT'S THE FULL MOON AND DRUGILLA IS LOSING HER MIND AGAIN

Justlie,

By the way, you CLAIM to be African. Why can't you deal with the question of this thread?

All this talk about culture

I was talking to this woman who is from and was born in the Ivory Coast. Her mother is from Mali and her father is from the Ivory Coast. She was telling me of how Africans period, no matter where they are from, they have a difficult time showing affection towards each other. She even told me how her fiance who is Muslim does not romance her before they have sex yet she romances him. She went onto say that she felt like his slave and I was like damn.

Any way, my point is not all Africans or black people have this feeling of awkwardness when it comes to showing affection but I must say that for the most part black people including Africans do have this problem. It is not until we start dealing with people who share no blood or geographical closeness to us that we begin to become open to showing affection. The girl I was speaking of from the Ivory Coast is so affectionate, she is always hugging me and I her. I can tell she feels so free being able to do that with out feeling as though she will be considered white. I say that because  she also said that her family and her fiance tells her she is acting white when she complains about not getting the affections she craves. She went on to tell me of how difficult it is in Africa to just be who you are.


Now, I have heard the above many times from Nigerians, Malians, Guineas, African Americans, Jamaicans and so fourth. My point is, what role does this play culture wise? Someone in this topic said that the only thing black people have in common is ancestral worship and I must say that that is so true we do have that in common  but what about the foods black people eat? Although African Americans have been separated from Africa for many years, they still manage to hold on to the need to dance and the women managed to still shake their azzes. African American women can still braid some hair out of this world. African Americans still managed to hold onto watermelon, greens yams rice, okra, ox tails and so forth. These are things that we black people must eat, things that no matter what, we crave. Jamaicans as well, they still eat goat, plantains, fu fu and so forth.

Culture to me are the things we hold dear to us, things that no matter what weather free or in bondage, we still manage to hold onto and crave. However, due to certain issues like colonization, many African people around th world are losing or forgetting what is dear to them and taking on the traits of other cultures. For instance across the board, Black people in general are supposed to at all times respect their elders but in America, and I can only speak about America because this is where I am from. any in America, White people created laws along time ago which states that if a parent hits their child they can go to jail. Now you have little black children who once used to value their parents now calling the police on them just because they can. This makes it difficult for African Americans to preserve the part of their culture which promotes that a child should honor their parents and respect their elders.

Of course the rule was a conspiracy to pit black children against black elders and adults and vice versa. However again, not all African Americans disrespect their elders however a large number of African American children do.