Cango contains 40 languages spoken by 20 million people concentrated mostly in areas including Sengal‚Gambia‚ and Northern and eastern sierra leona . There are much less users of Niger Cango in areas including northern areas of Ghana ‚ togo and Benin and in southern Niger and southwestern Nigeria (Bendor-Samuel 2000). The Niger Cango language began to spread around 7000 BP. The last estimation of niger cango language is 1400‚ all considered separate languages and not dialacts and each language
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African hair sculpture is what they call it and Africa and to them it is an art. Africans hardly ever leave their hair or their body plain or in the book‚ it says "natural" state. It says that they spend a lot of time and energy on grooming and self-admiration. Sounds like it’s the same way there as it is here because I love to "groom." Ha ha. Anyway‚ it says they spend a lot of time on their hair and looks but special attention to their hair. The "art" of hairdressing was practiced mostly for women
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CONTEMPORARY ARTIST ;THEIR WORKS. Aina Olabolu :art educator and painter Cheif Aina Onabolu (now late) was born in Ijebu-ode in Ogun state‚ Nigeria in the year 1882. The general impression the Europeans were having about contemporary African art was that of primitive and lacked impact on orld civilization Onabolu grew up in the midst of that notion and was determined to prove the white people wrong. He started to practice art on his own in 1900 even
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3 October 2013 A Confident Black Man Dudley Felker Randall born in Washington‚ D.C.‚ January 14‚ 1914. The Randall’s moved to Detroit when Dudley was nine years old. Randall’s earliest recollection of composing a poem was when his mother took him to a band concert. Randall ’s poetry is illustrated by simplicity and realism. Randall’s date of birth was January 14‚ 1914 in Washington D.C. He was the son of Arthur George Clyde a (Congressional Minister)‚ and Ada Viola a teacher Randall. Randall’s
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HISTORY OF MODAKEKE Modakeke is a town in Osun State‚ South West Nigeria‚ with a population of close to three hundred thousand people.The Modakekes are also known as the "Akoraye" and have a history of valor at war and are prosperous farmers. With the fall of the Oyo Empire to the Fulani‚ the Yoruba kingdom was thrown into confusion and the inhabitants of the Old Oyo were dispersed and started new settlements all around Yoruba land.Fleeing southwards in search of new abodes after the fall of the
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DOES IFE AND YORUBA PRACTICE PRESERVE NIGERIAN CULTURE? INTRODUCTION The Yoruba religion is the religious belief and practice of the Yoruba people both in Africa (chiefly in Nigeria and Benin Republic)‚ and in the Americas. It has influenced and given birth to several Afro-American religions such as Santeria in Cuba and Candomble in Brazil. Though specific numbers are unknown‚ it is possibly the largest African born religion in the world
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hundreds of miles and developed sophisticated sculpture and rock painting and northwest coast of North America developed very differently 3. Agricultural Village Societies a) predominated in much of North America‚ in Africa south of the equator‚ in parts of the Amazon River basin and Southeast Asia b) their societies mostly avoided oppressive authority‚ class inequalities ( forested region in present-day southern Nigeria – 3 political) c) Benin: centralized state ruled by a warrior king
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the southeastern United States‚ have also begun to be included in the study of African art. The origins of African art lie long before recorded history. African rock art in the Sahara in Niger preserves 6000-year-old carvings. The earliest known sculptures are from the Nok culture of Nigeria‚ made around 500 BCE. Along
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country. The Yoruba homeland can be located in West Africa. It stretches from a savanna (grassland) region in the north to a region of tropical rain forests in the south. Most Yoruba live in Nigeria. However there are also some scattered groups in Benin and Togo‚ small countries to the west of Nigeria. Current census figures are difficult to obtain. The Yoruba population is estimated to be 5.3 million. The occupations and living conditions of the Yoruba in the north and south differ from one another
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MKT 382 | International Marketing | THE COUNTRY NOTEBOOK A GUIDE FOR DEVELOPING A MARKETING PLAN Name of Country : Benin Name of the Company: Pran Products: food items Date of Submission: 19/12/2012 Company Overview Pran Foods Limited “PRAN” is currently one of the most admired food & beverages brand among the millions of people of Bangladesh and other 82 countries of the world where PRAN Products are regularly being exported. ‘PRAN’ started its
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