Extended families

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Vocabulary 3.3
Extended families Matrilineal Queen Dahia
al-Kahina Queen Nzinga Oral history Africa
Diaspora- page 235
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Vocabulary 3.3
Extended families - families made up of several
generations - family was the core of African
society Matrilineal - tracing your descent
through your mom rather than dad (Bantu did
this) Queen Dahia al-Kahina - led the fight
against Muslim invasion of her kingdom Queen
Nzinga - battled the Portuguese slave traders in
an effort to stop them from enslaving her
people Africa Diaspora - the spread of African
people and culture around the world
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Life in Medieval Africa
Main Idea

• Africa is huge but its people shared many common
  beliefs

Family was the foundation of African society.
Extended families lived together (clan). It could
include from 10 to 100 family members.
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Life in Medieval Africa

• Many villages, including the Bantu, traced their
  families through the mother (matrilineal). When a
  woman married she went to live with her husbands
  family and husbands gave gifts like cattle,
  tools, goats, cloth to the wifes family.
• Children were cherished and seen as link to past
  and guarantee for future. Many believed ancestors
  could be reborn in a child.

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Life in Medieval Africa
Education

• Children learned clan history and skills from the
  family and other villagers. In W. Africa griots
  (storytellers) helped teach the village oral
  history by telling stories pasted on from
  generation to generation. Most stories had a
  lesson about living.

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Life in Medieval Africa
Role of Women

• Women in Africa were mostly wives and mothers
  with men having more rights and control over the
  family.
• There were some exceptions - some were soldiers
  and some were legendary rulers
• Queen Dahia al-Kahina who lead a fight against
  Muslim invasion and Queen Nzinga battled the
  Portuguese slave traders to stop them from taking
  her people.

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Slavery
Main Idea

• African slave trade changed when Muslims and
  Europeans started taking captives from the
  African continent

In 1441 a Portuguese sea captain took the first
African slaves to Portugal.
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Slavery
Slavery has existed throughout the world for a
long time. It did not begin with the African
slave trade. Africans had war captives that they
kept as laborers (workers) but would release them
for a fee. They also enslaved criminals and their
enemies. These slaves could earn their freedom.
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Slavery
The Quran forbade Muslims to enslave other
Muslims so when Muslim merchants began trade with
Africans they began to trade goods for non-Muslim
Africans. When Europeans came to W. Africa a new
market began. Europeans gave Africans guns to
raid villages to get slaves to sell. Many
Europeans who first planned to sell gold from
Africa quickly changed their plans and joined the
slave trade.
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Slavery
The first African slaves went to Portugal and
then traveled with the Portuguese as their free
labor. Portugal became the worlds leading
supplier of sugar thanks to the skills and labor
of African slaves. Other Europeans followed
Portugals example and by the late 1400s
Europeans brought Africans to work the sugar,
tobacco, rice and cotton plantations in America.
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African Culture
Main Idea

• African slaves developed a new culture that
  influenced many other cultures

When slaves were stolen from their country they
took their culture with them. This is called
Africa Diaspora. Africans kept their memories and
culture and passed it on from generation to
generation.
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African Culture
African art told stories or had a religious
meaning or use. Cave paintings are the earliest
known form of African art. African music and
dance was a part of most everyday life including
religion and everyday tasks. They believed dance
lets spirits express themselves.
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African Culture
Slaves used music to remind them of their
homeland. Songs of hardship became the blues and
songs of hope, faith and freedom became gospel
Other forms of African based music is jazz, rock
and roll and rap