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  1. Hi everyone.
  2. My name is ELISA Macaw and today I will be
  3. discussing and analysing West African culture, The invasion of the
  4. Portuguese and the effects of that invasion.
  5. I've culture is one of the oldest cultures in West
  6. Africa. It developed beginning around the 18th century along the
  7. *** River, now known as Nigeria.
  8. By 1100.
  9. They produced highly naturalistic sculptural commemorative portraits in both clay
  10. and stone.
  11. An example, I've brass work is in this picture of
  12. the head of an oni or king.
  13. The head was the home of the spirit, the symbol
  14. of the king's capacity to organize the world and to
  15. prosper. I've culture dependent on its kings heads for its
  16. own welfare.
  17. The people of Benin had a massive system of walls
  18. and moats that by the 15th century would become the
  19. world's largest human built earthwork.
  20. Archaeologist Patrick Darling claimed that they total some 10,000 miles
  21. in length and some 4-5 times the length of the
  22. main great wall of China.
  23. Similar to the of culture.
  24. The head of a king known to the Bannon as
  25. Oba was the home of the spirit and the symbol
  26. of the abyss capacity to organize the world and to
  27. prosper. African music typically consists of a line of melody
  28. without harmony and is generally communal in nature.
  29. It encourages a sense of social cohesion by promoting group
  30. activity. One common example of african music is con response
  31. music or a collar or soloist raises the song in
  32. the community chorus response to it.
  33. Another example is talking drums, which is performed with three
  34. types of bata drum, which imitate the three tones of
  35. the Yoruba language.
  36. The Yoruba language is tone based and they reproduce their
  37. speech in this method of musical signaling.
  38. In ritual drumming, the drums are played for the Yoruba
  39. gods and are essentially Prezi poems to those gods.
  40. Prezi poems are poems read by poets who are praising
  41. something and are believed to gain influence over it this
  42. far of music is of polyrhythmic structure and exists to
  43. this day in offbeat practices of Western jazz scene.
  44. In the picture at the bottom, the Portuguese exploitation of
  45. african labor was financed principally by a florentine banker, together
  46. with a group of financiers from Genova.
  47. Over the course of four centuries, the Portuguese stole and
  48. transported millions of Africans across the atlantic.
  49. On the middle passage, a triangular trade system, from europe
  50. to africa, africa to the Americas and the Americas to
  51. europe. As seen in the map, the Portuguese picked up
  52. thousands of small objects they termed fatty so or fetish
  53. an object believed to have magical powers and started trading
  54. them. But this trade soon turned into slaves.
  55. In 1551, they began shipping thousands of more slaves to
  56. Brazil to work in the sugar plantations, where they chained
  57. them, branded them and often work them to death.
  58. The institution of slavery had the most dramatic impact on
  59. the Portuguese and Western culture.
  60. The Bannon culture has remained more or less intact since
  61. the time of the encounter.
  62. One huge method that West Africa did in maintaining cultural
  63. condition is performed dances.
  64. The mask dance is one of their most popular in
  65. which it unites the creative efforts of sculptors, dancers, musicians
  66. and others.
  67. This video shows the dog unmasked dance, the band, a
  68. dance is their most performed basque dance, where each mask
  69. has a particular name that is generally the word for
  70. the ancestor or supernatural being that the mask helps to
  71. make manifest.
  72. This dance is believed to possess agency and helps to
  73. affect change in the article on Cultural hegemony, cultural appropriation
  74. and blackness.
  75. The author Brittany Dennis scrutinizes cultural hegemony and appropriation of
  76. African culture and goes into depth on the root of
  77. the problem.
  78. Dennis claims that cultural hegemony is the mechanism through which
  79. cultural appropriation goes unnoticed by so many members of the
  80. dominant class, The dominant class being white people.
  81. When cultural appropriation occurs, it is usually of an oppressed
  82. group of people that is taken on by a dominant
  83. group and that dominant group is often unaware of the
  84. injustices involved when adopting an oppressed groups culture, when we
  85. allow this to happen, the overall message is still the
  86. same. The white culture remains prominent and celebrated in features
  87. of other cultures are ostracized and exaggerated.
  88. Dennis states cornrows and similar hairstyles is one feature that
  89. is often too culturally appropriated.
  90. Hair is a part of one's presentation and an african
  91. culture. It reflects status, gender, ethnic origin, leadership, role, personal
  92. taste or place in the life cycle.
  93. To conclude the invasion of the Portuguese into West Africa
  94. had a major effect not only on the African cultures,
  95. but on modern day society.
  96. As a society, we have to be more assertive, understanding
  97. and respectful of another's culture.
  98. What you may not find offensive, another might.
  99. The solution to the problem is to educate oneself and
  100. to speak on issues like cultural appropriation or, as dentists
  101. had stated, the problem goes unnoticed.