African festivals! Have you ever learned about new festivals? Christmas, Easter and new years are celebrated as public holidays. Yam festivals and Homowo festivals are harvest festivals. Harvest festivals involve music, dancing and food. In all, African festivals only happen every year. Did you know that Christmas and Easter are public holidays in South Africa?
New years is celebrated outside with picnics, barbeques, and swimming. Easter and Christmas is celebrated with public holidays on Good Friday. New Year’s Day in South Africa is celebrated the way it is in many other contras except there is NO SNOW!!!!!! Indeed Christmas, New years, and Easter are celebrated in both America and Africa. A yam and Homowo festivals are harvest festivals. A yam festival is named after
the most common food. Yam is a sweet potatoes. African people have always had festivals at the time or the harvest. Homowo festivals are celebrated of a tradtional festival. The Ga people are from Ghana. Therefore two specific harvest festivals include Yam & Homowo. Most African festivals include dance, music, and food. An African festival is of a religious and has a lot of dancing and music. Each dance tells a story.
The stories range from about the good ghost who looks after the crops and scares away the bad ghosts. African people always presented before and after the feast. Furthermore, most of African festivals include; dancing, music and good food.
African people celebrate holidays and festivals similar to us. The public holidays in Africa are; New Years, Christmas, and Easter. Harvest festivals
are the Yam and Homowo and held annually. African festival include; music, dance, and food. In conclusion, African festivals and holiday are celebrated by many people.
Do you like art well if so you will enjoy viewing African paintings and learning about their history. African paintings began back in the days a while back. How much do you really like African art? Have you ever wanted to see African art it is so beautiful. In conclusion I think this will be a great story that I will walk you through.
Paintings The predominate art forms are masks figures which were generally used in religious ceremonies. The art of Benin arose from the needs of royal court. In this region the style of woodcarving is abstract. In
conclusion I think that the art is perfect and needs to stay the same as it is right now.
Dance Distortion is often used to emphasize features of spiritual signification. There dancing depends on if they live and if there is dancing stuff there. It depends on if they like to dance as their favorite hobby. In conclusion I think that the dancing is just fine and needs to stay the way it is.
Languages More than 1000 languages were spoken in Africa. Some types of languages depend on where they live at. Some languages depend on how they say them and stuff like that. In conclusion I think that the languages need to stay the way they are because they seem to like the languages that they have right now.
The dancing art in Africa is great the way it is. The language is just fine the way it is to. The painting I think is the best because you can make more designs out of it. The art in Africa is the best that I
have ever seen.
African Animals Have you ever thought about discovering new types of animals? Do you want to know how animals live in the wild? There are many types of dangerous animals in Africa. Have you wanted to know how animals grow up?
Africa has animals that
have not been seen anywhere else.
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African animals are very different than other animals. The zebra was born with only patches of fur on them. The reason why hyenas smile is because when they growl they laugh. Meerkats live all over Africa and they make their own land to live in. Some cougars are trained to protect humans from other dangerous species.
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ons have very big each other get meat but usually they tend to figh
Antelope made the African culture really inspired. The African culture use to draw inside of caves of antelopes. Africans use to be enemies with the antelope so they didn’t starve. Africans are now friends with the antelope and hunt down other animals. Some of the antelope have boundaries lines on their land.
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Otters like to help humans in Africa to make homes. The otter make bridges to have them crawl or walk across. Otters make long lines to keep off other animals. Otters live in holes or they live in long logs to be safe. Otters catch their own food and make piles to live by.
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