Black People : African Focused and Black Cultural Quizz

[mazimtaim]

Ok, I'm lost. I don't know any of the answers! With all of the people knowledgeable about African history here(Keita, Fine 1952, Mazimtaim, Queentswana, etc), no one, besides the author, can answer these questions?

 

[Knowledge Seed]

Bro Mazimtaim,

I'm not too keen on symbols. What does the above one mean?

 

[Alexandra]

Incidentally, I had started this quiz earlier on this evening, but got to a point where I could go no further because I realized that with these being West African based questions, my East African self was swimming in unfamiliar waters. I present my answers below and with them, one quiz question of my own to you Brother Blackbird,

What or how did the name ‘Mau Mau’ come about?

I really don't know the answer; neither do the Mau Maus.

Q. Who was the first president of Ghana?

Kwame Nkumrah. What a great man.

Q. What was the name of the independent state the Igbo people attempted to establish in post-colonial Nigeria?

Eh, pass

Q. Who was Richard Allen?

He was the first free slave and is considered a Black founding Father.

Q. By what name, during the Trans-Atlantic slave trade, was present-day Sierra Leone known as?


Freetown?

Q. What were the main crops cultivated in US under slave labor?

Cotton and sugarcane?

Q. What were the Code Noir?

the Black Code refers to laws that were passed with regard to slavery

Q. Where are the Sea Islands located and what is the name of the Black population inhabiting them?

Sea Islands you say?

Q. How did Ibo Landing receive it's name?

pass

Q. At what port, did the last reported slaveship in the US dock?

pass

Q. Who established the Peul (Hal'pulaar) kingdom of Macina?

pass

Q. What was the Sokoto Caliphate?

pass

Q. What king is Sunjata Keita famous for desposing?

pass

Q. What is the name of the Fon counterpart to the Yoruba Sango?

pass

Q. What language does the word "jazz" derive from?
pass

Q. What is the kora?

Type of music?


Q. Dada, the spider, comes from what group's cosmology?

pass

Thanks to everyone who has taken the quizz.... More to come... if you are enjoying this exercise...

Tuhwi

 

[Blackbird]

Incidentally, I had started this quiz earlier on this evening, but got to a point where I could go no further because I realized that with these being West African based questions, my East African self was swimming in unfamiliar waters. I present my answers below and with them, one quiz question of my own to you Brother Blackbird,

What or how did the name ‘Mau Mau’ come about?

I really don't know the answer; neither do the Mau Maus.

Sis A., I can only tell you what an elder once told me. I will later research the validity of it, but I was told it means, "watered down bulltet." Do not fret my East African sister, I'm not so swift on East African things as I am on West African ones. I'm learning though. Perhaps you can share with us...

Tuhwi

 

[mazimtaim]

Bro Mazimtaim,

I'm not too keen on symbols. What does the above one mean?

Brotha, I wouldn't worry about it. I wasn't heard in the Black Indian thread. I am pretty sure that I won't be heard now.

That's why I posted the link to the movie "The Business of FancyDancing".

The movie does our conversation. . .in the distinct American Indian style.

1. What is or is not African?
1a. What is or is not American Indian?

2. Do you have to be a traditionalist to be an African?
2a. Do you have to be a traditionalist to be an American Indian?

3. What are the day to day experiences of plain ordinary African people?
3a. What are the day to day experiences of plain ordinary American Indians?

The parallels don't work in this forum for some reason. Being an African is tied to the past. . .well. . .undoubtly, but it also tied to the present and to the future.

The conversation never starts because we have looked at things Eurocentrically. We believe that culture starts with traditions and history but not with the people who created the specific traditions and lived the specific history.

All of this is neither here nor there, in order to have a conversation, folks have to be willing to understand an opposing viewpoint. I thought I was being understood, but that lasted one for one post and one post only,