AFSA01 Lecture : Notes for Africa In the World course .docx
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African in the world: lecture four (prof. neil)10/25/2010 12:51:00 pm: african writers, rewriting european writing, writing africa, assignment 2. North africa- arabic down to west africa and east africa. Alphabetic writing- arabic using alphabet so does english. Arabic and english writing are very related and have common roots. Arabic associated with islam and the quran penetrated all throughout africa giving it connotations. Areas where arabic people were not their west africa coast, central and south africa there was no exposure to alphabetic writing. Things fall apart writing is shown through leaving marks- way of communication. Alphabetic writing was not present in most of sub sahara africa. Other people in west africa sent messages through drums and musical instruments. Means of communication as not alphabetical literacy. Passing on culture, verbal culture- stories, proverbs, songs and many expressive ways using words. Just cause they used graphics and markings, doesn"t mean they didn"t have a rich culture.
