Culture of Africa

In out humanities class we read two stories ("Fafi's Sheep" and "The Three Tests") and we are are suppose to write a blog post about what we learned about their culture after we read to story.

Since lots of people that live in Africa can not read or write words, they tell stories. The stories are usually being passed down from grandfather to father then to children.

In the first story ("The Three Tests"), a prince went traveling around the ocean to search for his brothers. On his way, he met lots of friends. There are lots of supernatural occurrences in the story too. The main character was able to see genies. The next story was about a boy who never listens to anybody. One day, his pet sheep escapes and he was able to lear his lesson to listen to advices.

Most of the people in Africa were poor. They lived in communities so the chance of getting attacked by other people or animals will be less. The jobs there are mostly selling products. Instead of horses, they race with goats and sheep. People there live in small round huts made of mud and grass. It was not a rare sight for a child to get beaten by a stick. The clothing they wore was very simple, it was rare to see a person wearing jewelry or precious stones.

There are lots of other stories. Some about daily life and some about adventures, but all the stories I have read so far have included a moral.