7th Grade World History Vocabulary
CHAPTER 13 EARLY AFRICAN CIVILIZATIONS
A spoken record of past events ORAL HISTORY
The storytellers of early West Africa were called a griot. http://www.listenall.com/dembo_jobarteh.html
You must judge a man by the work of his hands. In addition to stories, the griots recited PROVERBS – short sayings of wisdom or truth. They used proverbs to teach lessons to the people. To stay a long time in the water does not make you clean. Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped You must judge a man by the work of his hands. http://cogweb.ucla.edu/Discourse/Proverbs/African.html
KENTE A hand-woven, brightly colored West African fabric. The cloth was woven in narrow strips that were then sewn together. Kings and queens in West Africa wore garments made of kente for special occasions.