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- 1271: Voodoo
- ... people of Benin and it is the mother tongue of voodoo. In Fon the root word for voodoo is vodoun that means spirit or god. Voodoo had its origins over 350 years ago in West Africa. In fact Allada, a small town in Benin, is often called the 'cradle of voodoo'. In 1996, January 10th became National Voodoo Day in honor of its followers that make up 65% of Benin population ...
- 1272: Poem "Lucifer in the Starlight": New Meanings and Ideas
- ... hubris the devil really has, for the reader can just see Lucifer savoring over the masses entering his vile domain. Then, Lucifer peers at the most extreme places in the world, describing the sands of Africa. The Sahara desert with its barren, endless, undeveloped sand can seem like hell to anybody. Satan identifies and likes it, cherishes it, for it is like his home. Then Meredith contrasts the sand with the ...
- 1273: Jimi Hendrix: A Reflection Of A Man Through His Music
- ... him was the almost epic-length blues number “Voodoo Chile.” “Voodoo Chile” is Hendrix statement of his own heritage, his refusal to deny himself and, as he said it, “dedicated to our friends from West Africa”. Hendrix biographer Charles Shaar Murray said this of “Voodoo Chile” in his book Crosstown Traffic: “The relationship between the blues and Voodoo as a hold-over from West African religious and mystical practice and philosophy ...
- 1274: Louis Armstrong
- ... the All-Stars for the rest of his career". (Combo: USA, Eight Lives in Jazz) In 1955 he made his first concert tour of Europe since the early 1930s. "Another tour followed taking him to Africa, which was filmed by the CBS "See It Now" unit and became both a television profile and feature film documentary 'Satchmo The Great'. The international tours in the political context of the Cold War earned ...
- 1275: Jazz
- ... is over 100 years old, probably making it one of the longest, lasting forms of music so far. Jazz was not created by Europeans, it was created by Afro-Americans who descended from ancestors in Africa. These Afro-Americans learned how to play these European instruments well, including percussion or the drum set, trumpet, cornet, saxophone, trombone, tuba, and many other instruments. They wanted to show what they were like to ...
- 1276: Maroons
- ... aftermath of the treaties, plantation agriculture in Jamaica boomed dramatically. Jamaica remained a slave society, however. The revival of plantation agriculture following the Leeward and Windward Treaties led to the expanded importation of slaves from Africa. Thus the same forces that had created Maroon resistance soon led to insurrections by newer generations of African slaves. The fires of black rebellion continued, culminating in the famous slave rebellion of 1831, involving some ...
- 1277: The Atomic Bomb anad Nuclear Bombs
- ... atmosphere, under the earth, and under the sea. Only the United States, Russia, Great Britain, France, and the People's Republic of China admit to possessing nuclear weapons. Other nations, however, including Israel and South Africa, are thought to have them as well, or to have the capability to assemble them quickly.
- 1278: Chocolate History And The Growing Of Cocoa
- ... thrive. Cultivation, harvesting and curing ready for transport to chocolate manufacturing countries is a labour intensive business as mechanisation has still proved impractical. Cadbury Limited buys its high quality cocoa beans from Ghana in West Africa and Malaysia and they are processed at the highly technical Cadbury cocoa factory in Chirk North Wales.
- 1279: The Baswate Tribe
- ... their are many reasons for this. One reason is that their religion demands this way of life. The other reason is that sources of nutrition are often hard to come by in the deserts of Africa, and human flesh is often their only source of protein. Small sand bugs and insects are the main source of the tribes food and by eating one person in the tribe, it allows them to ...
- 1280: Observation of A Meal
- ... of the lower Niger River and its adjoining territories. The population is estimated at around 30 million people. This area probably has the highest population density compared to any other area on the continent of Africa. The Igbo language – like other Nigerian languages – has many variations. There is the Owerri-Ngwa-Umuahia, the Onitsha-Awka, the Enugu-Abakaliki, the Orlu-Okigwe, and the Opobo-Ikwere variation. Igbo people are predominantly Christians ...
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