exam 3 Flashcards
Nok Civilization
Terra Cotta Statues
elongated face and chin resting on knee (single leg)
eyes flat at top curved at bottom
Penis Sheaths
no funerary context to their sculptures
pierced oraphices
Rondawel
Rondawel homesteads – early sotho homes, round, oriented toward the rising sun, it’s a womb like structure if someone dies in the house they are carried out head first (birth),
Pulata
Pulata = rectilinear modern houses, murals on the walls, could be European influence
Ndebele
Ndbele – two branches, bead makers and another branch that moved around a lot and went to war with white settlers. Blossoming of culture as a result of persecution. They were separated into work camps and it was bad
Early beads were small and white, now they are larger and multicolor. Brides wore long beaded trains that trail them as they walk
Leopard skin was worn by kings, lots of beaded hoops around necks and ankles, brass rings around the neck and knees for women (zila) given by a husband to a wife as a sign of faithfulness
Blankets are also important, women are known as people of the blankets. A woman wout a blanket is not a woman
Rectangular aprons are worn for initiation, marriage, and child birth, they are beaded aprons with tassels and leather flaps.
Men build the homes and women decorate them.
Litema
Litema – four techniques of decoration, painting, mosaic, molding, engraved patterns.
Sotho
group of peoples occupying the high grasslands of southern Africa. high plateau is the high bell
Negritude
political movement started in France 1934, Léopold Sédar Senghor as “the sum of the cultural values of the black world as they are expressed in the life, the institutions, and the works of black men.”
Pan-Africanism
Pan Africanism(european or american?) – similar to negritude. All africans share a common culture. the idea that peoples of African descent have common interests and should be unified
Leopold Senghor
Léopold Sédar Senghor was a Senegalese poet, politician and cultural theorist who was the first president of Senegal. Ideologically an African socialist, he was the major theoretician of Négritude.
Kwame Nkruma
Kwame Nkrumah PC was a Ghanaian politician, political theorist, and revolutionary. He was the first Prime Minister and President of Ghana, having led the Gold Coast to independence from Britain in 1957.
Ecole de Dakar
The School of Dakar is a movement of artistic revival born in Senegal at the dawn of independence between 1960 and 1974 [ 1 ] , encouraged by the Senegalese president Léopold Sédar Senghor within the framework of negritude [ 1 ] , and put implemented by personalities such as – among many others – Papa Ibra Tall and Pierre André Lods .
Nsukka group
Nsukka group – embrace independence as a new era – we need a synthesis of old and new
- The Nsukka group was known for working to revive the practice of uli and incorporate its designs into contemporary art using media such as acrylic paint, tempera, gouache, pen and ink, pastel, oil paint, and watercolor. Although traditionally uli artists were female, many of the artists of the group were male. Some were poets and writers in addition to being artists.
Oshogbo school
Between 1962 and 1966, after Nigeria gained Independence from Britain, a group of artists emerged in the Yoruba town of Oshogbo in southwestern Nigeria. They participated in art workshops conducted by expatriates, particularly Susanne Wenger, Ulli Beier and Georgina Beier. The artists combined traditional subject matter and stories with Western artistic media and techniques.
Apartheid
Legal system of enforced racial segregation – no interacial marriage – population registration act –
Townships
Townships – kinda like a ghetto or low income area – shitty housing for the masses
