1. LESSON 3
THE CULTURE OF EAST
AFRICA
Bellringer: What is a “griot”?

2. Swahili
 Listen to Swahili
music
 http://www.youtube.
com/watch?v=DW3
PHmUmCBU
 Look at words
which come from
the Swahili
language
 Banana,
chimpanzee, jazz,
cola

3. Open to Page 74
 Read first page

4. Life
 Life in East Africa
 70 different
languages
 Cultural diversity
 Result of location
 Migration from other
parts of the continent to
East Africa
 Bantu Migrations
 Indian Ocean connects
East Africa; Arab
traders
 Mixture of people
produced Swahili
culture

5. Swahili Culture
 Swahili Culture
 Mixture of African and
Arab ancestry
 Live along Eastern coast
 Language as well as
culture
 Bantu language
 Contains Arabic words
 For 49 million, it is their first
language
 Official language of Kenya
and Tanzania

6. Religion
 Mixture of
Religions
 Diverse
 Islam and
Christianity
 Traditional
African
religions

7. Land
 Land
 Land is part of
culture
(farmers)
 Before
conquest, East
Africans did
not own land
 Families just
planted on the
same plot of
land they had
for centuries
 Division of
gender roles

8. Plantations
 Plantations
 European settlers brought
idea of privately owned
land
 Set up plantations (large,
cash crop farms)
 When East African
countries gained
independence, they split
up the plantations and
sold them off to citizens
 Inherited the idea of owning

9. Home
 Home
 Strong bond to the
land they grew up
on
 But, becoming more
urban
 Stilldon’t call the city
home
 Villages remain their
“home”
 Earn money in the city
and send it back

10. Read Article
 http://thecitizen.co.tz/business/-/20695-
significant-gas-discoveries-put-east-africa-on-
the-map
 Natural gas in East Africa

11. EXIT CARD
 Answer in packet
 How has Europe changed the culture in East
Africa?

12. Independent Work
 Read article independently
 http://traveltips.usatoday.com/culture-east-
africa-17227.html
 USA Today Travel
 Summarize; 2 paragraph