The African culture

The culture in Africa is varied and manifold, consisting of a mixture of countries with various tribes that have their own unique characteristics from the continent of AFRICA.
Expressions of culture are abundant within Africa, with large amounts of cultural diversity being found not only across different countries but also within single countries.
The westernized few, persuaded by American culture and Christianity, first denied African traditional culture, but with increase of African Nationalism, a cultural recovery occurred. The government of most African Nations encourage national dance and music groups, museums, and to a lower degree, artists and writers.

African Arts and crafts:
Africa has a rich tradition of arts and crafts.

Take for instance the Telokanda logo we can see that it has a lot of insight coming from the African culture Which portrays a lot. African arts and crafts find expression in a lot of wood carvings, brass and leather art works. African arts and crafts also include sculpture, painting, pottery, ceremonial and religious headgear and dress etc.
In many traditional arts and craft traditions in Africa, certain themes significant to those particular culture recur, including a couple, a woman with a child, a male with a weapon or animal, and an outsider or stranger. Couples may represent ancestors, community founders, married couples or twins. The couple theme rarely exhibits intimacy of men and women. The mother with the child or children reveals intense desire of the women to have children.

Sudan basket tray, tabar of weaved natural plant fibre.

Cuisine:

The various cuisines of Africa use a combination of locally available fruits, cereal grains and vegetables as well as milk and meat products. In central Africa, the basic ingredients are plantain and cassava. Fufu-like starchy foods(usually made from fermented cassava roots)as served with grilled meat and sauces.

Languages:
The continent of Africa speaks hundreds of language, and if dialects spoken by various ethnic groups are also included, the number is much higher. This languages and dialects do not have the same importance: some are spoken by only few hundred people, others are spoken by millions. Among the most prominent languages spoken are Arabic, Swahili and Hausa. Very few countries of Africa use single language and for this reason, several languages coexist, African and European. Some Africans speak various European languages such as English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Italian, German and Dutch.