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shenderson6 · **on:** Jul 25, 2018

Explain the textbooks answer to the question When is an African?

What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

Have these two geographical areas remained culturally and historically isolated? Explain and give examples in your answer.

What will be an ideal response?

rekilledagain · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 25, 2018

Answer to Question 1

In everyday circumstances, people in Africa do not usually think of themselves as African' WOM citing Mphahele, 1962.
Identity arises from local connections of gender, age, kinship, place, language, religion, and work. Ethnicity comes into play only in the presence of people from a different group. For example, one becomes' . . . an African' only when among people from another continent, a white' when near to a black,' etc. WOM citing Senghor, 1967

Answer to Question 2

No. In spite of the uniqueness of these two areas, there has been much contact between the two, and also between these areas and outside regions/cultures.
For example, North Africa and the Horn of Africa have much in common with the Mediterranean and western Asia . . . Africa south of the Sahara has never been isolated from the Old World civilizations of Europe and Asia.