The African Sub-Saharan Global Villagea place in the world where your ancestor may have lived, the world is divided into cultural areas, each area designated as a global village, see the Global Villages Map. is in the second-largest continent and is divided into two distinct dominant cultural regions. The longest river on the planet flows through its boundaries—the northward-flowing great Nile River. Along this life-giving river, thousands of years ago, in a part of sub-Saharan Africa, a small population gathered along its shores to establish the world’s first global village.
The African global village is the longest and most documented area of human occupation, perhaps for 8,000 years or more. Many of its cultural attributes diffused northward long before such institutions as legal or statea state is an independent political entity with a centralized government and set geographical boundaries where control is exercised by police or military; a state claims the right to defend itself from both internal and external threats by use of force; a state may have many villages and cities and/or millions or billions of people as in China and India boundaries were thought of. The ancient Egyptian cultureculture is not genetically inherited, it is shared, learned, and dynamic- never static originated from the South, according to oral and written histories.
Throughout its long history, Sub-Saharan Africa has been predominantly black, and predominantly tribal. In the beginning, few outsiders ventured from North Africa to the South due to its geographic deterrents. The Sahara Desert, an area as large as the United States, is exceptionally uninviting to novice desert dwellers. Early hunter-gatherers in this primal global village, lived in small bands and developed their own unique ethnic, linguistic, and cultural diversities.
We know these early settlers must have made alliancesa close association or agreement for a common objective such as marriage, family, kinship, or defense More because they built great and powerful kingdoms, but their cultures were undiscovered and virtually unknown until the 19th century. The following video, about the ancient Nubian culture, describes it better:
Evolutionthe gradual development of something from a simple to a more complex form; in nature the process by which different organisms develop and diversify from earlier forms during the history of the earth; Darwin's theory of natural selection seeks to explain the process of evolution of all organisms works in cultural, social, and historical realms, as well as biological spheres. The Sub-Saharan African global village has evolved amidst endless tribal unrest and complex ethnic confrontations. Indigenous populations have endured forced acculturationacculturation is different from enculturation - and it may be forced as in a conquest of peoples, or it may be voluntary as a person voluntarily becoming acculturated while visiting or moving to another country More and cultural upheavals over centuries.
The most noted ones are the slave economies originating in the early seventh century by Arab traders infiltrating from the North, and the European occupations which followed a few centuries later. Sub-Saharan Africa’s first global village has contributed greatly to many of the other global villageson this site Global Villages are representatives of the 11 dominant culture regions, as designated by cultural geography maps, as we shall see.
Since we are all descendants of these ancient villagers, we should take note of the many aspects of cultural heritagesomething that comes or belongs to one by reason of birth; ancestors may be considered a kind of heritage; also traditions, achievements, beliefs, etc., that are part of the history of a group or nation; something passed down from preceding generations, which they have contributed to the world. Art from the African global village is unique and easily recognized, from sculptures, masks, rock artthe expressive or application of human creative skill and imagination in a visual form such as painting or sculpture, or in music, literature, or dance; art is created primarily for beauty and emotional power; and "holds art is anything the viewer or listener finds aesthetically pleasing.", ear studs, and anklets to creative body painting. Wooden Masks, Cave Art, and Wood Sculptures
The wooden mask, the cave art, and the wood carving showpieces are just a few examples of the artistic legacy left to us from the early Sub-Saharan Africa global villagers.
Foods that are becoming common among other global villages due to their amazing health and life-saving properties are also an inheritance we often don’t think about or even realize where or when they were first recognized as health agents.
Such well-known foods as watermelon, yams, black-eyed peas, okra, and sesame seeds and oil were first domesticated by our ancient Sub-Saharan African ancestors in their small village gardens.
Little-known grains indigenous to Africa are sorghum, amaranth, and tiff, which are now in grocery stores and farmer’s markets around the world. Even slaves, wherever their destinations took them, carried with them seeds, songs, and great stories that have been replanted and nourished to grow in other lands. Female slaves were great cooks, caretakers, and wet nurses to children. In the southern United States, plantation cooks’ legacies became what we call “soul foodany nutritious substance that people or animals eat or drink, or that plants absorb, in order to maintain life and growth” today. None of the “positives” from slaveryforcibly removing people from their homelands to sell them into slavery, enslavement of war captives, or slavery for prostitution - there are many forms of slavery, but also a condition where human beings are owned by other human beings, and by law are property More that are noted here condone the inhumane way humans have treated each other, but only to make us aware of the many ways culture is passed down through generationsthose people that are born and living at about the same time, regarded collectively; usually a generation within families is considered about 20 years – both good and bad.The songs and rhythms brought from the Sub-Saharan African global villages have infiltrated almost every music genre. These first amazing villagers have left their mark upon humanity in so many ways, flowing in all directions, not only over the vast continent of their homelands but into all the other global villages across the world. Our fast-paced and self-serving societies often forget that distant land inhabitants, no matter their origin, long ago paved our way into today’s world.