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West Africa Culture Questions -How is the Culture of West Africa unique? Answer-The way that West Africa's culture is unique is that it is very Culturaly Diverse and has hundreds of Ethnic groups.

-What is one of the strongest bonds between West Africans? What does it mean and what are the levels of it? Answer-One of the strongest bonds between West Africans is kinship which is a family relationship and the levels are a nuclear family or the immediate family (parents, siblings) and the next level is an extended family which is the other relatives (cousins, aunts, uncles etc.) and sometimes they go beyond that into clans.   Vocabulary Terms Nuclear Family- A family that consists of the Parents, Siblings and Children Cultural Diversity- A wide variety of cultures



Information Sources "World Maps." __My Travel Guide__. 2005. 29 Feb. 2008 <[|http://www.mytravelguide.com/g/maps/West-Africa-map.gif>.] http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.phila.k12.pa.us/schools/harding/Images/Diversity_Hands.gif&imgrefurl=http://www.phila.k12.pa.us/schools/harding/hardingpodcastpage.html&h=407&w=500&sz=56&hl=en&start=7&tbnid=9cRPKozvlHajdM:&tbnh=106&tbnw=130&prev=/images%3Fq%3DDiversity%26gbv%3D2%26hl%3Den __World Explorer Eastern Hemisphere__

Question -What is the bigest bonds a West african has

Answer The strongest bond a Western African has is kinship which means family realation. The next strongest realtionship is nuclear family which isparents or children. and the next is Extended family which include other realtives such as grandparents aunts uncles etc. most Western Africans are extended families.

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vocab cultural diversity-- many different cultures wide variety.

World explorer Eastern Hemisphere http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/West-Africa