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**AFRICA-WEST**   Q: What is the culture in West Africa?  [|http://www.funci.org/en/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/MaliBV005175.jpg __The picture above is a family house made out of clay called a Adobe the reason I chose the picture because this is a very common house that people\families live in.__

A: Being able to speak more than one language is very important. In west Africa there are many Ethnic groups. In west africa they are famous for Cultural Diversity. They are not joined together by one religion or language. They all have diffret ways of living their life.

[|http://www.zionyouth.be/var/images/foto's%20tekst/Zion_Youth_project.jpg] School is very importan in West Africa they try very hard to have a good education program.

Why does West Africa have a verity of languages?

http://www.crise.ox.ac.uk/images/west%20africa.jpg

I chose this picture because it shows the diversity in clothing and people. I thing that has to do with my paragraph because it show some of the many typs of people there.

People speaking more than one language is very common in Western Africa because 17 languages make up the region. This region also has hundreds of ethnic groups. Because of the many languages people are often forced to learn many because there shop owners and such all speak different languages. Question: How has urbanization affected the cultures of West Africa? Answer: In West Africa, family life is changing. More people are moving from rural areas to urban areas, or cities. Many young men come to West Africa’s cities to find jobs. The woman often stays in the rural areas to raise the children and farm the land. The men visit time to time. West Africans still keep strong family ties. People still pass their history, values, and traditions on to the young. To keep the culture alive, the elders teach the young all the stories, fables, etc. about the history of Africa. Griot passes this oral generation to another. “The young can’t teach traditions to the old.”

 http://keetsa.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/urbanpovlarge.jpg I chose this picture because; it shows the urban areas of Africa. Here it shows the cities of Africa where the men work.  http://www.asapafrica.org/uploaded_images/blog10photo2769054.jpg I chose this picture because, it shows where the woman raise, and farm the land compared to the city where the man works. Resources: Typed and pasted from word Images: Google Answers/ questions: Eastern Hemisphere textbook.