BLACK PEOPLE, can you name any kinds of African foods or even speak an African language?

Question

i'm not racist or anything, so if you're white (or any other race) and reading this, please dont get mad.

i'm asking this question becasue i've noticed (or realized) that none of my family or most of the black people I know-know anything about our heritage, minus Kwanza. dont you think that we should know a lot more than we do now about our ancestors and our roots? I'm assuming we dont know now because the Europeans who took Africans from Africa stripped them of their culture, therefore losing their true identity.

once again, if you are not black, i hope you dont take this into offense.
no rude comments, please. thank you

Answer 1

This is an intelligent question, honestly asked by a young woman eager to learn her heritage, and anxious for all to know theirs. No one should be denigrating her for asking it. I applaud her for her query, and hope that someone with more knowledge can give her the information that she asks for.

Answer 2

Despite whether or not I can speak an African language or name foods is not how I define myself or my race for that matter. Black people are as diverse as other races are. If you truly look into our heritage, there are so many countless things that we do as a race that stem from our African ancestry that were brought to North America by our enslaved ancestors. Take an African American History class at a local university/college, and you'll see what I'm talking about. It would have seemed that because of slavery and the intent to remove our African mannerisms and history as a people, we would have lost those things that make us, US. But we didn't. Even those that don't want to identify themselves as such still do things that are of a historical nature. As much as we can do to encourage our future generations to know where we came from and keep traditions going, we will never lose ourselves. There is always room for growth and a better, more informative understanding...

Answer 3

In Africa there are hundreds of languages so when the white men took slaves they were seperated and because of the language barrier, weren't able to keep their culture in America. If u look at slaves that weren't sperated that spoke the same language that were taken to places like Brazil or Cuba, they still have their culture today. In both Brazil and Cuba, u can see the influence African cultures has had on their Country.
I'm Nigerian and I speak yoruba which is also spoken today on Brazil and Cuba but its called something else. Personally i think Afr.American 2day will know more about their culture if not for the language barrier centuries ago durin the slave time.

Answer 4

I'm not black, but I teach a unit on Africa to my special ed. Jr. high class and we cook an old West African dish called Benechin which all the kids just love. The original recipe calls for zebra or monkey meat and dried fish, (but we substitute chicken...I tell the kids the store was all out of zebra... LOL) It's a rice-based dish and very spicy. I even make it for my family at home and they love it too. At least my African/American kids can say they can make a real African dish. Here's the recipe, very easy and one pot friendly!!

Benechin

one cup cooking oil
one clove garlic
two onion, chopped
2-3 chicken breasts, diced
one zucchini, diced
1 Tbs red pepper flakes
2 cans stewed tomatoes
2 Tbs tomato paste
1 green pepper, diced
1 small cabbage, shredded
2 carrots diced
1 bay leaf
1 beef bouillon cube
4 cups cooked rice

heat the oil in a large pot and fry the garlic, onions for 1 minute on high heat. Add the chicken and stir fry until cooked through.

Add the zucchini and stir for a few minutes more.

Add the red pepper flakes and the diced green pepper. and cook for about 2 minutes more.

Add the cabbage, carrots, bay leaf and bouillon cube. Stir in the tomatoes (undrained) and tomato paste. bring to a boil. Stir in the rice. Simmer until all the vegetables are tender. YUM YUM

Answer 5

I know a few sentences in Yoruba and that is bcoz I married a Nigerian. I think that a lot of black americans look down on africans bcoz that is what they have been taught to do. However, blacks don't realize that they have a lot in common culturally with africans such as our family values(which are fading away). I just wish that blacks and africans can stand together and reshape africa into the fortress it once was.

Answer 6

No I don't speak an African language. I don't see the reason for it since I don't live in Africa. I'm satisfied knowing the things I do know. I know plenty about my history, heritage, and roots but I don't feel the need to adapt to every aspect of it. I know my true identity and I don't feel like I'm stripped of my culture.

Answer 7

My boyfriend is South African (actual Afrikaans) he speaks Afrikaans at domicile along with his parents and that i connect at cases. Maar my Afrikaans is baie sleg! as quickly as we are mutually we communicate English as my Afrikaans isn't appropriate and that i'm getting pissed off extremely if i won't have the ability to assert a particular notice yet he teaches me properly and that i'm recovering each and on a daily basis. We met in England yet that doesn't make a distinction to what language we communicate, as a count number of reality i'm no longer fluent in Afrikaans. i think i'm the project LOL yet like I say i'm getting to grasp further and extra. If it substitute into any opposite direction around, i'd even have needed him to learn my language. i like Afrikaans, it relatively is merely getting the dangle of it. additionally being contained in the united kingdom an outstanding variety of the time the place Afrikaans isn't spoken till you be attentive to South Africans, it relatively is extra durable to become familiar with the language. So whilst i pass to SA in December i'll attempt and merely communicate as a lot Afrikaans as i will.

Answer 8

Ca-ze-bo...I can't spell it, but it means party. Yes your right...I know the African countries, like Zimbabwe.

Answer 9

well im not black, but speak some Zulu and Afrikaans

Ngibonga kakhulu! :)

Answer 10

nope, theyre not truely african then, as i am partly american indian, but i dont worship trees or nothin, i mean, it doesnt matter about the past, but whats now