History

Villages that traced their descent , or ancestry, through mother, not fathers

• Guarantee

• Community

• Matrilineal

• Extended family

families made up of several generations, including parents, children grandparents other relatives could be to 100 of members

• Griot

• Extended family

• Matrilineal

• Community

A large group with common values living in an area

• Spirituals

• Community

• Unique

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One of a kind

• Challenge

• Spirituals

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• Unique

so much a grassy plant that is natural source of sugar

• corn
• wheat
• marley

• sugarcane

to promise

• Guarantee

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• Community

• Griot

Traditional storytellers

• Griot

• Guarantee

• maintiain

• Swahili

to keep in the same state

• maintain

• Unique

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• Spiritual

a gospel song

• Spiritual

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• Challenge

• Oral history

Stories passed down from generation to generations

• community

• Griot

• Oral history

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