Spinoff: Cultural Connections between Africa and African Diaspora.

[Oceanicpuppy]

Spinoff from the Angola thread.
List any African Cultural Retentions you can think of.
Any and every cultural connection between African culture and African diaspora culture. Let get this thread off, I want to learn some stuff.

1. Lousiana word "Gumbo" derived from the West African word for "okra" = nkombo
They put okra in gumbo.

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gumbo

 

[KravenMorehead™]

Libation / Pouring out liquor for dead loved ones

http://www.africanholocaust.net/news_ah/libation.html
http://www.africaspeaks.com/reasoning/index.php?topic=3066.0
http://gif-central.blogspot.com/2013/05/pouring-out-liquor.html
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LibationForTheDead​

 

[Oceanicpuppy]

Libation​

Pouring out liquor for the dead​

http://www.africaspeaks.com/reasoning/index.php?topic=3066.0
http://gif-central.blogspot.com/2013/05/pouring-out-liquor.html
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LibationForTheDead
http://www.africanholocaust.net/news_ah/libation.html

Damn, I didn't know about this one.

 

[JBoy]

Call and response
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_and_response

 

[How Sway?]

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[onpo1nt]

 

[onpo1nt]

 

[Arris]

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this is brazilian but its a good listen

 

[Oceanicpuppy]

Shoulder shake


Girl in the black in the front in the beginning.

 

[Lewis Black]

Twerking

 

[Oceanicpuppy]

Great Doc on Blues

 

[BigMan]

Poly rhythms and bass in music

 

[Oceanicpuppy]

Haiti


Jamaica


Akara = Nigerian
Akla =Sierra Leone
Koosé= Ghana
Acarajé in Bahia =Brazil
Akara= Jamaica
America = Hushpuppies

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Brazil

America

 

[KravenMorehead™]

It never clicked that koosé and hush puppies are one in the same

just cause koosé is savory and eaten with porridge/koko, while hush puppies are sweet

but yeah

 

[Oceanicpuppy]

Haiti

Akara = Nigerian
Akla =Sierra Leone
Koosé= Ghana
Acarajé in Bahia =Brazil
Akara= Jamaica
America = Hushpuppies

Spoiler

Brazil

America

Wiki trying to give NA's all the hushpuppy credit.

"Native Americans were using ground corn for cooking long before European explorers arrived in the New World. Southern Native American culture (Cherokee, Chickasaw,Choctaw, Creek) is the cornerstone of Southern cuisine. From their culture came one of the main staples of the Southern diet: corn (maize), either ground into meal or limed with an alkaline salt to make hominy, also called masa, in a Native American technology known asnixtamalization.[1] Corn was used to make all kinds of dishes from the familiar cornbreadand grits to liquors such as whiskey and moonshine, which were important trade items. Cornbread was popular during the American Civil War because it was very cheap and could be made in many different sizes and forms. It could be fashioned into high-rising, fluffy loaves or simply fried for a quick meal."---Wikipedia