HISTORY
THE MUSLIM WORLD AND AFRICA
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They smuggled valuable gold across the Sahara and established vital trade routes with the Mediterranean.
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Because secret societies were restricted to females, they permitted women to have an invisible, but powerful, role in political affairs within African societies.
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Because their membership cut across lineage divisions, they acted to maintain stability within the community and diminish clan feuds.
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They served as a disruptive and revolutionary force in African society forestalling the formation of larger states.
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They brought the practice of slavery to the African continent which led to the eventual adoption of Christianity by a majority of African tribes.
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Detailed explanation-1: -In Africa, many studies have shown that kinship is the articulating principle of social organization as a whole, and the basis of social integration (Hill 1977; Schapera 1953). 1 According to Bell (1987, 52), Kinship relations were the main relation of production. They were also the juro-political and ritual relations.
Detailed explanation-2: -What social structures and cultural traditions did many early African societies have in common? Many African societies developed village based cultures built around clans or families. Other groups took part in age-sets. They also maintained their sense of identity through oral traditions and the arts.
Detailed explanation-3: -Nubia flourished as a society because of its? helping to establish a trade network to India and China. Why did Bantu-speakers migrate south instead of north? Desertification created a barrier to the north.