IAH 205 Lecture 30: IAH lecture notes (whole semester worth of notes)
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Language groups in africa: 4 large language groups (ordered from biggest to larges, niger congo (biggest) In east africa: need to lubricate with a lot of oils or else your skin will crack, vital source for human consumption, livestock, brings dust and wind, lots of planes can"t land. Africa"s majors rivers *extra credit on midterm: rain is key to africa"s climate, fall- april to may, winter- june to august, nile, niger, congo, senegal, orange and limpopo, zambezi. Lakes: lake malauwi, lake chad, lake mobuto/albert, lake. 2 parts: visible/human, non-visible/ non-human, *world aren"t separate; african world is cyclical* world. Non-visible- made up of good and bad spirts: + those who have died but are coming back, every african believes in god and this god is called several different names. Is a supernatural force that has male and female principles: depending on where you are in africa god is called different things.