https://padlet.com/carolynb254/xd3ncnqbnapl By: Carolyn Berntson, Christa Manning, Coltyn Shoffner, Jori Newman en-us 2019-03-15 15:55:30 UTC 2025-11-04 00:40:15 UTC hello@padlet.com carolynb254 https://padlet.com/carolynb254/xd3ncnqbnapl/wish/341824272 This a form of West African art called pottery it is made by mining and preparing clay, blending it with water, pebbles, sand old pottery, dried grass, dung and rice.This is done to decrease the shrinkage of that occurs during the drying and firing process. The clay is then dried, fired and glazed.]]> 2019-03-15 16:02:45 UTC https://padlet.com/carolynb254/xd3ncnqbnapl/wish/341824272 coltyns286 https://padlet.com/carolynb254/xd3ncnqbnapl/wish/341825858 In western Africa there are main different dances some names of dances are kapanolog,Moribayasa,Eskista]]> 2019-03-15 16:06:02 UTC https://padlet.com/carolynb254/xd3ncnqbnapl/wish/341825858 carolynb254 https://padlet.com/carolynb254/xd3ncnqbnapl/wish/341826540 2019-03-15 16:07:29 UTC https://padlet.com/carolynb254/xd3ncnqbnapl/wish/341826540 carolynb254 https://padlet.com/carolynb254/xd3ncnqbnapl/wish/341827345 West Africa has many animals such as the Elephant, Rhino, Giraffe, Hippopotamus, Wildebeest, Lemur, Zebra, Green Mamba, Spotted hyena, Cheetah, African civet, African palm civet and many many more]]> 2019-03-15 16:09:18 UTC https://padlet.com/carolynb254/xd3ncnqbnapl/wish/341827345 carolynb254 https://padlet.com/carolynb254/xd3ncnqbnapl/wish/341834465 https://study.com/academy/lesson/music-of-west-africa-rhythms-dance-instruments-characteristics.html ]]> 2019-03-15 16:23:36 UTC https://padlet.com/carolynb254/xd3ncnqbnapl/wish/341834465 carolynb254 https://padlet.com/carolynb254/xd3ncnqbnapl/wish/342470673 There are many West African Folktales, one animal that appears in most West African Folktales in the tortoise. Here is an example of a West African Folktale called "The tortoise goes to a feast in the sky"  
There was a famine in the animal kingdom and Ijapa the tortoise was finding that food was hard to come by. However, he found out that all the birds in the forest were preparing for the great annual bird feast in the sky and those who had been lucky enough to attend this annual event could testify to the abundance of food at the feast. Since the feast took place in the sky, only the birds could attend. But Ijapa the tortoise was not one to give up so easily. He went to every bird and borrowed a feather making up one excuse or the other. He glued all these feathers to his back and all over his body and soon, he was the most colorful bird you had ever seen. 
On the day of the feast, Ijapa the tortoise joined the other birds to make the trip to the great feast in the sky. The other birds could not recognize this strange colorful bird and asked him who he was. He said his name was ?all of us?. 
When it was time for the feast, all the food was laid out on a table. Ijapa the tortoise asked, ?who does this food belong to?? and all the birds answered ?all of us?. Ijapa the tortoise said, ?that is me, my name is ?all of us?? and he ate all the food while the birds had none. The birds were so angry that they grabbed ?all of us?, but as they grabbed him, his feathers would come off until the tortoise was revealed. To punish him, the birds decided to leave him in the sky, they would not fly him back to land. Tortoise begged the birds to give a message to his wife. He asked his wife to lay out as many mattresses as she could find so he could have a soft landing. The birds who were still angry asked his wife to bring out all the furniture in the house and that was what she did. 
The tortoise jumped from the sky, but instead of landing on a soft mattress, he landed on wood furniture and his shell broke into many pieces. His wife collected these pieces and glued them together and that is why the tortoise does not have a smooth shell. 
This story was found on this website http://www.allfolktales.com/wafrica/tortoise_goes_to_feast_in_sky.php ]]> 2019-03-18 15:50:04 UTC https://padlet.com/carolynb254/xd3ncnqbnapl/wish/342470673