And then the Amen corner took hold, re-enacting a form of group participation in worship that stemmed from years before the Greek chorus, spreading down through the African forest, overseas to the West Indies, and then here in Alabama.

Tracing the blues from its African roots among the slaves who were brought to this country and the West Indies, he stressed the close relationship between the early jazz forms and the music of the Negro churches.

They reproduce slowly either by bulb division or seeds and have gradually naturalized from plantings in urban and suburban areas throughout the lower elevations and coastal areas in much of the West Coast of the USA since these environments mimic their native South African habitat.

Most African Americans are of West and Central African descent and are descendants of enslaved Africans within the boundaries of the present United States.

Together with earlier arrivals to the United States ( including the indigenous American Indians, Hispanic and Latino Americans, particularly in the West, Southwest, and Texas ; African Americans who came to the United States in the Atlantic slave trade ; and early colonial migrants from Britain, France, Germany, Spain, and elsewhere ), these new waves of immigrants had a pro profound impact on national or regional cuisine.

They were from hundreds of tribes across West Africa, and brought with them certain traits of West African music including call and response vocals and complex rhythmic music, as well as syncopated beats and shifting accents.

John C. Cavadini has challenged this notion by attempting to take the Spanish Christology in its own Spanish / North African context in his important study, The Last Christology of the West: Adoptionism in Spain and Gaul, 785 – 820.

Benin is also a member of the Economic Community of West African States ( ECOWAS ).

Listed bonds were partly issued by companies and partly by governments of the West African Monetary and Economic Union ( UEMOA ).

* West African Agricultural Market Observer / Observatoire du Marché Agricole ( RESIMAO ), a project of the West-African Market Information Network ( WAMIS-NET ), provides live market and commodity prices from fifty seven regional and local public agricultural markets across Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d ' Ivoire, Guinea, Niger, Mali, Senegal, Togo, and Nigeria.

Burkina Faso's 15, 3 million people belong to two major West African cultural groups — the Gur ( Voltaic ) and the Mandé.

The Central Bank of the West African States ( BCEAO ) reports that about 41 microfinance institutions ( MFIs ) operate in the country, serving a total of 800, 000 customers.

Burkina Faso's relations with its West African neighbors have improved in recent years.

In September 2007, Economic Community of West African States ( ECOWAS ) intervened to attempt to resolve the dispute over two villages along the Benin-Burkina Faso border that remain from a 2005 ICJ decision.

Some etymologists believe it comes from a dialectal pronunciation of the Portuguese " bandore " or from an early anglicisation of the Spanish word " bandurria ", though other research suggests that it may come from a West African term for a bamboo stick formerly used for the instrument's neck.

Journal of West African Languages, 25 ( 2 ): 3 – 39.

* Journal of West African Languages: Narrow Bantu

" Bongo " is derived from a West African native name.

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This is significant as Africans came from a vast geographic region, the West African coastline stretching from Senegal to Angola and in some cases from the south east coast such as Mozambique.

The second noteworthy characteristic is that the country borders on very different parts of the African continent: North Africa, with its Islamic culture and economic orientation toward the Mediterranean Basin ; West Africa, with its diverse religions and cultures and its history of highly developed states and regional economies ; Northeast Africa, oriented toward the Nile Valley and Red Sea region ; and Central or Equatorial Africa, some of whose people have retained classical African religions while others have adopted Christianity, and whose economies were part of the great Congo River system.

Conversely, the islands do not receive the upwellings ( cold streams ) that affect the West African coast, so the air temperature is cooler than in Senegal, but the sea is actually warmer, because the orographic relief of some islands, as Sao Miguel with steep mountains, cover it with rich woods and luxuriant vegetation where the dense moisture condense and soak the plants, rocks, soil, logs, moss etc.

Beria, an ethnic Georgian, was the Presidium member for internal security affairs, and he was a strong supporter for minority rights and even supported reuniting East and West Germany to establish a strong, and neutral Germany between the capitalist and socialist nations.

In recent years, Poland has extended its responsibilities and position in European and Western affairs, supporting and establishing friendly foreign relations with both the West and with numerous European countries.

It is particularly active in West African regional affairs and in the African Union.

It is particularly active in West African regional affairs and in the African Union.

) affairs among the individual members, most of whom lived for considerable periods of time in the West Central 1 district of London known as Bloomsbury.

Until the period following World War II, governmental affairs in French West Africa were administered from Paris.

This electronic " window on the West " afforded Estonians more information on current affairs and more access to Western culture and thought than any other group in the Soviet Union.

In the beginning of his reign the affairs in Europe went from bad to worse and the whole West fell into disorder.

For example, many West Asian and Central Asian Muslims went to China to trade, becoming a preeminent force in the import and export industry, while some were even appointed as officers supervising economic affairs.

The Gambia plays an active role in international affairs, especially West African and Islamic affairs, although its representation abroad is limited.

For the Reformers of Canada West, led by George Brown, the end of what they perceived as French-Canadian interference in local affairs was in sight.

Historical novels ( Gone with the Wind ), contemporary affairs ( Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and Of Mice and Men ), love stories, classic novels ( Wuthering Heights ), a fantasy-musical ( The Wizard of Oz ), a tragedy ( Dark Victory ), a story of the Old West ( Stagecoach ), and a comedy ( Ninotchka ).

Another disturbing factor in connexion with native affairs was the revolt of the Hottentots and Hereros in German South West Africa.

Brown's pursuit of this goal of righting what he perceived to be a great wrong to Canada West was accompanied at times by stridently critical remarks against French Canadians and the power exerted by the Catholic population of Canada East over the affairs of largely Protestant Canada West, referring to the position of Canada West as " a base vassalage to French-Canadian Priestcraft.

The success of the Quebec Conference pleased Brown particularly by the prospect for the end of Lower Canadian interference in the affairs of Canada West.

" By this he may have meant either that he was of the view that English-speaking Canada West had emerged triumphant over French Canadians or that Confederation would put an end to French Canadian domination of the affairs of what would become the province of Ontario.

He declared himself " General Who Conquers the West " ( 征西將軍 ) and took over governance of Bing Province and control of military affairs in Liang Province.

To the degree compatible with the city's special status, however, they turned over control and management of city affairs to the West Berlin Senate and the House of Representatives, governing bodies established by constitutional process and chosen by free elections.

Earlier West German estimates of the number of people killed were considerably higher: according to the West German Ministry for Inter-German affairs in 1966, 513 people ( including 116 " functionaries of the SED regime ") were killed in the uprising, 106 people were executed under martial law or later condemned to death, 1, 838 were injured, and 5, 100 were arrested ( 1, 200 of these were later sentenced to an average of 5 years in penal camps ).

She is particularly recognized for her reporting on Palestinian affairs in the West Bank and Gaza, where she has also lived for a number of years.