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Chapters: Guinea-Bissauan Music, Languages of Guinea-Bissau, National Symbols of Guinea-Bissau, Religion in Guinea-Bissau, Sport in Guinea-Bissau, Portuguese Language, Fula Language, Mandinka Language, Music of Guinea-Bissau, Esta É a Nossa Pátria Bem Amada, Flag of Guinea-Bissau, Emblem of Guinea-Bissau, Guinea-Bissau at the Olympics, Roman Catholicism in Guinea-Bissau, Islam in Guinea-Bissau. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 56. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: It was declared a third official language in Equatorial Guinea in 2007 to meet requiments for full membership of the CPLP. Portuguese (·) or língua portuguesa) is a Romance language that originated in what is now Galicia and northern Portugal. It is derived from the Latin spoken by the romanized pre-Roman peoples of the Iberian Peninsula (namely the Gallaeci, the Lusitanians, the Celtici and the Conii) around 2000 years ago. It spread worldwide in the 15th and 16th centuries as Portugal established a colonial and commercial empire (14151999) that spanned from Brazil in the Americas to Goa and other parts of India, Macau in China, Timor (north of Australia) and the five African countries that make up the PALOP lusophone space (Cape Verde, Guiné-Bissau, São Tomé e Príncipe, Angola and Mozambique). It was used as the exclusive lingua franca on the island of Sri Lanka for almost 350 years. During that time, many creole languages based on Portuguese also appeared around the world, especially in Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean. Today it is one of the world's major languages, ranked seventh according to number of native speakers (between 205 and 230 million). It is the language of about half of South America's population, even though Brazil is the only Portuguese-speaking nation in the Americas. It is also a major lingua franca in...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=23915 ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Countries and Their Cultures, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 843 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Covers the broad range of popular religious culture of the United States at the close of the twentieth century. Beliefs, practices, symbols, traditions, movements, organizations, and leaders from the many traditions in the pluralistic American community are represented. Also includes cults and phenomena that drew followers, such as Heaven's Gale and UFOs. ... Read more

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This is a study of the art and cultural history of the Baga people. The Baga villages are situated on islands in the mangrove swamps along the coast of Guinea between the northern border and the city of Conakry, just under the western-most tip of the African continent. Throughout their history, they have suffered the incursions of foreign peoples and their ideas, and decades of religious and political oppression. Much of their cultural heritage has been lost or confiscated, yet they have preserved their cohesion by reconstituting a spiritual culture based on ritual, ceremony and secrecy and centred upon the role of their youth. The book explains and analyzes the ceremonies, initiations and dramas now enacted by the Baga as a reflection of their history, in a re-examination of a people who have come to terms with their turbulent past. ... Read more