{"id":47622,"date":"2022-04-01T12:16:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-01T12:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/module-5-discussion-2-soninke-culture\/"},"modified":"2022-04-01T12:16:00","modified_gmt":"2022-04-01T12:16:00","slug":"module-5-discussion-2-soninke-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/module-5-discussion-2-soninke-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"Module 5 discussion 2 &#8211; soninke culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Overview:<\/p>\n<p>Gassire&#8217;s Lute reflects the Soninke heroic period of 500 BC.\u00a0 Yet the epic, of which this story is a part, comes from a period 1000 years later, (give or take a few centuries) during the growth and height of the Soninke empire of West Ghana . <\/p>\n<p>Instructions:<\/p>\n<p>As you discuss this story with your classmates you might consider the following questions in developing your posts: <\/p>\n<p>What does this story tell us about Soninke culture?\u00a0 <br \/>What values does it prescribe?\u00a0 <br \/>What can we learn about how the Soninke view themselves, their history, and cultural development? <br \/>What exactly is Wagadu?\u00a0 <br \/>What role does Wagadu play in the lives of this story&#8217;s characters?\u00a0 <br \/>Does her disappearance seem to be a penalty for wrongs committed?<br \/>Is there a progression in the disappearances that reflects in the human condition?<br \/>What do Wagadu&#8217;s children have to do for her to return? <br \/>Will the fifth Wagadu ever exist or will it always be a vision of the future?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overview: Gassire&#8217;s Lute reflects the Soninke heroic period of 500 BC.\u00a0 Yet the epic, of which this story is a part, comes from a period 1000 years later, (give or take a few centuries) during the growth and height of the Soninke empire of West Ghana . Instructions: As you discuss this story with your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}