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Ideas for holding an African and Caribbean night

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Contents

This year, World Mission’s focus is Africa and the Caribbean, celebrating Life in Fullness.

Hosting an Africa and Caribbean Evening or event with your congregation is an opportunity to

discover, learn, and share in a time of fellowship together. This could take many forms. These

resources are intended to be dipped in and out of depending on what shape your event will take.

Contents

3. Fair Trade (pages 3 -4):Host an event that centres around Fair Trade

(includes recipe ideas and useful websites)

5. Watch (Page 5-6): Have a film night

(We’ve provided a list of films that you may like to choose from and a short synopsis on each

one)

7. Make and Create (page 7): A few crafty ideas

8. Recipes: Get cooking and baking with recipes that provide a flavour of Africa and the

Caribbean (use fair trade ingredients where available)

10. Music: A few ideas to get you started from CH4 and a tradition Ghanaian tune

12. Hold a One World Night: An opportunity to focus on global issues

13. Games: Try out a range of games

15. Quiz: Test your knowledge of Africa and the Caribbean

(Questions and answer sheets are included)

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Fair Trade

Host an event which centres on fair trade in Africa and the

Caribbean, or you could make it part of a broader Africa and

Caribbean evening. Much of what we buy in the UK is dependent

upon producers and miners in other parts of the world. Our support

of Fair Trade is therefore crucially important to the lives and

livelihoods of people across Africa and the Caribbean, and indeed

across the world.

http://www.fairtrade.org.uk/

Here are some fair trade ideas for your Africa and Caribbean evening:

Have a fair trade food tasting session. You could pick one type of food (such as chocolate, or

coffee, or fruit) and give people the opportunity to taste all the different fair trade varieties

of that one food. Or, your fair trade food tasting could be taken from the wide variety of fair

trade food and drinks available, giving people the chance to see a taster of the extent of fair

trade products available.

You could host a fair trade wine-tasting evening.

Decorate the event with fair trade resources. See the Fair Trade Foundation website for

ideas and resources for holding events.

http://www.fairtrade.org.uk/resources/default.aspx

Have a fair trade film and discussion evening. Watch Black Gold, the powerful documentary

film about the injustice in the global coffee industry, followed by a discussion with fair trade

refreshments.

Have a fair trade stall at the event. If you regularly have a stall in your church on a Sunday,

you could set it up for the Africa evening; you could even have a wider range of stock on your

stall especially for the event. And if you do not have a stall in your church, think about having

one for the event or even think about starting one in your church on a regular basis! See the

Traidcraft website:

- Traidcraft online shop website:

http://www.traidcraftshop.co.uk/

- Traidcraft’s ‘sell products to others’ webpage

http://www.traidcraft.co.uk/get_involved/use_or_sell_fair_trade/fair_trader

Have a presentation/information element to your evening. You could use short film clips

through the evening to inform people about fair trade and also about the injustice in much

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of the world’s other trade. The Fair Trade Foundation has a wide variety of fair trade related

film clips:

- http://www.fairtrade.org.uk/resources/films/default.aspx

Prepare food using fair trade recipes. You could have a fair trade bake stall, serve desserts,

or even a whole meal!

- There are many fair trade recipes on the Fair Trade Foundation website(and they’re

free to use):

http://www.fairtrade.org.uk/products/recipes.aspx

http://www.fairtrade.org.uk/gobananas/bananas_fun/recipes.aspx

- Divine chocolate have a selection of chocolate based recipes from their website(free

to use):

http://www.divinechocolate.com/uk/recipes

- Or, you could adapt recipes you already use, replacing the ingredients with their fair

trade equivalents wherever possible!

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Watch Pray the Devil Back to Hell (2008)

- Certification (UK): 12

- A powerful documentary film about Liberian women

joining together to end the civil war in their country.

- As well as being available to purchase as a DVD, Pray the

Devil Back to Hell can also be purchased and downloaded

in a digital version via itunes.

- http://praythedevilbacktohell.com/index.php

The Gods Must be Crazy (1980)

- Certification (UK): PG

- A comedy film in which a coke bottle falls from the sky and lands in the Kalahari

Desert where it is found by people whose lives are completely detached from the

rest of the world. The film follows their journey to return the bottle to the Gods,

from whom they believe it to have come.

Invictus (2010)

- Certification (UK): 12

- A powerful film based on the real events of 1995 in South Africa, looking at Nelson

Mandela’s rise to Presidency amidst the Rugby World Cup held in South Africa.

Black Gold (2007)

- Certification (UK): U

- A powerful documentary film which looks at the injustice in the global coffee trade.

- http://blackgoldmovie.com/

Children’s films:

Madagascar (2006)

- Certification (UK): PG

- An animated film which follows the journey of a group of animals from a New York

zoo to the African island of Madagascar.

Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (2009)

- Certification (UK): PG

- The follow-up to the first ‘Madagascar’ film where we join the same group of

animated animals on their adventures in an African animal reserve.

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Cool Runnings (1994)

- Certification: PG

- Based on a true story, this comedy film follows the journey of the Jamaican bobsled

team to the 1998 Winter Olympics.

Africa United (2010)

- Certification (UK): 12

- A fictional film which follows the journey of a group of

children who travel 3000 miles from Rwanda to South

Africa for the football world cup. The film is heart-

warming and humorous, while addressing many of the

serious issues facing Africa today. Through the journey

of the children, these issues are approached with a

sincerity and compassion which leaves the viewer with a

warm appreciation of life in fullness.

- http://www.africaunitedmovie.com/

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Make and Create

African Drum –adapted from DLTK Crafts for Kids

What you will need:

Two disposable drinking cups (polystyrene, plastic or paper)

Glue

Masking tape

Felt-tip pens

Method:

1. Glue the two cups together, base-to-base. Leave to dry.

2. Once the glue is dry, completely cover both openings of the cups with

masking tape.

3. With long strips of masking tape, cover the whole of the drum, moulding the tape to the

shape of the drum.

4. Decorate the drum by drawing a pattern onto the masking tape with felt-tip pens.

Make Adinkra Bunting Together

Adinkra symbols are West African symbols of wisdom and value, which

were created hundreds of years ago in Ghana and Cote d’Ivoire. They are

also the symbols which decorate the wrappers of Divine Chololate bars.

Initially used as a form of communication, the symbols are now used in

Ghana on fabrics, carvings and jewellery.

You could begin your evening with everyone working together to create

bunting to be put up for the rest of the evening. As people arrive, have

tables set up with pens, sheets with the symbols and their meanings, and triangular pieces of paper

for bunting. Give each person the opportunity to contribute by choosing a symbol and drawing it

onto one of the paper flags.

A selection of the symbols with their meanings, and more information can be found at:

http://www.divinechocolate.com/us/good-stuff/news/2013/4/adinkra-meaning-behind-symbols

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Recipes

Experience a taste of Africa and the Caribbean by cooking up

some delicious recipes from the selection below. (Please use fair trade ingredients where available).

African Recipes

BBC Food Recipes

The BBC Food website has a selection of African recipes free to use. The recipes include starters and

nibbles, main courses, and puddings, and can be found at

http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/cuisines/african

Caribbean Recipes

BBC Food Recipes

The BBC Food website has a selection of Caribbean recipes free to use. The recipes include starters

and nibbles, light meals and snacks, main courses, side dishes, puddings, and cakes and baking.

These can be found at http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/cuisines/caribbean

Fair Trade Recipes

Much of what we cook with comes from producers in Africa and the Caribbean. So by using fair trade

recipes you are not only cooking with products from Africa and the Caribbean but your purchase of

the ingredients will benefit the lives and livelihoods of producers in Africa and the Caribbean. There

are many fair trade recipes for all sorts of food free to use from the Fair Trade Foundation website:

http://www.fairtrade.org.uk/products/recipes.aspx

http://www.fairtrade.org.uk/gobananas/bananas_fun/recipes.aspx

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There is also a wonderful selection of fair trade chocolate recipes free to use on the Divine chocolate

website:

http://www.divinechocolate.com/uk/recipes

The Co-operative Food website also has a few fair trade recipes free to use, which can be found at:

http://www.co-operative.coop/membership/changing-the-world/blueberry_tour/fairtrade-

recipes/

Oxfam has a fair trade banana cake recipe, which can be found at:

http://www.oxfam.org.uk/get-involved/banana-cake-recipe

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Music

A simple place to start for African and Caribbean music is CH4

where there are a number of Africa and Caribbean hymns. Many of these can be found in the last

section of the hymnary, titled ‘Short songs.’

For example:

CH4 516 – We are Marching in the Light of God, South Africa

CH4 752 –Alleluia, South Africa

CH4 753 –Alleluia, Honduras

CH4 756 –Bless the Lord, Kenya

CH4 757 – Come all you People, in Shona (Shona is spoken in Zimbabwe and southern

Zambia)

CH4 779 – Come Holy Spirit, Zimbabwe

CH4 781 – Lord, Have Mercy, South Africa

CH4 789 – Now go in Peace, Caribbean folk melody

CH4 803 – We will Walk with God, Swaziland

CH4 805 – Your will be done on Earth, O Lord, South Africa

CH4 824 – Amen siakudumisa, South Africa

CH4 825 – Amen, South Africa

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Tradition Ghanaian Praise Song Translation: Thank God because he is good. His love is enough…..

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One World Night Host a ‘One World Night’ in your church, or wider community. Make it a

local and global community event. This could take many forms; A One

World Night is an opportunity to be creative in how you use your church

space and in how you, as a church, engage with global issues. You could

focus on Africa and the Caribbean. Invite speakers along; celebrate with

music; enjoy a time of fellowship across the community as together you

look at the issues facing countries in Africa and the Caribbean and the work

that is being done in response to them. Inspire, engage, and imagine.

You could:

Involve your local school(s) – music, international projects, etc.

Invite your MP along – engage with your government on a local and national level. Show

your MP what your community is doing for international development and involve them in

it. You could even ask them to speak at the event.

Invite World Mission Council members or partner church members to talk and share their

experiences.

Serve fairly traded refreshments at the interval.

Have stalls in your church building for the event, such as Christian Aid, fair trade, the co-op, for

people to look at during the interval or at the end of the event.

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Games

The Traidcraft and Christian Aid websites have resources with games which are designed to teach

children and young people about global issues of injustice and poverty.

Christian Aid primary school age games:

http://learn.christianaid.org.uk/TeachersResources/primary/ResourceOverview/simulation.a

spx

Christian Aid secondary school age games:

http://learn.christianaid.org.uk/TeachersResources/secondary/ResourceOverview/simulation

.aspx

Traidcraft primary school age games:

http://www.traidcraftschools.co.uk/teaching_learning_resources/activities_games

Africa Map Game

This is a fun game to test how well you know African countries on a map. Try and place each of the

10 African countries with partner churches on the unmarked map.

1. Egypt

2. Ghana

3. Kenya

4. Malawi

5. Mozambique

6. Nigeria

7. South Africa

8. South Sudan

9. Zambia

10. Zimbabwe

You could have this as a stand-alone game, or you could include it in the quiz, and award people

bonus points for any other African countries they can correctly place.

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Africa Map

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Quiz Questions

Round 1: Geography

1. Name the four African countries beginning with the letter ‘E’. (one point for each)

- Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia

2. What is Africa’s second highest mountain peak?

- Mount Kenya, at 5,199 metres

3. Roughly how many times would the land area of Scotland fit into the land area of the African

continent? a) 385.5 times; b) 3,855 times; c) 38,555

- a) roughly 385.5 times

4. Which three countries border Malawi? (one point for each)

- Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia

5. Why is Lake Malawi also known as the ‘Calendar Lake’?

- Because it is 365 miles long, 52 miles across at its widest point.

Round: out of 10.

Round 2: Sport

1. In which year was the Football World Cup held in South Africa?

- 2010

2. South Africa has won the Rugby World Cup twice. In which years were these two victories?

(one point for each)

- 1995 (1 point) and 2007 (1 point)

3. How many gold medals were won by Jamaica’s Usain Bolt in the London 2012 Olympic

Games?

- 3

4. What is the name of the 2010 film about Nelson Mandela’s rise to presidency and the Rugby

World Cup in South Africa?

- Invictus

5. Who was the first Sub-Saharan African footballer to play in the Football World Cup Finals?

- Eusebio, from Mozambique who played for Portugal in the 1966 World Cup

6. Trinidad and Tobago are 2012 Olympic gold champions in which of the following sports: a)

men’s javelin throw; b) men’s 400 metres; c) women’s modern pentathlon?

- a) men’s javelin throw

7. Which was the first African team to play in the world cup, and in which year was this? (one

point for each)

- Egypt (1 point) in 1934 (1 point)

8. In world athletics, the men’s and women’s 10,000 metres world records are held by athletes

from which African country?

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- Ethiopia

Round: out of 10.

Round 3: Capital Cities

1. What is the capital city of Haiti?

- Port-au-Prince

2. What is the capital city of Ethiopia?

- Addis Ababa

3. What is the capital city of Jamaica?

- Kingston

4. What is the capital city of Ghana?

- Accra

5. What is the capital city of South Sudan?

- Juba

6. What is the capital city of Mozambique?

- Maputo

7. What is the capital city of Malawi?

- Lilongwe

8. What is the capital city of Cuba?

- Havana

9. What is the capital city of Zimbabwe?

- Harare

10. What is the capital city of Barbados?

- Bridgetown

Round: out of 10.

Round 4: General Knowledge

1. What are the two major languages spoken in Kenya? (one point for each)

- English, Swahili

2. Which James Bond novel has the same name as Ian Fleming’s Jamaican home?

- Goldeneye

3. . What is Africa’s most dominant animal predator?

- Hyena

4. Who is the current president of Malawi?

- Joyce Banda (correct in 2013)

5. Jamaica celebrated 50 years of independence in which year?

- 2012

6. In 1957, which country was the first sub-Saharan country in colonial Africa to gain its

independence?

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- Ghana

7. Approximately how many cocoa beans are in one cocoa pod: a) 5; b) 20; c) 40?

- c) 40

8. Who wrote the 2004 novel Small Island and the 2011 novel Long Song?

- Andrea Levy

9. Which fruit, grown in Africa and the Caribbean, comes from a plant which is actually a giant

herb from the same family as lilies, orchids and palms?

- The banana

Round: out of 10

Round: Flags

1. South Africa 2. Kenya 3.Nigeria

4.Ghana 5.Malawi 6.Tinidad and Tobago

7. South Sudan 8.Jamaica 9. Zambia

10.Cuba Round: out of 10

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Quiz Answer Sheet Round 1: Geography

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Round: /10

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Quiz Answer Sheet

Round 2: Sport

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Quiz Answer Sheet

Round 3: Capital Cities

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Quiz Answer Sheet

Round 4: General Knowledge

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Quiz Answer Sheet

Flag Round

Team Name:

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4. 5. 6.

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10. Round: /10