Art and Music of sub-Saharan Africa

Painting, carving, sculpture, and music which are known as creative expression are means of serving religion and to the artist means of expressing religious connections. Both art and music may serve as a religious function towards one another and show no real difference between the two.

Paintings of sub-Saharan Africa started as early as 5000 B.C.E. with the earliest from of art known as rock paintings. Rock paintings were found in the Tassili Mountains in the central Sahara to the Nile River and in eastern and southern Africa. Wood carvings such as masks and sculptures such as statues were more familiar among sub-Saharan Africa. Sculptures and carvings represent the gods, spirits, and ancestral fi...