Even though African cultures are widely diverse, they are also, when closely studied, seen to have many similarities; for example, the morals they uphold, their love and respect for their culture as well as the strong respect they hold for the aged and the important, i.e. Africa has influenced and been influenced by other continents.
This can be portrayed in the willingness to adapt to the ever-changing modern world rather than staying rooted to their static culture.
In many traditional arts and craft traditions in Africa, certain themes significant to those particular cultures recur, including a couple, a woman with a child, a male with a weapon or animal, and an outsider or a stranger.
Couples may represent ancestors, community founder, married couple or twins.
The culture of Africa is varied and manifold, consisting of a mixture of countries with various tribes that each have their own unique characteristic from the continent of Africa.
It is a product of the diverse populations that today inhabit the continent of Africa and the African Diaspora.
During the Roman colonization of North Africa,(parts of Algeria, Libya, Egypt and the whole of Tunisia) provinces such as Tripolitania became major producers of food for the republic and the empire, this generated much wealth in these places for their 400 years of occupation.
During colonialism in Africa, Europeans possessed attitudes of superiority and a sense of mission.
African culture is expressed in its arts and crafts, folklore and religion, clothing, cuisine, music and languages.
Expressions of culture are abundant within Africa, with large amounts of cultural diversity being found not only across different countries but also within single countries.