Traditional African art plays a major role in African society. Most ceremonies and activities cannot function without visual art. These ceremonies include singing, dancing, storytelling, spiritual dreams and relationships with the opposite sex. According to James Stephenson, “art is a way of expressing confidence in your own words…drawn to create a symbol that stands out from you.” He believes that art or literature should illustrate the lifestyles or problems of a certain group of people. In the book Language of the Land, James Stephenson talks about the Hadzabe tribe. James Stephenson uses many insights from art or literature to describe African art. There are three fundamental themes of African art. The first is the realism of the people of the bush. Most African tribes, notably the Hadzabe, embellish details when telling stories. This embellishment is done to create the mood of the story. For example, when Jemsi is at Mama Ramadan's house, he describes the cowgirl as a "superstar flying in spaceships filled with thousands of male lovers" (Language of the Land p. 67). Then some of the other Hadzabe say: “the cowgirl was their girlfriend” (Language of the country p. 67). When Jemsi says he's making it up, all the Hadzabe start telling their own exaggerated stories. This proves that their art of storytelling engages your mind, your feelings and your body. Another similar example of how Jemsi captivates the minds of the Hadzabe is when he talks about “the bear…its claws are the size of Sitoti’s arms, it is fast like the lion. It can cut down trees with its claws, hunt and eat men. Sometimes he will come to camp and sleep next to you. So if you wake up and move; it will kill you, or do the jiggi-jiggi with you” (Language of the country p. 117). This shows how gullible the tribe members are towards each other. This type of visual or spoken art describes the ability of Africans to overexpress the idea to the extreme. The second theme in African art concerns problematic gender relations. The Hadzabe are presented as the type of people who would use harmless means to resolve problems and issues regarding gender relations. For example, when Sitoti told one of his stories about how he frightened Swahili girls by “wading like a slow crocodile… [and pouncing] on the women who were washing their clothes” (Language of the Country, p..