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New Page 1 The Yoraba of West africa Jamie Hetfield indigenous People of the World Grolier The asante Kingdom Carol Thompson Great Zimbabwe Mark Bessire http://www.africacentre.org/Resource Center -Children and Juvenile Literature.ht
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Legitimizing Spiritually-centred Wisdoms Within The Academy Therefore, indigenous learners and scholars in africa and around the globe are truth of african people and other indigenous peoples Kunnie (1998 8). http://www.kk.ecu.edu.au/sub/schoola/research/confs/aiec/papers/igoduka04.htm
Extractions: African/indigenous philosophies: Legitimizing Spiritually-centred wisdoms within the academy Ivy Goduka, Central Michigan University Back Up Conclusion As I conclude this journey, I would like to emphasize two major points. First, I caution the reader to appreciate the limitations of writing such an important piece of work. Alas! Only some of the many facets of indigenous philosophies can be discussed in such a short space of time and place without compromising the rich and varied body of spiritually-centred wisdom thriving in indigenous thought. Therefore, indigenous learners and scholars in Africa and around the globe are challenged to engage in extensive research and writing to legitimize indigenous epistemologies in the library, classroom, and wherever other knowledges, sciences and technologies are in existence. Such cultures and experiences have been devalued and denigrated in the academy; even worse, they have been treated as if they never existed. As we enter the next millennium, there is growing anger among indigenes and a desire to engage in what Amadiume (1997) terms
AFRICA affected a disunion of indigenous African people from their traditional Akuaa ba, asante people. The Akua ba is a depiction of a female child. http://www.cc.jyu.fi/~yaselma/africa.htm
Extractions: Be as proud of your race no matter what was the case ! today, as our ancestors were, in the days of yore. We have a beautiful history full of mistiry We shall create another and dedicate it to the African mother. in the future, that will astonish the world Africa was and still the most colorful continent on earth even before the colonization. The diversity in Africa is seen every where, climat, nature, languages, colors and cultural diversity. This diversity makes it difficult to generlize ideas and stereotypes about Africa and Africans.
Extractions: In the centuries before colonial rule, Europe increased its economic capacity by leaps and bounds, while Africa appeared to have been almost static. Africa in the late nineteenth century could still be described as part communal and part feudal, although Western Europe had moved completely from feudalism to capitalism. To elucidate the main thesis of this study, it is necessary to follow not only the development of Europe and the underdevelopment of Africa, but also to understand how those two combined in a single system-that of capitalist imperialism.
Extractions: AAACN Viewpoint ABNF Journal, The AIDS Treatment News AMAA Journal ... View all titles in this topic Hot New Articles by Topic Automotive Sports Top Articles Ever by Topic Automotive Sports An exploratory ethnobotanical study of the practice of herbal medicine by the Akan Peoples of Ghana Alternative Medicine Review June, 2005 by Caroline Abel Kofi Busia Save a personal copy of this article and quickly find it again with Furl.net. It's free! Save it. Abstract This exploratory ethnobotanical study took place in Kumasi, the capital city of the Asante, one of the Akan tribes. Data was collected using the multi-method approach of descriptive review, semi-structured interviews with traditional medical practitioners, and brief scientific review. Traditional Akan medicine is holistic and does not separate the physical world from the supernatural world. It is deeply rooted in traditional religion, with illness seen as a departure from the natural equilibrium. Traditional healers are either spiritually based or non-spiritually based.
Raymond Aaron SILVERMAN Gold of the asante The Power of Art in a West African Society. Law andCulture The Rights of indigenous People to Their Cultural Heritage. http://www.olats.org/africa/participants/silverman.shtml
Extractions: Thesis: "The Northern Factor in Asante Art." B.A. (summa cum laude) Art History. University of California, Los Angeles. June 1975. Areas of general interest Arts of sub-Saharan Africa, African Diaspora, Native North America, Oceania, Islam, pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, 20th century Mexico; aesthetic dimensions of culture evolution; art and religion. Primary research interest Interaction between sub-Saharan West Africa and the cultures of the Islamic Middle East and the West; Ethiopian aesthetic tradition. Employment history Interim Chair, Department of Art. Michigan State University. Summer 1999 to present. Coordinator, Museum Studies Program. Michigan State University. Summer 1999 to present.
NOVICA - News - The Face Of Global Art While asante s success with Novica is common, her process of making drums is as sophisticated company that emphasizes the value of indigenous peoples. http://www.novica.com/news/index.cfm?articleid=171
Untitled Document Molefi Kete asante. African Americans constitute the largest All Americans,other than the indigenous people, are relative newcomers to this land and http://www.asante.net/articles/index01.html
Extractions: The naming of things is the defining of things. The naming of persons is the defining of persons. Today we claim the names that relate to our experiences and our histories. Those who named us gave us the names they knew. They had been denied knowledge of our true names. So our names are often French, Portuguese, English, Dutch, German, Spanish, and Irish. But we are Africans. Today we claim all of our identity. We respect those who named us first, but we fulfill the promise that they had when we were born-that we be fully human. main page books new releases reviews ... TOWARD THE CENTERED SCHOOL IN URBAN AREAS Molefi Kete Asante THE BASIC TENETS OF THE CENTERED SCHOOL main page books new releases reviews ... Improvements to Encarta Africana 2000 Molefi Kete Asante Encarta Africana 2000 is an improved version of the project undertaken by Professors Henry Louis Gates and Anthony Appiah to capture African American history and culture. Encarta Africana 2000 reflects substantive changes to content, design and format and represents a remarkable advance in conceptualizing the African and African American experience .
Ghana - THE PRECOLONIAL PERIOD Among these peoples were the Sisala, Kasena, Kusase, and Talensi, agriculturalistsclosely related to 1712 or 1717) became asantehene (king of asante). http://countrystudies.us/ghana/5.htm
Extractions: THE PRECOLONIAL PERIOD Ghana Table of Contents By the end of the sixteenth century, most ethnic groups constituting the modern Ghanaian population had settled in their present locations. Archeological remains found in the coastal zone indicate that the area has been inhabited since the early Bronze Age (ca. 4000 B.C.), but these societies, based on fishing in the extensive lagoons and rivers, left few traces. Archeological work also suggests that central Ghana north of the forest zone was inhabited as early as 3,000 to 4,000 years ago. Oral history and other sources suggest that the ancestors of some of Ghana's residents entered this area at least as early as the tenth century A.D. and that migration from the north and east continued thereafter. These migrations resulted in part from the formation and disintegration of a series of large states in the western Sudan (the region north of modern Ghana drained by the Niger River). Prominent among these Sudanic states was the Soninke kingdom of Ghana. Strictly speaking, ghana was the title of the king, but the Arabs, who left records of the kingdom, applied the term to the king, the capital, and the state. The ninth-century Arab writer, Al Yaqubi, described ancient Ghana as one of the three most organized states in the region (the others being Gao and Kanem in the central Sudan). Its rulers were renowned for their wealth in gold, the opulence of their courts, and their warrior-hunting skills. They were also masters of the trade in gold, which drew North African merchants to the western Sudan. The military achievements of these and later western Sudanic rulers and their control over the region's gold mines constituted the nexus of their historical relations with merchants and rulers of North Africa and the Mediterranean.
AsanteSana and Islamic culture as well as its own indigenous African cultural values . asante sana to U of L and the University Honors Program for offering http://www.louisville.edu/a-s/honors/AsanteSana.htm
Extractions: Sociology 02 Jambo ! The Honors Program has truly changed my life! This past spring semester, the University Honors Program offered an International Seminar on "Current Issues in African History and Thought" taught by Dr. Dismas Masolo, a distinguished scholar at U of L from Kenya in East Africa. Along with 14 other students I traveled across Kenya for three weeks learning firsthand about the peoples and cultures of this country. The course was designed to give students a background in contemporary East African political, social and cultural discourse within the historical context of the diverse forms of colonial experience that have affected Africas own indigenous heritage. Throughout the semester we were given a general introduction to the impact of the tri-cultural heritage of Africa that has been influenced by Western and Islamic culture as well as its own indigenous African cultural values. We examined the consequences of colonialism in Africa and learned that although independence has been in place for almost fifty years, social and political stability are still fragile due to the historical consequences of Western expansion. At the end of the course we all made the long-awaited trip to Kenya. We began our field study in Nairobi, the largest city in East Africa. As soon as we got off the plane I knew that nothing I had ever learned in any book or course lecture could have ever taught me the unique experience of African culture. The experience of this trip has now given me a better understanding of African culture, its peoples, its history and the social and political obstacles that it faces.
Anthropology Catalogue From Gazelle Book Services Still, much mythology and misconception enshroud africa and its people. Traditional or indigenous africa has not vanished; it is still the home of the http://www.gazellebookservices.co.uk/Marketing/Academic/Academic Forthcoming Boo
Extractions: Web: www.gazellebooks.co.uk NEW WORLD, FIRST NATIONS February 2006 ; HB, £55.00, Sussex Academic Press CULTURE, POWER AND AGENCY February 2006 ; HB, £28.00, Stree JEWS OF LEBANON February 2006 ; PB, £22.50, Sussex Academic Press DEVELOPING RIGHTS OF INDIGENOUS CHILDREN January 2006 ; HB, £100.99, Transnational Publishers LANDSCAPES IN INDIA January 2006 ; HB, £44.50, University Press of Colorado ETHNOPHILOSOPHY December 2005 ; HB, £30.00, Stree INDIGENOUS AFRICAN INSTITUTIONS, 2ND EDITION December 2005 ; HB, £92.99, Transnational Publishers SCAR UPON OUR VOICE ((Mary Burritt Christiansen Poetry Series)) December 2005 ; HB, £19.50, University of New Mexico Press BROWN-EYED CHILDREN OF THE SUN October 2005 ; PB, £20.50, University of New Mexico Press TO INTERMIX WITH OUR WHITE BROTHERS October 2005 ; HB, £32.50, University of New Mexico Press
Anthropology asante Market Women shows us a tribe in Ghana where the men are polygamous and the we meet indigenous people who survive in this harsh environment. http://www.filmakers.com/Anthropology.htm
African Art On The Internet africa Talks.org an online and faceto-face community of people interested in The case studies are asante political expansion, Batimalliba two-story http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/art.html
Extractions: "Ethiopia’s leading artist." Biography, his paintings, sculptures, mosaics, murals, art in the artist's home. Afewerk created the stained-glass windows at the entrance of Africa Hall, headquarters of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa. "In 1964, he became the first winner of the Haile Selassie I prize for Fine Arts." "In 2000, he was one of the few chosen World Laureates by the council of the ABI on the occasion of the 27th International Millennium Congress on the Arts and Communication in Washington DC." He painted Kwame Nkrumah's portrait and was awarded the American Golden Academy Award and the Cambridge Order of Excellence England. Prints of his work may be purchased online. http://www.afewerktekle.org
Africa - Research Papers On - 007-004 European influence in South africa; and continuing strife between indigenouspeoples in the Afrocentricity and Knowledge, by Molefi Kete asante. http://www.papers24-7.com/categories/007-004.html
Extractions: This 5 page paper looks at the situation in Zimbabwe. The history of the country is briefly considered and the role that Mugabe has played in encouraging violence against white framers in his efforts to maintain political power through the use of racism as a diversion to the economic problems in the country due to his economic policies. The bibliography cites 7 sources.
African Holocaust & African Diaspora Thus, as African peoples were globally dispersed, they carried their traditions of asante, Molefi Kete, and Abu S. Abarry, ed. African Intellectual http://web.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/CoursePack/diaspora.htm
Extractions: "The Black Holocaust is one of the more underreported events in the annals of human history. The Black Holocaust makes reference to the millions of African lives which have been lost during the centuries to slavery, colonization and oppression. The Black Holocaust makes reference to the horrors endured by millions of men, women, and children throughout the African Diaspora. In sheer numbers, depth and brutality, it is a testimony to the worst elements of human behavior and the strongest elements of survival." The Black Holocaust: From Maafa to Colonization KAMMAASI / Sankofa Project Guide
African Storytelling the modern African writer is to his indigenous oral tradition as a snail isto its asante, Molefi Kete, and Abu S. Abarry, ed. African Intellectual http://web.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/afrstory.htm
Extractions: Traditionally, Africans have revered good stories and storytellers, as have most past and present peoples around the world who are rooted in oral cultures and traditions. Ancient writing traditions do exist on the African continent, but most Africans today, as in the past, are primarily oral peoples, and their art forms are oral rather than literary. In contrast to written "literature," African "orature" (to use Kenyan novelist and critic Ngugi wa Thiong’o's phrase) is orally composed and transmitted, and often created to be verbally and communally performed as an integral part of dance and music. The Oral Arts of Africa are rich and varied, developing with the beginnings of African cultures, and they remain living traditions that continue to evolve and flourish today.
Freedom Party International - Consent 14 - June 1991 Among the asante of Ghana, the Queen Mother has three chances to produce an In indigenous African societies, the people were the army, owning their own http://www.freedomparty.org/consent/cons14_1.htm
Extractions: This article appeared in Consent #14 (June 1991) Democracy And Africa - George B. N. Ayittey, Ph.D. Dr. George B.N. Ayittey, Ph.D. is a native of Ghana and currently an Associate Professor of Economics at The American University, Washington, DC 20016. His books, Africa Betrayed , and Indigenous African Institutions published in April 1991 by the CATO Institute (Washington) and Transnational Publishers, Inc. (New York) respectively. The following essay was originally presented as a lecture given at the University of Western Ontario on February 5, 1991. As we all know, Africa teeters on the brink of economic disintegration, political chaos and social decay. But more fundamentally, Africa is a tragedy in more ways than one. The main reason why things have gone so wrong in Africa, in my view, is that there are so many people, international institutions and aid agencies who want to help Africa - and sincerely. But the problems is, few understand the very people they seek to help. Mythology bedevils attempts to help Africa. One of these enduring myths is the nonsensical notion that Africa had no culture, no history and no viable institutions before the arrival of the European colonialists. You and I know that is patently false. But then our leaders perpetuate these myths by their own shameful ignorance of African heritage. Foreigners may be excused for their ignorance of African institutions but that of our own leaders is inexcusable.
EARLY HISTORY OF AFRICA indigenous plants include african yams, african rice, bulrush millet, Once people with iron tools and weapons spread into southern africa and brought http://www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/lessons/middle/history1.htm
Extractions: HISTORY OF AFRICA Incredible @rt Dept ART HOME Lesson Plans Art Rubrics- Files ... Climate and Regions Africa . Third Edition. Indiana: Indiana University Press. Aspects of Early History and Prehistoric Africa Oral traditions were often not reliable and had to be decoded and studied within the wider cultural context. Different societies had different traditions. Those with centralized power and hereditary dynasties had selected individual entrusted with the memorization of history the griots (known as Jelis ... among the Manding groups) Archaeology Every ethnic group has legend on the beginning of history how ancestors arrived in their present area. (See examples of the Dogon). Others simply say that their present day location is the original homeland. Traditions of migration are most common and useful in understanding a great deal of African history particularly the emergence of dynasties and interactions between different groups. The movement of people contributed to the spread of new ideas and technology. There is a degree of similarity between widely separated societies. Common in the element of traditions in the formation of state is the role of the environment. Pre-Historic Africa After more than 60 million years of primate evolution, there is evidence in East Africa, dating more than 4 million years ago, of upright -walking ancestors who split away from the rest of the apes. By approximately 2.5 million years ago, ancestors show interesting new behavior patterns making and using stone tools, ushering the Stone Age.
Extractions: African Religions I D-30.14.63 shows the Odente shrine [Dente] shrine, a powerful shrine that was often consulted during war times. People relied on it for the exposure of evil, especially witchcraft, in communities. The presence of the shrine in the forest ensured the preservation of the vegetation as no farming or hunting activity was permitted in the vicinity of the shrine.
