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Black History The bamum kingdom developed roundness of form almost to its extreme, Most peoples of subSaharan africa use pottery, many making it themselves. http://search.eb.com/Blackhistory/article.do?nKeyValue=384738
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Extractions: The search seeks the exact word or phrase that you type, so if you donât find your choice, try searching for a keyword in your topic or recheck the spelling of a word or name. African Languages I. Introduction African Languages , languages indigenous to the African continent. More than 2,000 different languages are spoken in Africa. Apart from Arabic, which is not confined to Africa, the most widely spoken African tongues are Swahili (35 million speakers) and Hausa (39 million), both of which are used over wide areas as lingua francas. Several languages (often inaccurately termed dialects simply because they have few users or are under-researched) are spoken by only a few thousand people. Although very few African languages have written literatures, the majority have long-standing traditions of oral literature. II.
Mad Papers, Term Papers, Vol.8, Pg.18, 050919 in the late 19th century by the bamum peoples of Fumban display at the National Museumof African Art Denial of land to Aborigines and other indigenous peoples. http://www.madpapers.snrinfo.net/lib/essay/8_18.html
Extractions: This paper analyses five local hermeneutics from the Sudan and their relationship with Islam. It argues that to understand Islamic practice in North East Africa, it must be understood as a way of life (or rather, as a series of ways of life, the practice(s) drawn from a cultural heteroglossia), not as a religion. It looks at how in the Sudan, the relationship of communities to Islam is intricately entangled with a change in material culture and it examines the changes that Arabicisation brings. It also explores how this relationship to the outsider brings up a whole set of considerations about exteriority: interiority in these communities that helps one to see one of the characterising features of Islamic practice in the Sudan in the 20th century. "The contours of the centre have often been thought to be hegemonic in Islam. Indeed, Islam may be said to be hegemonic in the sense that the sacred quality of the central texts and the necessity or correctness of reciting them in critical contexts are unquestioned. However, these enunciations, as noted in the introduction, are situated in social practice. That said, Islam does have a tendency to encapsulate or explicitly devalue other forms of thought and practice so they will be legitimated by reference to Islam. In the case studies we will analyse we will observe a tension between the necessity for other forms of thought to be legitimated by Islam, and the equally compelling need for them to remain apart."
African Foundation Of World Religions - People In Our Time The two major religious systems indigenous to China Mende (Sierra Leone), Loma (Liberia),bamum (Cameroon), Nsibidi the most ancient world were black peoples. http://muz-online.de/religion/religion2.html
Extractions: These later impacted heavily on the societies of Western Asia and the Mediterranean world in particular, and were thereafter elaborated into distinct but ultimately related systems. Now referred to as "religion", these psycho-spiritual systems have profoundly affected humanity´s general way of being; its moral, social and transcendental "software". The distinction between that termed "religion" and that termed "spirituality" is a recent development, incompatible with the ancient archetype. It is ultimately an extension of the tendency to compartmentalise; a quest to satisfy the individual ego. In the final analysis, they converge; one pertains to the inner and the other to the outer form of the same reality. Both the personal and social dimensions of transcendence were deemed necessary to group cohesion.
Nicodemus Fru Awasom - The Reunification Question In Cameroon It presented a countercurrent in postcolonial africa to the prevailing trend The bamum and Bamileke peoples in the British South Cameroons were either http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/africa_today/v047/47.2awasom.html
Zentrum Für Afrikastudien Basel of two photographs taken in Cameroon bamum early in this century , in ed . in West africa and the portrayal of indigenous people and culture , http://www.unibas-zasb.ch/redakteure/jenkins/mitarbeiter_e.php
Extractions: Pensionierung und Rückzug von der Funktion als Archivar der mission 21 und als Dozent für Afrikanische Geschichte an der Universität Basel. Dozent für Afrikanische Geschichte, Universität Basel Co-Leitung (mit Barbara Frey Näf) des Projektes für Konservierung und Erschliessung historischer Fotografien des Archivs der Basler Mission. Wissenschaftspreis des Kantons Basel-Stadt Bibliothekar und Archivar (Archivar seit 1980) der Basler Mission (jetzt: mission 21) als Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter. Tätigkeit im Erwachsenenbildungsprogramm der im Aufbau befindlichen c. Dozent für Geschichte an der Universität Ghana Assistant Resident Tutor am Institute of Public Education an der Universität Ghana (Organisation von Einrichtungen für die Teilzeit-Studierende im Zentrum von Accra). Studium von Geschichte und Pädagogik an der Universität Cambridge (Christ's College). geboren in Sunderland/GB
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Extractions: Bassett recently completed an extensive inventory of indigenous mapmaking in sub-Saharan Africa. What he discovered was a heritage rich in unusual artifacts and representations. Among the Luba peoples of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Lukasa memory boards made of wood, shells, and beads enabled praise singers to recount the history of a specific Luba king. The neighboring Tabwa people charted the path of mythical ancestral heroes on the backs and chests of initiates to the Butwa Society. The kingdom of Bamum in western Cameroon in the early 20th century was the site of one of the most ambitious mapmaking enterprises. Led by King Njoya, the Bamum people developed an alphabet and then undertook a major topographic survey of the kingdom, involving 60 people who made 30 stops over 52 days. "The map's form and content nicely illustrate the political use of maps," says Bassett, noting that the king promoted his political goals of consolidation by presenting images of rule. Fall 2000
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Extractions: As a communications network the Basel Mission - like other missionary societies - made early use of photography. The first Basel missionary in West Africa to take photographs was Wilhelm Locher, who was active with a camera in south-eastern Ghana in the 1860s. At the same time his colleague C. G. Richter was taking photographs in what are now the Indian states of Karnataka and Kerala (see illustration 11 A).The Mission also began at this time to acquire images from professional photographers working in coastal cities in Africa and Asia. Photographic images began to be reproduced as engravings in the Missions publications both for home and overseas consumption (see illustration 11 B). It is clear that in practice over the generations photography has remained an important activity among Basel missionaries. In the 1890s and early 1900s, for example, Basel Mission explorers in Cameroon took cameras with them on their journeys to open up new mission districts. Yet pioneer photography plays no part in the traditional identity of this Basel Mission or even in its insiders oral tradition. The formidable Fritz Ramseyer (Basel Missionary in Ghana from 1864 to 1908), still a name to conjure with in Ghana, has been completely forgotten as a photographer, although he took many excellent photographs, starting at the latest in 1888 (see illustration 10). By the time, in the 1980s, scholars from outside the Basel Mission began to point out that there
African Art On The Internet africa Talks.org an online and faceto-face community of people interested indevelopment Islam and indigenous african cultures, Shawabtis and Nubia, 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
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Extractions: Print Print Preview African Languages Article View On the File menu, click Print to print the information. African Languages I. Introduction African Languages , languages indigenous to the African continent. More than 2,000 different languages are spoken in Africa. Apart from Arabic, which is not confined to Africa, the most widely spoken African tongues are Swahili (35 million speakers) and Hausa (39 million), both of which are used over wide areas as lingua francas. Several languages (often inaccurately termed dialects simply because they have few users or are under-researched) are spoken by only a few thousand people. Although very few African languages have written literatures, the majority have long-standing traditions of oral literature. II. Language Groupings According to the most recent and widely accepted scholarly practice, the languages of Africa are grouped into four language families: Afro-Asiatic, Nilo-Saharan, Khoisan, and Niger-Congo. A language family is a group of related languages presumably derived from a common origin; a family is often subdivided into branches composed of more closely related languages. At least some of the African linguistic families are believed to have a history of more than 5,000 years. African languages that belong to different families are as little alike as English, Turkish, Chinese, and Navajo, although the disparate tongues may be spoken in the same locality. Even within a single family, African languages may be as different in sound and structure as English, Italian, Russian, and Hindi, all of which are members of the Indo-European language family. Within a given branch of one family, however, languages may often be as closely related as German, Dutch, and Swedish.
African Studies Center | Publications | Index The bamum TwoFigure Throne Additional Evidence, WP 74 ($4) Becoming Indigenousin africa The Globalization of Maasai and Barabaig Ethnic Identities, http://www.bu.edu/africa/publications/index/indexauthor.html
Extractions: CENTER PUBLICATIONS BY AUTHOR A B C D ... Z African Studies Center publications series listed here are intended to highlight the research of scholars affiliated with Boston University or the work of other scholars presented at Boston University. Explanation of code numbers (used for ordering): AH ILE WP, and AAIC refer to article-length papers in Discussion Papers in the African Humanities ( AH ), Working Papers of the African Studies Center ( WP ), Issues in Language Education ( ILE ), and African-American Issues Center Papers (AAIC). ARS refers to a paperback monograph in the African Research Studies. AFDOC refers to a book in the African Historical Documents series. BUPA refers to an edited book in the series Boston University Papers on Africa. A Adam, Hussein M. 1993. Militarism and Warlordism: Rethinking the Somali Political Experience
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