Extractions: note: estimates for this country explicitly take into account the effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lower population and growth rates, and changes in the distribution of population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July 2004 est.) Age structure: 0-14 years: 46.1% (male 2,419,361; female 2,401,538) 65 years and over: 2.8% (male 132,166; female 157,842) (2004 est.) Population growth rate: 1.47% (2004 est.) Birth rate: 38.99 births/1,000 population (2004 est.) Death rate: 24.35 deaths/1,000 population (2004 est.) Net migration rate: migrant(s)/1,000 population (2004 est.) Sex ratio: at birth: 1.03 male(s)/female
AfricanOz - Communities, Africa Australia Online Resource It also showed that people from SubSaharan africa (mainly South africa) had some There are many indigenous Australians, people of Chinese, Philippino, http://www.africanoz.com.au/af_study/af_community.html
WFP Each will be broadcast in English and seven indigenous languages on both national Adopting a similar format to that used by the successful South African http://www.wfp.org/newsroom/in_depth/africa/011203_zambia_radio.html
Extractions: Amake Tofie , a small-scale farmer with a slight drinking problem, and Ba Estelleh, a housewife who looks after the orphans of her daughter who has died from HIV/AIDS, are household names in Zambia, thanks to a WFP-supported radio soap opera highlighting risks to food security. Lusaka , 22 December 2003 - 'Ichi chalo' , a phrase in the indigenous Bemba language, is being heard more and more frequently in Zambia. Literally translated, 'ichi chalo' means 'this world in which we live'. But, for the growing number of Zambians struggling against food shortages, it has become a common way of referring to their daily battle to feed themselves and their families.
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CHAPTER TWO MATRILINEAL TRADITIONAL AFRICAN FAMILY. Among the bemba people of Northern Zambia, 25 This book is written in Chewa indigenous Central African language. http://www.bridgewater.edu/~mtembo/africantraditionalfamily.htm
Extractions: T he subject of "traditional family patterns in Africa" is so broad that it cannot be adequately addressed in one chapter. The cultural and physical diversity added with the dramatic social changes of the last three decades on the continent makes the family pattern situation so variegated as to defy any sweeping generalizations. This difficulty in generalization bone of diversity was already apparent to many early scholars of the African traditional family like Mair1 and Goode2. This chapter will briefly explore traditional African family patterns describing the patrilineal and matrilineal families. The case studies presented will be those of the Baganda of Uganda and Bemba of Northern Zambia. Some of the major issues raised will include polygamy, tribe, clan, the extended family, bride price and the raising of children. As the African society has not been static, changes in the traditional family patterns will be briefly alluded to. Lastly, this author will argue that the Eurocentric nature of the descriptions and characterization of the traditional African family patterns by earlier scholars has tended to distort and obscure many of the strengths of the African traditional family. PERVESITY OF POLYGAMY Scholars of the African traditional family agree that the one widely known aspect that distinguishes the African traditional family, say from the European one, is the perversity of polygamy3. Although polygamy is the act of an individual being married to more than one spouse at the same time, the more commonly practiced in Africa is polygyny "....the legal marriage of one man to two or more women concurrently - is permitted."4 This author argues that because of its perversity, the presence and absence of polygyny was a significant determinant and indicator of the nature of virtually every African social group; whether tribe, clan, or extended family, whether matrilineality or patrilineality was practiced, bride price existed, and how children were raised.
Alphabetic Index The Ainu The indigenous people of the Japanese islands, now confined to Hokkaido . ALGERIA A state in north africa, between Morocco and Tunisia. http://www.hostkingdom.net/alphapla.html
Encyclopedia: Culture Of Africa Like the nature, 800 million people of africa have evolved a cultural milieu indigenous musical and dance traditions of africa are maintained by oral http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Culture-of-Africa
Extractions: What's new? Our next offering Latest newsletter Student area Lesson plans Recent Updates Yehud Monosson Municipality Yehud Xavier School WrestleMania ... More Recent Articles Top Graphs Richest Most Murderous Most Taxed Most Populous ... More Stats Updated 2 days 10 hours 23 minutes ago. Other descriptions of Culture of Africa Culture of Africa encompasses and includes all cultures which were ever in the continent of Africa Africa is the worlds second-largest continent and second most populous after Asia. ... The continent of Africa was the birthplace of the hominin subfamily and the genus Homo , including eight species , of which only Homo sapiens survive. Human culture in Africa is as old as the human race , and includes Neolithic (10000 BC) rock engravings, the glacial age petroglyphs (a carving or line drawing on rock, especially one made by prehistoric people) of early hunter-gatherers in the dry grasslands of North Africa , the Nomes of Egypt (3100 BC), and ancient Egypt Genera Gorilla Pan (chimpanzees) Homo (humans) Paranthropus (extinct) Australopithecus (extinct) Sahelanthropus (extinct) Ardipithecus (extinct) Kenyanthropus (extinct) Homininae is a subfamily of Hominidae, including Homo sapiens and some extinct relatives, as well as the gorillas and the chimpanzees. ...
A Look At The Past Zambia s indigenous people, began half a million years ago. Hundreds ofyears ago, when Bantuspeaking people from northern africa began to migrate http://cp.settlement.org/english/zambia/alook.html
Extractions: A L OOK AT THE P AST A rchaeologists believe that the history of the San, Zambia's indigenous people, began half a million years ago. The San were nomadic hunters. Hundreds of years ago, when Bantu-speaking people from northern Africa began to migrate into Zambia, the San retreated into the forested areas. T he Bantu-speaking people developed different cultures. Some raised cattle, some fished or grew crops, and some mined copper. By the middle of the 18th century, many of Zambia's largest tribal groups, including the Bemba, Lunda, Lozi and Ngoni, had established territories. O riginally, traders from other countries came to Zambia to buy copper and ivory. But in the 18th and 19th centuries, Portuguese and Arab traders came to buy or capture people for the slave trade. Some tribal chiefs sold prisoners that they had taken during wars with neighbouring kingdoms to the slave traders. Other chiefs opposed this practice. I n the mid-19th century, David Livingstone, a British missionary, became the first English-speaking person to explore Zambia. In the 1880s, Cecil Rhodes convinced the British government to give his British South Africa Company the right to stake mining claims in Zambia. Through manipulation and force, he made the African chiefs sign treaties that gave the company control of their territory. He called the territory Rhodesia. Did you know?
MSN Encarta - Print Preview - Africa africa is generally agreed to be the cradle of the human race; Even earlier,Muslim invaders from Yemen forced the peoples of coastal Aksum into the http://uk.encarta.msn.com/text_761572628___24/Africa.html
Extractions: Print Print Preview Africa Article View On the File menu, click Print to print the information. Africa V. History Africa is generally agreed to be the cradle of the human race; genetic testing in recent years has confirmed archaeological finds. Some 5 million years ago a type of hominid, a close evolutionary ancestor of present-day humans, inhabited southern and eastern Africa. More than 1.5 million years ago this toolmaking hominid developed into the more advanced forms Homo habilis and Homo erectus. The earliest true human being in Africa, Homo sapiens, dates from more than 200,000 years ago. A hunter-gatherer capable of making crude stone tools, Homo sapiens banded together with others to form nomadic groups; eventually these nomadic Khoisan-speaking peoples spread throughout the African continent. Gradually a growing Bantu-speaking population, which had mastered animal domestication and agriculture, forced the Khoisan-speaking groups into the less hospitable areas. Today they are found primarily in the Kalahari. In the 1st century ad the Bantu began a migration that lasted some 2,000 years, settling most of central and southern Africa. Negroid societies typically depended on subsistence agriculture or, in the savannahs, pastoral pursuits. Political organization was normally local, although large kingdoms would later develop in most parts of the continent, and especially western, central, and southern Africa.
Extractions: IN ZAMBIA, IN AN OPEN FIELD NEXT TO A MARKET, PERFORMING THE SPIRITS Home Introduction Projects Articles/Plays ... Photo Gallery Shoeless and shirtless children ran cheering excitedly along side the vehicle as it bounced over ruts of red earth. As our Toyota Land Cruiser entered the circle created for our performance we immediately became the focus of gathered attention. We drove across the circle of dry grass to a make-shift stagea large wooden box surrounded with drums and puppets. Suddenly there was a spontaneous cheer from the crowd with arms waving, faces smiling and much whistling. Our arrival signaled the beginning of the performance to the crowd who waited for nearly forty minutes in the warm, but not yet hot, African sun. There is a unique crystal-like clarity and gentle freshness that characterizes the winter sky of southern Africa. Its sharp blue providing a perfect backdrop for the colorful mosaic of colorful clothing dotted with beautiful black faces. We were in Kitwe the heart of Zambia's "Copperbelt," formerly the world's most productive copper, zinc, and tin mines until the bottom fell out of the international metals in the early 1980's and first world countries started using laser optics instead of copper. Since then the Copperbelt Province, as the rest of Zambia, has been tail spinning in a whirl of foreign debt, inflation, unemployment, abject poverty, tribal in-fighting, and government corruption. The Land Cruiser pulled behind our "stage box" to provide both backdrop and a backstage for our performance. Timothy Mugala, Lenard, Milimo, and Jerry Jmuale who were drumming in a sweat at the box and nodded happily. At the center of the circle was shirtless Peter Piri who was entertaining the audience with his traditional comic dances. Though from the Bemba tribe, Peter knew scores of traditional dances from many different tribes; he was presenting an impromptu, sometimes bawdy, crowd pleasing warm-up to fill the time. The audience followed every move of his torso and stomach as he rotated and punctuated the syncopating drum rhythms with his astounding isolations.
Weekly Round-Up - IRINCEA-159: 31-Jan-03 CENTRAL AND EASTERN africa IRINCEA Weekly Round-up 159 25 - 31 January 2003 Pygmies demand a tribunal for crimes in Ituri indigenous people from the http://www.cidi.org/humanitarian/irin/ceafrica/03a/ixl3.html
Extractions: Weekly Round-Up - IRINCEA-159: 31-Jan-03 U N I T E D N A T I O N S Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Integrated Regional Information Network for Central and Eastern Africa Tel: +254 2 622147 Fax: +254 2 622129 e-mail: irin@ocha.unon.org CENTRAL AND EASTERN AFRICA IRIN-CEA Weekly Round-up 159 25 - 31 January 2003
CIA - The World Factbook -- Zambia The territory of Northern Rhodesia was administered by the South africa Company from English (official), major vernaculars bemba, Kaonda, Lozi, Lunda, http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/za.html
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Indigenous Action Network - indigenous Action Network / africa / Extermination of the pygmies I dont wantpeople to get overly sick over the issues of cannibalism. http://www.culturalsurvival.org/forum/viewmessages.cfm?forum=6&topic=64
AU Day Celebration Papers Like Europe in the Dark Ages, African indigenous Technical knowledge has its Chief Nkula of the bemba people in Zambia referred to this point during the http://www.aau.org/auday/2000/papers/cbu.htm
Extractions: PAPER PRESENTED AT THE HALF DAY SEMINAR TO CELEBRATE AFRICAN UNIVERSITY DAY AT CBU, NOVEMBER 10, 2000 THEME: AFRICAN UNIVERSITIES AND THE CHALLENGE OF KNOWLEDGE CREATION AND APPLICATION IN THE INFORMATION AGE TITLE OF THE PAPER AN ANALYSIS OF INDIGENOUS TECHNICAL KNOWLEDGE: ITS IMPACT ON DEVELOPMENT IN THE INFORMATION AGE The end of the nineteen nineties has seen a decade of celebration for western European civilization. The western European World celebrated in 1992 five hundred (500) years since Christopher Columbus "discovered" America. Exhibitions depicting the voyage of this arguably the most well known explorer were mounted in America, Spain and Portugal and perhaps some other western European countries" museums and libraries. Even on the British Broadcasting Corporation, there was a six part series of music believed to have been sang by Columbus and his men during their sojourn to and from their successful mission. Indeed, Columbus is claimed, with some justification, to have opened what is now known as the American continent - North and South America - to Western European civilization.
The Languages And Writing Systems Of Africa Angola, Republic of Angola, República de Angola, former People s Republic of Angola The number of languages listed for Zambia is 43 (including bemba, http://www.intersolinc.com/newsletters/africa.htm
Extractions: Africa Languages of Africa Sources: Ethnologue The World Fact Book Country Language Algeria, Al Jaza'ir, People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, Al Jumhuriyah al Jaza'iriyah ad Dimuqratiyah ash Sha'biyah National or official languages: Standard Arabic (official), French, Berber dialects. The number of languages listed for Algeria is 18, including Chaouia, Kabyle, Tumzabt, Taznatit and others. All are living languages. Angola, Republic of Angola, República de Angola, former People's Republic of Angola
IRIN Africa Great Lakes DRC DRC 2003 Chronology Of Events 25 January indigenous people commonly referred to as pygmies - from the Ituri 1 April In Sun City, South africa, DRC government and rebel groups http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=38718&SelectRegion=Great_Lakes&Selec
British Empire: Articles: What Mr Sanders Really Did: Chapter 24 We the British asked a great deal of the people of africa and many of them This was something they associated with domination by the bemba tribe from http://www.britishempire.co.uk/article/sanders/sanderschapter24.htm
Extractions: (Sir Arthur Richards, GCMG, First Baron Milverton of Lagos and Clifton in the City of Bristol and Governor of Nigeria from 1943 - 1947) So we come to the last snapshot of this briefest of episodes in the ancient story of Africa. Looking at that great continent today (1997) where wars and corruption have created upheaval and tragedy on a massive scale -something which would have been unimaginable during the colonial period - we need to ask ourselves three questions. Was the timing right? Why was it that independence happened so unexpectedly and so swiftly? Did the people want independence? When African soldiers returned home from the Second World War they had a new confidence in themselves and a new belief that if they could be successful soldiers in the jungles of Burma or the deserts of Africa then surely they could administer themselves. There is much to commend this view. We the British asked a great deal of the people of Africa and many of them delivered a hundredfold in courage, blood, coin and loyalty. Without doubt in the forties the time was approaching when self-determination for the colonies and protectorates should have been, and indeed was, a matter for discussion, debate and planning.
Extractions: U.S. Department of State TEXT: Central African Republic The Central African Republic is a constitutional democracy with a multiparty legislature. Ange Felix Patasse, leader of the Movement for the Liberation of the Central African People (MLPC), who first was elected president in 1993, was reelected with a narrow majority in 1999. The 1999 presidential election, like National Assembly elections held in late 1998, generally was free but was controlled by the Government and was marred by irregularities that tended to favor the ruling party candidate. Although the Constitution provides for separation of powers, the legislature is vulnerable to manipulation by the President, who dominates the Government. The president can veto legislation, although two-thirds of the unicameral legislature can override his veto, and he can rule by decree under special conditions. The Constitution provides for an independent judiciary; however, it is subject to executive interference. The National Police under the direction of the Ministry of Interior and Public Security, and the military forces and the national gendarmerie under the Ministry of Defense, are responsible for presidential security and share responsibility for internal security. On January 26, President Patasse issued a decree which dissolved the Special Forces for the Defense of the Democratic Institutions (FORSDIR), the body responsible for internal security, and replaced them with the Special Presidential Unit (USP).
Extractions: Search: Home About Us Donate Where We Work ... Contact Us Civil wars, poorly planned conservation parks, lack of access to education, healthcare and land, ethnic discrimination, economic hardships, and inequalities threaten to destroy Batwa cultural heritage. In August 2003 Refugees International released a report entitled, â Forgotten People: The Batwa âPygmyâ of the Great Lakes Region of Africa ,â documenting these threats. They remain the challenges confronted by the 70,000-87,000 Batwa living in Uganda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, Rwanda and Burundi. One year later and still forgotten, the Batwa are vulnerable. Poorly planned conservation efforts and civil wars push Batwa into marginalized urban neighborhoods and economically depressed rural communities. When Batwa were displaced from parks such as Kahuzi-Biega Forest, Bwindi and Mgahinga, they were guaranteed compensation by their state governments, conservation groups and the World Bank. Few Batwa have received compensation. With no other recourse, Batwa establish crude shelters at the borders of localsâ property. In exchange for these tiny plots of land the owner may require anywhere from 4 to 5 days weekly of unpaid labor from families. Approximately 90% of Batwa are not land owners and likely live under this system.
Special Report Food Shortage In Southern Africa Facts Religion here is split roughly between indigenous beliefs and Christianity, With 9.4 million people, the central African country of Zambia encompasses http://www.careusa.org/newsroom/specialreports/southernafrica/facts.asp
