Congo (Zaire) Roman Catholic 50%, Protestant 20%, Kimbanguist 10%, Muslim 10%, African 10% Other Luba chiefs, including Lunda, settled among neighboring people and http://www.uiowa.edu/~africart/toc/countries/Congo_(Zaire).html
Extractions: Country: Congo (Zaire) Location: Central Africa Independence: June 30, 1960 Nationality: Congolese Capital City: Kinshasa Population: Important Cities: Kisingani, Lubumbashi, Kolwesi Head of State: Lawrence Kabila Area: 2,345,410 sq.km. Type of Government: Dictatorship, presumably undergoing transition to Representative Government Currency: 4.5 CF=1 USD Major peoples: Azande, Chokwe ,Songo, Kongo ,Kuba,Lunda,Bembe Religion: Roman Catholic 50%, Protestant 20%, Kimbanguist 10%, Muslim 10%, African 10% Climate: Equatorial Literacy: Official Language: French Principal Languages: Lingala, Azande, Chokwe, Kongo, Luba Major Exports: Copper, Cobalt, Diamonds, Crude Oil, Coffee Pre-Colonial History The precolonial past of Congo (Zaire) was complex. A diversity of social aggregates developed, ranging from small, autonomous groups of hunters and gatherers to centralized chiefdoms, from settled indigenous village communities to predominantly Muslim and Arab trading communities. Established in the late 1300s, the Kongo Kingdom expanded until the mid-17th century. The
KAM Yoruba Spirituality And Philosophy Currently there are 20 million or more people who speak Yoruba as their Yorubaspeaking communities have lived in other West African countries for http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Classroom/9912/yorubaspirit.html
Extractions: Yourba Spiritual System and Philosophy There are various religious systems in Africa that share many commonalties. To discuss them all in their intricacies would take volumes. This page will attempt to focus on the Yoruba spiritual philosophy of West Africa. It stresses an extremely ancient rooted African tradition of working with natural forces and the ancestral realm to better one's life. Its system of divination in fact has led some scholars to remark on its similarity to Eastern philosophical beliefs such as those found among the Chinese in the I Ching. And while it may not be as ancient as Nilotic beliefs, it is the African spiritual system that can be best called a world religion. The Yoruba believe in the existence of spiritual beings or divinities. Called Orishas, they are seen as emissaries of Oldumare from whom they emanated. These Orisha are ancestors whose great deeds earned them divinity. The Orisha are said to recognize themselves and are recognized through a host of different numbers and colors. These polarities which each Orisha exhibits are expressed as personalities called Roads or Paths of the Orisha. This is done through offerings to Orisha of their particular favorite foods and other gifts. One can learn much about these different Orishas by watching the forces of nature at work about you. These Orishas can be contacted during a "bembe" where one or more of their priests will be mounted in a form of highly spiritualized trance possession. This possession by an Orisha is an integral part of Yoruba religious ritual as it serves as a means of communicating with the forces of Oldumare (God).
African Tribes african tribe list. The lack of overall centralization among the Igbospeakingpeoples has been conducive to the development of a great variety of art http://users.pandora.be/african-shop/tribe_info.htm
I K Dairo, MBE IK Dairo was the first African Musician to be honoured with the title of Member of The nine people with whom IK Dairo started in 1957 left on this date. http://www.mustrad.org.uk/articles/ikdairo.htm
Extractions: Article MT111 - from Musical Traditions No 1, Mid 1983 Whereas the last twenty years have seen a colossal amount of research carried out into all forms of black American traditional and popular music, the equivalent developments in Africa, often reflecting and drawing from these cultures, has largely been overlooked. The music of Africa is as diverse and as complex as the continent itself. In addition to the countless forms of native tribal music, many fascinating musicals hybrids have developed as a result of foreign influence - American, British, Latin, Arabic and Cuban amongst these. The development of Juju as a recognisable form also closely resembles that of the Blues from a rural background (the field holler and country dance tune) to a modern brash popular form (the music to be heard in a South Chicago bar). Juju is based on the centuries old traditional music of the Yoruba - choral singing and complex percussion - and was brought from the Nigerian countryside to the towns of Lagos and Ibadan by migrant workers in the Twenties and Thirties. Here the guitar lead was assimilated, often Western influenced, and, as cheap imports became available, progressively amplified. As with the Blues, Juju is essentially dance music however the vocals are far less radical or rebellious, normally extolling the virtues of traditional Yoruba values and achievements. Although not the founder of Juju, I K Dairo MBE was an important and influential exponent of the music and a top selling African recording artist of the sixties. This article is a portion of a slim volume 'Songs of I K Dairo MBE' delightfully written by Benson Corporo Okagbare, printed by the Nigerian National Press and published in 1969.
Centre For Multicultural Youth Issues - News - June 2005 A FAIRER VICTORIA WHAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR CLD YOUNG PEOPLE? By Carmel Guerra,CMYI Director New African Community Development Centre opens in Footscray http://www.cmyi.net.au/news/
Extractions: 'A Fairer Victoria': What does this mean for CLD young people? WHAT'S NEW AT CMYI: Newly Arrived Youth Support Services (NAYSS) Initiative Conference: Researching Refugee Health New CMYI Staff Member CMYI welcomes changes to the Children's Court YOUNG REFUGEE SETTLEMENT NEWS New communities settling in Victoria Language needs of newly arrived communities POSTCARD FROM GREATER DANDENONG FROM THE SECTOR: New Resources and Events Projects, Programs and Services Funding In the News News Archives Index By Carmel Guerra, CMYI Director and Louise Oliff, CMYI Communications Officer On 28th April, the State Government released a major social policy statement titled A Fairer Victoria: Creating opportunity and addressing disadvantage A Fairer Victoria sets out actions the Government has indicated it will take to improve access to services, reduce barriers to opportunity, strengthen assistance for disadvantaged groups and places, and ensure Victorians get the help they need at critical times in their lives. What does A Fairer Victoria say about young people?
Golden Gate [X]Press Online | Confronting The Myths Of Santeria The peaceful ambiance of this Santeria shop might surprise people who associatethe religion African religions such as Santeria, Vodun (voodoo), Lukumi, http://130.212.44.5/storys01.php?storyid=6079
KishainSAfrica3 (There are about 300000 people living with HIV in Botswana of a population of I said what about educating the African man? He said that is difficult, http://home.earthlink.net/~ethnogrrl/KishainSAfrica3.html
Extractions: Busi is supposed to take over certain regions from the Director of the Comunity Outreach element of STF (there is a research element too). We were in Botswana for three days beginning October 29, 2001 and it was a packed agenda. The flight from Johannesburg to Gaberone, Botswana is about 2 hours. The currency is the Pula and Thebe and the official language is English though the national language is Setswana. I wanted to share highlights with you. We toured with Kofi (like the drink as he likes to say) Addo who is actually a real African Prince. His son is slated to be the next king of their estate. He chooses to work as an NGO Technical Advisor for AIDS/STDs Unit of the United Nations Development Program. Kofi worked for 4 years in Uganda in the struggle against AIDS. He felt that the spread of AIDS in Uganda was more cultural as people often partake in polygamy, wife sharing (for example if a man marries, but does not have enough cows for a dowry, his brother may give him cows, now his brother is entitled to have access to his wife), wife inheritance (where when husband dies a woman passes with the property to the husband) or circumsion where the same knife is used on several boys. People were ready to talk about it and make changes as every person Kofi met knew of at least 2-3 people who had died of AIDS. He had worked in Botswana for 6 months and felt that the AIDS struggle in Botswana was harder, because it was coming from outside sources and the stigma was still there and people were hiding their relatives who were dying of HIV/AIDS. He felt the root cause of the spread of the virus was more geographic (vs. cultural) as he said that sometimes people could commute an hour and ½ a day to work in Gaborone (the capital) from small villages. Often the disease will be contracted in the major cities and brought back to the villages and it is spread from there
