MSN Encarta - Search View - Berber (people) berber (people), name given to the group of languages and people of certainindigenous, nonArabic peoples inhabiting large sections of North africa. http://uk.encarta.msn.com/text_761552010__1/Berber_(people).html
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. Berber (people) Berber (people) , name given to the group of languages and people of certain indigenous, non-Arabic peoples inhabiting large sections of North Africa. Through the centuries Berbers have mixed with so many other ethnic groups, notably the Arabs, that they are now identified usually on a linguistic rather than a racial basis. Berber languages form a branch of the Afro-Asiatic linguistic family and comprise about 26 closely related languages, including Tachelhit, Central Atlas Tamazight, and Kabyle. Many Berbers are bilingual in Arabic. Berbers constitute about 40 per cent of the population of Morocco, about 30 per cent of the population of Algeria, and about 1 per cent of the population of Tunisia. The number of identifiable Berbers in North Africa is slowly declining as more of them adopt the language and culture of the Arab majority. Like the Arabs, the Berbers are Muslims; they are less orthodox, however, and their religious rituals include many elements, some animistic, that derive from ancient pre-Muslim and pagan religions. Most of the Berbers inhabit rural areas where they live in tents and clay huts or, in the larger villages, in stone houses. The traditional Berber occupations are sheep and cattle raising, but increasing numbers raise crops. Other industries in which Berbers engage include flour milling, woodcarving, the quarrying of millstones, and the production of domestic utensils, agricultural implements, pottery, jewellery, and leather goods.
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Extractions: Since the dawn of history, the Imazighen people have been the indigenous inhabitants of North Africa. (Berber is a name that has been given them by others and which they themselves do not use). Their territory reaches from Egypt to Mauritania and from the Mediterranean to the boundaries of historic sub-Saharan Africa (not North Africa). Various empires and peoples have conquered portions of historic Tamazgha (their land), beginning with the Phoenicians and Greeks and continuing through the Romans, Vandals, Byzantines, Arabs, Turks, French, British, Spanish, and Italians. Imazighen and beliefs Imazighen have been subjected to various religious beliefs : their own early pantheistic (God is in all) concepts; the polytheistic (idolatry) dogmas of the Phoenicians, Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans; and monotheistic (one God) Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Since the 13th century, most Imazighen have professed the Islamic faith and Islam has sunk most deeply into their psyches. Throughout their history, the Imazighen have always had their heroes or heroines who have defended their ancestral homeland but then succumbed to the superior "civilized" might of their conquerors.
Extractions: The Tuareg belong to the large Berber (Imazighen) community, which stretches from the Canary Islands to Egypt and from the Mediterranean Sea to the Niger River. They are the only Berber speaking community, to have preserved and used the Tifinagh writing. Nomads of vast arid lands, the common denominator of the dispersed Tuareg are the language, Tamasheq. Consequently, they identify themselves as Kel Tamasheq (people of Tamasheq). Although the origin and early history of the Tuaregs are cloudy, these tribal nomads appear to have travelled down from North Africa in a series of migrations as early as the 7th century. By the end of the 14th century, Tuareg tribes had established themselves as far south as the Nigerian border. As they advanced, the Tuareg met the Songhay and the Hausa, who were forced to acknowledge their regime. Raids against sedentary settlements and caravans were central to their ethos and hierarchy, and increased their herds of cattle. Because of their swift camels and superior weapons, the Tuareg generally had the better of their enemies. The Tuareg also conquered the Harratine, who were a farming people of Negroid stock. These people were not trained for war and gave in without a struggle. In return for protection from other desert marauders, they agreed to give the Tuareg half their garden produces. Thereafter they continued to farm their land as serfs.
Extractions: History of Africa during the time of the great West African kingdoms-Expand This activity will introduce you to three of the great kingdoms of West Africa between the 9th and 16th centuries CE. They are the kingdoms of Ghana, Mali, and Songhay. After you have read a short text on each of these kingdoms, there is a fourth text which explains the time when parts of North Africa came to be Islamic. As you read through this activity, you should think about how the events in the four texts are related to one another. Once you have read all four texts, use the information you have learned in them to complete the graphic organizers at the end of the activity. Use the map below as a reference while you are reading the texts. There are various links back to the map througout the text that you can use to reference the map. The map shows the location of the three kingdoms of West Africa, as well as, many other kingdoms and empires throughout African history. The Kingdom of Ghana is generally given the dates 9th to the 13th century CE by historians. It marks the beginning of a series of empires in West Africa that were involved in extensive commercial trade. You should note by looking at the map above that the area of the Kingdom of Ghana during this time period is farther north than the present day country of Ghana. Click here to see a map of
North Africa - Enpsychlopedia The berbers are the indigenous people in the Maghreb, and are believed to have The majority of people in North africa are ultimately of berber descent, http://psychcentral.com/psypsych/North_Africa
Extractions: home resource directory disorders quizzes ... support forums Advertisement ( North Africa is a region generally considered to include: The Canary Islands Ethiopia Eritrea Azores and Madeira are sometimes considered to be a part of North Africa, though they do not share a common culture with North Africa. The Maghreb (also called Northwest Africa or Tamazgha ) is the portion of North Africa that consititutes Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya (thus excluding the Nile Valley ). (In Arabic, the term can also refer to Morocco alone.) Some North African countries, particularly Egypt and Libya , often get included in common definitions of the Middle East , not being part of the Maghreb. In addition, the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt is often considered part of Asia, and hence of the Middle East. Contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 People 2 Culture 3 History 4 See Also ... edit North Africa is often set apart from the sub-Saharan African region, as the desert serves more of an obstacle to communication than the sea itself. It is principally inhabited by Berbers and Arabs , who are scarcely distinguishable physically, with minorities of other racial groups. The Berbers are the indigenous people in the
Civilizations In Africa: Ghana an indigenous African people (Saint Augustine, born in Carthage, may have been This berber kingdom would form the model from which all the Sahelian http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/CIVAFRCA/GHANA.HTM
Extractions: Sahara , which in Arabic simply means "The Desert." Around 750 AD, under the influence of Islamic peoples, northern and western Africans began to use the camel to transport goods across this forbidding terrain. Camels do several things exceptionally well: they can carry unbelievably heavy loads for impossibly long distances and they can keep their footing on sandy terrain. It was as if someone had invented sand ships and its effect on western African culture was just as profound as if they were sand ships. The most important developments occurred in the Sahel area just south of the Sahara; the Sahel provided southern terminal points for the goods being shipped across the Sahara. The Sahel is a dry, hot area with fertile areas and grasslands; all of the major north African kingdoms grew up in this area: Ghana, Mali, Songhay, and Kanem-Bornu: the Sahelian kingdoms
Extractions: Being Aware of False Images Museum Falsifying images demeans, degrades and distorts history! Image changing and skin bleaching of history The attempt to erase ancient African history Image provided courtesy of MATHU ATER On the top this ancient Kamite are represented on an actual wall relief, re-discovered in today's Egypt. The image on the bottom is a false image, an impersonation of the picture of the ancient African on the top. Many books, television shows, movies, and websites fabricate or show false images of ancient Africans, in this case the ancient Kamites (ancient Egyptians), some are just lies, others are images of Greeks and Romans who thousands of years later only imitated these Africans', appearances, mannerisms and actions. Image provided courtesy of African By Nature To express their spirituality many of the paints that the ancient Kamites (ancient Egyptians) used was water based, so the colors on the sculptures and wall paintings was usually washed off or faded by flooding or by age. Many of the wall painting have been re-painted in modern times, in some case trying to re-create the original images. In other cases the gold images have been re-painted a lighter color.
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Extractions: Bamana Home Africa, African Anthropology General Resources By peoples Akan Akuapem Akye Anyi ... ArtWorld AFRICA - Bamana (Bambara) "Bamana religious life and social structure is traditionally based upon fraternal groups or societies which regulate agricultural work, judge disputes and provide protection against evil spirits and sickness. They each have their own initiation rites and rituals, usually relating to some aspect of fertility. Bamana craftsmen fashion masks and figures for the observance of these societies' rituals." illustrated - From University of Durham - http://artworld.uea.ac.uk/teaching_modules/africa/cultural_groups_by_country/bamana/welcome.html Bamana People "The Bamana are members of the Mande culture, a large and powerful group of peoples in western Africa. Kaarta and Segou are Bamana city-states, which were established in the 17th century and continued to have political influence throughout the western Sudan states into the 19th century." You will find material related to history, political structure, religion, culture and more. - From University of Iowa - http://www.uiowa.edu/~africart/toc/people/Bamana.html
BBC NEWS | Africa | Q&A: The Berbers Canaries The indigenous people were berber. The language survived till theSpanish invasion in berber textbook goes on display (15 Feb 04 africa ) http://newswww.bbc.net.uk/2/low/africa/3509799.stm
Extractions: Graphics version Change to UK Edition BBC Sport Home News Front Page ... Week at a Glance Friday, 12 March, 2004, 15:30 GMT For centuries Berbers have fought to prevent their language and culture from being swamped by Arabs. Most numerous in Morocco, they are scattered across nine countries. Their voice has been most loudly heard, amidst outbreaks of violence, in Algeria. Q: Who are they? The Berbers are a non-Semitic people who since prehistoric times inhabited the Mediterranean coastline from Egypt to the Atlantic. They dominated North Africa until it was conquered by Arabs in the 7th century. Ethnically, a majority of Moroccans and Algerians are Arabicised Berbers. Today it is more language and culture that set Berbers apart. Berber speakers account for some 50% of Moroccans and 30% of Algerians. Q: Where does the name come from? One theory derives 'Berber' from Barbaros, ancient Greek for 'Outsiders'. Berbers call themselves 'Imazighen' (Free), plural of 'Amazigh'. They call the Maghreb 'Tamazgha', or Land of the Imazighen. Q: What do they speak?
Extractions: E-Mail: Frepicawanak@yahoo.com We, the Canarians, are a people of Insular Africa, of which the descendants of the Canarian natives are ethnically Amazigh (Berber). 1. The demand of the Republic of Ukrania in 1960 at the UNO to carry out the decolonisation of the Canary Islands. 2. Article 1 of the Constituent Act of the OAU which states that " ... The Organisation will include the African States, Madagascar and all the islands adjacent to the continent." This clearly supports the African nature of the Archipelago. 3. The report made by the Extraordinary Conference of Afro-Asian Writers in 1966: "We ask all Afro-Asian States to support the right and the movement for the independence of the Canarian Archipelago to end Spanish colonialism in their land and to denounce openly all the manouevres of Spanish colonialism in Africa." 4. The contents of Resolution 1514 of the UNO.
Berbers - MavicaNET A site devoted to Amazigh berber culture of Morocco. History, calendar, a Tamazightlexicon, berbers, aboriginal Caucasoid peoples of N africa. http://www.mavicanet.com/directory/eng/13042.html
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Berbers - MavicaNET berbers, aboriginal Caucasoid peoples of N africa. the Libyan Amazons werelocated in that part of africa where the berber peoples lived and still live. http://www.mavicanet.com/directory/bel/13042.html
Extractions: Belarusian Bulgarian Croatian Czech Danish Dutch English Estonian Finnish French German Greek Hungarian Icelandic Irish Italian Latvian Lithuanian Norwegian Polish Portuguese Romanian Russian Serbian (cyr.) Serbian (lat.) Slovak Spanish Swedish Turkish Ukrainian Ýòíi÷íûÿ é ðýã³ÿíàëüíûÿ êóëüòóðû Minorities and Indigenous Peoples Indigenous Peoples Ýòíi÷íûÿ é ðýã³ÿíàëüíûÿ êóëüòóðû ... Cultures of Egypt Berbers Sister categories ... Aboriginal Australians Algerian Literature American Indians Arabs Basque Culture Catalan Culture Dravidian Cultures Egyptian Literature Eskimo Cultures Ethnic Minorities: Russia Finno-Ugric Peoples Germanic Peoples Indigenous Law Indigenous Peoples Kurds Minority Languages and Endange... Morocco: Literature Polynesians Romance Peoples Slavs Tunisia: Literature Turkic Culures Feraoun, Mouloud (1913-1962) Mammeri, Mouloud (1917-1989) Ibrahimi, Bachir el (1889-1965) See also Êóëüòóðà / Ýòíi÷íûÿ é ðýã³ÿíàëüíûÿ êóëüòóðû / African Cultures Berber Sites No filters selected ...
Africa in subsaharan africa and Arabic speaking Arab-berber people predominate inNorth africa. Pygmies are the indigenous people of central africa. http://www.algebra.com/algebra/about/history/Africa.wikipedia
Extractions: Regular View Dictionary View (all words explained) Algebra Help my dictionary with pronunciation , wikipedia etc Africa portal A satellite composite image of Africa Africa is the world 's second-largest continent and second most populous after Asia . At about 30,244,050 km² mi² ) including its adjacent islands, it covers 20.3 percent of the total land area on Earth . With over 800 million human inhabitants in 54 countries, it accounts for about one seventh of the world human population World map showing location of Africa The name Africa came into Western use through the Romans , who used the name Africa terra â "land of the Afri" (plural, or "Afer" singular) â for the northern part of the continent, as the province of Africa with its capital Carthage , corresponding to modern-day Tunisia The origin of Afer may either come from: the Phoenician `afar , dust;
ColorQ S Color Club Black And Arab Mixing In North Africa regions of North africa were inhabited by the berber, an indigenous africanpeople. For this article, North africans will include the berber as well as http://www.colorq.org/MeltingPot/Africa/NorthAfr.htm
Extractions: ColorQ Home Afro-Asian Gallery Back to Color Club Main Page Contact ColorQ Since pre-Islamic times, sub-Saharan Africans had been traded as slaves to the Arab world, including North Africa. Unfortunately, this practice goes on today, in the form of black slavery in Sudan (Northeast Africa) and Mauritania (Northwest Africa), where descendents of Arabs still exploit black Africans. Prior to the Islamic conquests by Asian Arabs, many regions of North Africa were inhabited by the Berber, an indigenous African people. For this article, North Africans will include the Berber as well as Arabs who originated from Asia. Today, Western scholars regard the Berber as "white Caucasian", but it should be noted that the Berber language belongs to the Afroasiatic family, and the Berber's recorded presence in Africa as as old as the presence of the Bantu and other black Africans. F., a Berber man from Algeria, said, "Berber people range in color from black to white and inherit a wide geographic range". F. himself is brown and is a speaker of Arabic. "The Berber have their own language", he says, "but when Arabs from Asia invaded North Africa, many Berbers took on Arab language and culture." The script of the Berbers is still used by the Tuaregs. For more information on the Tamazigh language, see www.libyamazigh.org
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Extractions: Algeria's Berbers revere slain singer Matoub Lounes For centuries Berbers have fought to prevent their language and culture from being swamped by Arabs. Most numerous in Morocco, they are scattered across nine countries. Their voice has been most loudly heard, amidst outbreaks of violence, in Algeria. Q: Who are they? The Berbers are a non-Semitic people who since prehistoric times inhabited the Mediterranean coastline from Egypt to the Atlantic. They dominated North Africa until it was conquered by Arabs in the 7th century. Ethnically, a majority of Moroccans and Algerians are Arabicised Berbers. Today it is more language and culture that set Berbers apart. Berber speakers account for some 50% of Moroccans and 30% of Algerians. Q: Where does the name come from? One theory derives 'Berber' from Barbaros, ancient Greek for 'Outsiders'. Berbers call themselves 'Imazighen' (Free), plural of 'Amazigh'. They call the Maghreb 'Tamazgha', or Land of the Imazighen.
FWB, Fall 1994/Winter 1995 they were assuming that uncivilized indigenous peoples were awaiting thearrival The fact that the berber areas of Kabylia and Aures provided the http://carbon.cudenver.edu/public/fwc/Issue9/berber-2.html
Extractions: B ERBERS At the beginning of the 19th century, political anarchy and economic dependency in the Maghreb made the region vulnerable to the imperial intentions of Europeans, especially the French. The region was under the control of the Ottoman Turks, in 1830, when the French took control of Algiers and then gradually extended military control over the coastal region.8 From the beginning, French imperial policy in North Africa proved to be destructive and violent.9 Militarily, the French controlled the whole region, with the exception of wide pockets in the Atlas Mountain highlands (that were inhabited primarily by Berbers). The colonial French deliberately destroyed the local Maghreb economy while opening the gates to settlement by French civilians. The colonial administration used modern capitalistic interpretations of Roman Law as a means to dispossess the population (including the Berbers) of its territorial domain. By confounding pasture land with uncultivated land, and jointly owned property with collective property, and by extending the limits of forest lands, the French confined their colonized subjects to progressively diminished space and resources.10 The colonial policy was intended to divide and rule. Juridically, the French applied their own laws, while breaking down the Islamic legal structure. The policy of containment of Berbers (confining their territorial space), while suppressing the Islamic judicial system, drove a wedge between the traditional Arab elites and the Berber peasants. In Morocco (where the same French colonial policy as that conducted in Algeria led indirectly to the current national crisis between Arabs and Berbers), the French provided segregated schools for the Berbers, while they tried to rally Berber tribes to the tricolor behind Al-Glawi, a powerful
North Africa -- Facts, Info, And Encyclopedia Article The berbers are the indigenous people in the (The region of northwest africacomprising The majority of people in Northafrica are of berber descent. http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/n/no/north_africa.htm
North Africa - Slider The berbers are the indigenous people in the Maghreb, but their origins are notentirely The majority of people in Northafrica are of berber descent. http://enc.slider.com/Enc/North_Africa
Extractions: Noz North Africa is a region generally considered to include: The Canary Islands Ethiopia Eritrea and Madeira are sometimes considered to be a part of North Africa. The term "North Africa" is also often used to refer to the Maghreb alone (thus excluding the Nile Valley). Some North African countries, particularly Egypt and Libya , often get included in common definitions of the Middle East due to continuous contacts with the Middle East. In addition, the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt is often considered part of the Middle East. North Africa is vastly more uniform ethnically than anywhere in Africa south of the Sahara. It is principally inhabited by Berbers and Arabs , who are scarcely distinguishable physically. The Berbers are the indigenous people in the Maghreb , but their origins are not entirely clear. The majority of people in North-Africa are of Berber descent. Though North African culture as well as its people have both African and Middle Eastern roots, most North Africans are either
Extractions: Africa - The Birthplace of Modern Humans You either love it or hate it . . . Africa Map Click here to see large map Features of Africa Africa is the second-largest continent , after Asia, covering 30,330,000 sq km; about 22% of the total land area of the Earth. It measures about 8,000 km from north to south and about 7,360 km from east to west. The highest point on the continent is Mt. Kilimanjaro - Uhuru Point - (5,963 m/19,340 ft) in Tanzania. The lowest is Lake 'Asal (153 m/502 ft below sea level) in Djibouti. The Forests cover about one-fifth of the total land area of the continent. And the Deserts and their extended margins have the remaining two-fifths of African land. World's longest river : The River Nile drains north-eastern Africa, and, at 6,650 km (4,132 mi), is the longest river in the world. It is formed from the Blue Nile, which originates at Lake Tana in Ethiopia, and the White Nile, which originates at Lake Victoria. World's second largest lake : Lake Victoria is the largest lake in Africa and the is the world's second-largest freshwater lake - covering an area of 69,490 sq km (26,830 sq mi) and lies 1,130 m (3,720 ft) above sea level. Its greatest known depth is 82 m (270 ft).
