Upbeat - Spring 2003 NonWestern missionaries from parts of africa, Asia and Latin America are making an Central Asia, Turkic peoples, two countries. Ethiopia, borana http://www.bgcworld.org/newstand/Upbeat/upbt_fall03.htm
Extractions: Fall - 2003 From Mission Field to Mission Force There's great news regarding the need to expand the number of missionaries working among unreached people groups. God is raising up a new source of vigorous and committed laborers for desperately needy places where the gospel has never before been preached. Non-Western missionaries from parts of Africa, Asia and Latin America are making an important contribution to the hard work of evangelism, church planting and humanitarian service among the world's least-evangelized peoples. Ibero-Americans are defined as Latin Americans, Portuguese, Spaniards and North American Hispanics. It was estimated in 1996 that there were 3900 Ibero-American missionaries. Today there are 6500 serving in more than 100 countries. Brazil leads the way with the strongest missionary sending program - with well over 1000 missionaries in some form of cross-cultural ministry. BGC missionaries are involved, eager to help in forming national agencies and training Brazilians for missionary service. The Argentine expansion
Frontier Missions A people group among which there is no indigenous community of believing Turkic peoples, two countries, missionaries on site. Ethiopia. borana, Nomads http://www.bgcworld.org/cplantin/frontier1.htm
Extractions: Unreached People Groups God's passion and ours In the Baptist General Conference, we're convinced that global evangelization is a deep passion in the heart and mind of God. We have a heritage of sharing in that passion, and Conference missionaries have been a part of taking the gospel to some of the world's least evangelized peoples. In 1990, we wanted to renew our commitment to work among unreached people groups and explore new strategies for ministry. We said we wanted to do our fair share in reaching the world's remaining 12,000 unreached people groups. Much was learned during the past decade, and we have continued to refine our list of people groups and strategies for reaching them. What's been accomplished since 1990? Work has begun among Muslims of Central Asia, Africa and France. In the Middle East, we're helping spread the gospel through literature and media. An important new church has been started in the Buddhist stronghold of Thailand. In Ethiopia, India, South America, Vietnam and the Philippines, we have identified other unreached people groups and initiated church planting efforts. Our greatest successes since 1990 have been in Asia, among Apatani, Ibanag, Waray and Thai people groups. What is an unreached people group?
Annual Report 2004 WAMIP (World Association of Mobile indigenous peoples) ( Ilse completed herdoctoral dissertation indigenous knowledge of borana pastoralists in natural http://www.pastoralpeoples.org/lpp2004_report.htm
Extractions: Putting the livestock keeper first by Evelyn Mathias and Ilse Köhler-Rollefson The consumption of meat and milk in developing countries is rising rapidly, and is expected to double in the next two decades. This is triggering a Livestock Revolution: industrial livestock production is expanding into the South. Scientists stress that poor livestock keepers can also benefit from the rising demand if the right measures support them. But what are the right measures, given that the benefits of livestock projects have so far mostly bypassed the poor? Past projects commonly focused on raising animal productivity and optimizing the output of livestock products. Studies have demonstrated that such efforts did not bring the expected positive results on the economic situation of poor and marginalized livestock keepers. Take the example of dairy development: for many decades, livestock projects have fostered crossbreeding local with exotic cattle to improve their dairy performance. A study in Kenya found that this approach had positive impacts on the countrys economy and societys welfare but improved farm performance little, especially among livestock keepers unable to buy the necessary inputs.
Adventures On Horseback: Africa 2005 These indigenous tribes people have joined together in partnership with the Leave borana Lodge after breakfast Drive to Nanyuki Airstrip for Air http://users.rcn.com/cchauvin/africa_2005.html
Extractions: 10 riders At the request of many clients who have come with me on several rides over the past ten years and have experienced the Okavango Delta more than once, I started working on an off-the-beaten path ride in Kenya. The Laikipia plateau in central Kenya is the last stronghold of romantic East Africa: vast open ranches, shadowed by snow-capped Mount Kenya, home to ethnically diverse communities including the Mukogodo Maasai and Samburu . These indigenous tribes people have joined together in partnership with the settlers and ranchers to create a conservation and wildlife haven that spans two million acres (800,000 hectares) of wild savannah. Laikipia offers diverse scenery from the edge of the Great Rift Valley, to the peaks of Mount Kenya, with dusty plains and verdant grasslands, interspersed with rocky hills, rivers, and waterholes. The "Big 5" are often seen (rhino, elephant, lion, leopard, buffalo) and the district is home to more endangered mammals than anywhere else in East Africa, protecting half of Kenya’s black rhino in the Solio Lewa Ol Jogi Ol Pejeta and Ol Ari Nyiro wildebeest migration DAY TO DAY ITINERARY
Uncommon Thought News Feeds: The Battle Of The Rift Valley Michael Dyer, whose family have run the 32000acre borana ranch in the district agrees that ecological considerations often exclude indigenous peoples. http://www.uncommonthought.com/newsfeed/archives/072604-the_battle_of_the_ri.php
Extractions: It is the wedding season in the Laikipia district in Kenya. Among the highlands and plains filled with elephants, giraffes and camels, white Kenyans, descended mainly from the old colonial families, drink champagne by thatched huts complete with solar panels before going to sleep in four-poster beds under a canvas tent. Tourists - there are plenty of them even in the rainy season - are picked up from the nearest town by the camp's light aeroplane. They can live the same lifestyle for $500 (£275) a night. It is a world away from the life lived by the Masai, the nomadic East African tribe that has traditionally lived on this land. Dressed in striking red robes and sandals made of car tyres, they still wander across the plains, looking for land to graze their cattle and goats. Their homes are manyattas - mud huts that are easily built in whichever place they decided to stop - and their wealth is determined by their cattle and by the connection they feel with the land they live in.
POLITICS-KENYA: A Fragile Peace In The Desert indigenous peoples DAY New Universities for a Multicultural Mexico RIGHTSPUERTORICO The Taíno s Last POLITICS africa s Big Men Cling to Power http://ipsnews.net/interna.asp?idnews=28196
GBF Sayyaad (Mr), World Alliance of Mobile indigenous peoples, 5 Lakpour Lane, Suite 24, Boku (Mr), SOS Sahel/WAMIP, Nagelle borana, PO Box 94 http://www.gbf.ch/liste_part_old.asp?no=36&lg=EN&app=
Pseudo-science - EgyptSearch Forums Most of the borana and related peoples live in Ethiopia but A lesson inindigenous peoples of ancient Tropical africa and their direct descendants http://www.egyptsearch.com/forums/Forum8/HTML/001807-7.html
Extractions: E3b is found at frequencies of over 50% only in fully Caucasoid North Africans like Kabyle and Middle Atlas Berbers, and partly Caucasoid East Africans like Ethiopians and Somalis . It is not found substantially in any fully Negroid Sub-Saharan Africans. This fact has yet to be refuted (because it can't be). Not only is this immaterial, it is actually a pristine example of pseudo-science and intellectual bankruptcy, which of course, doesn't begin to address the following, concerning recent sub-Saharan genes in borderline europeans: From Semino et al, Moreover, the observation that the derivative E-M78 displays the DYS392-12/DYS19-11 haplotype suggests that it also arose in East Africa." From Sanchez et al.
ICE 2004 - Session 29 The Afars sustained their production system through the indigenous institutionsMedaa borana people are divided into two major groups, Saboo and Goona. http://www.kent.ac.uk/anthropology/ice2004/sessions/session29.html
Extractions: This paper will present results from empirical research on the local environmental knowledge of nomadic Wodaabe cattle herders of South-eastern Niger to show in detail how pastoral migration strategies are based, on the one hand, on a general classification of the whole plant world, and on the other, on a particular knowledge of plant species, their distribution and their vegetative cycles. Rather than being only adapted, this knowledge allows herders to actively organise the ecological conditions of their arid Savannah environment to suit their economic goals (the improvement of herd performance through pastoral mobility and specialisation). Thus, to give one example, by applying this knowledge, the herders manage to supply their cattle with high quality pasture for as long a period during the yearly cycle as possible. It will be further shown that the general classification of plants is a reflection of the Wodaabes pastoral practices and values.
ICE 2004 - Panels 23 And 10 We suggest these changes are affecting the ways indigenous people perceive It will argue that, like the adjacent borana cattle pastoralists to whom they http://www.kent.ac.uk/anthropology/ice2004/panels/panel23and10.html
Extractions: "What is 'traditional' about traditional knowledge is not its antiquity, but the way it is acquired and used. In other words, the social process of learning and sharing knowledge, which is unique to each indigenous culture, lies at the very heart of its "traditionality". Much of this knowledge is actually quite new, but it has social meaning, and legal character, entirely unlike other knowledge " The Four Directions Council (1996) of Canada in Posey (1999:4) For the past several decades, the study of TEK (also called IK, TBK, LK etc.) has been evolving rapidly and has become one of the mainstays of ethnobiological research. In recent years the focus has been on the dynamic nature of TEK. Indeed, as suggested by indigenous voices, the focus has shifted from 'what is known' to the 'how of knowing'. In this sense, shifts in TEK are subtle, constant and impacted by many aspects of cultural change. Thus a panel on the acquisition and transmission of TEK is highly appropriate for a conference on displacement and change. How does TEK change as people move to new areas? How does it stay the same? How can it be described or measured? This panel will explore these themes, both from a scientific and an indigenous perspective. An effort will be made to present different schools of TEK research and different theoretical orientations.
Center For Archaeoastronomy: A&E News Archive and practices of indigenous African peoples. Why study African Astronomy? Instead of telling the star lore of the various African peoples, http://www.wam.umd.edu/~tlaloc/archastro/ae28.html
Extractions: by Jarita Holbrook, History Dept. UCLA Stellar Navigation: Stellar navigation is a method of using the stars to determine directions when traveling at night. During my field work in Tunisia, North Africa, I discovered that the fishermen of the Kerkennah Islands still used stellar navigation to reach their fisheries at night (Holbrook 1998). Since then I've unveiled several sites of stellar navigation all over Africa. A second site which I am researching is the Afar people in Eritrea (Holbrook 1998). During the struggle for independence which ended in 1993, the Afar where consulted to navigate troops at night. Other potential stellar navigation sites are in Senegal, Ghana, Nigeria, and Madagascar. Most but not all of the sites as associated with ocean travel. Summary: My preliminary findings on African Astronomy reveals a continent rich in astronomical traditions. I have presented four of these traditions as separate from each other, but in fact they overlap in interesting and unexpected ways. Such as stars being named for their use in navigation or being named for the season which begins with their appearance. In addition to the four topics mentioned here there are several more focusing on the moon, the sun, the major planets, and the relationship between the stars and man. I continue to search the literature for mention of African astronomical traditions as well as taking trips to Africa to interview people about their astronomy.
African History Start exploring the fascinating history of africa here. South africa hasreleased four new spellcheckers in indigenous languages Setswana, isiZulu, http://africanhistory.about.com/
Extractions: zJs=10 zJs=11 zJs=12 zJs=13 zc(5,'jsc',zJs,9999999,'') About Homework Help African History Homework Help ... Help zau(256,140,140,'el','http://z.about.com/0/ip/417/C.htm','');w(xb+xb+' ');zau(256,140,140,'von','http://z.about.com/0/ip/496/7.htm','');w(xb+xb); Sign Up Now for the African History newsletter! When the Portuguese first sailed down the Atlantic African coast in the 1430s, they were interested in one thing. Surprisingly, given modern perspectives, it was not slaves but gold. However, by 1500 they had traded 81,000 Africans to Europe, nearby Atlantic islands, and to Muslim merchants in Africa.
Extractions: Click here to learn more The information in this section is reproduced from Mark W. Nolting's book, Africa's Top Wildlife Countries, Revised 6th Edition. This content cannot be reproduced without authorization of the author. To purchase Mark's book, please visit: www.africa-adventure.com/dsp_products.html KENYA Introduction Wildlife and Wildlife Area Mount Kenya National Park KENYA The eastern and northern regions of the country are arid. Most of the population and economic production are in the south, which is characterized by a plateau that ranges in altitude from 3,000 to 10,000 feet (915 to 3,050 m), sloping down to Lake Victoria in the west and to a coastal strip to the east.
SIM Country Profile: Mauritius A. There are no indigenous peoples; all ethnic groups immigrated within African People Groups ? Asian People Groups ? South American People Groups ? http://www.sim.org/country.asp?cid=32&fun=2
SIM Country Profile: Zimbabwe Meanwhile, mass migrations of indigenous peoples took place. African PeopleGroups ? Asian People Groups ? South American People Groups ? http://www.sim.org/country.asp?cid=52&fun=1
WORLD FOOD HABITS BIBLIOGRAPHY food insecurity; hunger; Pygmies; africa. Bearak B. 2003. Why People Still IN Famine and Food Security in africa and Asia indigenous Responses and http://lilt.ilstu.edu/rtdirks/AFRICA.html
Extractions: FOOD AND CULTURE Africa Aborampah O. 1985. Determinants of Breast-feeding and Post-partum Sexual Abstinence: Analysis of a Sample of Yoruba Women, Western Nigeria. Journal of Biosocial Science . 17:461-9. [infant feeding; Africa] Aboud FE; Alemu T. 1995. Nutrition, Maternal Responsiveness and Mental Development of Ethopian Children. Social Science and Medicine [child nutrition; Africa] Acho-Chi C. 2002. The Mobile Street Food Service Practice in the Urban Economy of Kumba, Cameroon. Singpore Journal of Tropical Geography . 23(2):131-48. [food distribution; Africa] Almedom AM. 1991. Infant Feeding in Urban Low-income Households in Ethiopia. Ecology of Food and Nutrition . 25:97-109. [infant nutrition; Africa] Anigbo OA. 1987. Commensality and Human Relationship among the Igbo. University of Nigeria Press. [social relations; African; Nigeria; Igbo] Aunger R. 1994. Sources of Variation in Ethnographic Interview Data: Food Avoidances in the Ituri Forest. Ethnology . 33(1):65-99. [food proscriptions; Africa; Zaire] Aunger R. 1994. Are Food Avoidances Maladaptive in the Ituri Forest of Zaire?
Ogiek.org: In-Depth Who is indigenous in africa? indigenous africans are mostly from hunting and They have identified themselves as an indigenous people, as defined in http://www.ogiek.org/indepth/
Extractions: In-Depth: About the Ogiek's struggle The Ogiek people have a long history of resistance and struggle that has sustained their unity, identity and cultural distinction. Lately however, more than at any other time in their history, the very existence of the Ogiek as a distinct people has come under concerted threat: excision of large chunks of land from their forest homes and settlement of purported squatters thereon. Background to the Ogiek case The documents below provide more information about the Ogiek's history and struggle to maintain their heritage. The Ogiek: The Guardians of the Forest By Ron Nomi - Seattle Preparatory High School - African Studies (December 13, 2004) Natural resources play an important role in the shaping of a culture or the survival of a society. Discussion on Intellectual Property Rights (07.May 2004) DO THE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS IN TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE IN HERBAL MEDICINE BELONG TO THE PASTROLISTS OR HUNTER-GATHERER GROUPS? - I THINK IT SHOULD BELONG TO THE HUNTER - GATHERERS AS IT RELATES TO TREES-THEIR NATURAL FRIENDS...WHAT ABOUT YOU?
MEMORANDUM THE CASE FOR THE RECOGNITION AND PROTECTION OF THE African customary law which governs indigenous peoples - recognizes only Besides the notion of trust lands, indigenous peoples in Kenya have lost http://www.ogiek.org/sitemap/case-memorandum.htm
Extractions: This memorandum has been prepared and submitted to the Constitution of Kenya Review Commission by members of pastoralist and hunter-gatherer communities in Kenya. Pastoralists and hunter-gatherers (PHG) have identified themselves as indigenous peoples owing to their culture, relationship and spiritual attachment to their ancestral and traditional territories, in Kenya, and seek to have the new Kenyan Constitution recognize them as such. 2. This Constitution shall obligate the State to recognize the rights of indigenous peoples as stipulated by various international instruments and standards, specifically, ILO Convention 169, the United Nations Declaration on Persons belonging to Ethnic Minorities, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, amongst others, mentioned in this memorandum.
Afrika.no - Kenya: A Fragile Peace In The Desert afrika.no The Index on africa and africa News Update. a non-governmentalorganisation ( NGO) in Isiolo that promotes indigenous people s land rights, http://www.afrika.no/Detailed/9577.html
Extractions: find: in Entire afrika.no Index on Africa News Update Norske sider English Pages April advanced search Fellesrådet The Index on Africa Africa News Update ... English You are here: Archive April Kenya: A fragile peace in the desert Isiolo - Ethnic clashes, blamed on competition for increasingly scarce water and grazing, are sweeping northern Kenya, as drought and famine intensify in the neglected region. Since the beginning of the year, more than 100 people have been killed in renewed violence perpetrated under the cover of long-simmering ethnic animosities, and fueled by the myriad conflicts which surround northern Kenya. The Lord's Resistance Army in northern Uganda, militias in southern Sudan, Oromo Liberation Front guerillas in southern Ethiopia and Somali warlords who consider East Africa's deserts their personal fiefdoms, provide a constant supply of weapons to feuding tribes. The British charity, Oxfam, says northern Kenya is awash' with weapons. In Mandera district, which borders Somalia, the Garre and Murule clans are fighting, and in the most recent flare-up, 23 Garre villagers - mostly women and children - were massacred in a hail of AK-47 gunfire as they slept in their huts. Similar clashes between different ethnic groups are claiming scores of lives in the Marsabit and Turkana regions of Kenya.
IK Monitor Websites (9-3) The handbook has an annex Case Studies on Local and indigenous People s Involvementin A case study on the borana lowlands in Southern Ethiopia. http://www.nuffic.nl/ciran/ikdm/9-3/websites.html
Extractions: Contents IK Monitor (9-3) IKDM Homepage ikdm@nuffic.nl Websites In this feature we recommend websites that deal with the subjects treated in this issue of the Indigenous Knowledge and Development Monitor. CIRAN's information specialists have searched the Internet for relevant, useful pages. Sometimes the sites offer background information, other times the information is supplementary. Indigenous hydrological knowledge Ethiopian Wetlands Research Programme This site describes the University of Huddersfield's research programme on wetlands.
