The Kamono Fund Mali is sparsely populated and is the poorest country in africa. The Dogonpeople, like so many indigenous peoples, are living in a changing world. http://www.kah-monno.org/
Extractions: It is said, the best way to improve the economic status of people in a developing country is to educate their girls and women. During our recent visit to the Dogon Country in southern Mali, we discovered it costs about $35.00 per year to send one girl to school and Sahara could not resist offering to help them. We hope that you too, will find it irresistible to help these girls. The Dogon people, like so many indigenous peoples, are living in a changing world. Traditional life-ways are disappearing with the new economy, roads and globalization. The lives of the elders differ greatly from those who are middle-aged. And the youth face a future radically different from either their grandmothers or their mothers. The door between the world the children came from and the one they are bound to inherit, has "education" written on it in big letters; thus the "Kah-Monno Group" was formed. On our visit to Mali this past January 2001, Sahara and I stayed in a village I had known on my first visit to Africa in 1987. During my stay, I was given the name, "Yatome," meaning "a cool place" by the Bamadio family. A name not insignificant in a place that is dry and usually well over 100 degrees in the shade. Soon after our arrival and visit with Chief Bamadio, he asked the elders of the village to find a name for my daughter, Sahara. Several days past before the name was picked and the ceremony to name her began.
African Culture - Society On The Internet The web site for her course peoples and Cultures of africa has information onthe Mande, Indilinga african Journal of indigenous Knowledge Systems http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/culture.html
A New Approach To African Philosophy We know about dogon philosophy through M. Griaules Conversations with It seems to be necessary that the indigenous conquered people of africa http://home.concepts-ict.nl/~kimmerle/Text4.htm
Religions Of The World -- African practices based upon ancient indigenous faiths of subSaharan african peoples.Within the last 100 years in africa (see Table of Statistics) indigenous http://members.aol.com/porchfour/religion/african.htm
Extractions: African and African-Derivative Religions are a large group of beliefs and practices based upon ancient indigenous faiths of sub-Saharan African peoples. Within the last 100 years in Africa (see Table of Statistics ) indigenous religion has declined under the influence of colonialism, Western acculturation and proselytizing by Islam and Christianity. In the African Diaspora (mainly in the Americas) African-derived belief systems are in a state of impressive growth. ithin just the last two years the amount of information made available through the Internet is also impressive. Some of the best information comes to us from Italy, Sweden and Brazil. We are no longer dependent upon reports from academia or encyclopedias. There are now numerous websites maintained by the faithful themselves and, while the quality and quantity of information varies enormously among them, one may now hear from practitioners their own statements of faith. In many, if not most, cases African spirituality has evolved in the Americas. Ancient practices brought westward by slaves became syncretized, more or less, with religious traditions of the slaves' masters. This syncretization is most noticeable in areas dominated by the Catholic faith and where the celebration of saints, votive offerings and other practices found parallels in ancient traditions.
Ethnomathematics Digital Library (EDL) Zaslavsky describes the mathematical practices of the indigenous peoples of Cultural group African, Arab, dogon (Mali), Egyptian, European, Greek, http://www.ethnomath.org/search/browseResources.asp?type=cultural&id=84
Brooklyn Museum their role as living legacies for the indigenous peoples of the Americas. Arts of africa at the Brooklyn museum Ndop Portrait of King Mishe http://users.telenet.be/african-shop/brooklyn_museum.htm
From The Dogons And The Zulus: Two Impossible Stories The dogon Story. The dogons are an indigenous tribe in africa. but also toillustrate that sometimes indigenous people possess information that goes http://www.spiritofmaat.com/archive/jan1/dogons.htm
Extractions: ''Aliens from Sirius Visit African Tribes!'' It sounds like a headline from a supermarket tabloid. But the cave drawings and objects that might support such a story actually exist. I have seen them both in real life and in special documentaries. And although the story of the Dogons may be found elsewhere (we'll give you a link later on), and found in detail in books like The Sirius Mystery by Robert Temple, it is usually not known that another tribe in Africa besides the Dogon holds an almost identical experience in their origin stories: the Zulu. And naturally it is how they say they received this secret knowledge that is challenged, yet it is what this knowledge actually is that makes their stories believable. The Dogon Story The Dogons are an indigenous tribe in Africa. About 100,000 strong, they hold knowledge that they could not possibly have received by today's understanding, for it implies, among other things, the use of giant, powerful telescopes and the mathematical concepts of modern astronomy. And yet it is so. And the story of how they came by this knowledge is equally unbelievable by today's standards, for the Dogons claim that it came from amphibious beings who arrived long ago in a spaceship. We present this not only to bring you the new information I mentioned, which is that another tribe, the Zulu, also claim to have been visited by these same ET's, but also to illustrate that sometimes indigenous people possess information that goes beyond our concepts of what they could possibly know. There have been many theories as to how the Dogons came by this information, but they are all inadequate. The Dogons themselves claim that they have had this knowledge for at least seven hundred years and if that's true it defies everything we think we know about both human and alien presence on Earth.
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).
Arts & Humanities Afrocentric is centered or focused on africa or african peoples, especially in 23 Nubia 2-15 Colonial administration and indigenous groups 3-14 http://www.nigeriainfonet.com/Directory/arts__humanities.htm
Extractions: Adire African Textiles has been established to share our love of the creative works of African textile artists, weavers, dyers, and embroiderers, and to make high quality African textiles accessible worldwide.History, background, and photographs of adire, adinkra, kente, bogolan, Yoruba aso-oke, akwete, ewe, kuba, and nupe textiles. Adire African textiles Nigeria women's weaving introducti... We sell african art, including African masks, African statues and other African articles from Mali and other African countries.. african art for sale, african art, african craftsman's articles, masks, african masks, african statues, african articles, Mali, Africa, wali, Dogon country, Bambaras, Senoufos, Sarakoles, Peuhls, Touaregs, ebony wood, teak wood, cauris, dog, antelope, gazelle, Tyiwara, monkeys, elephants, hippopotamuses, thinkers, woman busts, rhinoceroses, Macoumba, jewelry boxes, ashtrays, wallets, Dogon doors, djembe, drum, crocodile skin, alligator skin, letter openers. African Art Online
"Faces Of Africa" Photographers On Their 30-Year Endeavor Unique dogon Culture Survives in West africa Photographer Fights african PoachingWith Grisly UN Decade of indigenous People Ending to Mixed Reviews http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/10/1020_041020_africa_faces.html
Extractions: October 20, 2004 Carol Beckwith and Angela Fisher have been photographing the people, cultures, and traditional ceremonies of Africa for 30 years. Between them they have published ten coffee table books and numerous articles for magazines, including National Geographic. Their photographs have been exhibited around the world. Now, in celebration of their long collaboration, Fisher and Beckwith ( photo ) have published a new National Geographic book, Faces of Africa. Photo Gallery One and Photo Gallery Two . Warning: Some photos contain nudity.) National Geographic News spoke to the photographers during a recent visit to Washington, D.C. How did you come to work together? Fisher: Carol was shooting for her book on the Masai and I was photographing for my book Africa Adorned in different parts of the continent. My brother was running hot-air-balloon flights over Masai country and invited Carol for a balloon ride on her birthday. One thousand feet into the air he looked into her eyes and said, "I'd like you to meet my sister," appreciating how much we had in common.
American University Library - African Mediagraphy Film looks at the extraordinary achievements of africa s indigenous civilizations . Sur les traces du renard pâle recherches en pays dogon, 19311983. http://www.library.american.edu/subject/media/africa.html
Extractions: Feature Films and Fictional Short Africa . 1984. 4 videocassettes (114 min each). Gives a history of Africa from many locations showing life as it is today plus archival film and dramatized reconstructions of historical events. VHS 588-591 Africa: a history denied Lost civilizations . 1995. 1 videocassette (ca. 50 min.). Film looks at the extraordinary achievements of Africa's indigenous civilizations. Because Africa's white settlers couldn't believe that natives were responsible for the once great kingdoms of Great Zimbabwe and the Swahili Coast, these ancient cultures were credited to everyone from wandering Phoenicians to the Queen of Sheba. Now the place where human history began is being reclaimed from centuries of indifference by the descendants of those lost kingdoms and the glories of their accomplishments are being revealed. VHS 5178
COMMEMORATING THE AFRICAN BURIAL GROUND IN NEW YORK CITY many Africans (as well as other indigenous peoples) possess an In Africansocieties including dogon, Kongo, and Yoruba, realms of the living, dead, http://www.ijele.com/vol1.1/frohne.html
Extractions: SPIRITUALITY OF SPACE IN CONTEMPORARY ART WORKS Andrea Frohne The New York City African Burial Ground was actively used by enslaved and freed Africans and people of African descent from approximately 1712 until 1790. The cemetery covered five to six acres, in which between 10,000 and 20,000 people were buried, with bodies three layers deep in places. The 1991 unearthing of the Burial Ground has altered historical misconceptions, such as the mistaken belief that virtually no slave trade existed in the north. Few realized that during most of the eighteenth-century, New York City held the largest number of enslaved blacks outside of South Carolina. In 1790 for instance, slaves were owned by about 40% of the white households around New York City, with blacks comprising nearly one-quarter of the urban population. In the late seventeenth and entire eighteenth-century, the African Burial Ground was located on the periphery of the town so that funerals were performed beyond the scrutiny and surveillance of Europeans. It was Trinity Church who perhaps prompted use of the site, although it may have been in use prior to the Church's ordering in October 1697, "...that after the expiration of four weeks from the date here of no Negroes be buried within the bounds and limits of the church yard of Trinity Church."
Mali Adventure Travel - Custom Safari Company Explore Africa dogon Country Protected by the cliffs of Bandiagara, the dogon people were to life - indigenous mask dancing; traditional African medicine practices; http://www.exploreafrica.net/mali_high.php
Extractions: Africa is a vast continent containing many different cultures, countries, traditions and geography. Let EXPLORE create a custom itinerary tailored to your specific needs and aspirations at any time of the year. Contact EXPLORE and let us help you create the custom trip of a lifetime!" Dogon Country - Protected by the cliffs of Bandiagara, the Dogon people were almost entirely isolated from the world. Their self-defense comes from their social solidarity which is based on a complex combination of philosophic and religious dogmas, the fundamental law being the worship of ancestors. Ritual masks and corpses are kept in the caves. The Dogon architecture is unique and particular. There are 3 types of villages: the villages from the plateau, the cliff villages and the villages from the low land or plain. The classic Dogon village is laid out in the shape of a human being. Each house is an artery within the body. The design of each house is unique and strives for a Dogon sense of order. The houses in Sangha cling on cliff walls along narrow pathways.
Extractions: Africa is a vast continent containing many different cultures, countries, traditions and geography. Let EXPLORE create a custom itinerary tailored to your specific needs and aspirations at any time of the year. Contact EXPLORE and let us help you create the custom trip of a lifetime!" In Mali you begin to understand its history with a visit to the fabled city of Timbuktu, once a busy trading post on the trans-Saharan caravan route and center of Islamic culture. From there you venture across Mali's exotic landscape to antique villages, as you explore the history and culture of people who brought the desert to life, carving villages out of pink sandstone and shaping castle-like mosques out of mud. You examine striking artwork from wood carvings to rock paintings and observe indigenous mask dances, traditional African medicine practices, and ancient ceremonies in this "crown jewel of western Africa." Day 1 Transfer to Paris Charles de Gaulle airport to board your mid-morning flight to Bamako, Mali, arriving in the early afternoon. Upon arrival you will be met and transferred to your hotel. Before dinner this evening your guide will give a general briefing about the program and an overview of Mali. return to top Day 3 After breakfast at the hotel, transfer to the Bamako airport to board your flight to Timbuktu. Upon arrival in Timbuktu you will be met and transferred to your hotel which is situated on a sandy hillock at the western edge of town. Visit Timbuktus Djingareiber Mosque and European explorers houses.
Paper 5: Indigenous Peoples 2000 indigenous peoples and the Global Environment. The indigenous peoplesof the Americas, Asia, africa, Australia, Europe, and the pacific, http://www.pixibain.co.za/Anthro/Papers/paper5.htm
Extractions: Chapter 1 - INTRODUCTION The notion of indigenous peoples is not new. Historical ethnography and travelogues based much of their early success on reports of bloodthirsty 'natives', savage 'beasts' and cannibalistic 'primitives' with strange customs. Essentially, the notion of the 'other' was being explored and developed, often with inaccurate interpretation.
The First Masks Over thirty thousand years ago, somewhere in africa, an indigenous Hunter had a idea For early indigenous peoples, masks were a way to the gods, and http://www.africans-art.com/index.php3?action=page&id_art=28378
Terralingua -- Indigenous/Minority Views Of Language Among peoples as different as the dogon of Nigeria and the Diné Navajo of the Rights and claims of indigenous people. Education and the reclaiming of http://www.terralingua.org/IndigViews.htm
Extractions: in the words of the people who speak them. The importance of language in human life and in determining the place of humans in the world is stressed in most past and present cultures on earth. In many religious traditions the spoken word is creative power. Ritual, as performed through language, is seen as a way of doing (and making) things right. For the Ancient Greeks, the logos Help us celebrate the diversity of languages; please send your story, poem, proverb or other contribution to Terralingua Story of Elsie Allen (1899-1990) , Pomo (Native Californian) Basketweaver. Story of Frances Jack (1912-1993) , Pomo (Native Californian) Community Activist. Story of Johannes Marainen Story of Johan Mathis Mikkelsen Gavppi
Black History Among the moststudied peoples in this respect are the dogon who live on the With the Westernizing of African cities, much indigenous architecture has http://www.britannica.com/Blackhistory/article.do?nKeyValue=384737
Extractions: Summary: Trek inland to the remote site of Great Zimbabwe, a fabulous "lost city, " which reached the height of its glory in the 14th century. Then, sift through the sands of time to uncover the equally splendid culture of Africa's Swahili Coast. The fabulously wealthy center of the thriving gold and ivory trades until the 16th century, its cities now lie all but forgotten, buried under centuries of indifference. Reclaiming their past from a long tradition of racial prejudice and neglect, the descendants of these lost cultures are only now discovering the extraordinary achievements of Africa's indigenous civilizations. 048 Min. VIDEO 1995 Subject: ANTHROPOLOGY, EARLY CIVILIZATION Series: LOST CIVILIZATIONS VH 7608 Africa, Africas
