Africa For Visitors - Africa Travel Information The dorobo People The term dorobo refers to the original Healing Practices of theSukuma People It is The Music of Zanzibar The prevalent indigenous music in http://goafrica.about.com/library/planner/tan/bl-tanplanner-101-cce.htm
Extractions: zJs=10 zJs=11 zJs=12 zJs=13 zc(5,'jsc',zJs,9999999,'') About Travel Africa for Visitors Travel ... 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 Africa for Visitors newsletter! Kingsley Holgate is a modern day African Explorer in the tradition of the first Victorian adventurers. In the past decade he's led multiple expeditions throughout the continent traveling by foot, canoe, bicycle, inflatable raft, dhow and Land Rover. He's dealt with bandits, dangerous wildlife and many bouts of malaria to follow in the footsteps of his hero David Livingstone. Kingsley Holgate's expeditions include a grueling Cape Town to Cairo adventure on open boats; circumnavigating one of the world's largest salt pans in Botswana by land yacht and a family trip following the Tropic of Capricorn around the globe. Kingsley is currently sailing on a dhow along the coast of East Africa distributing mosquito nets soaked in insect repellent. I've been following his journey and to find out more read my article about the
2.2 Species And Varieties Of Wild Animals Eaten indigenous people. Environment. Subsistence base. Food species (*) The rangeof species harvested is particularly diverse in West africa, http://www.fao.org/docrep/W7540E/w7540e06.htm
Extractions: Contents Previous Next 2.2 Species and varieties of wild animals eaten Virtually all species of wild animals are acceptable as a food resource to some group of people in Africa. Species which may be tabooed by one group of people are a delicacy to another group elsewhere. Species eaten vary from antelopes to monkeys, rodents. reptiles and a whole range of invertebrate species including snails, termites and beetles. Jardin (1970) lists hundreds of species belonging to 236 genera reported to be eaten by people in Africa. Bushmeat is eaten as fresh meat, smoked, salted or sun dried (biltong). Smoking is the most widespread form of preservation and smoked bushmeat is available in urban markets in most African countries. The range of species taken and relative importance of the different species have been documented for several areas of the continent and vary from locality to locality depending mainly on the species available for exploitation in each region and also on hunting restrictions enforced in each county. Rodents are particularly important in terms of range of species and numbers taken in many parts of Africa, possibly because they are not subject to hunting restrictions in many countries and also the fact that their high reproductive capacity makes them relatively more abundant. A comparison of the use of mammalian species in relation to species occurrence in different environments and the subsistence base of the people living in those environments showed that hunter-gatherer communities living in forest environments used a wider range of the species available to them, while pastoralist communities living in dry environments used only a limited number of species (Table 2.3).
Livingstone Expeditions - Conservation dorobo Fund for Tanzania Livingstone Expeditions works with and supports the Support indigenous cultures as they interface with the modern world. http://www.livingstoneexpeditions.com/conservation.html
Extractions: On a Livingstone Expeditions safari, the traveler contributes directly to the preservation of natural resources and the people depending on them. Whether one stays in Conservation Corporation's safari camps, which support the Rural Development Fund or whether one walks with us through the wilderness areas protected through the Dorobo Fund for Tanzania, one is doing more than just traveling responsibly - one is directly helping. More Dorobo Fund for Tanzania: Livingstone Expeditions works with and supports the Dorobo Fund for Tanzania - a Minnesota state registered, tax-exempt, non-profit organization whose mission is to preserve wilderness areas and benefit local people within such areas through community-based conservation projects. More Rural Development Fund: The Rural Investment Fund of Conservation Corporation Africa (CCA) strives to incorporate solid based-conservation measures into the operations and mission of its corporation as hotelier and tour operator. More Land and people. Where is the balance? With the current world population having just reached 6 billion humans and with land resources declining, it is strikingly clear of the current imbalance between land and people. In Tanzania, the projected population is expected to increase to 90 million in the next 50 years, which is 3 times what it is now, and in a country where 80% of the population is directly dependent on land resources, one can find a fine example of such an imbalance and a stark danger.
East Africa Living Encyclopedia Tensions between indigenous Tanzanians and the Asian community, The Swahiliwere, and are, an urban people living in stone towns up and down the coast http://www.africa.upenn.edu/NEH/tethnic.htm
On Safari With The Experts - Destinations - Times Online Jackson ole Looseyia is an Il dorobo Masai, a clan of huntergatherers who of the indigenous people, he says, and safeguard the area for eco-tourism. http://travel.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,10325-973468,00.html
Extractions: A close encounter for the Jackman group AT the airstrip, in the heart of the Masai Mara game reserve in Kenya, a fleet of safari vehicles is lined up, waiting to take incoming visitors to their camps and lodges. Although the Mara is a national reserve, the land belongs to the Masai, a tribe of pastoralists whose livestock have traditionally co-existed with the migratory herds of East African plains game. Wrapped in scarlet shukas , adorned with beads and with their ochre dreadlocks, the Masai moran NI_MPU('middle');
Joshua Project - Peoples By Country Profiles Ethnic Tree. Affinity Bloc SubSaharan African. People Name General Digo. 100+Fellowshipping Believers Yes, At least 100 indigenous believers in one or more http://www.joshuaproject.net/peopctry.php?rop3=102607&rog3=KE
Buisness & Human Rights: Kenya of Tanzania; the Bushmen of South africa; and the attention to the plight of indigenouspeoples living in The Ogiek (sometimes referred to as dorobo ) are a http://209.238.219.111/Kenya.htm
Extractions: back to home Business and Human Rights: a resource website Kenya NEW (recent additions to this section; top item is most recent addition) Group Opposing Mining of Titanium is Dissolved [Kenya] - A farmers' group formerly opposed to the titanium mining project in Kwale has been disbanded. The farmers said they would join hands with a committee elected last week to look into the project. The Maumba Nguluku Welfare Association chairman, Mr Frank Mutua, said they took the decision because the government had shown the willingness to address their grievances. (Jonathan Manyindo, The Nation [Kenya], 7 Apr. 2003) Titanium Mine License Eludes Canadian Firm in Kenya - The mining of the world's largest titanium fields on the east African coast of Kenya appears to have hit another snag after the country's new government announced that it is planning to conduct a public forum to discuss whether Tiomin Resources Inc., a Canadian mining firm, should be licensed to start mining the mineral in Kenya. (Jennifer Wanjiru, Environment News Service , 26 Mar. 2003)
Extractions: (for ethnomusicology by region) Across the Frontiers ( Tribal Eye Discusses the international processes and positive and negative external forces that effect change in tribal societies.1976 52 min. Video/C 181 Body Art Throughout history people in nearly every culture have decorated or altered their bodies. The reasons are as varied as the patterns and processes: they seek to define themselves and their positions in society, to declare their allegiance to a god or to a cause, to conform to the customs of a group or to shock or entertain. From body painting to piercing to scarification, from tattoos to plastic surgery, from the Bronze age to the computer age, this film explores and celebrates the stunning diversity of body art. 2000. 50 min. DVD 1239 Different Paths: Shamanism, Cults, and Religion on Demand
Africanfront.com (AUF) Every group of people in africa has people in it who fit these descriptions Hamitoids are not Europeans in black skin, but are indigenous africans who http://www.africanfront.com/research/research1.php
Extractions: Africa's most violent large scale conflicts manifest a virulent misinterpretation of group consciousness constructed along lines of colonial classification of African ethnicity. The classification divides Africans into three groups, Hamite, Bantu, and Nilote. This is a devastating racial coding based on erroneous assumptions advanced by racial supremacists and misguided scholars. A tribe in cultural anthropology, is a theoretical type of human social organization based on small groups defined by traditions of common descent and having temporary or permanent political integration above the family level and a shared language, culture, and ideology. In the ideal model of a tribe, members typically share a tribal name and a contiguous territory; they work together in such joint endeavours as trade, agriculture, house construction, warfare, and ceremonial activities. Tribes are usually composed of a number of smaller local communities (e.g., bands, villages, or neighborhoods) and may be aggregated into higher-order clusters, called nations. As an ideal type, the tribe is regarded by cultural evolutionists as the form of social organization that developed into a stratified society and, eventually, into the type of social organization known as the primitive state. As an ideal type, the tribe derives its unity not from a territorial identity but from a sense of extended kinship.
Weapons In Context: Extract By contrast, many central African peoples believe that except on a few designated In many East African pastoralist societies hunters (dorobo among the http://pittweb.prm.ox.ac.uk/Kent/shieweap/weaobj2.html
Extractions: (pp 9-19; references given by Spring are fully cited in the bibliography This book is primarily intended as a celebration of African artistry and ingenuity. It also attempts to show the way in which arms and armour are incorporated into the complex material systems which express the structure of non-industrialised societies. The book takes as its subject a particular category of artefact which may not conform to Western preconceptions of what constitutes African art, but this should not be allowed to detract from our appreciation. Furthermore, the creativity which has gone into the production of African arms and armour must not be obscured by the fact that these artefacts are often used in a context which attests to man's most negative and destructive cultural proclivity. At the risk of playing devil's advocate, I believe that to underrate the significance of these artefacts within the societies which produced them would be to overlook a whole range of human endeavour and activity. Weapons and Society It is difficult both to detect and to analyse the concept of aesthetic appreciation in societies which do not appear to have a perception of 'art' as we in the West understand it. However, there is some evidence to suggest that there is a considerable difference between the type of object which might be considered of aesthetic significance in an African as opposed to a Western context. As Vaughan (1973) has pointed out, the Marghi of Northern Nigeria 'do not consider rock paintings or calabash decorations fitting topics for artistic activity, while they do view weapons as products which are worthy of an aesthetic appreciation'.
National Museums Of Kenya indigenous medicine, witchcraft and magic in African communities Characteristicsof minority groups Araal, Njemps, Okiek (dorobo) Elmolo, Maasai, http://www.museums.or.ke/enthoclub/kenyacult.html
Extractions: Contact Us Culture C ulture is taken to be the sum of all learnt human behaviour. This in essence, means that culture encompasses all the non-genetic characteristics expressed by humans. That being the case, culture, then, can only be transmitted through the process of socialization, or social education, from generation to generation. The allure of discovering new forms of behaviour is the motivation behind the desire to travel. Once we discover alien cultural traits in terms of beliefs, rules of conduct and norms, even taboos and superstitions, our preconceived ideas are gradually supplanted and replaced with knowledge and appreciation. The human propensity to discriminate against others is more often than not a function of ignorant arrogance. We usually place ourselves on a pedestal of high, nay pure cultural and moral standing. We place our culture a notch higher than others. This is the basis of ethnocentrism, itself a concept founded in the fertility of ignorance. That means we debase that which we do not know since we have not come into contact with it. Apart from the norms and beliefs, as it were the materials cultures of other people are an important element of tourism. How do they dress, conduct business, how do they produce and process food and what makes up their diet? How do they bury their dead?
Cultural Survival The term, however, is not new to indigenous people in its practical aspect. Nativepeople thrived in the eastern africa region as sovereign and autonomous http://209.200.101.189/publications/csq/csq-article.cfm?id=1386
FTR 2002 / UN Commission (b) indigenous peoples and their right to development including Working Groupwas important for African indigenous peoples because they would otherwise http://www.hri.ca/fortherecord2002/documentation/commission/e-cn4-sub2-2002-24.h
Extractions: OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES Report of the Working Group on Indigenous Populations on its twentieth session Chairperson-Rapporteur :. Mr. Miguel Alfonso Martínez The annexes are being circulated as received, in the language of submission only. CONTENTS Paragraphs Page Introduction I. ORGANIZATION OF THE SESSION II. MAJOR ISSUES RAISED BY PARTICIPANTS III. GENERAL OBSERVATIONS BY MEMEBERS OF THE WORKING GROUP IV. CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS Annexes I. List of participants II. List of documents III. List of interventions by observer delegations Introduction 1. The Working Group on Indigenous Populations was proposed by the Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities in its resolution 2 (XXXIV) of 8 September 1981, endorsed by the Commission on Human Rights in its resolution 1982/19 of 10 March 1982, and authorized by the Economic and Social Council in its resolution 1982/34 of 7 May 1982. In that resolution the Council authorized the Sub-Commission to establish annually a working Group to meet in order to: (a) Review developments pertaining to the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous populations, including information requested by the Secretary General annually from Governments, specialized agencies, regional intergovernmental organizations and non-governmental organizations in consultative status, particularly those of indigenous peoples, to analyse such materials, and to submit its conclusions and recommendations to the Sub-Commission, bearing in mind, inter alia, the conclusions and recommendations contained in the report of the Special Rapporteur of the Sub-Commission, Mr. José R. Martínez Cobo, entitled Study of the problem of discrimination against indigenous populations (E/CN.4/Sub.2/1986/7 and Add.1-4);
Marianne Hovind Bakken An Akie participated in a conference on indigenous peoples in Tanzania in 1999.The African Commission on Human and peoples Rights has also made a major http://www.sai.uio.no/studier/hoyere_grad/hfg/sammendrag/2004/Bakken.html
Field Reports Ogiek, also spelt as Okiek, are an indigenous hunting and gathering They arenicknamed dorobo which means poor people who cannot afford cattle. http://www.onevillagefoundation.org/ovf2/field_reports.html
Underlying Causes Of Deforestation Kenya in gaining mileage by giving people land so in the forest and use their indigenousknowledge to 1953 Chief Kitango Teresit - declared dorobo ( Ogiek) chief http://wrm.org.uy/deforestation/Africa/Kenya.html
News In contrast to the majority of present day East African people, One of themajor gripes of the Hadza and all indigenous peoples is that they have so http://www.tazamatrust.org/news.html
Extractions: develop a more holistic approach to conservation. Joined in their quest by wildlife scientist Melly Reuling and the Peterson Brothers of Dorobo Safaris, they address the problems arising from the pressures of developing Africa and the effects on its people, environment and wildlife. Helping communities living in wilderness areas take charge of natural resources, Tazama!Trust works to empower Africans to save and protect endangered treasures for future generations. The worth of the traditionally living Hadza to the academic community is great. So what have all the researchers learned over the years? The following is a sample from hours I have spent with the Hadza, talking to researchers and reading many reports and papers (for some references see: http//www.gseis.ucla.edu/facpage/blurtonjones.html).. Who are the Hadza? They call themselves Hadzabe (had-za-bay), Hadza for short. Most of the Hadza are short too (160 cm on average), but a few, like Naftal, are tall, because some Hadza have intermarried with other peoples. Although their appearance is not a distinctive trait, their language is unique in the world and their lifestyle is now as rare as digging sticks are at your local market. Probably less than 1000 people still speak the Hadza language - which is not closely related to the Khoisan click languages of southern Africa, the language family that includes the !Kung - it seems to be unique. Many fewer than 1000 Hadza speakers still roam the semi-arid bushlands around the Lake Eyasi basin of western Tanzania (see map).
The Status Of Traditional Vegetable Utilization In Kenya peoples and Cultures of Kenya. Transafrica/Rex Collings with KTDA, Nairobi. The utilization of wild food by the Suei dorobo in Northern Kenya. http://www.ipgri.cgiar.org/publications/HTMLPublications/500/ch09.htm
Extractions: National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya Abstract Leafy and fruit vegetables form a significant part of the traditional diets of agricultural communities. Their consumption is, however, generally less significant among pastoral communities. About 200 indigenous plant species are used as leafy vegetables in Kenya. Only a few (4) have been fully domesticated, more (15) are semi-domesticated while the majority are wild. The species used and the wealth of indigenous knowledge vary with the culture, economic pursuits, species availability and level of influence by modernization. The variety of species used as a vegetable, the diversity within the species and the knowledge about their utilization is currently on the decline among many communities. This paper discusses the factors affecting utilization, current status of both fruit and leafy vegetable consumption, past and current trends and the role of indigenous knowledge in their utilization in Kenya. Introduction The use of plant parts for medicine and fruit, tubers, seeds, leaves, etc. for food is an important old practice among pastoral and non-pastoral groups. Among traditional pastoral systems, an important use of plant parts is in soups and milk for flavour and good health. In such cases there would not be a clear distinction between food and medicine. Cooking of leafy vegetables is, however, of more significance among agricultural communities and hunter-gatherers.
