WRM Bulletin Nº 87 - Africa / October 2004 THE FOCUS OF THIS ISSUE indigenous peoples IN VOLUNTARY ISOLATION. Index Viewpoint - America - Asia - Imposed Contacts http://www.wrm.org.uy/bulletin/87/AF.html
Extractions: AFRICA REGIONAL CASES - Cameroon: Does isolation still protect forest communities? Indigenous forest peoples' isolation also means that most of them still have almost no access to modern health care, or formal education, and most are unable to speak and read French, the official language that dominates the forest zone in Cameroon. Until recent moves by the Cameroon government and NGOs to enable formal registration few of these people had their own identity cards, and almost all were absent from official census data and electoral lists. Thus they have been unable to stand up to powerful outsiders who sought to abuse their rights and the forest remains an important refuge. http://www.wrm.org.uy/countries/Cameroon/still.html
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Extractions: LOCAL STRUGGLES AND NEWS - Cameroon: Restriction policies in national park have major impacts on women Article based on edited excerpts from: “Women in Campo-Ma’an National Park. Uncertainties and Adaptations in Cameroon”, by Anne Marie Tiani, George Akwah, and Joachim Nguiébouri, in "The Equitable Forest", sent by Rahayu Koesnadi, Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), e-mail: r.koesnadi@cgiar.org
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Extractions: ARTS OF AFRICA, OCEANIA, AND THE AMERICAS Nearly 1,600 objects from Africa, the Pacific Islands, and the Americas are on view in The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Michael C. Rockefeller Wing. They span 3,000 years, three continents, and many islands, and represent a rich diversity of cultural traditions. Highlights of the collection include works from the Court of Benin in Nigeria and sculpture from West and Central Africa; wood sculpture from New Guinea and the island groups of Melanesia and Polynesia; and gold, ceramic, and stone objects from the Precolumbian cultures of Mexico and Central and South America. These collections are of varied materials and types, and range from ritual sculpture to gold and silver ornaments, costumes and textiles, impressive ceremonial figures, and monuments of wood and stone. Although The Metropolitan Museum of Art made its first acquisitions among these fields a group of Peruvian antiquities as early as 1882, no significant commitment to the arts of Africa, Oceania, or the Americas was made until 1969. At that time, Nelson A. Rockefeller offered the entire collection of a museum that he had founded in 1954, the Museum of Primitive Art, to the Metropolitan Museum. Included in the gift were 3,300 works of art, a specialized library, and a photographic archive. A separate department for the care, study, and exhibition of these works and study materials was then established at the Metropolitan. Today the collections of the Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas are housed in the Michael C. Rockefeller Wing, named for Nelson Rockefeller's son, who collected many of the Asmat objects from Irian Jaya, western New Guinea, that are now in the Museum. Among the most spectacular objects in the wing are the nine 15-foot-high Asmat memorial poles (bis) collected by Michael Rockefeller in the early 1960s. The Rockefeller Wing opened to the public in February 1982 and houses 40,000 square feet of exhibition space as well as an office mezzanine with art storerooms, a photograph archive, and the Robert Goldwater Library.
Extractions: See also Eastern Africa Guinea Coast Southern Africa , and Western and Central Sudan The British ban on the international slave trade and the development of Arab-Swahili caravan routes from eastern Africa shifts the trade in slaves to the east. In western Central Africa, heightened demand for local African products such as ivory, wax, and rubber allows previously subjugated or isolated peoples such as the Chokwe to rise to economic prominence and displace traditional powers such as the far-flung Lunda and Luba states . Further east, the Arab-Swahili trade also deprives these polities of the trade on which they are dependent. The emergence of numerous small-scale chiefdoms results in the production of new forms of ornate and luxurious courtly arts across Central Africa. Elsewhere, extended periods of migration in present-day Gabon and political consolidation in modern Cameroon lead to the development of new forms of funerary and courtly art. The European partition of Africa in 1884 provides state support for German, Belgian, English, and Portuguese expeditions into Central Africa that supply newly created ethnographic museums and geographic societies with specimens of material culture from the region.
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).
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Extractions: showHide_TellMeAbout2('false'); Business Entertainment Games Government ... More... On this page: Dictionary Encyclopedia Map Local Time Dialing Code Stats WordNet Wikipedia Translations Best of Web Mentioned In Or search: - The Web - Images - News - Blogs - Shopping Equatorial Guinea Dictionary (Click to enlarge) Equatorial Guinea (Mapping Specialists, Ltd.) E·qua·to·ri·al Guin·ea kwÉ-t´r Ä-Él gÄn Ä, -tÅr -, Äk wÉ- A country of west-central Africa including islands in the Gulf of Guinea. Originally inhabited by Pygmy peoples, it was discovered by the Portuguese in 1472. The largest island, now called Bioko, was ceded to Spain by Portugal in 1778, and the mainland territory, Ro Muni, came under Spanish rule in 1885. The colony became known as Spanish Guinea, and it gained independence from Spain in 1968. Malabo is the capital and the largest city. Population: 523,000 . var tcdacmd="cc=edu;dt"; Encyclopedia Equatorial Guinea gÄn ) , officially Republic of Equatorial Guinea, republic (1995 est. pop. 420,000), 10,830 sq mi (28,051 sq km), W central Africa. It includes the islands of Bioko (formerly Fernando Po), Annob³n, Corisco, Elobey Grande, and Elobey Chico in the Gulf of Guinea, and Ro Muni on the African mainland. Ro Muni, which includes about 93% of the nation's land area and 75% to 80% of its population, is bordered by Cameroon in the north, by Gabon in the east and south, and by the Gulf of Guinea in the west. Malabo , situated on Bioko, is the capital and largest city. In addition to Malabo, other important cities include Luba (also on Bioko) and Bata and Ebebiyn (in Ro Muni). The country is divided into seven provinces.
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Population - Equatorial Guinea - Africa The fang, indigenous to the mainland but now also living on Bioko Island, About 90 percent of the people are members of the Roman Catholic church, http://www.countriesquest.com/africa/equatorial_guinea/population.htm
TDS; Passports, Visas, Travel Documents southern tropical forest peoples, including the Ewondo, Bulu (subgroup ofBeti), fang Religions Christian 53%, Muslim 22%, indigenous African 25%. http://www.traveldocs.com/cm/people.htm
Extractions: PEOPLE Cameroon's estimated 250 ethnic groups form five large regional-cultural groups: western highlanders (or grassfielders), including the Bamileke, Bamoun, and many smaller entities in the northwest (est. 38% of population); coastal tropical forest peoples, including the Bassa, Douala, and many smaller entities in the Southwest (12%); southern tropical forest peoples, including the Ewondo, Bulu (subgroup of Beti), Fang (subgroup of Beti), Maka and Pygmies (officially called Bakas) (18%); predominantly Islamic peoples of the northern semi-arid regions (the Sahel) and central highlands, including the Fulani, also known as Peuhl in French (14%); and the "Kirdi", non-Islamic or recently Islamic peoples of the northern desert and central highlands (18%). The people concentrated in the southwest and northwest provincesaround Buea and Bamendause standard English and "pidgin," as well as their local languages. In the three northern provincesAdamaoua, north, and far northeither French or Fulfulde, the language of the Fulani, is widely spoken. Elsewhere, French is the principal second language, although pidgin and some local languages such as Ewondo, the dialect of a Beti clan from the Yaounde area, also are widely spoken.
Public Anthropology In the case of the fang people of Western africa one game of choice is Run SheepRun, between development and change in african indigenous people. http://www.publicanthropology.org/Archive/Ca1974.htm
Extractions: Adams, Robert McC. Anthropological Perspectives on Ancient Trade. Current Anthropology Sep., 1974 Vol. 15(3):239-258 Adams identifies two streams of archeological research on the process of trade. The first is limited to documenting the fact of culture contact but offers little reconstruction. He recognizes that technological advances will be required before questions related to broader social implications of trade can be answered. He gives much greater attention to studies with a stated concern with the process and structural impacts of diffusion or trade. Adams argues that archeologists should make greater use of ethno-historic, historic and ethnographic studies which offer a more complete picture of the complexity of trade and how institutional change is an important part of trade. COMMENTS REPLY CLARITY: 2 AARON GRAHAM Illinois State University (Gina Hunter de Bessa) Brown, D. E. Corporations and Social Classification.
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Land Reform / Réforme Agraire / Reforma Agraria / However, many african indigenous peoples do not engage in agriculture, or agriculture For indigenous peoples in subSaharan africa this is particularly http://www.fao.org/docrep/007/y5407t/y5407t0d.htm
Extractions: Policy Advisor, Forest Peoples Programme, and Projects Coordinator, Forest Peoples Project. INTRODUCTION CUSTOMARY LAND TENURE analogy holds: rights can be distributed across many different parcels of land for different purposes, and even though most of the rights cannot be sold, they are often divisible, individual rights transferring easily between individuals or groups. This system of validation and exchange is underpinned by the maintenance of social relations between the different groups who are involved, including indigenous peoples, many of whom face social discrimination from society and the state. THE ROOTS OF STATE LAW State land law in Africa springs from several European legal traditions, which came into force during the colonial era, and which take legal precedence over customary principles in the eyes of states, even though most landholding and transfer in rural Africa has continued to be arbitrated by customary authorities. Briefly, three main juridical traditions form the basis for state land law across sub-Saharan Africa, and their geographical application is directly related to the systems imposed by the colonial powers (after Lynch and Talbott, 1993; Lavigne-Delville, 2000; McAuslan, 2000). These include: English Common Law in countries such as Kenya, Malawi, the United Republic of Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia, which incorporates principles of divided rights of ownership and the separation of what is owned from the physical substance of the land itself;
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