Benin, Country, Africa: Land And People The fonspeakers, who live in the south, include the fon, or Dahomey (Benin slargest single ethnic group), Aja, Benin, country, africa Land and People http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/world/A0856903.html
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Ethnicity And Race By Countries Benin, African 99% (42 ethnic groups, most important being fon, Adja, Venezuela,Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Arab, German, African, indigenous people http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0855617.html
Extractions: World Countries Afghanistan Pashtun 42%, Tajik 27%, Hazara 9%, Uzbek 9%, minor ethnic groups (Chahar Aimaks, Turkmen, Baloch, and others) Albania Albanian 95%, Greeks 3%, other 2%: Vlachs, Gypsies, Serbs, and Bulgarians (1989 est.) Algeria Arab-Berber 99%, European less than 1% Andorra Spanish 43%, Andorran 33%, Portuguese 11%, French 7%, other 6% (1998) Angola Ovimbundu 37%, Kimbundu 25%, Bakongo 13%, mestico (mixed European and Native African) 2%, European 1%, other 22% Antigua and Barbuda black, British, Portuguese, Lebanese, Syrian Argentina white (mostly Spanish and Italian) 97%; mestizo, Amerindian, other 3%
Choike: All The News Human Rights /indigenous peoples /African Descendants Tue Jun 21 2005 Combatingracism. The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights is organizing http://www.choike.org/nuevo_eng/4/86/noticias.html
Extractions: Colombia: Oil palm plantation in Chocó destroys the livelihood of Afro-Colombian population In 1997 the Afro-Colombian population in the Chocó district, Colombia, was forcibly evicted from its territory by paramilitary forces. The collective territory was unlawfully occupied by firms investing in oil palm plantations. The destruction of natural resources continues. Cases of murder, torture and disappearances have been denounced.
Www.ghanaweb.com: Feature Article Of Wednesday, 31 December 1969 All seem to put indigenous African peoples at the center of the development process.As a result issues such as mass participation, community initiative, http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/printnews.php?ID=19656
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Extractions: Web postnewsline.com Main NUDP Members Accuse President Of Mismanagement Traditional authority in Cameroon and elsewhere is shrouded in myths. The Fon, Chief or King never dies. He disappears! A Fon eating in public is as rare as the tear of a dog. Shaking hands with the Fon in public is an abomination, to say the least. This explains why Fon Achirimbi of Bafut allegedly had reservations shaking hands with a female British royalty!
Benin: Map, History And Much More From Answers.com Ethnic groups, African 99% (42 ethnic groups, most important being fon, Of the indigenous languages, the fon and Yoruba languages are most common. http://www.answers.com/topic/benin-1
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
The My Hero Project - Friends Of Nature: fon started their Bird Watching group in 1996, giving people another way to get in africa. Saint Francis of Assisi was a true example of harmonious http://myhero.com/myhero/hero.asp?hero=FON
World Civilizations Online Chapter 27 -- Chapter 27 Outline Both Europeans and indigenous peoples were active participants in the commerce, Slavery was an indigenous feature of African culture and economy. http://occawlonline.pearsoned.com/bookbind/pubbooks/stearns_awl/chapter27/object
Extractions: Africa and the Africans in the Age of Atlantic Slave Trade Introduction With the rise of the West, the traditional alignment of Africa with the Islamic world was altered. External influences exerted both by the West and by Islam accelerated political change and introduced substantial social reorganization. After 1450, much of Africa was brought into the world trade system, often through involvement in the slave trade. Through the institution of slavery, African culture was transferred to the New World, where it became part of a new social amalgam. Involvement in the slave trade was not the only influence on Africa in this period. East Africa remained part of the Islamic trade system, and the Christian kingdom of Ethiopia continued its independent existence. In some parts of Africa, states formed into larger kingdoms without outside influence. The Atlantic Slave Trade Introduction Along the Atlantic coast of Africa, the Portuguese established trade forts and trading posts, the most important of which was El Mina. Forts normally existed with the consent of local rulers, who benefited from European trade. The initial Portuguese ports were located in the gold- producing region, where the Europeans penetrated already extant African trade routes. From the coast, Portuguese traders slowly penetrated inland to establish new trade links. In addition to trade, the Portuguese brought missionaries, who attempted to convert the royal families of Benin, Kongo, and other coastal kingdoms. Only in Kongo, where Nzinga Mvemba accepted conversion, did the missionaries enjoy success.
Friends Of Nigeria Newsletter Selections, Fall 1997 Mike s research interest led him to establish the Center for indigenous The first General Memberhsp Meeting of Friends of Nigeria (fon) was held during http://www.friendsofnigeria.org/Newsletter_files/vol2_1.htm
Extractions: STUDENTS RESEARCH INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE When Mike Warren was a Peace Corps science teacher in Techiman, Ghana, (Ghana 64-66), he met Mary Salawuh, a long-distance trader based in Techiman. Mary is a Yoruba born in Cape Coast, Ghana. Her mother hailed from Ibadan and her father from Ara near Oshogbo. Going home often with her parents to Nigeria, she is equally at home in both countries. The Warrens married in 1965 and proceeded to Indiana University where Mike worked on his PhD in Anthropology. After being hired at Iowa State University in 1972, he and Mary began training students for summer and sometimes Christmas trips to West Africa, always including Nigeria in the tour. They have taught both Yoruba and Hausa at ISU and have now taken more than 200 students to Africa. For the past two summers, they have taken groups of minority students (African American, Native American, and Hispanic American.) Invariably, the students have fallen in love with Nigeria and Nigerians. Two of the outstanding African-American students have conducted thesis research and gotten along so well they were installed as chiefs in Ara. Quite a number have acquired plots of land in Ara where they intend to build houses.
Extractions: A brief background and history of African Music Music and Dance Dance, music, and story-telling are among the ancient art forms that have flourished for many centuries in Africa. Music and dance are terms that we will use to denote musical practices of African people. Ancient African society did not separate their every day life activities from their music and other cultural experience. Stone (1998) attests to the difficulty of separating music from the cultural context as she says: Oral traditions African people traditionally and in the modern day have a rich oral tradition that insures the passage of cultural practices from one generation to another. Scholars such as Malmusi, 1990; Rycroft,1962, Stone,1982 argue that oral literature and music are intimately connected in most parts of Africa and are often impossible to separate (Shelemany in Groves Dictionary of Music and Musicans , 2001). Listening has been an important skill that has been perfected by oral traditional practices. A number of African musical songs and dances were and are still transmitted from one generation or group to another by word of mouth.
Southern Cameroons: The Culture The fon, among his people, stood as first among equals, and embodiment of the will Text of the 37th Session of the African Commission on Human peoples http://www.unpo.org/news_detail.php?arg=59&par=2087
UNDP - United Nations Development Programme Next, His Royal Highness fon Ngum and his associate Bongeh Jerome presented We need to emphasize traditional knowledge so that indigenous people hold http://www.undp.org/equatorinitiative/secondary/events/CommunityKampung-Journal1
Extractions: Tuesday, February 17, 2004 After a morning of further preparations for the delivery of the community messages at the dinner on Thursday, Marcelino Apuran spoke representing Capitania del Alto y Bajo Izozog (CABI) in Boliva. CABI is an organization that represents the indigenous Izoceno-Guarani people. Their work includes securing land rights and creating a National Park and Integrated Management Area. The last community presentation of the day was by Assane Seiny and Moustapha Maman who are here representing the Ecole Instrument de Paix in Niger. This NGO founded in the Niger River area has found a way to use water hyacinth compost and products to improve income and food security for three villages. The water hyacinth is naturally environmentally destructive as it doubles its population every 12 days. Once large mats of root develop other aquatic plants are crowded out, submerged plants are shaded and fish are starved of oxygen. Dialogue: National Delegates and Community Representatives Facilitators Jason Spensley and Ivy Wong opened the dialogue between country delegates and community participants. Chief Edwin Ogar gave a statement as a representative of Africa. He commented that the right to traditional knowledge is of primary concern and should be recognized by the government. Also, he noted that there is little government support and called for greater information sharing.
African Cinema: Media Resources Center UCB In French, fon and Yoruba with English subtitles. In French, fon and Yoruba with It empowers Black people on the screen by showing how African peoples http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/Africanfilm.html
Extractions: Africa Dreaming Sophia's homecoming / directed by Richard Pakleppa ; produced by Bridget Pickering (28 min.) Sabriya / written and directed by Abderrahmane Sissako ; produced by Dora Bouchoucha Fourati (28 min.) So be it / written, directed and produced by Joseph Gai Ramaka (28 min) The gaze of the stars / directed by Joao Ribeiro ; produced by Pedro Pimenta (28 min.). Four television shorts produced in four different African countries to be shown on the African television series Africa Dreaming. In Sophia'sHomecoming (Namibia) a woman who has worked as a domestic returns home to a terrible discovery: the ruptures caused by apartheid can never be repaired. In Sabriya (Tunisia) a modern woman disrupts the patterned mosaic of male Maghrebi society. So Be It (Senegal), based on a play by Wole Soyinka, follows the destruction of a well intentioned foreign doctor confronting fear, rage and powerlessness in a remote Senegalese village.
Extractions: note: estimates for this country explicitly take into account the effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lower population and growth rates, and changes in the distribution of population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July 2004 est.) Age structure: 0-14 years: 46.8% (male 1,711,075; female 1,679,439) 65 years and over: 2.3% (male 68,890; female 96,724) (2004 est.) Population growth rate: 2.89% (2004 est.) Birth rate: 42.57 births/1,000 population (2004 est.) Death rate: 13.69 deaths/1,000 population (2004 est.) Net migration rate: migrant(s)/1,000 population (2004 est.) Sex ratio: at birth: 1.03 male(s)/female
The Material Culture Of Twins In West Africa. Background on Twins. Twins in West africa. Bangolan People. Bali People. The twins would also be buried in the same fashion as a fon (a king), http://www.sfu.ca/archaeology/museum/ndi/mystudy.html
Extractions: Introduction: Ethnoarchaeology is the study of living societies in order to better understand the past. If we can learn the cultural dynamics of an existing culture, we may have more tools to interpret what we find in the archaeological record. Ethnoarchaeology often focuses particularly on the behaviour patterns responsible for creating physical objects and their spatial distribution. Material culture a reflection of our culture through the material goods we leave behind. For example if you look inside your house and imagine everything that would survive in the ground for a thousand years you soon realize that only non-organic, hard things would make it. Think again what this would tell people about how you live your everyday life, how you think, how you act, how you dress etc. It wouldn't tell them a lot, would it? You can now see one of the hardest parts of archaeology...using the leftovers to understand the complete culture! This study, using the ethnoarchaeological approach, is useful for helping archaeologists in West Africa to understand what they find in an excavation. The reason I chose to do this particular study is personal. My husband is from Cameroon and we were lucky enough to have identical twin boys.
Extractions: Contents: A B C D ... Z Abenaki Native Americans of Quebec Vermont New Hampshire , and possibly Maine Algonquin people Abkhaz - Minority in Georgia Turkey and Russia Abkhazia Acadian French-Canadians of the Canadian Maritimes Accohannock Native Americans of Maryland Achang Yunnan China ... Native Americans of California Acoma Native Americans of the southwest United States and Mexico Adja - Minority in Benin Adyghe - Minority in Russia , in the north Caucasus region. Afar - Minority in Ethiopia Eritrea and Djibouti . Also known as Danakil African-American - Descendants of African slaves brought to North America Afrikaners - Descendents of Dutch settlers / French Huguenot Africa Agni - minority group in Côte d'Ivoire Aguls Dagestani minority group Ahtna - Native Alaskans , along the Copper River Aimaks - Minority group in Afghanistan Aimaq - Minority group in Afghanistan Ainu - Natives of Hokkaido , much of Sakhalin , the Kuriles , and at one time northern Honshu , the Kamchatka Peninsula , and the Amur River basin Aja - Minority group in Benin Ak Chin Native American group now resident in Pinal County, Arizona
