Extractions: 24 day East Africa Written by Gemma Pitcher At 5,199 metres, Mount Kenya is the second highest mountain in Africa after Kilimanjaro . It is, however, far more interesting than Kili. It took until nearly the end of the nineteenth century for explorers to even persuade the outside world that such a mountain could exist. When the German missionary Johann Rebmann first reported the existence of mountain peaks covered in snow on the equator, he was ridiculed. European geographers insisted that he had mistaken for snow chalky rocks or earth on the summit of the mountain. It was not until the Scottish explorer Joseph Thomson reported back to the Royal Geographical Society that he had seen with his own eyes 'a gleaming snow- white peak with sparkling facets , which scintillated with the superb beauty of a colossal diamond' that the mountain's existence was at last admitted in Europe. To the Kikuyu people of the Mount Kenya region, however, the existence of the mountain had never been in doubt.
Fourth World Bulletin, Spring/Summer 1996 Instead, they now face losing more land, as nonindigenous people attempt to buy it The kikuyu were farmers by tradition, which made them useful to the http://carbon.cudenver.edu/public/fwc/Issue10/Africa/maasai-2.html
Extractions: A FRICA At the 1993 meeting of the UNWGIP and also at the 1993 Vienna World Conference on Human Rights, the MDA articulated the major problems that currently threaten Maasai culture and identity. The delegation presented testimony describing the ecological degradation of Maasailand, the lack of adequate educational facilities, Maasai displacement at the hands of competing peoples, and the misappropriation of funds earmarked for indigenous development projects. Foremost among the MDA's concerns is the desire to recover lands in Kenya's Rift Valley Province, which were lost through dispossession over the past century. Because Maasai culture is inextricably bound to the land, their concern is understandable; dispossession of territory threatens to obliterate their culture. In addition to its fear of increasing landlessness, the MDA explains that the Maasai have also been unable to achieve compensation for lands already taken from them. In particular, a great part of Maasailand was set aside for game reserves and national parks to expand Kenya's tourist economy, but to date, the Maasai have not benefitted from that development. Instead, they now face losing more land, as non-indigenous people attempt to buy it (or otherwise take it) from them. And while encroachment disrupts the cultural integrity of the Maasai, unsound farming methods used by non-indigenous peoples further upset the delicate ecological balance of the Rift Valley. The MDA claims that the unrestrained use of the herbicides, pesticides and fertilizers has polluted water sources in grazing areas.
Kenya: History 900 years long) that the British forced on the indigenous peoples of Kenya . Early 2005 saw outbreaks of fighting between Masai herders and kikuyu http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/world/A0859116.html
Extractions: Ads_kid=80218;Ads_bid=0;Ads_xl=0;Ads_yl=0;Ads_xp='';Ads_yp='';Ads_xp1='';Ads_yp1='';Ads_opt=0;Ads_wrd='';Ads_prf='';Ads_par='';Ads_cnturl='';Ads_sec=0;Ads_channels='_GNM_Family,_GNM_QLook,_GNM_QPlus,_GNM_RON_Pop-Under,_GNM_RON_Pop-Up,_GNM_RON_Q,_GNM_Under18'; Reference Desk Sponsored Links TripAdvisor Encyclopedia Kenya During the 1950s and 60s, the anthropologist L. S. B. Leakey discovered in N Tanzania the remains of hominids who lived c.2 million years ago. These persons, perhaps the earliest humans on earth, most likely also inhabited S Kenya. In the Kenya highlands, the existence of farming and domestic herds can be dated to c.1000 B.C. Trade between the Kenya coast and Arabia was brisk by A.D. 100. Arabs settled on the coast during medieval times, and they soon established several autonomous city-states (including Mombasa, Malindi, and Pate). Farmers and herders traveled S from Ethiopia and settled in Kenya in c.2000 B.C.
Arm Sengwer Indigenous Peoples With Guns To Guard Their Lives And SENGWER ETHNIC MINORITY HUNTERGATHERER indigenous peoples Marakwet, WestPokot and affected tribes (kikuyu, Luhya, Sengwer, Marakwet, etc) http://www.fpcn-global.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=121
To The President Of The Republic Of Kenya FPcN Friends Of Sengwer* Ethnic Minority HunterGatherer indigenous peoples Our neighbours (Luhya,Nandi, kikuyu, etc) on the Trans Nzoia side (Kesogon, Kiambu, http://www.fpcn-global.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=122
Kenya - History And Politics subjugating the local indigenous peoples to colonial rule and administration . The largely kikuyu dominated movement was known as the Kenya African http://www.iss.co.za/AF/profiles/Kenya/Politics.html
Extractions: International criticism of government behaviour developed into suspension of aid and support to Kenya. Within the state lawyers, religious groups and political leadership began to co-operate in demanding multi-party democracy. The combined pressures resulted in 1991 in the repeal by parliament of the constitutional clause making Kenya a one party state. The elections in 1992 saw opposition parties winning 88 of the 200 seats in parliament. The government continued to divide the opposition, to deploy state assets to promote its own party political agenda and to play the ethnic/regional division card to keep control. By the time of the 1997 elections the opposition had increased its share of the seats to 109 out of 222 seats, but remained hopelessly divided. Current Political Situation, 2001
AFRICA WATCH The Kalenjin again fought with the kikuyu in the Rift Valley and Burnt of government that would give the indigenous people of the Coastal Province a http://www.iss.co.za/Pubs/ASR/8No4/AfricaWatch.html
Extractions: Institute for Security Studies INTRODUCTION This article focuses on two aspects of the Kenyan socio-political arena, and explains how these provide a useful setting for the President to manipulate the political process to his advantage. The first of these features may be described as a system of personal rule; the second as the ethnicisation of politics. These act as the context within which Moi, by instigating and exacerbating conflict, could and can control the political process. The argument is made here that, in so far as this continues to be the nature of politics in the country, Moi or any eventual successor, can choose to use the same means to retain political power virtually at will. CHRONOLOGY OF VIOLENCE During the course of the December 1992 elections, there was a lull in fighting after which conflict restarted and escalated, now encompassing the Molo, Narok, Pokot, Londiani, Elburgon and Burnt Forest areas of the Rift Valley. The perpetrators of this latest violence expanded to include the Maasai and Pokot ethnic groups. These attacks were aimed primarily at the Kikuyu. After another lull in fighting, there was renewed violence in March 1994. The Kalenjin again fought with the Kikuyu in the Rift Valley and Burnt Forest areas. This was followed by the forced eviction of Kikuyu by the Maasai in the Enoospukia region. In 1995, in the Mai Mahiu area of Naivasha, fighting broke out that left 300 000 people displaced.
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'Just World News' By Helena Cobban: Africa Archives They were based on indigenous kikuyu religion. For millions of people insouthern and central africa, April 1994 was a very momentous month; http://justworldnews.org/archives/cat_africa.html
Extractions: Info, analysis, discussion to build a more just world Caroline Elkins' Mau Mau book, contd. On Sunday, I wrote how much I was learning from a book about Britain's shockingly repressive end-of-empire counter-insurgency in Kenya, Caroline Elkins's Imperial Reckoning . One commenter noted there had later been a letter to the NY Review of Books that had questioned some of Elkins' use of her sources. Today, by chance I picked up an old issue of the NYRB, and there was the letter . It was from David Elstein, who is not a historian of Africa or even, it seems, any kind of expert on matters African. He's a TV producer. His main criticism was with, as he wrote, the fact that, "She suggests 'hundreds of thousands' of Kikuyu died at British handsperhaps 300,000." (Actually, she did not directly write that. She looked at the census records and noted p.366 that, "If the Kikuyu population figure in 1962 is adjusted using growth rates comparable to other [Kenyan] Africans, we find that somewhere between 130,000 and 300,000 Kikuyu are accounted for." She also quotes, without endorsing, a claim by an Asian-Kenyan attorney who had represented thousands of detainees thaas saying that, By the end I would say there were several hundred thousand killed... One hundred thousand easily, though more like two to three hundred thousand. All these people just never came back when it was over." Her own judgments were that the British counter-insurgency campaign in Kenya, "left tens of thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands dead" (p. xvi); and elsewhere that, "at the very least it is safe to assume that the official [british] figure of some eleven thousand Mau Mau killed is implausible given all that has been discovered."(p.366))
Bfree African Mission! - BE The Kingdom! differences of indigenous peoples we clearly need the wisdom of an Africanexpert to About 50 other African languages include Luo, Maa and kikuyu. http://www.bfree.org/missions/bottom.htm
Extractions: NEW FRIEND DOES A. Pick your new friend from the Africans highlighted on the top of this website. B. Commit to pay all or part of the tuition each month to send your new friend to computer school. C. Correspond with your new friend by email! A. Provide the school. B. Field the candidates. C. Obtain funding from you. F. Facilitate communication between you and your new African friend. D. Train the student. E. Seek employment for the student at graduation. B. Hopes someone will care.
BBC News | Africa | Kenya: Journey Through A Rhythm Nation Eric Wainaina (top left) sings in kikuyu but attracts fans from all ethnic groups Chakacha is music from the coastal area, from the indigenous people, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/433896.stm
Extractions: Join Zain Verjee of Capital FM in Nairobi on a tour of Kenya's musical scene, from its traditional roots to the vibrant and dynamic sounds of what's become known as New Fusion. About 12 kilometres from Nairobi city centre on 90 acres of land is the Bomas of Kenya. Bomas - meaning "homestead" in Swahili is a project that replicates various traditional villages in Kenya and preserves diverse traditional song and dance. A nyatiti player is much in demand "We present traditional dances of Kenya from various ethnic groups. Most of the tribes are covered by our dances," says Ben Njeru, the acting training manager of the project. "I don't like other types of music - I like Kenyan music more than any other music," he says. "The music that is played here is music that is the pride of Kenya." A two hour show is performed at the Bomas every afternoon by highly trained dancers and musicians.
G21 AFRICA - "Black Mischief" Njah is grown in the highlands of Kenya, from where the kikuyu people come This is probably the original m kimo, as chickpeas are indigenous to africa. http://www.g21.net/africa5.html
Extractions: Discover the MOIA Discussion List Binyavanga Wainaina Africa has many culinary delights only now being discovered by the rest of the world. BINYAVANGA WAINAINA suggests a Kikuyu dish of m'kimo served with lamb, and a spicy mango salad from the Kenyan coast I HAD a memorable Kenyan meal at a friend's place in Sandton three years ago. We ate a roast leg of goat, sukuma wiki (curly kales) and m'kimo with njah beans.
Peoples Of Kenya The African peoples include many ethnic tribes kikuyu (22%), Luhya (14%), In addition, numerous indigenous languages are spoken nationwide. http://www.cotf.edu/ete/modules/rift/rvpeoples.html
INDIGENOUS GENDERED SPACES: AN EXAMINATION OF KENYA According to activist Alan Durning, indigenous peoples This is most poignantin africa where over 75 percent of the people rely on the land for their http://www.jendajournal.com/vol2.1/chandler-wane.html
Extractions: D. J. Chandler and Njoki Wane Look at this shamba (farm). I had coffee trees from the top of the hill to the river. Every year the coffee co-operative told us the same story. There is no market for your coffee. The competition is high and prices are low. We could not uproot the trees for crop rotation. The government agents told us growing coffee was the way to progress. We were not allowed to plant maize or beans in between the coffee trees. After many years of no money and no food, we decided to cut down all the coffee trees and leave a few for our use The women were the first ones to cut the coffee trees. Somehow everybody in our community followed our example it is like we knew we had to do something to save ourselves and also the soil. Many women and men got sick from the pesticide sprays and those fertilizers we had to buy from the coffee board I guess we had to do what we thought was best for our community (Muthoni, 1998, as told to Wane). As the authors of this article span two different geographical locations and identities themselves, so do the perspectives presented here. Njoki N. Wane, educated both in Kenya and Canada, offers insights from her rural upbringing as an Embu as well as field research among the women in Kenya. DJ Chandler, an Anglo American, brings to the discussion knowledge from her anthropological training and research in West Africa and her commitment to working with and learning about indigenous ways of bringing environmental and social justice to the forefront of development and education praxis. Our views as scholars blend to encourage environmentalists, farmers, scientists, policymakers, educators, feminists and leaders within and beyond indigenous communities to initiate discourse to ensure ethical practices that centralize the voices, spirits and knowledges of women.
MRG - Recent News And Events Too often in africa, the risks of conflict have been picked up too late, Kenya Minorities, indigenous peoples and Ethnic Diversity is calling for the http://www.minorityrights.org/news_detail.asp?ID=356
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).
Untitled Document Originally from Nyeri, the capital kikuyu lands, he was abandoned by his parents at Evon is a wellrecognized advocate of indigenous peoples rights and http://www.yesworld.org/jam/jamtext/jam2004biostext.htm
Extractions: A university student born and raised in Baghdad, Mohammed is determined to present an accurate picture of Iraq and Iraqi youth to the world. As founder of A Better Iraq is Possible, he strives to combat global stereotypes of his country and its people, as well as promote anti-fundamentalism and free thought among Iraqi youth. His organization is working with HBO, Next Entertainment and other media sources to this end; most notably thus far, the organization has been contributing to the production of Bridge to Baghdad. He is setting up a website that will highlight the youth and culture of Iraq and build further intercultural, international alliances.
PEOPLES OF AFRICA Paper Topic 15 Cannibalism A reassessment of Turner s Mountain People.Paper Topic 16 indigenous Agriculture the Best System for africa http://www.stpt.usf.edu/arthurj/Peoples_of_Africa.htm
Extractions: PEOPLES Of AFRICA ANT 4930 (section 601) Lecture: Tuesday , FCT 118N Semester: Spring 2005 Instructor: Dr. John W. Arthur Link to Johns CV and Research Email: mailto:arthurj@stpt.usf.edu Phone: (727)553-4960 Office Hours: Monday and Wednesday 9:00 10:00 am DAVIS HALL 270 Webpage Textbooks Course Objective Policies ... line Links Africa News WEBPAGE http://www.stpt.usf.edu/arthurj/ Brief outlines for each lecture and questions for film days should be printed out before class. These will be available by 11 PM on the evening before the lecture by clicking on the LECTURE TOPIC for the day. I will not give out my lecture notes nor will the film be available on another day. If you are ill, you should obtain the notes for films and lectures from a classmate. Required Texts Readings should be completed before class on the day assigned on the syllabus below. Understanding Contemporary Africa , Edited by April A. Gordon and Donald L. Gordon, 3 rd Edition. Course Description and Objectives This course draws upon works in anthropology and related fields to dispel myths and stereotypes of Africa by addressing issues facing that continent today. The course will incorporate lectures, readings, and discussions focused on themes such as gender relations, the debate over the nature of indigenous cultures, health issues such AIDS and malaria, debt relief to countries, refugees and current conflicts that affect food acquisition and security, and a discussion on the multiple types of religion practiced in
Contextualizing The Gospel In Africa For instance, the kikuyu translation of Ephesians 519 says, understood thatin order for the gospel to come alive in the lives of indigenous people, http://allanturner.com/article09.html
Extractions: Contextualizing The Gospel In Africa This article was written in Kenya, East Africa. By definition, Contextualization is the application of Biblical truths to the circumstances and situations to be experienced in a target culture. And although American culture, contrary to African culture, has been widely influenced by Biblical truths, nevertheless, Biblical principles have been contextualized in our society as well. For instance, it was necessary that the principle of the master-slave relationship articulated in the New Testament almost two thousand years ago be contextualized into the employer-employee relationship of our modern American society. Unfortunately, some Americans who have failed to do this have thought the New Testament to say nothing about our modern employer-employee relationship. Nevertheless, in order to be the kind of people the Lord wants us to be, we must contexualize the truths taught in the Bible to/into our modern society. Having learned how to do this in our own culture, we must now teach the Kenyans how to do the same thing in theirs. The Process The process of contextualization involves a series of stages. The
Maasai: Risk Of Conflict Increasing In Kenya Violent clashes between Maasai and kikuyu groups over access to water KenyaMinorities, indigenous peoples and Ethnic Diversity is calling for the http://www.unpo.org/news_detail.php?arg=64&par=2328
