Indigenous Crop Protection Practices In Africa indigenous Crop Protection Practices in SubSaharan East africa Mwenu,Mwena (kikuyu), Murao, Kilao (Meru), Mshua, Mbina (Taita), Olsenetoi (Massai) http://www.ippc.orst.edu/ipmafrica/elements/ncpp.html
Extractions: Indigenous Crop Protection Practices in Sub-Saharan East Africa Database of Natural Crop Protectant Chemicals (DNCPC) Products Used, or With Potential Use, for Crop Pest Control in Sub-Saharan East Africa et. al. , 1992). To be classified as beneficials, these products should come from plants that grow well on poor quality land, i.e. do not compete with crop land, they should not act as weeds, they should not support crop pests, and the products should be easily prepared. Some degree of success in the commercial production of these materials has been attained, e.g. rotenone, pyrethrum, nicotine, and neem. Usually, however, these are quite expensive when purchased on the open market. Cheaper when on-farm produced. Commercial plantations are not without pest problems. Tephrosia, for example, suffers from insects, nematodes, damping off, and problems with seed production. Even pyrethrum plants suffer from nematode problems in the foliage. Recently, neem has been hit with severe root rot problems. Further, identification of the active compound(s) in these plants is illusive and very expensive to pursue.
ReliefWeb » Document Preview » Risk Of Conflict Increasing Recent violent clashes between Maasai and kikuyu groups over access to water Kenya Minorities, indigenous peoples and Ethnic Diversity is calling for http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/RMOI-6BF42L?OpenDocument
IRIN Africa Great Lakes KENYA KENYA IRIN Focus On Displaced agency covering subSaharan africa, eight countries in central Asia and Iraq . kikuyu people alleged not be to indigenous to Rift Valley province. http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=20575&SelectRegion=Great_Lakes&Selec
Extractions: English Vigdis Broch-Due is Professor in international Poverty Research and Social Anthropology al the University of Bergen in Norway. She has held senior teaching and research positions at the universities of Washington, Oslo, Cambridge and London, and at Rutgers University. Her books include Carved Flesh/Cast Selves: gendered symbols and social practices (1993), The Poor Are Not Us: poverty and pastoralism in eastern Africa (1999) and Producing Poverty and Nature in Africa (2000). by Vigdis Broch-Due (Editor), Richard A. Schroeder (Editor) North Africa Institute (2001) Development donors have supported thousands of environmental initiatives in Africa over the past quarter century. The contributors to this provocative new collection of essays assess these projects and conclude that environmental programs constitute one of the major forms of foreign and state intervention in contemporary African affairs. Drawing on case study materials from eight countries, the authors demonstrate clearly that environmental programs themselves often have direct and far-reaching consequences for the distribution of wealth and poverty on the continent.
Itineraries - African Kaleidoscope a diverse cultural cross section of South africas indigenous people, by safari van through beautiful kikuyu country to the foothills of Mt. Kenya. http://www.bornfreesafaris.com/africa_kaliedoscope.htm
Extractions: LOCATION: DAYS: 17 Days From $4789 FITNESS LEVEL: Easy HIGHLIGHTS: "The days of exploration are now. The place to explore is here - traversing a quarter of a continent in adventurous luxury. From urban class to classic safari by way of breathtaking Victoria Falls, this experience celebrates the diversity of Africa. An optional journey on the world famous Blue Train is the perfect addition to this ultimate African experience." Safari Price Contact Born Free Africas most scenic drives. You will travel along the Atlantic Ocean through Hout Bay, via Chapmans Peak to the Cape of Good Hope Nature Reserve and Cape Point, where two marine ecosystems and oceans meet. A stop will be made for lunch before visiting the spectacular Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens. Return to your hotel late this afternoon.
Minorities At Risk (MAR) The colonial settlers forcibly evicted the indigenous African In January of1999, the Luhya along with members of the Kisii, kikuyu, Sabaot, http://www.cidcm.umd.edu/inscr/mar/data/kenluhya.htm
Extractions: There is only one factor that increases the chances of future protest actions by the Luhya: significant political restrictions that include limits on free movement, voting, and recruitment to the police, military, and high political office. Low-level protest by group members only emerged in the late 1990s. The elections to choose a successor to Moi, scheduled for late 2002, will likely influence the group's political prospects. More than forty ethnic groups comprise Kenya's population. While no single group forms a majority, the Luhya (14%) are the second largest group after the Kikuyu (22%). Other significant populations include the Luo (13%), Kalenjin (12%), and Kisii (6%) along with smaller groups of indigenous peoples such as the Somalis, Maasai, and Turkana. The term Luhya was first introduced during the colonial era to refer to a linguistic grouping that consists of fifteen different peoples (LANG = 1). They are the Bukusu, Dakho, Kabras, Khayo, Kisa, Marachi, Maragoli, Marama, Nyala, Nyole, Samia, Tachoni, Tiriki, Tsotso, and Wanga. The Luhya follow the same customs as the country's larger groups (CUSTOM = 0). Group members primarily live in the Western Province and adjacent areas of the Rift Valley Province. There has been little group movement across the country's regions (MIGRANT = 1).
African Proverbs, Sayings And Stories - Book Reviews is also found among the kikuyu and other African cultures) Mear ikimojino After many years of listening to the people in their indigenous language, http://www.afriprov.org/resources/bkreview.htm
Extractions: Reviewed by John P. Mbonde The author, Joseph G. Healey, is an American Maryknoll priest who was ordained in 1966. He has worked in East Africa since 1968 and presently is lives in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. He is the renowned prolific writer and analyst of African proverbs and stories including the famous book Towards an African Narrative Theology (published by both Orbis Books and Paulines Publications Africa). He has been in East Africa since 1968, and has written several other books including: A Fifth Gospel: The Experience of Black Christian Values; Kuishi Injili (Living the Gospel); and Kueneza Injili Kwa Methali (Preaching the Gospel Through Proverbs) . He is involved in continuous research on African stories, proverbs, sayings, poems, folklore, etc.
Religion In East Africa Most of the time, when people think about East African tribes, In the beginning,He took Gikuyu, the founder of the kikuyu tribe, and gave him a wife. http://www.personal.psu.edu/users/a/r/art5001/interest.htm
East Africa Living Encyclopedia The kikuyu (or Gikuyu) homeland is around Mount Kenya and it is believed theymigrated With a PreHistoric People The Akikuyu of British East africa. http://www.africa.upenn.edu/NEH/kethnic.htm
Mau Mau, Bibliography Mau Mau indigenous PeoplesKenya - kikuyu (African People) - KenyaHistory,1895-1955. LC 55030100; BL 55002426. THROUP, David. http://users.skynet.be/terrorism/html/kenya_maumau.htm
Extractions: Info, analysis, discussion to build a more just world JWN front page 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))
Reviews: Africa These works of art portray the many aspects of the African peoples life, I feel strongly that indigenous people have the right to their way of life and http://web.cocc.edu/humanities/HIR/Reviews/Africa.html
Extractions: URL: http://www.nmafa.si.edu/ Annotation: This site has four different sections and they are exhibitions, education, museum resources, and general information. Overall I found this site to give a great variety of African Art. Some of the art was just household appliances and others were made to symbolize power. The site not only gave you some history, but also shows you on the map what area these artworks were from and a quick overview about the piece of art. These works of art portray the many aspects of the African peoples life, physical and spiritual. African Art: Aesthetics And Meaning
G21 AFRICA - "The People's Voice" G21 africa The People s Voice by Robert O Doul. Kameme FM (kikuyu for KamemeFM, the People s Voice ) has now gained the status of something of a http://www.g21.net/africa7.html
The Environment Times - Available Articles africa. indigenous knowledge in natural disaster reduction in africa by James Kamara People are going hungry. Our cattle are dying. What can we do? http://www.environmenttimes.net/region.cfm?regionID=13&groupID=4
The Environment Times - Available Articles BRACING FOR HARD TIMES FOR THE indigenous IN KENYA, ANY WAY FORWARD? africas african journalists at a threeday climate change workshop organised and http://www.environmenttimes.net/theme.cfm?themeID=2&groupID=3
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: 40.6% (male 6,575,409; female 6,430,218)
Kenya People Ethnic groups kikuyu 22% Luhya 14% Luo 13% Kalenjin 12% Kamba 11% Kisii 6% Meru6% other African 15% nonAfrican (Asian European and Arab) 1% http://www.world66.com/africa/kenya/people
Extractions: Kenya People - population, ethnic groups, religions and customs the travel guide you write Recent Changes Map View Enlargement [edit this] [Upload image] Population: 28 337 071 (July 1998 est.) Age structure: 0-14 years: 44% (male 6 248 260; female 6 109 443) 15-64 years: 54% (male 7 609 631; female 7 607 810) 65 years and over: 2% (male 333 881; female 428 046) (July 1998 est.) Population growth rate: 1.71% (1998 est.) Birth rate: 31.68 births/1 000 population (1998 est.) Death rate: 14.19 deaths/1 000 population (1998 est.) Net migration rate: -0.35 migrant(s)/1 000 population (1998 est.) Sex ratio: at birth: 1.03 male(s)/female under 15 years: 1.02 male(s)/female 15-64 years: 1 male(s)/female 65 years and over: 0.78 male(s)/female (1998 est.) Infant mortality rate: 59.38 deaths/1 000 live births (1998 est.) Life expectancy at birth: total population: 47.57 years male: 47.02 years female: 48.13 years (1998 est.) Total fertility rate: 4.07 children born/woman (1998 est.) Nationality: noun: Kenyan(s) adjective: Kenyan Ethnic groups: Kikuyu 22% Luhya 14% Luo 13% Kalenjin 12% Kamba 11% Kisii 6% Meru 6% other African 15% non-African (Asian European and Arab) 1% Religions: Protestant (including Anglican) 38% Roman Catholic 28% indigenous beliefs 26% Muslim 6% other 2% Languages: English (official) Swahili (official) numerous indigenous languages Literacy: definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: male: female: 70% (1995 est.)
News 2005 Rising Insecurity In And Around Cherangany Hills Open SENGWER (1) ETHNIC MINORITY HUNTERGATHERER indigenous peoples Chairman,African National Congress. Charles K Kiberen. Member, Sengwer Land Allocation http://www.ogiek.org/news/news-post-05-03-26.htm
Extractions: News 2005 Rising Insecurity in and around Cherangany Hills Open letter by SENGWER ETHNIC MINORITY HUNTER-GATHERER INDIGENOUS PEOPLES P.O. Box 3894 Kitale Kenya March 27, 2005 Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Provincial Administration and National Security, Harambee House, Office of The President, P.O. Box Nairobi Dear Sir, Ref: Sengwer Ethnic Minority Request for Kenya Police Reservist and Deployment of more Administration Police Officers to curb rising Insecurity in and around Cherangany Hills We the undersigned below elders and leaders of Sengwer an ethnic minority hunter-gatherer indigenous peoples hereby wish to bring to your attention the rising insecurity in and around Cherangany hills ( specifically in Talau location in West Pokot district; Kapolet sub-location of Makutano location in Trans Nzoia district; and Kapterit and Kamoi/Chesubet locations in Marakwet districts). We kindly request your office for a combined effort between Sengwer and government security officers to curb the insecurity in the region.
Ogiek.org: In-Depth Who is indigenous in africa? indigenous africans are mostly from hunting and They have identified themselves as an indigenous people, as defined in http://www.ogiek.org/indepth/
Extractions: In-Depth: About the Ogiek's struggle The Ogiek people have a long history of resistance and struggle that has sustained their unity, identity and cultural distinction. Lately however, more than at any other time in their history, the very existence of the Ogiek as a distinct people has come under concerted threat: excision of large chunks of land from their forest homes and settlement of purported squatters thereon. Background to the Ogiek case The documents below provide more information about the Ogiek's history and struggle to maintain their heritage. The Ogiek: The Guardians of the Forest By Ron Nomi - Seattle Preparatory High School - African Studies (December 13, 2004) Natural resources play an important role in the shaping of a culture or the survival of a society. Discussion on Intellectual Property Rights (07.May 2004) DO THE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS IN TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE IN HERBAL MEDICINE BELONG TO THE PASTROLISTS OR HUNTER-GATHERER GROUPS? - I THINK IT SHOULD BELONG TO THE HUNTER - GATHERERS AS IT RELATES TO TREES-THEIR NATURAL FRIENDS...WHAT ABOUT YOU?
Extractions: including the Turkana, Pokot, Maasai, Kikuyu, Borana and Rendille This wonderful collection of utilitarian objects was collected in the bush several years ago by Esther Kahonge when she was doing research for the University of Nairobi in Kenya. These pieces have been well worn and therefore may have cracks or other damage that has sometimes been repaired and sometimes not. The repairs were made in the bush with whatever was handy, such as strips of aluminum, leather, wire or even colored plastic, adding more interest to the piece. In our "throwaway society" we might find it hard to understand why these people would take so much time and care repairing an object instead of creating a new one. There is a lesson there for all of us.
