The African Renaissance Conference From Vision To Reality This was to change the course of the african peoples lives irrevocably Kiswahili is spoken by more people than any other indigenous language of africa. http://www.africacentre.org.uk/renaissance.htm
Extractions: Background to the Conference The concept of an African renaissance is rapidly gaining popularity among many African leaders, scholars, entrepreneurs, pan-Africanists, thinkers, artists, and other friends of Africa. Former President Mandela used the concept for the first time in 1994 at an OAU summit in Tunisia. President Thabo Mbeki of South Africa and a growing number of other African leaders have since been using the concept. The concept is increasingly used at African regional and continental gatherings. Eminent African thinkers and academics have also embraced and are increasingly using the concept, as well as international leaders in America and the UK. Centres and Institutes are being established to support and further develop the idea. In South Africa, a debate on the African Renaissance and how it can be used to bring about sustainable growth, stability, peace and competitive participation in the world economy has started. However, much of this debate has so far been confined to the African continent and the conference is part of an effort to bring it to Europe, the most important economic and political partner for Africa. Aims and objectives st Century. Areas of particular concern will be governance, business, science, technology and culture.
Kenya Section Causes And Background Sub-section Causes Of By 1993, Human Rights Watch/africa estimated that 1500 people had died in the The great majority of those displaced were members of the kikuyu, Luhya, http://www.db.idpproject.org/Sites/IdpProjectDb/idpSurvey.nsf/wViewCountries/7FE
Extractions: The majority of the displaced came from the ethnic groups associated with the political opposition (e.g. Luo, Luhya, and Kikuyu) Competing land claims were used to inflame violence among certain ethnic groups People displaced as armed "Kalenjin warriors" attacked Luo, Luhya, and Kikuyu farms Most attacks carried out by organised groups As the campaign for multiparty democracy gained strength [during 1991] and then developed into a full election campaign, violence broke out between different ethnic groups, particularly in the Rift Valley, Western and Nyanza provinces, the heart of the 'white highlands' during colonial times. The 'tribal clashes,' as they became known, first broke out in October 1991 on the border of the three provinces, and rapidly spread to neighboring districts. By December 1991, when parliament repealed the section of the constitution making Kenya a one-party state, large areas of western Kenya had been affected as tens of thousands were displaced from their land. Kalenjin and Maasai politicians opportunistically revived the idea of majimboism, ethnic regionalism, championed by KADU at independence. KANU politicians close to Moi revived the calls for majimboism as a way of countering the demand for multipartyism in Kenya. Under the cover of a call for regional autonomy, prominent politicians demanded the forcible expulsion of all ethnic groups from the Rift Valley, except for those pastoral groups-Kalenjins, Maasai, Turkana and Samburu-that were on the land before colonialism. A number of majimbo rallies were held calling for 'outsiders' in the Rift Valley to return to their 'motherland,' or for 'true' Rift Valley residents to defend themselves from opposition plots to eliminate the indigenous peoples of the valley. While many Kenyans have no quarrel with the concept of regionalism
Kenya Kenya Menu Abbreviations Acronyms List Of Sources In the early 20th century, the British colonialists evicted indigenous nomadic and force mainly kikuyu people out of their homes and constituencies. http://www.db.idpproject.org/Sites/IdpProjectDb/idpSurvey.nsf/wViewSingleEnv/Ken
Extractions: This order and the consequent violent displacements coincided almost exactly with the amendment of the Kenyan Constitution to permit multi-party politics in September 1991 (Article 19, Oct 1997, p. 24). Soon afterwards, parties were formed along tribal lines, with KANU officials paying landless youth to harass and force mainly Kikuyu people out of their homes and constituencies. The major periods of violence and displacement centred around the 1992 and 1997 elections and the main perpetrators of the violence in both these elections were predominantly dispossessed Kalenjin and Maasai supporters of the KANU government against members of opposition groups. By 1993 about 300,000 people had fled their homes (HRW, June 1997, p.36). In addition to the upheaval in the Rift Valley, there was a major outbreak of violence in the Mombasa region/Coast province in August and early September 1997. This violence caused the displacement of up to 120,000 people and left at least 100 dead. The victims again belonged largely to groups perceived to be associated with the political opposition, while the perpetrators were mainly disgruntled young men who were paid to commit the atrocities (US DOS, 30 January 1998, sect 1a; Nowrojee 1998, p. 65; USCR 1998).
Extractions: Environmental Justice Case Study: Maasai Land Rights in Kenya and Tanzania By: Julie Narimatsu Table of Contents Problem Background Key Actors Demographics ... Back to EJ Case Studies Homepage PROBLEM While many people perceive the term eco-tourism to mean a more friendly, sustainable kind of tourism, most are not aware of the negative impacts that result from this type of tourism. Most of what goes on is what is considered "nature tourism." It is based on the use of natural resources in an undeveloped state. Therefore, when tourists engage in "nature tourism," they are seeing the wilds of Africa, South America and Australia, among other destinations, free of human interaction or disruption. To distinguish among the many types of tourism, we will define the more idealistic eco-tourism as "progressive, educational travel, which conserves the environment and benefits the locals (Schaller, 2)." In Africa, the Maasai tribes of Kenya and Tanzania have endured a long history of colonization by the British. The value of the natural resources in these areas became apparent from the very beginning, when the British perceived the pastoralist Maasai and other tribes to be incompatible with the wildlife that inhabited the area. With this separation of people and nature, national parks in Kenya were created without any consideration for the local communities (Cheeseman, 2). Today, these problems have escalated as more and more parks and reserves are being created by the government without the participation or consent of the indigenous people. The indigenous people consider development, whether it is through tourism or other government projects, to only benefit others and not their own situations (Kipuri, 2). Over the course of their existence, Maasai land has been taken away from them repeatedly, and after many broken promises of compensation and participation, the Maasai have started to fight for their land rights. Says Edward ole Mbarnoti, a Maasai leader
FACT SHEET: Republic Of Kenya At A Glance Cushiticspeaking people from northern africa moved into the area that is now Kenya Ethnic Groups kikuyu 22 percent, Luhya 14 percent, Luo 13 percent, http://deploymentlink.osd.mil/deploy/info/africa/kenya/index.shtml
Extractions: FACT SHEET: Republic of Kenya at a Glance Background Kenya is the heart of African safari country, boasting the most diverse collection of wild animals on the continent. There is an annual mass migration of wildebeests in the Masai Mara. Fossils found in East Africa suggest that protohumans roamed the area more than 20 million years ago. Recent finds near Kenya's Lake Turkana indicate that hominids lived in the area 2.6 million years ago. Cushitic-speaking people from northern Africa moved into the area that is now Kenya beginning around 2000 B.C. Arab traders began frequenting the Kenya coast around the first century. Kenya's proximity to the Arabian Peninsula invited colonization, and Arab and Persian settlements sprouted along the coast by the eighth century. During the first millennium A.D., Nilotic and Bantu peoples moved into the region. The Swahili language, a mixture of Bantu and Arabic, developed as a lingua franca for trade between the different people. Arab dominance on the coast was eclipsed by the arrival in 1498 of the Portuguese, who were drawn by spices and money. After venturing further and further down the western coast of Africa, Vasco da Gama finally rounded the Cape of Good Hope and headed up the continent's eastern coast in 1498. Seven years later, the Portuguese onslaught on the region began. By the 16th century, most of the indigenous Swahili trading towns, including Mombasa, had been either sacked or occupied by the Portuguese - marking the end of the Arab monopoly of the Indian Ocean trade.
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My Listings African peoples to renounce their culture, heritage and even religion as dark and to the black indigenous people. By some strange and twisted logic they http://www.iccsus.org/IstConf/404.html
Imperial Reckoning By Caroline Elkins: Reviews Elkins says the kikuyu were often better farmers than the British and claims by championing the rather suspect words of many indigenous people at face http://www.metacritic.com/books/authors/elkinscaroline/imperialreckoning
Freshman Composition Literary Series Ngugi Wa Thiong O to write in his native kikuyu to help revitalize indigenous languages. Rich with the songs and rhythms of the African people, it is easy to see how http://www.bowiestate.edu/academics/english/freshcomp/ngugi.htm
Extractions: Bob Starkgraf Background: Founding president and liberation struggle icon Jomo KENYATTA led Kenya from independence until his death in 1978, when current President Daniel Toroitich arap MOI took power in a constitutional succession. The country was a de facto one-party state from 1969 until 1982 when the ruling Kenya African National Union (KANU) made itself the sole legal party in Kenya. MOI acceded to internal and external pressure for political liberalization in late 1991. The ethnically fractured opposition failed to dislodge KANU from power in elections in 1992 and 1997, which were marred by violence and fraud, but are viewed as having generally reflected the will of the Kenyan people. President MOI stepped down in December of 2002 following fair and peaceful elections. Mwai KIBAKI of the Democratic Party of Kenya defeated KANU candidate Uhuru KENYATTA and assumed the presidency following a campaign centered on an anticorruption platform.
Welcome To The Mirror Online in African history (whether Christianity, Islam, or indigenous expressions offaith), The tales of these two men negotiated differences in kikuyu http://www.africaonline.co.zw/mirror/stage/archive/050731/perspectives25371.html
Precolonial.html The African environment was also not a wilderness that indigenous peoples happily The East African people and environment did not coexist easily; http://www.lclark.edu/~soan/precolonial.html
Introduction Today rasta is the expression of indigenous people fighting for their rights . They are influenced by Christianity, the indigenous kikuyu religion and http://www.uoguelph.ca/~terisatu/Counterplanning/c2.htm
Extractions: The perspective here is that the place of Rastafari in a universal culture, a new society, depends not only on it becoming more informed by class analysis, as Campbell contends, but also on the nurturing of the feminist ferment which here is called 'the new Rastafari.' Original Rastafari is uncompromising in its commitment to 'chant down Babylon,' the capitalist system. However, it is bound by the 'capitalist male deal.' Sexism is the key defining feature distinguishing the old rasta from the new. And it is also a fetter limiting the old rasta to a black nationalist accommodation with capitalism. In contrast, the defining feature of new Rastafari is the affirmation that class consciousness cannot exist without gender consciousness. This study considers gender and class relations in Caribbean and East African popular struggles during three crises of capitalism in the 20th century. It argues that with the growing internationalization of the world market, capital has sought to develop through establishing class alignments characterized by specific gender relations. Using the concept of the 'male deal' to examine gender dynamics during each crisis, the study concludes that the 'new Rastafari' is part of an international social movement of resistance to structural adjustment and affirmation of a new society which transcends the limitations of the male deal.
Extractions: Reproduced, with permission, from: Warren, D. M. 1992. Indigenous knowledge, biodiversity conservation and development. Keynote address at the International Conference on Conservation of Biodiversity in Africa: Local Initiatives and Institutional Roles, 30 August-3 September 1992, Nairobi, Kenya. Keynote Address by D. Michael Warren, Director Center for Indigenous Knowledge for Agriculture and Rural Development Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011 USA International Conference on Conservation of Biodiversity in Africa: Local Initiatives and Institutional Roles National Museums of Kenya Nairobi, Kenya 30 August-3 September 1992 Revised Version - September 12, 1992 Indigenous knowledge and biodiversity are complementary phenomena essential to human development. Global awareness of the crisis concerning the conservation of biodiversity is assured following the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development held in June 1992 in Rio de Janeiro. Of equal concern to many world citizens is the uncertain status of the indigenous knowledge that reflects many generations of experience and problem-solving by thousands of ethnic groups across the globe. Very little of this knowledge has been recorded, yet it represents an immensely valuable data base that provides humankind with insights on how numerous communities have interacted with their changing environment including its floral and faunal resources.
WAR 89 The Orma Boran - A Trypanotolerant East African Breed among the indigenous zebu cattle of East africa. The Boran type cattle of theOrma people in the Tana River district of Kenya is an indigenous Bos indicus http://www.fao.org/ag/againfo/resources/documents/WAR/war/W6437T/w6437t08.htm
Extractions: R.B. Dolan This article is published with the kind permission of the Director, Kenya Trypanosomiasis Research Institute (KETRI), PO Box 362, Kikuyu, Kenya, where the author can also be contacted. L'Institut de recherche sur la trypanosomiase du Kenya a étudié pendant plus de 15 ans les bovins de la race Orma Boran dans la région du fleuve Tana au Kenya, infestée par la mouche tsé-tsé. Ces bovins, par rapport à d'autres races d'Afrique de l'Est, ont démontré une certaine tolérance à la trypanosomiase. Ils ont des taux de morbidité et de mortalité inférieurs et requièrent moins de traitements. Un programme de sélection a été mis en place afin d'améliorer les caractéristiques de production de viande de ces bovins tout en conservant leur trypanotolérance. Les taureaux issus de ce programme de sélection sont aujourd'hui vendus aux éleveurs dans d'autres régions du Kenya infestées par la mouche tsé-tsé. LOS VACUNOS ORMA BORAN, RAZA TRIPANOTOLERANTE DE AFRICA
Kenya Recommended because this site focuses on the Ogiek, an indigenous people living in kikuyu people to the British seizure and appropriation of their land. http://www.coe.ohio-state.edu/mmerryfield/global_resources/modules/AfcKenya.htm
Extractions: http://store.classroom.com/browse/browse.asp?id=38 Recommended this site provides information about a cd-rom and video, by Classroom Connect, which featured a 1,5000 mile, 6 week mountain bike trip through the Great Rift Valley (East Africa) Oct-Nov. 1998. A poster, curriculum guide, cd-rom, video are $69.95. Reviewed by the Stanford University Center for African Studies. Coalition of Violence Against Women (COVAW) - Kenya Recommended because this is a membership-based non-partisan, secular, feminist network of individuals and organizations who are committed to eradicating violence against women. Reviewed by Stanford University Center for African Studies. Coastweek.com (Mombasa)
Islamic World.Net: Countries Ogiek.org supporting the rights of the indigenous people whose Mau Forest Nature Kenya The East africa Natural History Society - working to http://islamic-world.net/countries/kenya.htm
Extractions: Location: Eastern Africa, bordering the Indian Ocean, between Somalia and Tanzania Population: 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 38%, Roman Catholic 28%, indigenous beliefs 26%, Muslim 7%, other 1% Languages: English (official), Kiswahili (official), numerous indigenous languages Area: total: 582,650 sq km, land: 569,250 sq km, water: 13,400 sq km Natural resources: gold, limestone, soda ash, salt barites, rubies, fluorspar, garnets, wildlife, hydropower
Kenya. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 People of African descent make up about 97% of the population; they are divided The official languages of Kenya are Swahili and English; many indigenous http://www.bartleby.com/65/ke/Kenya.html
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AfricaSpeaks.com - Map Of Africa And Resource Links The origins of African Country Names or what they mean. Madagascar Theorigin of the Madagascar is uncertain, some people believe the European http://www.africaspeaks.com/maps/
