Cultural Survival Survival Weekly indigenous News indigenous peoples in the Following clashes inthe kwahu South District of between rural farmers and indigenous Fulani, a http://www.culturalsurvival.org/publications/news/print/news_article_print.cfm?i
The Ga-Dangme People:A Historical Sketch III Extensive landgrabbing by government has left indigenous peoples with Ellis, AB, The Yoruba-Speaking peoples of the Slave Coast of West africa, http://members.tripod.com/tettey/Gapart3.htm
Extractions: setAdGroup('67.18.104.18'); var cm_role = "live" var cm_host = "tripod.lycos.com" var cm_taxid = "/memberembedded" Search: Lycos Tripod Free Games Share This Page Report Abuse Edit your Site ... Next LECTURE IV THE FORGING OF NEW GA-DANGME UNITY AND THE KATAMANSO WAR To lead the Gá-Dangme you need the courage of Okaikoi and the sagacity of great high priests. It is a task in selflessness and courage. In all things be bold and fearless,seeking above all to ensure the security and happiness of the people. Like a good tree the strong nation requires continual pruning and reform. The good leader sleeps not for an hour, constantly seeking the interests of his people In this Lecture we examine the factors that led to the emergence of the Gá-Dangme as major players in the political scene of the Gold Coast; look at the principal reasons for the Katamanso War. Accra started to emerge from its short eclipse; the short reign of Ofori Tibo saw the the re-stabilisation of Gá-Dangme politics. The emergence of Tetteh Ahinakwa or Momotse and Okaidja as King of Accra and chief of Gbese respectively led to a reform movement which tried to cleanse the city of corruption and re-establish its politics on a sounder footing. Princes Tetteh Ahinakwa and Okaidja had been ransomed to the Dutch and had gained considerable Western education; they were therefore in a relatively good position to stand back from Gá society and objectively analyse its failures and difficulties. However, once they acceeded to office they lacked a reform party to carry out their reformist programme in the various Gá-Dangme quarters and towns. Attempts to involve the
Extractions: Nairobi, Kenya, 9-13 December 2002 Secondary forests currently constitute a large proportion of the forest cover in Africa. If properly managed they have the potential to provide important environmental benefits and contribute significantly to poverty alleviation especially in rural communities. They can also reduce the pressure on the few remaining areas of primary forest. Unfortunately, the management of secondary forests has not been given significant attention in most African countries with the result that secondary forests are not part of forest management systems. It is for this reason that FAO, in collaboration with ICRAF and CIFOR and with financial support from the Governments of the Netherlands and Germany, organized a workshop to draw the attention of all stakeholders to the need and potential of the sustainable management of secondary forests in Africa. This background paper highlights some main issues on secondary forests as a basis for discussion during the workshop. The issues include the concept of secondary forests, causes and functions of secondary forests, typology and extent, potential of secondary forests as well as the socio-cultural, ecological, technical and politico-institutional aspects of secondary forest management.
Extractions: Web address: For other permissions, use our online reprint request form The power dynamics of the global academy are such that Western researchers and institutions control the dissemina-tion of knowledge, often excluding from recognition and val-orization research by African scholars. This article advocates the reworking of existing fora and the creation of new fora that would provide for the inclusion of African scholars in global academic conversations My presentation is in two parts: the first part contests the power base of local folklore and the strategic production, dissemination, and consumption of knowledge. Here I look at the study of African folklore in the local and global academies as well as the crisis confronting the indigenous scholar in attempting to globalize local knowledge. The second part, which maintains the juxtaposition of the local and the global, shifts emphasis from a crisis in epistemology to a crisis in the local ethnography of communication, as Africa gropes its way through what has become known as a "global village."
Richters HerbLetter accepted modern science s dismissal of indigenous knowledge care systems to reachall africa s people particularly in In Ghana s kwahu district, there is one http://herbs.com/newdisplay.cgi?page=./HL/19981208-5.html&cart_id=4190966.28122
SurfWax Archives News And Articles On Malaria May 25, GNA The kwahu South District ADEQUATE HEALTH CARE FOR indigenous peoples,INCORPORATE TRADITIONAL shown that harmonizing indigenous and conventional http://news.surfwax.com/health/archives/Malaria_archive.html
Extractions: I am using this web site to bring together several of my articles about Kwawu culture and social structure, and also some of my slides, maps and other documents. I will briefly describe some of the contents of the site here. While I am teaching at Camosun College , I am using its technical facilities in AV (Audio Visual). They have recently purchased a new scanner that can make digital images from slides. It is a slow and tedious process, and it took me one day to do the first twenty slides. As my slides are now more than thirty years old, many spoiled by the travel over those years, some destroyed by various moulds and fungi from the hot and humid weather of the tropics, I am taking time between teaching obligations to scan them before they are lost. The â Abe (Palm) â paper is very light. It is from a collection of slides that I took during the seventies when I was a PhD student at the University of Ghana, Legon. I have selected some of those slides, and trimmed and enhanced them with digital editing. I use them here to demonstrate that the oil palm tree (like the Cedar for West Coast First Nations) has many uses, and that many of them can be used to illustrate the difference between womenâs work and men's work. Too many slides made the page open slowly, so I have divided it up into:
Paradoxia In Africa Among the Yorubaspeaking peoples, girls of better class were almost always Epprecht, M. (1998) The Unsaying of indigenous Homosexualities in http://www2.rz.hu-berlin.de/sexology/GESUND/ARCHIV/GUS/AFRICAOLD.HTM
Extractions: Growing Up Sexually World Reference Atlas (Oct., 2002) [to Atlas Index [to Main Index Janssen, D. F. (Oct., 2002). Growing Up Sexually . Volume I: World Reference Atlas. Interim report. Amsterdam, The Netherlands [Janssen, D. F. (Oct., 2002). Growing Up Sexually in Sub-Saharan Africa . Interim Excerpt. Amsterdam, The Netherlands] "Easy, easy, many women will weep if you err" "Now unfold your scrotums and sleep in it" "Nyina owe, nyina owe, mayo wandi fuma ingawile nyina owe, nyina owe, nalete cisungu candi, nyina owe, nyina owe" Geographic Index Angola Benin Botswana Burkina Faso ... Cameroon , Central Africa, Congo Côte d'Ivoire Djibouti Ethiopia ... Nigeria , Rhodesia. See Zambia, Zimbabwe Rwanda Senegal Sierra Leone Somalia ... Uganda , Upper Volta. See Burkina Faso Zaire Zambia Zimbabwe Ethnographic Index !Kung !Xo (!Ko), Auin, Ababoua, Abyssinia, Acholi Adamaoua Afar Afikpo Igbo , Ahaggaren. See Taureg Akan , Akela, Akwapim Alur Amhara Amwimbe ... Asaba Ibo , Ashanti. See Akan Atonga , Azande. See Zande , Azimba, Baamba Babunda Bachiga Bafia ... Baganda Bageshu, Bahemba Bahima Bahuana Bahuma Bajoro ... Bajok (Badjok), Bakene
RIC Query - Ghana (18 October 1999) Yet there are many in Ghana who still practice indigenous religion. More specificinformation on the queen mother tradition among the kwahu people of http://uscis.gov/graphics/services/asylum/ric/documentation/GHA00001.htm
Extractions: Response to Information Request Number: GHA00001.ZAR Date: October 18, 1999 Subject: Ghana: Information on the queen mother tradition among the Kwahu people of Ghana From: INS Resource Information Center Keywords: Ghana / Customs and traditions / Traditional practices affecting women Query: 1)Who are the Kwahu of Ghana? 2)What is the function of the "queen mother" tradition among the Kwahu people of Ghana? 3)What would happen if a woman were to refuse the queen mother position? Response: 1) WHO ARE THE KWAHU OF GHANA? The Kwahu are a main constituent kingdom of the Akan ethnic group. The Akan reside in clusters in southern and central Ghana, and the Kwahu reside in the eastern central part of the country. The common language of the Akan kingdoms is Akan, which has many dialects (Stoeltje 1997, p. 41-42; Encyclopedia of World Cultures 1995, p. 11; Associate Professor of Folklore 6 Oct. 1999). According to an associate professor at the Folklore Institute of Indiana University, the Kwahu are mountain-dwellers who are considered to be "wealthy,.. very successful traders...who reside at the top of a mountain, a location which is somewhat removed from the other Akan groups" (Associate Professor of Folklore 5 Sept. 1999, 6, 10 Oct. 1999). 2) WHAT IS THE FUNCTION OF THE "QUEEN MOTHER" TRADITION AMONG THE KWAHU PEOPLE OF GHANA?
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
Extractions: I am using this web site to bring together several of my articles about Kwawu culture and social structure, and also some of my slides, maps and other documents. I will briefly describe some of the contents of the site here. While I am teaching at Camosun College , I am using its technical facilities in AV (Audio Visual). They have recently purchased a new scanner that can make digital images from slides. It is a slow and tedious process, and it took me one day to do the first twenty slides. As my slides are now more than thirty years old, many spoiled by the travel over those years, some destroyed by various moulds and fungi from the hot and humid weather of the tropics, I am taking time between teaching obligations to scan them before they are lost. The â Abe (Palm) â paper is very light. It is from a collection of slides that I took during the seventies when I was a PhD student at the University of Ghana, Legon. I have selected some of those slides, and trimmed and enhanced them with digital editing. I use them here to demonstrate that the oil palm tree (like the Cedar for West Coast First Nations) has many uses, and that many of them can be used to illustrate the difference between womenâs work and men's work. Too many slides made the page open slowly, so I have divided it up into:
Extractions: Home Browse Newsletters Store ... Subscribe Already a member? Log in This Article's Table of Contents Introduction Land and People Economy History and Government Print this Table of Contents Shopping Price: USD $1495 Revised, updated, and still unrivaled. The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary (Hardcover) Price: USD $15.95 The Scrabble player's bible on sale! Save 30%. Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary Price: USD $19.95 Save big on America's best-selling dictionary. Discounted 38%! More Britannica products Ghana
Extractions: Registered: Oct 2004 posted 13 November 2004 09:49 AM This author, Dr. Nana Banchie Darkwah, is a Akan (Ghanian) king. In his book "The Africans Who Wrote The Bible" he asserts that the Akan [ukAn´, Ak´un] people were the core of Egyptian society. He primarily uses one discipline and that is linguistics. For example, everybody knows of the ancient king Akhenaten. In Dr. Darkwah's books he says that the name "Akhenaten" is a transposed African name. "Akhenaten" is the Greek translation of the royal (Denkyira) name "Akenten". Even today the current Denkyirahene king is named Nana (King) Oti Akenten. Another example is the boy king "Tutankhamun". In his book Dr. Nana Banchie says this is another Greek translation of the royal Akuapem names "Tutu" and "Ankoma". Dr. Darkwah is Aduana royalty himself and apparently he has a book called "Egypt: The story Africa has never told" in the works.
SPECTRUM, Vol. 205, No. 2 (Dec. 1989), Pages 29-37 Sabbathkeeping indigenous churches in Ghana come in two kinds For people to worshipin their own language Fante, Brong, Akyem, Nzima, Akwapim, kwahu, and the Anyi http://spectrummagazine.org/library/archive15-20/20-2nortey.html
Project MUSE In contrast with the case of the Holocaust, black peoples experiences of slavery in People in kwahu, Ghana, African Studies Review 43 (2000) 10329 http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/public_culture/v014/14.1mbembe.html
Extractions: The only subjectivity is time. . . . Gilles Deleuze, Over the past two centuries, intellectual currents have emerged whose goal has been to confer authority on certain symbolic elements integrated into the African collective imaginaire. Some of these trends have gained a following, while others have remained mere outlines. Very few are outstanding in richness and creativity, and fewer still are of exceptional power. At the intersection of religious practices and the interrogation of human tragedy, a distinctively African philosophy has emerged. But governed though it has been, for the most part, by narratives of loss, such meditation on divine sovereignty and African people's histories has not yielded any integrated philosophico-theological inquiry systematic enough to situate human misfortune and wrongdoing in a singular theoretical framework. Africa offers nothing comparable
Titles Are Sorted Into Publication Date Order Up Catalogue ofcontact between globalisation and the lives of ordinary people in africa . It narrows down however,to the kwahu Asafo Kyenku and its role in kwahu http://www.africanbookscollective.com/acatalog/Online_Catalogue_Sociology_87.htm
Extractions: The North African sub-region includes six countries, namely Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco and Tunisia. These countries are members of the League of Arab States, and the Organization for Agricultural Development (AOAD), which aims at developing the agricultural sector of its member countries. All North African countries, except Mauritania, are part of the Mediterranean eco-region. However, most parts of the sub-region are deserts or semi-deserts covered by drought resistant shrublands (e.g. Acacia spp., Argania spinosa , palms, alpha grass). Forests mainly cover the northern mountainous parts of the region. The forest cover in North Africa ranges from nine percent in Morocco and less than one percent in Mauritania, Libya and Egypt. Main forest species include Pinus spp., Abies spp., Juniperus spp, Quercus spp. and Populus spp. . Most of the lowland forests (e.g. Quercus suber ) have already been cleared. Forest vegetation has been replaced with open woodlands (e.g. Pine or Thuya woodlands) or maquis, an evergreen short tree, and shrub community. Main NWFP Overall, the NWFP used in North Africa include edible plants (especially fruits, mushrooms, seeds like
Heritage And Contemporary Africa is estimated to be 18million people who belong Kingdoms characterized by indigenouscultures such as the Guan Akan (Ashanti, Akwapim, Fanti and kwahu) form the http://www.users.muohio.edu/yeboahie/brochure.htm
Extractions: Heritage and Contemporary Africa: Ghana (A Miami University Summer Workshop sponsored by The College of Arts and Science, Richard T. Farmer School of Business and School of Education and Allied Professions) Information Brochure th May to June 28 th Contact: Prof. Susan Mosley-Howard Prof. Kay Snavely Prof. Ian Yebaoh School of Education School of Business Tel: 529-6626 Tel: 529-4238 Tel: 529-5013 mosleygs@muohio.edu snavelbk@muohio.edu yeboahie@muohio.edu 203 McGuffy 209B Laws 219 Shideler Introduction The increasing globalization of production, distribution and consumption of goods, services, culture and politics as well as their local ramifications imply that higher education has to emphasis the strength of diversity. Increasingly, social science, physical science, business and education theory and practice have to deal with issues of difference and diversity. Within this context, previously marginalized areas of study are becoming more central to the academy. It is incumbent upon educators to introduce students to non-dominant perspectives, since students effectiveness as future decision-makers will be impacted by diverse and multiple perspectives gained through education.
ISO 639 - Encyclopedia Article About ISO 639. are Ashanti, Fante, Akuapem, Akyem, Twi, kwahu and Brong. now spoken by some 10,000people over the The Arawakan languages are an indigenous language family of http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/ISO 639
Extractions: Feedback ISO 639 is one of several international standards International Organization for Standardization ISO or iso ) is an international standard-setting body made up of representatives from national standards bodies. Founded on February 23 1947, the organization produces world-wide industrial and commercial standards.
The African Commune > Ghana, Profile & History Ashanti, Bono, Fante, Akuapem, Akyem, and kwahu, among others. and fishing were themain indigenous Ghanaian economic with smaller numbers of people mining for http://theafricancommune.com/article.php3?id_article=359
