Extractions: Fadhili Mshana Staffs come in different materials and forms and most examples in Africa are made of wood and are most commonly used for walking, though some staffs serve as ritual items and as symbols of authority. For example, chiefs, diviners, and linguists own staffs connected with their obligations. This is not to say that such types of staffs are used on a daily basis. Rather, these items are employed during special events and for performing specific tasks. These include chiefs who display them to legitimize their title, and to represent their realm and power. Healers and diviners also utilize staffs in their activities, as do linguists, orators, and leaders of associations (fig.1). To cite an example, in Ghana, major Ashanti chiefs have an okyeame or public spokesman who holds his staff as he speaks to underscore his authority and message. While the woodcarver was the main creator of staffs, the chief or title-holder could ask other artisans like a smith to work with the carver. Indeed, a combined effort perhaps depended on the materials that a staff demanded. If, for instance, metal such as iron and copper was needed, then specialists in this field of metallurgy were called upon to contribute their expertise. In another example, a bead-worker may be involved together with a woodcarver in the creation process if a staff was to be decorated with beads. Considering the crucial functions of staffs, it would seem that after the creation process is completed, other actions may be taken upon the objects. For example, a practitioner would be given the task of manipulating a staff with view to consecrate it, thereafter the object is given to the title person.
Extractions: The independence that carving wood figurines afforded Fundi Mdawalo may also have motivated his father's decision to accept Lambrecht's challenge "to make pictures." John Iliffe tells us that shortly after Lambrecht assumed administrative responsibility for Morogoro, he came under increasing pressure to turn out African labor "without employing compulsion" for the growing needs of European plantation owners. He therefore let them establish a card system. The cards were given to headmen for distribution. Any African who accepted a card from a headman was liable to thirty days' work within fifty-five days on a European enterprise. Those who refused cards, or failed to work them off, were conscripted when necessary for public works. The governor questioned this, but the advantage of the system, according to Lambrecht, was ... that it allowed the worker to choose his employer. As he told an akida [African administrator of a district section], 'everyone is able to work where he likes, be it here or there' (Iliffe 1969:136-137; see also Koponen 1995:402-403).
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Extractions: Kendell Geers at the Centre Pompidou 'Red Sniper' is a new project piece by Kendell Geers and Patrick Codenys. Kendell Geers, who is due to show at Johannesburg's Goodman Gallery in May, is not averse to incorporating pop musical elements into his work. A previous work, shown at London's Delphina Project Space two years ago, included elements of a Sex Pistols song. This new project also follows close on the heals of his appearance at the Palais de Tokyo last year, when the artist launched his monograph My Tongue in Your Cheek . If you can't afford to import it, the latest issue of
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Extractions: by Sue Williamson International Waters comprises six interconnected works which address aspects of sea travel, the role that maritime space played in colonization and the subsequent maintenance of links between Britain and South Africa. The exhibition identifies the "open sea" as a space for exploration, emigration and exchange, and in so doing, acknowledges Seventeenth Century Dutch marine painting (the period of Dutch settlement in the Cape), J M W Turner's Nineteenth Century blurring of maritime space and Piet Mondrian's early Twentieth Century geometric evocation of the meeting between land and sea in his Pier and Ocean series. The year 2000 marks the centenary of the formation of the Union Castle Line which provided mail and passenger services between Southampton and Cape Town until 1977, and the show includes two works which make reference to this fleet. International Waters is an experimental exhibition which has been conceived at a distance specifically for the AVA. In addition to a wall-drawing, a sculpture using found objects and a single photograph, the exhibition presents various forms of language, using neon tubes, an electronic L.E.D. screen, and vinyl adhesive texts. A further exhibition similarly titled will be presented by Palmer at the John Hansard Gallery in Southampton next year, thus re-establishing links between two port cities which were once closely connected by sea trade. Catalogues of both exhibitions will be published late next year.
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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
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Extractions: Africa Languages of Africa Sources: Ethnologue The World Fact Book Country Language Algeria, Al Jaza'ir, People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, Al Jumhuriyah al Jaza'iriyah ad Dimuqratiyah ash Sha'biyah National or official languages: Standard Arabic (official), French, Berber dialects. The number of languages listed for Algeria is 18, including Chaouia, Kabyle, Tumzabt, Taznatit and others. All are living languages. Angola, Republic of Angola, República de Angola, former People's Republic of Angola
News Analysis Voice Of Biafra International (VOBI) Broadcasts My peoples and my nations shall not be sacrificed for the sake of Anyi kwerena ihe Uwazurike gwa ra ha. Ka anyi kwu o kwa ufodi ihe ndia ozo http://www.biafraland.com/newsanalysis100204.htm
Extractions: This is the News Analysis segment of the Voice of Biafra International broadcasts For October 2 nd You have heard the news; now, the analysis My peoples and my nations shall not be sacrificed for the sake of preserving a worthless idea called Nigeria. So speaketh the Lord. And so it is. The peoples and their nations must live and thrive, though the name and concept of Nigeria die. The peoples and their nations must not, and will not, be allowed to perish just to save a dying Nigeria. So says the Lord. Fellow Biafrans: Commit to the Word of God. Let us start this week by reminding you to complete the Remembrance and Mourning Week started on September 29, through October 1, and ending October 6 , marked by the wearing of a black item on your person during this time. This is to remember with sorrow, and mourn our Biafran brethren brutally murdered in cold blood in genocidal action in one of three major waves of mayhem committed against Biafrans by Northern Nigerians and Western Nigerians at this period in 1966. While this is a voluntary exercise, any Biafran who celebrated Nigerian Independence Day on October 1 (yesterday) with Nigerians will have to look deep into his or her own soul and answer the question, why? This year, 2004, marks the beginning of the observation of this tradition. For 34 years, Nigeria never admitted any wrong-doing, never apologized, never showed any remorse, and celebrates October 1 st like nothing ever happened to Biafrans on this day. For our part, we went along, like fools, acting as if nothing ever happened either, perhaps, thinking that if we did not remember, Nigeria might be appeased and accept us into their country. Well, the folly is over now; we now know better. It is incumbent upon us to remember and honor our own history, to remember the bloody and capital injustice done, without provocation, to our people. We have seen how, if we do not do itif we do not do for ourselvesno one else will: certainly, not the murderers themselves.
