People Of Zambia The people of Zambia, from the CIA Factbook. vernaculars Bemba, Kaonda,Lozi, lunda, Luvale, Nyanja, Tonga, and about 70 other indigenous languages http://geography.about.com/library/cia/blc3zambiap.htm
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Angola indigenous people suffered from discrimination and economic exploitation. In Bengo, Malange, and lunda Norte Provinces, warehouses were used as prison http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2004/41587.htm
Extractions: The Ministry of Interior, through the Angolan National Police (ANP), is responsible for internal security. The internal intelligence service is directly answerable to the Office of the Presidency. The Armed Forces of Angola (FAA) is responsible for external security but also has domestic responsibilities; the FAA conducted counterinsurgency operations against the Front for the Liberation of the Enclave of Cabinda Armed Forces of Cabinda (FLEC FAC). The civilian authorities maintained effective control of the security forces. Members of the security forces committed human rights abuses. The mixed economy, dominated by oil, grew by over 10 percent during the year; however, most of the country's wealth remained concentrated in a few hands. Although commercial and agricultural activity in urban and rural areas increased since the end of the war, 70 percent of the population of approximately 13 million continued to live in poverty. Approximately 85 percent of the population residing outside of Luanda were employed in agriculture, mostly at a subsistence level. Corruption, nontransparent contracting practices, and unfair enforcement of regulatory and tax regimes favored the wealthy and politically influential. Poor governance continued to limit the provision of basic services to most citizens. Although conditions improved in many parts of the country, the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Assistance (OCHA) estimated that 1.1 million citizens were still at risk of food insecurity, with 500,000 needing immediate food assistance.
FACT SHEET: Zambia At A Glance africa Fact Sheets, Zambia Fact Sheet. The indigenous huntergatherer occupantsof Zambia began to be displaced or absorbed by more advanced migrating http://deploymentlink.osd.mil/deploy/info/africa/zambia/index.shtml
Extractions: FACT SHEET: Zambia at a Glance Background The indigenous hunter-gatherer occupants of Zambia began to be displaced or absorbed by more advanced migrating tribes about 2,000 years ago. The major waves of Bantu-speaking immigrants began in the 15th century, with the greatest influx between the late 17th and early 19th centuries. They came primarily from the Luba and Lunda tribes of southern Zaire and northern Angola but were joined in the 19th century by Ngoni peoples from the south. By the latter part of that century, the various people of Zambia were largely established in the areas they currently occupy. Except for an occasional Portuguese explorer, the area lay untouched by Europeans for centuries. After the mid-19th century, Western explorers, missionaries, and traders penetrated it. David Livingstone, in 1855, was the first European to see the magnificent waterfalls on the Zambezi River. He named the falls after Queen Victoria, and the Zambian town near the falls is named after him. In 1888, Cecil Rhodes, spearheading British commercial and political interests in Central Africa, obtained a mineral rights concession from local chiefs. In the same year, Northern and Southern Rhodesia (now Zambia and Zimbabwe) were proclaimed a British sphere of influence. Southern Rhodesia was annexed formally and granted self-government in 1923, and the administration of Northern Rhodesia was transferred to the British colonial office in 1924 as a protectorate.
Behind The Mask Lozi, lunda, Luvale, Nyanja, Tonga, and about 70 other indigenous languages In the last quarter of 1999 an NGO calling itself Zambia Against People http://www.mask.org.za/sections/AfricaPerCountry/abcnew/zambia/zambia_index.html
African Perspective lunda Sul, Malanje, Moxico, Namibe, Uige, Zaire Religion indigenous beliefs Estimates had it that about 1.5 million people were in need of food, http://www.sis.gov.eg/public/africanmag/issue17/html/inf01.htm
Extractions: Angola Timeline 1483 - Portuguese arrive. 1956 - The early beginnings of the socialist guerrilla independence movement, the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), based in northern Congo. 1950s-1961 - Nationalist movement develops, guerrilla war begins. 1961 - Forced labour abolished after revolts on coffee plantations leave 50,000 dead. The fight for independence is bolstered. 1974 - Revolution in Portugal, colonial empire collapses. 1975 - Angola gains independence but power struggle ensues between MPLA, backed by Cuba, and the FNLA plus Unita, backed by South Africa and the USA. 1979 - MPLA leader Agostinho Neto dies. Jose Eduardo dos Santos takes over as president. 1987 - South African forces enter Angola to support Unita1988. South Africa, Angola, Cuba sign agreement on withdrawal of Cuba's 50,000 troops from Angola by mid-1991. South African army withdraws. 1989 - Dos Santos, Unita leader Jonas Savimbi agree on cease-fire, which collapses soon afterwards and guerrilla activity resumes.
Military.org -- CountryWatch.com lunda chiefdoms also united to form the lunda Kingdom. the names of citiesand regions were converted to indigenous names and all people were required http://www.countrywatch.com/mi_topic.asp?vCOUNTRY=40&SECTION=COVER&TOPIC=POHIS&T
Angola Ethnic Groups And Languages Angola s remaining indigenous peoples fell into two disparate categories. Most spoke Portuguese, although some were also acquainted with African http://www.country-studies.com/angola/ethnic-groups-and-languages.html
Extractions: Ethnic Groups and Languages Although Portuguese was Angola's official language, the great majority of Angolans (more than 95 percent of the total population) used languages of the Bantu familysome closely related, others remotely sothat were spoken by most Africans living south of the equator and by substantial numbers north of it. Angola's remaining indigenous peoples fell into two disparate categories. A small number, all in southern Angola, spoke so-called Click languages (after a variety of sounds characteristic of them) and differed physically from local African populations. These Click speakers shared characteristics, such as small stature and lighter skin color, linking them to the hunting and gathering bands of southern Africa sometimes referred to by Europeans as Bushmen. The second category consisted of mestiços , largely urban and living in western Angola. Most spoke Portuguese, although some were also acquainted with African languages, and a few may have used such a language exclusively. The Definition of Ethnicity
Encyclopedia: ISO 639 Hawaiian is the ancestral language of the indigenous people of the Hawaiian The Tsonga language is spoken in southern africa by the Tsonga people, http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/ISO-639
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Special Report: Food Shortage In Southern Africa: Facts Religion here is split roughly between indigenous beliefs and Christianity, With 9.4 million people, the central African country of Zambia encompasses http://www.careusa.org/newsroom/specialreports/southernafrica/facts.asp
Extractions: Password? Sign up Now! home ... e-mail updates facts Angola Slightly smaller than twice the size of Texas (approximately 481,000 square miles), Angola is bordered by Namibia, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Zambia and the Atlantic Ocean. It is divided into 18 provinces, with the city of Luanda as its capital. The country became independent from Portugal November 11, 1975. As of July 2001, Angolaâs population was estimated to be 10,366,000. Religion here is split roughly between indigenous beliefs and Christianity, while predominant languages include Portuguese, Bantu and a variety of other African tongues. Only 42 percent of the population is literate; the average life expectancy is 38.6 years. The land rises east from a narrow coastal plain to a vast interior plateau; the countryâs highest point is Morro de Moco, at approximately 8,600 feet. Angolaâs climate ranges from semiarid in the southern and coastal areas to cool, dry winters and hot, rainy summers in the north. Nearly all the land is desert or savanna, with hardwood forests in the northeast. Only 2 percent of the country is arable, though it has abundant natural resources, including petroleum, gold, diamonds and iron ore. Despite its natural resources, Angola remains one of the poorest countries in the world, largely the result of a quarter-century of civil war that has devastated the economy. Today, 85 percent of the population depends on subsistence agriculture for its livelihood. Oil production and related activities account for 45 percent of the gross domestic product.
History Of Zambia They came primarily from the Luba and lunda tribes of southern Democratic the Zimbabwe African People s Union (ZAPU), the African National Congress of http://www.historyofnations.net/africa/zambia.html
Extractions: The indigenous hunter-gatherer occupants of Zambia began to be displaced or absorbed by more advanced migrating tribes about 2,000 years ago. The major waves of Bantu-speaking immigrants began in the 15th century, with the greatest influx between the late 17th and early 19th centuries. They came primarily from the Luba and Lunda tribes of southern Democratic Republic of Congo and northern Angola but were joined in the 19th century by Ngoni peoples from the south. By the latter part of that century, the various peoples of Zambia were largely established in the areas they currently occupy. Except for an occasional Portuguese explorer, the area lay untouched by Europeans for centuries. After the mid-19th century, it was penetrated by Western explorers, missionaries, and traders. David Livingstone, in 1855, was the first European to see the magnificent waterfalls on the Zambezi River. He named the falls after Queen Victoria, and the Zambian town near the falls is named after him. In 1888, Cecil Rhodes, spearheading British commercial and political interests in Central Africa, obtained a mineral rights concession from local chiefs. In the same year, Northern and Southern Rhodesia (now Zambia and Zimbabwe, respectively) were proclaimed a British sphere of influence. Southern Rhodesia was annexed formally and granted self-government in 1923, and the administration of Northern Rhodesia was transferred to the British colonial office in 1924 as a protectorate.
Council For World Mission | CWM | Christian Charity Organization Uniting Presbyterian Church in Southern africa (UPCSA) (2%), africanindigenous (10%). Zambia Christianity (63%), indigenous beliefs (36%), Islam (1%) http://www.cwmission.org.uk/about/view_church.cfm?ChurchID=9
Western-Soudan Their migrations are indicative of the mobility of African peoples in many parts and cultures and accepting of the indigenous rulers and their customs. http://users.telenet.be/african-shop/western-soudan.htm
Extractions: var site="sm5african" This is the name conventionally given to the savanna region of West Africa. It is an area dominated by Islamic states situated at the southern ends of the trans-Saharan trade routes. Back to african tribe list The sculpture here is characterized by schematic styles of representation. Some commentators have interpreted these styles as an accommodation to the Islamic domination of the area, but this is probably not an adequate explanation since Islam in West Africa has either merely tolerated or actually destroyed such traditions while exerting other influences.
THEATRES OF ARMED CONFLICT IN AFRICA: PROSPECTS FOR In Angola from Andulo to Bailundo,frorn lunda Morte to lunda do Sul, war isexacting a terrible price on the Angolan people. The regional dimensions of http://www.certi.org/news_events/HarareForumreport/certi-harari/HSolomon.html
Extractions: THEATRES OF ARMED CONFLICT IN AFRICA: PROSPECTS FOR RESOLUTION By Hussein Solomon 1. Introduction What this paper seeks to do is to briefly provide an overview of conflicts in Africa as well as to suggest the certain concrete steps one can undertake to resolve such conflicts. I proceed with one caveat: each conflict situation, which may have some similarity to another conflict, is ultimately unique and needs to be approached as such. Given the fact that my presentation is about several conflicts plaguing this continent, the steps towards conflict resolution that I propose is more of a general nature. 2. Overview of Conflicts in Africa In Algeria, the fighting between government forces and the Armed Islamic Group (GIA) have spread to areas such as Mascara, Khemis Melinia in the Ain Defla district as well as Chief and Ain Soltan, claiming new victims in its wake. In Angola from Andulo to Bailundo,frorn Lunda Morte to Lunda do Sul, war is exacting a terrible price on the Angolan people. The regional dimensions of the conflict have seen their spill-over effects in the Republic of Congo (Brazzaville) and the DRC - it now threatens Zambia. It is this regional dimension of the conflict which I believe constitutes the gravest challenge to SADC. The 11 February 1999 decision by Botswana to grant political asylum to 15 leading secessionist members of the Caprivi-Strip Liberation Movement as well as playing host to another 2423 people who crossed illegally from Namibia into Botswana threaten to further sour relations between the two countries, in the context of their battle for ownership of the disputes Kasikili- Sedudu island.
Terrestrial Ecoregions -- Angolan Miombo Woodlands (AT0701) of mushroomgathering among indigenous people that is widespread in miombo, Illegal strip-mining is increasing in parts of lunda Norte and lunda Sul http://www.worldwildlife.org/wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/at/at0701_full.html
Extractions: Covering all of central Angola and extending into the Democratic Republic of Congo, the extensive Angolan Miombo Woodlands are part of an even larger miombo ecosystem that covers much of eastern and southern Africa. The miombo is characterized by several unique ecological factors, including its propensity to burn, the importance of termites, and the unusual browsing conditions found here. While only poor-quality browsing is available, this ecoregion hosts a rich assortment of large mammals, some bulk feeders like the African elephant ( Loxodonta africana ), some specialized feeders such as the sable antelope (
The Negro, By W.E.B. Du Bois: V. Guinea And Congo If ever a people exhibited unanswerable evidence of indigenous civilization, Meantime the Lubalunda people to the eastward founded Kantanga and other http://www.sacred-texts.com/afr/dbn/dbn07.htm
Extractions: Sacred Texts Africa Index Previous ... Next p. 36 V GUINEA AND CONGO One of the great cities of the Sudan was Jenne. The chronicle says "that its markets are held every day of the week and its populations are very enormous. Its seven thousand villages are so near to one another that the chief of Jenne has no need of messengers. If he wishes to send a note to Lake Dibo, for instance, it is cried from the gate of the town and repeated from village to village, by which means it reaches its destination almost instantly." From the name of this city we get the modern name Guinea, which is used to-day to designate the country contiguous to the great gulf of that namea territory often referred to in general as West Africa. Here, reaching from the mouth of the Gambia to the mouth of the Niger, is a coast of six hundred miles, where a marvelous drama of world history has been enacted. The coast and its hinterland comprehends many well-known names. First comes ancient Guinea, then, modern Sierra Leone and Liberia; then follow the various "coasts" of ancient trafficthe grain, ivory, gold, and slave coastswith the adjoining territories of Ashanti, Dahomey, Lagos, and Benin, and farther back such tribal and territorial names as those of the Mandingoes, Yorubas, the Mossi, Nupe, Borgu, and others. p. 37
Congo (Zaire) Roman Catholic 50%, Protestant 20%, Kimbanguist 10%, Muslim 10%, African 10% Other Luba chiefs, including lunda, settled among neighboring people and http://www.uiowa.edu/~africart/toc/countries/Congo_(Zaire).html
Extractions: Country: Congo (Zaire) Location: Central Africa Independence: June 30, 1960 Nationality: Congolese Capital City: Kinshasa Population: Important Cities: Kisingani, Lubumbashi, Kolwesi Head of State: Lawrence Kabila Area: 2,345,410 sq.km. Type of Government: Dictatorship, presumably undergoing transition to Representative Government Currency: 4.5 CF=1 USD Major peoples: Azande, Chokwe ,Songo, Kongo ,Kuba,Lunda,Bembe Religion: Roman Catholic 50%, Protestant 20%, Kimbanguist 10%, Muslim 10%, African 10% Climate: Equatorial Literacy: Official Language: French Principal Languages: Lingala, Azande, Chokwe, Kongo, Luba Major Exports: Copper, Cobalt, Diamonds, Crude Oil, Coffee Pre-Colonial History The precolonial past of Congo (Zaire) was complex. A diversity of social aggregates developed, ranging from small, autonomous groups of hunters and gatherers to centralized chiefdoms, from settled indigenous village communities to predominantly Muslim and Arab trading communities. Established in the late 1300s, the Kongo Kingdom expanded until the mid-17th century. The
TDS; Passports, Visas, Travel Documents They came primarily from the Luba and lunda tribes of southern Zaire and northern the Zimbabwe African People s Union (ZAPU), the African National http://www.traveldocs.com/zm/history.htm
Extractions: HISTORY The indigenous hunter-gatherer occupants of Zambia began to be displaced or absorbed by more advanced migrating tribes about 2,000 years ago. The major waves of Bantu-speaking immigrants began in the 15th century, with the greatest influx between the late 17th and early 19th centuries. They came primarily from the Luba and Lunda tribes of southern Zaire and northern Angola but were joined in the 19th century by Ngoni peoples from the south. By the latter part of that century, the various peoples of Zambia were largely established in the areas they currently occupy. Except for an occasional Portuguese explorer, the area lay untouched by Europeans for centuries. After the mid-19th century, it was penetrated by Western explorers, missionaries, and traders. David Livingstone, in 1855, was the first European to see the magnificent waterfalls on the Zambezi River. He named the falls after Queen Victoria, and the Zambian town near the falls is named after him. In 1888, Cecil Rhodes, spearheading British commercial and political interests in Central Africa, obtained a mineral rights concession from local chiefs. In the same year, Northern and Southern Rhodesia (now Zambia and Zimbabwe, respectively) were proclaimed a British sphere of influence. Southern Rhodesia was annexed formally and granted self-government in 1923, and the administration of Northern Rhodesia was transferred to the British colonial office in 1924 as a protectorate.
Zambian People Zambia S People Zambias People Ethnic groups African 98.7%, European 1.1%, other 0.2% Religions Christian50%75%, Muslim and Hindu 24%-49%, indigenous beliefs 1% http://www.travelblog.org/World/za-ppl.html
SIM Country Profile: Zambia Traditional Animist 23%; Muslim 1%; African indigenous 8% African PeopleGroups ? Asian People Groups ? South American People Groups ? http://www.sim.org/country.asp?cid=51&fun=2
People Of Zambia Ethnic groups, African 98.7%, European 1.1%, other 0.2%. Religions, Christian50%75%, Muslim and Hindu 24%-49%, indigenous beliefs 1% http://www.appliedlanguage.com/country_guides/zambia_country_people.shtml
Extractions: Applied Language Solutions offer quality language translation services for all applications, including website, medical and legal translations Email: enquiries@appliedlanguage.com FREE QUOTE SERVICES RESOURCES ... HOME PAGE Information For Zambia Introduction Geography People Government ... Country Flag Popular Pages Business Translation Free Translation Tools Free website translation Language Identifier Currency Converter Free Translation Information Translation Articles Submit An Article Language Directory Country Guides ... Population 10,462,436 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: 46.1% (male 2,419,361; female 2,401,538) 15-64 years: 51.1% (male 2,684,001; female 2,667,528) 65 years and over: 2.8% (male 132,166; female 157,842) (2004 est.) Median age total: 16.6 years male: 16.5 years female: 16.6 years (2004 est.)
