Extractions: We have now looked at some of the history, international relations, and geography of East Africa in Activities One and Two. But what is daily life like for East Africans? What are some of their cultural practices, ways they organize themselves socially, and how do their economies work? These are some of the questions that we will get at in Activity Three. CULTURE IN EAST AFRICA What is a culture? You may remember dealing with this question in Module 8: Culture and Society in Africa . The word culture can be used in many different ways. Sometimes people use it to only refer to expressive arts (music, dance, and visual arts). Sometimes people use it to generally describe the way of life of a group of people. The latter is the way that we will use the word culture in this activity. Just as cultures in America are very diverse, so are cultures in East Africa. East Africans have many different cultural traditions that they practice, even within the same country. For this reason, we have chosen two specific cultural traditions out of many that have developed in East Africa for you to learn about. MUSIC AND DANCE IN SEYCHELLES Seychelles is a melting pot of various African, European, and Asian cultures. The islands were settled by Europeans who brought African slaves to work on their plantations during the 18th century. Later in the 19th century, Indian and Chinese traders arrived as well. Most people in Seychelles today are of mixed descent from these backgrounds.
Extractions: Sources: The Library of Congress Country Studies; CIA World Factbook Back to Seychelles Government Anchor, symbolizing naval power in the Indian Ocean In addition to the presence of foreign military powers in the region, Madagascar, Mauritius, Comoros, Seychelles, and Maldives have pursued their own national security objectives. Apart from providing internal stability, indigenous security forces have sought to protect the Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZs) claimed by all five countries and to prevent the use of the western Indian Ocean as a transshipment point for illegal drugs. Data as of August 1994 NOTE: The information regarding Seychelles on this page is re-published from The Library of Congress Country Studies and the CIA World Factbook. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Seychelles Strategic Considerations information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Seychelles Strategic Considerations should be addressed to the Library of Congress and the CIA.
NHBS Spring Catalogue: Regional Natural History & Travel Download regional Natural history Travel as a .pdf document The 115 coralislands that make up the seychelles are a haven for wildlife, and 60% of . http://www.nhbs.com/webcat/ss05p9.html
Extractions: NHBS Spring Catalogue Our Wildlife, Science and Conservation Catalogue customer.services@nhbs.co.uk Encounters: A Journey Through The Wild is a fantastic introduction to Sri Lanka's amazing wildlife. African Biodiversity Molecules, Organisms, Ecosystems is available in May - a key title for conservation biologists. Also of interest will be the revealing Canned Lion Hunting: A National Disgrace.
Seychelles (09/05) history The seychelles islands remained uninhabited for more than 150 years afterthey became known to Western regional Security OfficerDavid Walsh http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/6268.htm
TRAVEL.com ® RegionalAfricaSeychellesScience And Environment Top regional Africa seychelles Science and Environment Geologic history,ecology and conservation, and build a virtual island. http://www.travel.com/Regional/Africa/Seychelles/Science_and_Environment/
Treaties The contemporary history of development in seychelles has resulted from a deliberate seychelles also fully supports the cause of regional cooperation, http://seychelles.diplomacy.edu/foreign policy.htm
Extractions: Republic of Seychelles THE FOREIGN POLICY We, the People of Seychelles, GRATEFUL to Almighty God that we inhabit one of the most beautiful countries in the world; EVER MINDFUL of the uniqueness and fragility of Seychelles; CONSCIOUS of our colonial history before becoming an Independent Republic; AWARE and PROUD that as descendants of different races we have learnt to live as one Nation under God and can serve as an example for a harmonious multi-racial society; HAVING attained national stability and political maturity despite the pressures of a sadly divided world; DESIROUS to build a just, fraternal and humane society in a spirit of friendship and co-operation with all peoples of the world; Extract from the Constitution of the Republic of Seychelles ( Preamble ) Introduction: The Republic of Seychelles is situated in the Western Indian Ocean between 4 and 11 degrees South of the Equator, and comprises a group of 115 granitic and coralline islands with a land area of 455 square kilometers, spread over an Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of over 1.3 million square kilometers. Inhabited since the 18 th century, with a population of mixed origins ( European, African and Asian ) now around 80,000 concentrated on the main islands of Mahé, Praslin and La Digue, Seychelles attained independence in 1976. A multi-party system was established in 1992 and the present constitution was adopted in 1993.
Extractions: The transfer of regional responsibilities to the Pretoria-based ICRC delegation on 1 January 1995 reflected the new-found political stability in southern Africa. In February the South African government and the ICRC signed a new Status Agreement, defining the ICRC's position as a regional delegation for southern Africa and the Indian Ocean. Despite the generally peaceful climate, however, insecurity still reigned in some areas. The South African province of KwaZulu/Natal and certain townships of Gauteng province were still plagued by politicized violence. Political unrest in Lesotho and Swaziland demonstrated that there too stability was not to be taken for granted. In the strife-ridden areas of South Africa the ICRC ran relief operations in conjunction with the National Society, distributing food parcels, kitchen sets, jerricans, plastic sheeting and blankets to thousands of victims. Beyond this, the main activities developed by the ICRC in the region involved promoting the role of the Red Cross, teaching international humanitarian law to defence forces and providing protection for detainees. Delegates made unannounced visits to police stations in KwaZulu/Natal to check the conditions of detention of people arrested in connection with political violence.
Seychelles Find websites related to seychelles. Home regional Africa seychelles geography, history, society and government of the country. http://www.joeant.com/DIR/cat/10914/Seychelles
Seychelle Islands (British Empire & Commonwealth Land Forces) history of the seychelles, by Alexander Ganse (World history at KMLA); seychelles A regional. Colonial Period, 1794-1976. Independence Period, 1976- http://www.regiments.org/nations/indianocean/seychell.htm
Extractions: Other Web Catalogues Note: for a fuller imperial constitutional history see British Empire and Commonwealth Constitutional history: French colony captured by English 1794. Dependency of Mauritius 1810. Crown Colony 1903. Independent republic 1976. French Revolutionary Wars Treaty of Amiens, ending French Revolutionary wars Napoleonic Wars Treaty of Paris, ending Napoleonic wars First World War Second World War Social and Political History History of the Seychelles , by Alexander Ganse ( World History at KMLA Seychelles - A Country Study: Table of Contents (US Library of Congress) Historical Setting by US Library of Congress Country Study Crown Colony Status by US Library of Congress
Seychelles - MavicaNET regional Africa Path to the top. Nature Land Islands Insular Territories history of seychelles 6. Travel seychelles 7. See also http://www.mavicanet.com/directory/eng/10129.html
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History Of Seychelles - MavicaNET regional Africa seychelles Path to the top World history ArchivesThe history of the Republic of seychelles English http://www.mavicanet.com/directory/eng/24074.html
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SMALL ISLANDS VOICE regional and interregional, internet-based discussion forums will produce a seychelles history of conservation and management of its natural resources http://www.unesco.org/csi/smis/siv/IndianOcean/seyopsurv-rep.htm
Extractions: Small Islands Voice Steering Committee member PROJECT BACKGROUND Small Island Voice (SIV) is a long-term project proposed by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization's (UNESCO) intersectoral platform for Environment and Development in Coastal Regions and Small Islands. One aim of SIV is to promote participation of small island civil society in the review of the Small Island Developing States (SIDS) Programme of Action (ten years after the Barbados meeting in 1994 for SIDS). The Minister of the Environment officially launched the project in March 2002, and the project is coordinated by the Ministry of Environment. A project steering committee meets on a monthly basis and comprises representatives from the public service as well non-governmental organizations (NGOs). SIV seeks to ensure that the voice of civil society on environment and development issues in Small Island Developing States constitutes a core component of Barbados + 10, and that through a continuous feedback-driven mode, civil society's views become an effective catalyst for on-the-ground action up to and beyond 2004. With this in mind training and capacity building are key components of this project.
Islamic World.Net: Countries travel and culture, and regional links. ATLAS seychelles ISP. history ofseychelles - from early colonial days through the 1977 coup. http://islamic-world.net/countries/seychelles.htm
Extractions: Location: Eastern Africa, group of islands in the Indian Ocean, northeast of Madagascar Population: 79,326 (July 2000 est.) Ethnic groups: Seychellois (mixture of Asians, Africans, Europeans) Religions: Roman Catholic 90%, Anglican 8%, other 2% Languages: English (official), French (official), Creole Area: total: 455 sq km, land: 455 sq km, water: sq km Natural resources: fish, copra, cinnamon trees
Extractions: Berkeley Anthropologists Have Their Say Anthropologist Elizabeth Colson doesn't often think of the past. If asked, however, she easily recalls the year 1946, when she first traveled to Africa. Taking field supplies from Johannesburg, she and two other researchers journeyed for three days to Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia). There she met a fellow anthropologist, J. Desmond Clark. "Desmond somehow knew we were coming, and he met our train," she says. Colson, an American from Minnesota, and Clark, a Londoner, crossed paths that year when she became senior research officer and then director of the Rhodes- Livingstone Institute. He was curator of the David Livingstone Memorial Museum. "With Desmond, of course, prehistory was everything," Colson says, "although as curator of the museum he had to be interested in contemporary things, too." Desmond Clark's death in February 2002 ended this friendship of more than half a century. But the stories survive. Clark, Colson, and three other anthropologists recently documented their experiences through oral histories. Available as manuscripts and on the Web, the interviews complement Bancroft's other holdings in anthropology, archaeology, and linguistics. As told in the oral histories, Colson and Clark each spent substantial time in Africa, directing institutions and lighting up the developing field of anthropology with their work. While he pursued prehistory, she explored social-cultural issues among the Plateau and Gwembe Tonga. Both joined the Berkeley faculty in the 1960s.
Seychelles Find It regional Africa seychelles Overview of seychelles history, geography,economy, and politics by the US Library of Congress.. http://www.ebroadcast.com.au/dir/Regional/Africa/Seychelles/
Encyclopedia Of African History Outlines of regional history PanAfrican/Comparative Topics and Debates seychelles Independence, Revolution and Reform, 1960 to Present http://www.routledge-ny.com/ref/africanhist/thematic.html
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IIASN8-Profile Of The Seychelles The modern political history of the seychelles began in the 1960s when and activities that can be implemented at both national and regional levels. http://www.iias.nl/iiasn/iiasn8/iswa/seychell.html
Extractions: IIAS Newsletter 8 The Seychelles are frequently neglected by various study groups that operate at the institutional level. With this country profile Raymond de-Silva hopes to stimulate scientific research on the archipelago. By Raymond de-Silva The republic of Seychelles is situated in the Western Indian Ocean between 4 and 11 degrees south of the equator, and comprises a group of 115 islands with a land area of 455 square kilometres, spread over an Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of over 1.3 million square kilometres. In the Indian Ocean region, the Seychelles are one of the few island groups that were never off-shore parcels of the civilizations of Africa or Asia. The islands had no pre- colonial history. Although the islands comprising the Seychelles had been visited earlier, the first documented exploration of the main granitic islands was carried out in 1609 by an English expedition. The islands then remained uninhabited for a further 160 years, although they were visited regularly by navigators who exploited their timber, freshwater and food resources. For some time the islands were also used as a base for pirates.
