A Tour Of The Sukuma Museum Museums are largely a colonial phenomenon in africa, as well as on other a team of indigenous sukuma to serve as the Bana Sesilia (People of St. http://philip.greenspun.com/sukuma/museum.html
Extractions: by Aimee H.C. Bessire A E xercising the "self-enclosure" and classification of the museum institution, the Sukuma Museum provides the visitor with a representation of Sukuma life. As we move through the museum, we are able to walk past and inside structures of traditional Sukuma history. The installations of the Museum are thematically organized with all facets of "traditional" Sukuma life represented: the royal, the sacred and the quotidian. The museum visitor is able to visit a representation of a traditional Sukuma house and compound, the thatched dwellings of a Sukuma blacksmith, a replica of a traditional doctor's house and a Royal Pavilion for Sukuma royal history and Dance Society Pavilion for the history of Sukuma dance. Prominently situated at the far end of the compound, the Bujora Church is placed on the crest of the hill that overlooks the entire grounds and surrounding area of Lake Victoria. A Short Tour of the Sukuma Museum A s we enter the Sukuma "homestead," we are able to walk through a traditional style dwelling and view objects of daily life such as cooking utensils, religious objects and hunting and agricultural implements. Moving to the Balongo (blacksmith) house, a round structure thatched from top to bottom, we must duck our heads to enter the three foot high door. Once inside we can view the objects used by the Sukuma blacksmith, such as the cowskin bellows and large stones used during forging, as well as the agricultural hoes and spear heads that are made by the blacksmith. The next building on our tour is the Royal Pavilion where objects representing the history of the Sukuma royal families are exhibited. We will tour both this structure later in greater depth. Opposite the Royal Pavilion and near the Sukuma "homestead" is the
Community Healing indigenous peoples Biodiversity Information Network The indigenous peoples indigenous Knowledge Initiative africa Region - The World Bank This site http://www.tapestryweb.org/links/communityhealing.html
Extractions: CIRAN Centre for International Research and Advisory Networks. : "CIRAN's objective is to encourage research that has relevance for developing countries, and to foster international cooperation and capacity-building in this area." The Initiative to Eliminate Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services : U.S. Department of Health and Human Services website concerning initiatives to eliminate racial and ethnic disparties in health. Through the knowing of marginalized people Indigenous Peoples Biodiversity Information Network : "The Indigenous Peoples Biodiversity Information Network (IBIN) is a mechanism to exchange information about experiences and projects and to increase collaboration among indigenous groups working on common causes related to biodiversity use and conservation." SACNAS: Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science : SACNAS is a diverse society with a vested interest in promoting opportunities in graduate science education for Chicano/Latino, Native American, and other students. Encouraging these students to reach the highest levels in their science careers has been the Society's continuing mission during its 25 year history." Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development : "South-South Transfer of Innovative Experiences," an intiative of the Ministery of Agriculture, Guyana; the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture IICA; and the United Nations Development Program"
Extractions: Africa - The Birthplace of Modern Humans You either love it or hate it . . . Africa Map Click here to see large map Features of Africa Africa is the second-largest continent , after Asia, covering 30,330,000 sq km; about 22% of the total land area of the Earth. It measures about 8,000 km from north to south and about 7,360 km from east to west. The highest point on the continent is Mt. Kilimanjaro - Uhuru Point - (5,963 m/19,340 ft) in Tanzania. The lowest is Lake 'Asal (153 m/502 ft below sea level) in Djibouti. The Forests cover about one-fifth of the total land area of the continent. And the Deserts and their extended margins have the remaining two-fifths of African land. World's longest river : The River Nile drains north-eastern Africa, and, at 6,650 km (4,132 mi), is the longest river in the world. It is formed from the Blue Nile, which originates at Lake Tana in Ethiopia, and the White Nile, which originates at Lake Victoria. World's second largest lake : Lake Victoria is the largest lake in Africa and the is the world's second-largest freshwater lake - covering an area of 69,490 sq km (26,830 sq mi) and lies 1,130 m (3,720 ft) above sea level. Its greatest known depth is 82 m (270 ft).
Tanzania History According to 9th century Arabic sources, the indigenous peoples of the coast In the mid19th century, Ngoni peoples migrated from southern africa and http://www.classicescapes.com/ta-history.html
Extractions: A group of school children posing for a picture Maasai Warrior Maasai women dancing during your village visit Children in coastal Tanzania A merchant in Zanzibar One of the many smiling local children you will encounter A beautiful Maasai woman Child in Zanzibar History According to the paleoanthropologists Louis and Mary Leakey, Tanzania may be the site of origin for the world's oldest human beings. The first ancestors of man to walk erect inhabited this region nearly three million years ago, obtaining food by hunting and gathering. Early rock paintings have also been found in central Tanzania that lends support to the Leakey's theories. In the middle of the 13th century, a power struggle erupted between the Shiraz dynasty and the Shanga people from the Island of Shanje Ya Kati to the south of Kilwa. In the end, the Shiraz prevailed. By the end of the 13th century, Kilwa had gained control of the Sofala gold trade to the south. By the 14th century, Bantu speakers were predominant among the nonArab coastal and Island population. Their dialects supplied the Bantu base of Swahili, the mother tongue of the inhabitants of Zanzibar and Pemba together with most of the inhabitants of the coastal towns of the mainland. Europeans first arrived on the coast of East Africa when Vasco Da Gama's ships landed in 1498. Two years later, the Portuguese forced Kilwa to pay tribute, and in 1505 they sacked Kilwa and Mombasa, and took Sofala, with its gold trade. By 1506, Portugal commanded the entire coast and controlled trade on the Indian Ocean. During the 16th and 17th centuries, the Portuguese shifted their efforts to Mombasa in Kenya. Omanis replaced the Portuguese in the 18th century and eventually made the island of Zanzibar their capital. The Omani rule had as its economic base the export of ivory, cloves and slaves.
Alexa - Browse: Native and Tribal Ethnic and Regional (317); indigenous People (207); Rugs and Textiles (25) Museum devoted to the culture and art of the sukuma (Tanzania, africa). http://www.alexa.com/browse?&CategoryID=82480
Encyclopedia: Demographics Of Tanzania The sukuma are one of the largest ethnic groups in Tanzania, The Bushmen orSan peoples of South africa and neighbouring Botswana and Namibia, http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Demographics-of-Tanzania
Extractions: Related Articles People who viewed "Demographics of Tanzania" also viewed: Demographics of Zambia Demographics of Botswana Demographics of Zimbabwe Demographics of Namibia ... Dodoma What's new? Our next offering Latest newsletter Student area Lesson plans Recent Updates Human History of the Jews in South Africa Hatful of Hollow Hatay Province ... More Recent Articles Top Graphs Richest Most Murderous Most Taxed Most Populous ... More Stats Updated 75 days 12 hours 59 minutes ago. Other descriptions of Demographics of Tanzania Population distribution in Tanzania is extremely uneven. Density varies from 1 person per square kilometer (3 per sq. mi.) in arid regions to 51 per square kilometer (133 per sq. mi.) in the mainland's well-watered highlands to 134 per square kilometer (347 per sq. mi.) on Zanzibar . More than 80% of the population is rural. Dar es Salaam is the capital and largest city; Dodoma , located in the center of Tanzania, has been designated the new capital, although action to move the capital has stalled. Map of Zanzibars main island Zanzibar, Tanzania, comprises a pair of islands off the east coast of Africa called Zanzibar (Unguja) (1994 est. ...
CSOC208.htm Center For World indigenous Studies (CWIS) points to the Fourth World Cultural Atlas of africa DT 14 M84 Ref; Encyclopedia of the peoples of the World, http://library.ups.edu/instruct/bachmann/csoc208.htm
Extractions: Comparative Sociology 208 University of Puget Sound Collins Memorial Library Popular Press Sources via the Web Africa News provides fairly comprehensive to current news from and about Africa it links to reporting from more than 40 African news organizations. Search by topic, country, or region Channel Africa presents a collection of news items from Africa, compiled from shortwave,satellite, and Internet radio broadcasts by Channel Africa. Read, listen, and/or watch: Video, audio, and text files about music, sports, money markets, and news are available. To go directly to English language resources, click on Programmes in English . (RealPlayer is required for media files. If you don't have it, Download RealPlayer from Sun Microsystems.) Browse the list of all newspapers in Africa, or search by the following countries: Algeria, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, Swaziland, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe. Electronic Journals and Newspapers on Africa is a directory of links to electronic journals and newspapers about Africa on the Internet, arranged alphabetically and presented by the Department of African Studies at Columbia University. A short description of each journal and newspaper is included.
Religion (from Tanzania) -- Encyclopædia Britannica Among Muslims, the Sunnite sect is preferred by the indigenous people. Museum preserving the art of sukuma culture in Tanzania, africa. http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?tocId=37572
Community-based Forest Management / Africa The traditional ngitili system of the sukuma people provided a good entry Important naturally regenerating indigenous trees are being left and managed http://www.wrm.org.uy/subjects/CBFM/book3.html
Extractions: Publications Community-based Forest Management index AFRICA Benin Community-Based Forest Management in the Igbodja Forest In most of the African countries, claims concerning community-based forest and natural resource management have arisen as a reaction to the repressive nature of natural resource laws inherited from Colonial times. Forestry laws in force in the post-Colonial period compromised local community rights to forest ownership. Licences and other forms of taxes so far unknown to local communities were imposed to control the exploitation of forest products that the local inhabitants had had free access to previously, either for their domestic consumption or for marketing. To palliate this situation the authorities of ACTION Plus NGO, after obtaining economic support from the IUCN Dutch Committee to carry out a study on this forest, encouraged the inhabitants of the zone to launch activities aimed at implementing community-based forest management. The breeding of hedgehogs (Thryonomys swinderianus) has started and beekeeping has been introduced in two villages to halt the frequent plant fires in the region.
Context The History, Context and Identity of the sukuma Museum a Catholic Missionaryof africa, with the help of two indigenous church groups, the Bana Sesilia http://www.photo.net/sukuma/context.html
Extractions: by Mark H.C.Bessire T All of these considerations were related by the need to gain a better understanding of the permanent collection by reconciling its history, context, and identity with the museum setting. This working theme of history, context, and identity led the registration team to propose the building of a new exhibition hall that would illustrate, through archival photographs, films and text, the unique history of the Sukuma Museum and its permanent collection. I n past years the issue of the contextualization of cultural artifacts has been a topic of discussion for museums, artists, academia and cultural groups. This discourse has often exposed the tendency of museums to defend a specific curatorial agenda through exhibition constructions or the decontextualization of an object or culture. The challenging of traditional cataloging and taxonomic paradigms has revealed the consequences of the curatorial manipulation of objects and their meaning. These issues influenced the Sukuma Museum's initial project evaluation of its exhibition display. The Sukuma Museum has decided that the alternative to the museum dilemma of decontextualization is to display cultural objects in an educational setting providing all relevant cultural, aesthetic, and historical information while at the same time recognizing the inherent existence of the curatorial voice. This creates a museum agenda that on one level strives to educate the public of the objects' original contexts and meanings and on another level, recognizes the objects' changing identities created by the decontextualization or layering of contexts within the museum setting.
Extractions: Good News for Every Nation - Via Inculturation The nations ( gentes ) to whom the Christian community is divinely sent, and supposed to become incarnate through faithfulness to the missionary principle of inculturation, are not the worlds politically constructed nation-states as such. They are, rather, the multitude of indigenous ethno-cultural nations, sometimes sill called "tribes," enclosed within the boundaries of politically constructed nation-states. This view of missionary activity has far reaching social, cultural, ethical, theological and ecclesial implications. Introduction This paper offers some reflections on the political and religious dimensions of humankinds historical existence as a multitude of distinctive ethno-cultural groups of people. The particular focus is upon those living in Africa south of the Sahara. Their total population is about five hundred million, currently threatened massively by an HIV/AIDS pandemic; also by countless struggles for power, wealth and mere survival, not to mention neo-colonial controls and constraints. Under colonialism these peoples were categorized politically as "tribes." In the terms of 19 th century Social Darwinism they were taught in schools and churches, at least implicitly, to see themselves as backward peoples, or even as aggregates of competing individuals, marching slowly along a road called "progress." Their modernizing "development"-consisting largely in the pursuit of wealth and power by
- (Travel Daily News) in which indigenous peoples and local communities are central partners, said This success is attributed to a system of enclosures that the sukuma http://www.traveldailynews.com/makeof.asp?central_id=704&permanent_id=33
Extractions: E-mail: journals@indiana.edu In the Sukuma area of northwest Tanzania, farmer-musicians, or farmers who compose and perform music, introduce themselves in public interactions first as farmers, with the phrase "I am a farmer, I hold a hoe," and second as performers, with the phrase "I am also a dancer, I twirl a hoe." Identification with music operates on many psychological and cultural levels from childhood to old age, and is reinforced and expressed most cogently in their use of song during cotton farming. Cotton farming is a relatively recent chapter in Sukuma history, a result of (and creative response to) British colonial government requirements between the two world wars. A new farming class emerged, which drew on prior musical labor fraternities such as medicinal societies, hunting societies, porters, and military organizations for their personnel, musical repertory, and dance paraphernalia. The Sukuma made the imposition of long-distance migrant labor and cotton cropping their own by making these labors musical. The author discusses how Sukuma farmers developed musical farming from these prior musical labor practices, and provides several examples of this transformation.
Indigenous Crop Protection Practices In Africa indigenous Crop Protection Practices in SubSaharan East africa Mkaswende (sukuma).Tuha (Shamba). Garimanyemba plant (Zimbabwe) http://www.ippc.orst.edu/ipmafrica/elements/ncpp.html
Extractions: Indigenous Crop Protection Practices in Sub-Saharan East Africa Database of Natural Crop Protectant Chemicals (DNCPC) Products Used, or With Potential Use, for Crop Pest Control in Sub-Saharan East Africa et. al. , 1992). To be classified as beneficials, these products should come from plants that grow well on poor quality land, i.e. do not compete with crop land, they should not act as weeds, they should not support crop pests, and the products should be easily prepared. Some degree of success in the commercial production of these materials has been attained, e.g. rotenone, pyrethrum, nicotine, and neem. Usually, however, these are quite expensive when purchased on the open market. Cheaper when on-farm produced. Commercial plantations are not without pest problems. Tephrosia, for example, suffers from insects, nematodes, damping off, and problems with seed production. Even pyrethrum plants suffer from nematode problems in the foliage. Recently, neem has been hit with severe root rot problems. Further, identification of the active compound(s) in these plants is illusive and very expensive to pursue.
Indigenous Crop Protection Practices In Africa indigenous Crop Protection Practices in SubSaharan East africa, their Status and Mkaswende (sukuma). Tuha (Shamba). Garimanyemba plant (Zimbabwe) http://www.ippc.orst.edu/ipmafrica/natural/
Extractions: Indigenous Crop Protection Practices in Sub-Saharan East Africa, their Status and Significance Relative to Small Farmer IPM Programs in Developing Countries Elements of IPM in Subsistence Agriculture Crop Protection Chemicals Natural Crop Protectant Products Some degree of success in the commercial production of these materials has been attained, e.g. rotenone, pyrethrum, nicotine, and neem. Usually, however, these are quite expensive when purchased on the open market. Cheaper when on-farm produced. Commercial plantations are not without pest problems. Tephrosia, for example, suffers from insects, nematodes, damping off, and problems with seed production. Even pyrethrum plants suffer from nematode problems in the foliage. Recently, neem has been hit with severe root rot problems. Further, identification of the active compound(s) in these plants is illusive and very expensive to pursue.
G21 AFRICA - "Black Mischief" We ate a roast leg of goat, sukuma wiki (curly kales) and m kimo with njah This is probably the original m kimo, as chickpeas are indigenous to africa. http://www.g21.net/africa5.html
Extractions: Discover the MOIA Discussion List Binyavanga Wainaina Africa has many culinary delights only now being discovered by the rest of the world. BINYAVANGA WAINAINA suggests a Kikuyu dish of m'kimo served with lamb, and a spicy mango salad from the Kenyan coast I HAD a memorable Kenyan meal at a friend's place in Sandton three years ago. We ate a roast leg of goat, sukuma wiki (curly kales) and m'kimo with njah beans.
IUCN Regional Office For Southern Africa Hundreds of people have died, leaving thousands of family members affected, include indigenous farmers in Mexico, foresters in northern England, sukuma http://www.iucnrosa.org.zw/news/march03.html
NativeWeb Resources: Africa People of Namibia, africa, 611. In the middle of 16 century these tribes whichbelonged to Bantu group sukuma Culture and Tanzania, sukuma, africa, 657 http://www.nativeweb.org/resources/nations_web_sites_information/africa/
Extractions: Resources: 10 listings Name and Description Nation Location Hits Abdenour-Augustin Benyahia's Berber Home Page, Berber Africa Welcome to allAfrica.com, incorporating Africa News Online. Everyday we post hundreds of stories from more than 70 African publications and we're adding new features regularly. More sites on home.worldcom.ch AFRICA LINKS...Your Gate way to AFRICA Africa Africalinks the Internet site dedicated to sharing information and promoting resources to people of African and African descent. All related information concerning the African continent and the world as a whole Amazigh cultural Association in America Berber The Amazigh Cultural Association in America represents the linguistic, cultural, and human rights of the Berbers (Imazighen) of North Africa, from Siwa in Egypt, to Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Niger, Mali, Mauritania and the Canary Islands. Our site offers announcements, events in the U.S., and informed articles about our culture through its publication The Amazigh Voice. Baka Website Africa This site has information about the life and music of the Baka Forest People, Pygmies from S.E. Cameroon.
