Plep Archive sukuma Chiefs and Royal History. The role of the chief in Usukuma has gone through Their exogenous customs combined with the indigenous people are now http://www.nutcote.demon.co.uk/nl03jan2225.html
Extractions: 'Xhosa peoples never carved masks or figures; instead their religious art was beadwork, worn during ceremonial dances and other occasions. The exhibition also reveals how beadwork and dress flagged the wearer's ethnicity, age group, marital status, and other aspects of identity. The reflectivity of glass beads and shells were associated with the spirits, and particular colors and patterns conveyed symbolic meanings. ' The Murals of Baiya Monastery. 'The murals of Dege County's Pewar (Ch. Baiya) Monastery are truly exquisite works of art that embrace their subject matters with a mixture of vivid color and painstaking detail. From ghastly esoteric scenes of demons wearing human skins to the serenity of buddhas seated in meditation, the depictions on the walls of the temple and upper prayer room comprise a mixture of stylistic influences from within and outside Tibet. Placid Nepalese-style bodhisattvas adorned with gold and flowing scarves face characteristic Tibetan esoteric figures with multiple arms and heads, standing on lifeless bodies. Just next to this unlikely couple lies a secular scene of workers so Chinese in style that they could almost have been transplanted from a Song or Jin Dynasty Shanxi temple wall ... '
Extractions: On the whole, initiation rites, whether into social maturity or cult membership, best exemplify transition, since they have well-marked and protracted marginal or liminal phases. Victor Turner, Betwixt and Between: The Liminal Period in Rites des Passage When an African girl [c]omes of age, she is initiated into womanhood. This form of education is practiced in many parts of Africa. In the process the girl dies, and the woman is born. That is the concept behind most African initiation ceremonies, known in Tanzania as Unyago Marie Shaba and Davie Kituru
MSN Encarta - Search View - African Languages African Languages, languages indigenous to the African continent. The tonallanguages of some African peoples are also represented by talking drums, http://uk.encarta.msn.com/text_761565449__1/African_Languages.html
Extractions: The search seeks the exact word or phrase that you type, so if you donât find your choice, try searching for a keyword in your topic or recheck the spelling of a word or name. African Languages I. Introduction African Languages , languages indigenous to the African continent. More than 2,000 different languages are spoken in Africa. Apart from Arabic, which is not confined to Africa, the most widely spoken African tongues are Swahili (35 million speakers) and Hausa (39 million), both of which are used over wide areas as lingua francas. Several languages (often inaccurately termed dialects simply because they have few users or are under-researched) are spoken by only a few thousand people. Although very few African languages have written literatures, the majority have long-standing traditions of oral literature. II.
The Languages And Writing Systems Of Africa Angola, Republic of Angola, República de Angola, former People s Republic of Angola Also includes Mandinka, Wolof, Fula, other indigenous vernaculars. http://www.intersolinc.com/newsletters/africa.htm
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
An A-Z Of African Studies On The Internet Hm6 Curtin, Philip D. Why People Move Migration in african History (Waco, Tex. indigenous charismatic missions in West africa, by Matthews J. Ojo http://www.lib.msu.edu/limb/a-z/az_hm6.html
Extractions: Gender and Migration - Resources (Southern African Migration Project. Queens University). http://www.queensu.ca/samp/Gender.htm N. Hunter and C. Skinner. Foreign Street Traders Working in Inner City Durban: Survey Results and Policy Dilemmas March 2001.http://www.queensu.ca/samp/migdocs/Documents/2001/Hunter.pdf
Sun Singer - Native Reference - Africa indigenous/cultural awareness, environmental and wildlife issues, Images ofSukuma Dance; African Music Encyclopedia Men s Issues, Groups http://www.sunsinger.org/refs/africa.php
Africa The sukuma Museum in Tanzania is dedicated to the sukuma Culture.It houses arts and crafts made by the people of the largest culture in http://www.american.edu/projects/mandala/TED/hpages/art/africa.htm
Extractions: Description: The Durban Art Gallery is a museum located in Durban, South Africa. Founded in 1892, the Durban Art Gallery includes art work from British, French and Dutch painters and French and Chinese ceramics. Since the 1970s, the Gallery has focused on local artists and craftsmen and showcases their work. The Gallery has examples of indigenous Zulu artwork.
Interview With William Adam Stier - Collection 479 Interview with Stier, missionary with africa Inland Mission in Tanzania from 1938 of african pastors; the transition from mission to indigenous church http://www.wheaton.edu/bgc/archives/GUIDES/479.htm
Extractions: [Note: What follows is a description of the documents in this collection which are available for use at BGC Archives in Wheaton, Illinois, USA. The actual documents are not, in most cases, available online, only this description of them. Nor are they available for sale or rent. Some or all of this collection can be borrowed through interlibrary loan Brief Description of This Collection Interview with Stier, missionary with Africa Inland Mission in Tanzania from 1938 through 1978. Topics covered in the two sessions include his youth and conversion, marriage, Bible school education, call to missions, his work with the Sakuma and Tuzu peoples, his ministry as a teacher of African pastors; the transition from mission to indigenous church control in Tanzania, the policies and personnel of AIM, Emil Sywulka, political changes in Tanzania, polygamy and animism, church discipline, tribal relations, relations with other Christian missions, short-term vs. career missionaries issues, spiritual hardships of being a missionary. For more information, please see guide.
People Of Tanzania The majority of Tanzanians, including such large tribes as the sukuma and the africa; the first language of most people is one of the local languages http://infotut.com/geography/Tanzania/People/
Extractions: Afghanistan Albania Algeria American Samoa Andorra Angola Anguilla Antarctica Antigua and Barbuda Arctic Ocean Argentina Armenia Aruba Ashmore and Cartier Islands Atlantic Ocean Australia Austria Azerbaijan Bahamas, The Bahrain Baker Island Bangladesh Barbados Bassas da India Belarus Belgium Belize Benin Bermuda Bhutan Bolivia Bosnia and Herzegovina Botswana Bouvet Island Brazil British Indian Ocean Territory British Virgin Islands Brunei Bulgaria Burkina Faso Burma Burundi Cambodia Cameroon Canada Cape Verde Cayman Islands Central African Republic Chad Chile China Christmas Island Clipperton Island Cocos (Keeling) Islands Colombia Comoros Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Cook Islands Coral Sea Islands Costa Rica Cote d'Ivoire Croatia Cuba Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Djibouti Dominica Dominican Republic East Timor Ecuador Egypt El Salvador Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Estonia Ethiopia Europa Island Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) Faroe Islands Fiji Finland France French Guiana French Polynesia French Southern and Antarctic Lands Gabon Gambia, The
International Mission Board - Praying - Compassion Net Select the people group for which you want to view prayer items. Horn of africa,Songhai of Niger and Mali, Sudanese Arabs of Sudan, sukuma of Tanzania http://www.imb.org/CompassionNet/PeopleGroups.asp
Extractions: Subscribe About us Contact us Questions ... Praying Prayer Search by People Group Select the people group for which you want to view prayer items. Also, you may select the maximum age of prayer items to be displayed. Please note that if a particular people group does not appear in the choice list, it means there are no active prayer items for that people group. People Group: **Select a People Group** Western Cham of Cambodia Acehnese of Indonesia Afar of Ethiopia, Eritrea and Djibouti Algerian Arabs of Algeria and France amaXhosa of South Africa Amhara of Ethiopia Ancash Quechua of Peru Anii of Benin and Togo Arabs in Latin America Asheninka of Peru Asian Indians of East Africa Aukan of Suriname and French Guiana Ayizo of Benin Aymara of Bolivia Aymara of Peru Baganda of Uganda Bahasa-Speaking Tribals of Southeast Asia Bambara of Mali Banyankore of Uganda Banyoro of Uganda Banyumasan of South-Central Java, Indonesia Basoga of Uganda Basotho of Lesotho and South Africa Batonga of Zambia and Zimbabwe Bedouin of Northern Africa Beja of Egypt, Sudan and Eritrea
Earlham College –– Biology Department –– Kakamega Forest Kakamega forest is the easternmost rain forest in East africa and the only Kakamega forest, as well as other indigenous forests, provide several http://www.earlham.edu/biology/content/Kakamega/conservation.html
Extractions: Kakamega Forest Earlham College Biology Department Kakamega Home Ecology ... Other Links Why Conserve Kakamega Forest? Twenty percent of Kenya's species are endemic to the country, a majority of which are endemic to it's forests. At the turn of the century there were 240,000 hectares (ha) of rain forest in Kenya. Now there are only 23,000 ha left due to severe deforestation and fragmentation. For the most part this is due to encroachment of shambas (small farms) and tea plantations as well as both legal and illegal government sanctioned harvesting by the timber industry. Kakamega forest is the eastern-most rain forest in East Africa and the only rainforest found in Kenya. As an equatorial rain forest, it receives approximately two meters of rain per year, concentrated in two wet seasons. These environmental conditions create a forest that is extremely high in diversity of plant and animal life. Past Management Kakamega forest has provided numerous and invaluable resources to the surrounding people for hundreds of years. By the beginning of this century, the Tiriki subtribe of the Luhya had settled around the forest and were farming as much in the forest as around it. Fuel wood, grass for thatching, medicinal plants and trees, and land for grazing have been services that the forest has provided.
Extractions: Fire Ecology II Community-based fire management in the Miombo woodlands: A case study from Bukombe District, Shinyanga,Tanzania by Edwin Nssoko "From the beginning, the fire management plan has incorporated [local] traditions; this has been crucial to local support of and involvement with the plan... ." (4,047 mi ); of this, 6,133 km (2,368 mi ) is estimated to be public land while 4,349 km (1,679 mi ) is forest reserves. Administratively the district is divided into the Masumbwe, Siloka and Mbogwe divisions; the population is about 396,423 people, predominantly from the closely related Sukuma and Sumbwa ethnic groups. The district is forested with Miombo woodlands, dominated by economically important leguminous tree and shrub species including Acacia, Brachystegia, Albizia, Commiphora
: Map And Guide To Tanzania Further waves of ironworking Bantu people coming from West africa left Although he was known for his ill-treatment of indigenous populations he was http://www.ntz.info/gen/b00274.html
Extractions: These verses were quoted [p56] in an interesting little book An Introduction to the History of East Africa written by Zoe Marsh and G Kingsnorth in . Fortunately, the elephants are still there but enormous gaps in people's knowledge remain concerning Tanzania. [top] Home Sources Names ... Feedback Extract ID: 3957 Map and Guide to Tanzania 1995 Oct Page Number: 02a See also Laetoli Unknown to non-Africans before the colonial period, the prehistory of the interior of Africa has since been partly pieced together. Discovered by chance in by a German entomologist who stumbled across some fossils and bones, evidence of human life was found in Tanzania's Olduvai Gorge and the place attracted the attention of Professor
World Regional Intro To SubSah Africa Malaria afflicts 400 million people in subSaharan africa and kills 750000 This area was occupied by several groups (Ha, Zinza, Sumbwa, sukuma) and was http://www.uvm.edu/~cdunkley/geography001/SubSahAfricaIntro.html
Colonial History Of Africa African indigenous Knowledge Systems Dr. Gloria Emeagwali, Professor of History, American Society for Colonizing the Free People of Color of the United http://www.empereur.com/Africa/history/hiscolonial.html
Extractions: Examples - Based at the Research Center of the International Pragmatics Association, University of Antwerp, and works with the Centre Æquatoria , Mbandaka, Congo (DRC). "Its goal is to make extensively annotated editions as well as systematic interpretive analyses of documents from the archives of the Centre Æquatoria in particular those documents that are relevant to the historiographic study of linguistics and ethnology in colonial times ." The Archives have, on microfiche, the proceedings of the Conférence Nationale Souveraine. The
African Folklore -- A-Z Entries Northeastern africa ( The Horn ) Overview Nsibidi An indigenous Writing System Rastafari A Marginalized People Rattray, RS Religion african http://www.routledge-ny.com/folklore/african/azentries.html
African Proverbs, Stories And Sayings - Meetings Report of the Meeting of People Interested in African Proverbs Urban They arepreparing a series of booklets of sukuma Proverbs based on the Verb Root. http://www.afriprov.org/resources/meetings.htm
Extractions: Assistant Moderator Absent with apologies Evans Nyakundi Jean Nyaduwi The participants said that the website would especially be useful to students at Hekima in their first year where such courses are concentrated. Joseph asked them the best way to promote the website among those students as well as other students at Hekima. Marcelin Mugabe said he will review the website for the next issue of Hekima Review after consultation with the editorial board of the journal to enable the Hekima academic and student community get exposed to the website. Jean Kubanabantu from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) said there is also a fair number of collections from DRC through there are also some small ethnic communities where no collections exist. Mercellin Mugabe from Rwanda said a lot of collections have been done and published and some of the publications can be found at Hekima. Nirima Rakotosolofo from Madagascar also said there have been many collections and publications from his part of Africa.
IK Monitor 4(1) McCall Within farming systems, ITK embraces people s knowledge of tools and techniques McCall, MK (1995) indigenous technical knowledge in farming systems of http://www.nuffic.nl/ciran/ikdm/4-1/articles/mccall.html
Extractions: The potentials of indigenous technical knowledge (ITK), both for expanding scientific technical knowledge and for empowering its owners, are overwhelming. There is compelling evidence of the extent and rationality of ITK in East Africa. This article presents a broad overview of past and present research in the field of ITK within East African farming systems. It also indicates possible topics for further research. Indigenous technical knowledge Within farming systems, ITK embraces people's knowledge of tools and techniques for the assessment, acquisition, transformation, and utilization of resources which are specific to a particular location. ITK can encompass: Vernacular: technical knowledge held by all or most individuals in a specific locality, e.g., knowledge of crop rotation, or pest and weed control;
