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Extractions: Print Print Preview African Literature Article View On the File menu, click Print to print the information. African Literature II. Pre-19th-Century Literature Early literature across Africa was meant for ceremonial and ritual use and was either commemorative in function, or a record of histories, peoples, and events. Much of it derived from or was inspired by devotional texts: the Bible of the early Coptic Christians and the Koran. Makeda, Queen of Sheba, Ethiopia, wrote an account in the 10th century bc of her experience of travelling to see Solomon, King of Israel, and of the effect this visit had on her life. The story, circulated in manuscript and oral form for centuries, was translated into English and published by Sir E. A. Wallis Budge under the title The Queen of Sheba and Her Only Son Menyelek (1922). Queen Hatshepsut of Egypt (15th century bc ) wrote poetry in honour of her earthly and spiritual fathers which appears on the sides of obelisks she erected at the temple of Amon in Karnak. The form and content of early written literature of West Africa were very much influenced by certain Islamic writings which originated further north on the continent. Histories such as the well-known Kano Chronicle were originally written in Hausa. Copies were highly prized property of the sarkis (rulers) of northern Nigeria. However, this epic only came to be known of centuries later, in 1883-1893, when the chronicle was transcribed by Sir Richmond Palmer. The original versions of the text were destroyed by Fulani invaders. The same is true of the famed
Extractions: THE SWAHILI COAST EPISODE The Swahili people number approximately half a million, inhabiting a string of small settlements along the East African coast in parts of Somalia, Kenya and Tanzania. They are believed to have descended from Bantu-speaking agriculturalists who lived in an area reaching roughly from Kenya's Tana River in modern Kenya to the Webi Shebelle region of Somalia. Although they had long supplemented their farming with fishing, it is believed that around 500 A.D. these people began to trade and migrate along the coast. Over the next three centuries migrant groups moved south by ship, establishing settlements both on the coast and on adjacent islands. These independent polities were linked by trade as well as by a common culture and language, Swahili . From an early date, merchants from the Arab peninsula, Persia, and India settled among and intermarried with the Swahili towns' African founders. By the 12 th century Swahili culture exhibited Arab and Asian cultural influences. A distinctive Swahili architecture had emerged, which reflected these influences. Houses made of coral rag and coral stone had replaced the circular mud-and-wattle buildings found in parts of inland East Africa. The ruins at the Gedi in Kenya provide one example of early Swahili architecture. Islam was also well established along the Swahili Coast by the 12
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Extractions: Related Items more... Encarta Search Search Encarta about African Literature Advertisement Encyclopedia Article Multimedia 2 items Article Outline Introduction Pre-19th-Century Literature The Early 20th Century Contemporary Literature I Print Preview of Section African Literature , works of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction, published in written form in various media (books, journals, manuscripts, inscriptions on public monuments), by writers of direct African descent from countries south of the Sahara. African oral traditions of storytelling mean that the pioneering works of African fiction have been largely unavailable in print. Vast numbers of various peoples across sub-Saharan Africa mainly relied on the oral relaying of stories and styles of storytelling from one generation of a family to the next. This preserved a repertoire of tales peculiar to their culture which was also a record of African history. As such, African literature has traditionally blurred the boundaries of fiction and non-fiction as perceived in the West. It continues to confound these categories in other aspects of style. In traditional society, the business of telling stories was often professionalized. Male children learnt the art from their elders and matured when they acquired an established repertoire of stories and styles. Examples of this are in the traditions of the
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Extractions: dijkr@fsw.leidenuniv.nl; bruijnm@fsw.leidenuniv.nl The creation of images of Africa is an ongoing process with a long dating history. This panel aims to explore the production and mediation by Western scholarship (of different disciplines) of images of Africa and how these are confronted and appropriated by local, regional and national actors in Africa. emmcmaho@indiana.edu This paper examines how the colonial construction of images of Pemba (Zanzibar) allows us to understand both the development of colonial policies and sheds light on the mechanics of Revolutionary attitudes to the island. These images underscore Pemban efforts to remain in control of their land by pushing outsiders away. Ineke van Kessel, Leiden University, African Studies
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Extractions: Thomson 501, 206-616-0998 yemanegm@u.washington.edu AFRICAN STUDIES PROGRAM, UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FACULTY LIST CORE FACULTY RENE A. BRAVMANN, PhD Indiana University (1971), Professor, Art History; African-American art, African art, Oceanic art STEPHANIE M. H. CAMP, PhD University of Pennsylvania (1998), Associate Professor, History; history of slavery, African-American history, American South, gender RACHEL R CHAPMAN, PhD University of California, Los Angeles (1998), Assistant Professor, Anthropology; racial and ethnic disparities in health, urban and reproductive health, applied international health, gender systems, and political economy; US, Mozambique STEPHEN DE TRAY, PhD University of Washington (1995); Lecturer, Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences (Tacoma); African Studies, Comparative Politics, Nonprofit Management
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Extractions: Musokotwane Environment Resource Centre for Southern Africa I M E R C S A Factsheet 9: Indigenous Knowledge Systems Factsheet No#9: Indigenous Knowledge Systems The traditional history of southern African societies is manifested in the hills, mountains, valleys, burial grounds and in specific sacred and historical sites. Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IKS) refers to a body of knowledge and beliefs built by a group of people, and handed down generations through oral tradition, about the relationship between living beings and their environment. It includes a system of organisation, a set of empirical observations about the local environment, and a system of self-management that governs resource use. Most IKS are oral-based and often revealed through stories and legends. It is therefore, difficult to transmit ideas and concepts to those who do not share the language, tradition and cultural experience. Hence when a language is threatened or diminished in importance, there is a direct impact on the ability to express knowledge acquired through generations of experience.
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Extractions: SOMALI BANTU CULTURE PROFILE CHAPTER C ONTENTS P REFACE ... ORDER A PRINT COPY SCROLL TO: Colonial Period Slavery Social Impact of Slavery After Slavery ... Post Civil War History Persian and Arab traders established business contacts with east Africans over 1,000 years ago. These relations, coupled with refugees who fled the turmoil in Arabia after the death of the prophet Muhammad in the 7 th century, resulted in a significant number of Arab immigrants residing on the coast of east Africa. The mixing of the coastal Bantu-speaking African peoples with these Arab immigrants led to the emergence of the Swahili people and language. The Swahili people lived and worked for the next seven centuries with the indigenous African population. During this time, the Swahili people expanded their trade and communication further inland and to the south with other African groups, including ancestral tribes of the Somali Bantu. By the time the Portuguese arrived in the 15 th century, there existed a modern economy and advanced society on the east coast of Africa that some claim rivaled those in Europe. Portuguese colonial rule, however, disrupted the traditional local economic networks on the east African coast, resulting in a general breakdown of the once prosperous Swahili economy.
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Extractions: Reviewed by John P. Mbonde The author, Joseph G. Healey, is an American Maryknoll priest who was ordained in 1966. He has worked in East Africa since 1968 and presently is lives in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. He is the renowned prolific writer and analyst of African proverbs and stories including the famous book Towards an African Narrative Theology (published by both Orbis Books and Paulines Publications Africa). He has been in East Africa since 1968, and has written several other books including: A Fifth Gospel: The Experience of Black Christian Values; Kuishi Injili (Living the Gospel); and Kueneza Injili Kwa Methali (Preaching the Gospel Through Proverbs) . He is involved in continuous research on African stories, proverbs, sayings, poems, folklore, etc.
Extractions: Save a personal copy of this article and quickly find it again with Furl.net. It's free! Save it. Hip hop music and culture, once considered an American phenomenon, exists throughout the world today. In each cultural area, hip hop artists filter American and other foreign hip hop styles through their own local musical, social, and linguistic practices, creating unique musical forms. Tanzania and Malawi, two African countries, are no exception to this creative process. Both countries have vibrant hip hop communities that draw heavily on their knowledge of international, as well as local and national, hip hop music and culture. In mediating between various hip hop communities, rap artists and enthusiasts in both countries have established distinctive rap cultures, particularly in regards to language use in their music and everyday conversations.
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Extractions: Kenya, 'the cradle of humanity', boasts a legacy of anthropological wonders, unique safari experiences, and an unsurpassed tribal and cultural identity. To the east of Kenya is the Indian Ocean, with Ethiopia to the north, Sudan to the northwest, Uganda to the west, Tanzania to the south, and Somalia to the northeast. The country has four topographical distinctions: arid deserts, savannah lands, fertile lowlands, and highlands. The Arabs were the first to formally capitalize on Kenya's trade advantage, which was later seized by the Portuguese in the 16th century. But by 1720 the Arabs regained power in the land. For the next two centuries, the Arabian Omani Dynasties ruled Kenya. The early part of the 19th century found Kenya burdened with internal struggles, which eventually resulted in Kenya being competitively controlled by the British and Germans. By the 1890s, British land rule was pervasive throughout Kenya's highlands. Civil unrest ignited during the early 20th century as outsiders turned their sites on Kenya's land potential and scattered Kenya's indigenous tribes. Kenya's fight for independence began, and Jomo Kenyatta, during the 1930s and 1940s began the movement to return territorial, economic and political rights back to the people. The Kenyan African National Union (KANU) movement emerged and Jomo Kenyatta assumed leadership in 1963. Under Kenyatta's leadership, Kenya maintained her prosperous, economic stability.
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Extractions: Inter Press Service DAR ES SALAAM, Apr 11 (IPS) - Language experts in Sub-Saharan Africa have called on governments in the region to put into place policies to ensure that African languages, like Swahili, are used as a medium of instruction in schools. Delegates who attended an international workshop on languages here recently said the absence of such policies makes it extremely difficult to develop local languages. They said strategic plans had to be put into place to ensure that more use of the languages was made in schools. The conference, which drew participants from Africa, Europe, the United States and Asia, said countries would develop faster if their people used a medium of communication which they were conversant with. South Africa was commended for adopting a multilingual language policy in 1996 in which nine African languages of the country Ndebele, Xhosa, Zulu, Sesotho, Sesotho sa Leboa, Sesotho Siswati, Setswana, Xitsonga and Tshivenda were included among 11 official languages. ''Language is a basic human right and everyone has the right to express themselves in a language they feel comfortable with at all levels,'' states one of the conference resolutions which calls on governments in Africa to develop indigenous languages for use at all educational levels and at national meetings.
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Extractions: But Good Deals Are On The Horizon ~ by James Joroge June 2005 Geography Kenya lies in the Eastern part of the African continent with an area of 582,646 square kilometers (slightly smaller than the size of Texas). The country is nearly shield-shaped, its northern part is broader while the southern part tapers out to a tip. The equator runs midway, almost dividing the country in two equal halves. Its neighbors in the region are: i) Ethiopia to the north a) The coastal plain - a region of high temperatures bordering the Indian Ocean b) Nyika Plateau - This the safari country that occupies most of Kenya. The region is dry with little and sometimes unreliable rainfall. c) The Highlands - situated in the central part of Kenya and divided into two parts by the Great Rift Valley, the Eastern highlands and Western highlands. This region receives heavy and reliable rainfall throughout the year.This is the breadbasket of the country with a lot of farming activities.
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