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).
Get Involved from Asia the Pacific, africa and Latin America and the Caribbean. COPINH is dedicated to legalizing ownership for indigenous peoples of ancestral http://www.cohre.org/inbody01.htm
Extractions: COHRE will only place the names of grassroots groups here if we have had direct and sustaining working relationships with them, attesting to their credibility, effectiveness and democratic nature. The Civic Council of Indigenous and Popular Organizations in Honduras (COPINH) COPINH is an organization of indigenous Lenca peoples from the departments of Intibuca, La Paz, Lempira and Santa Barbara, located in western Honduras, bordering El Salvador. COPINH is dedicated to legalizing ownership for indigenous peoples of ancestral lands, and promoting community-controlled development and defending their economic, cultural, civil, political and social rights. It has representation in 700 communities in the area, many of which are inaccessible by road. Honduras, similar to other Central American countries, experienced serious and systemic violations of political and civil rights at the hands of a US-backed military regime during the 1980s and 1990s. The presence of military bases of the US-backed Contras and of the US Army contributed to the militarization of Honduras and the maintenance of a discriminatory, unjust "development" economic order. Today, the general human rights situation of the marginalized majority - and of the indigenous people in particular - is characterized by:
International Rivers Network: Latin America Rodolfo Stavenhagen, Special Rapporteur for indigenous peoples of the UnitedNations Commission on Wildlife and Environment Society of South africa http://www.irn.org/programs/chixoy/index.php?id=chixoybankletter040923.html
Honduras. In: Amnesty International Report 2001 indigenous peoples staged renewed demonstrations to promote They opposed thebuilding of the El tigre dam, which would displace indigenous people and http://web.amnesty.org/web/ar2001.nsf/webamrcountries/HONDURAS?OpenDocument
The People. (from Eritrea) -- Encyclopædia Britannica tigrespeaking Muslims in the northern highlands and on the eastern and western indigenous peoples Compilation of links to articles and essays on http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-2146
Extractions: Home Browse Newsletters Store ... Subscribe Already a member? Log in This Article's Table of Contents Introduction The land. The people. The economy. Government. History. Print this Table of Contents Shopping Price: USD $1495 Revised, updated, and still unrivaled. The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary (Hardcover) Price: USD $15.95 The Scrabble player's bible on sale! Save 30%. Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary Price: USD $19.95 Save big on America's best-selling dictionary. Discounted 38%! More Britannica products Eritrea Page 3 of 6 The people. Eritrea... (75 of 996 words) var mm = [["Jan.","January"],["Feb.","February"],["Mar.","March"],["Apr.","April"],["May","May"],["June","June"],["July","July"],["Aug.","August"],["Sept.","September"],["Oct.","October"],["Nov.","November"],["Dec.","December"]]; To cite this page: MLA style: "Eritrea." http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-2146
ROUTLEDGE/Major Works: Opere Di Consultazione Con Sconto Speciale Shor; Siberian indigenous peoples; Sidama; Sierra Leone; Sikhs; Sindhis; peoples; Tajikistan; Tajiks; Tanzania; Tatars; Thailand; Tharu; tigre; http://www.burioni.it/libri/news/routledge5/minorities.htm
Extractions: Edited by: Carl Skutsch here was a time when minority populations around the globe were often overlooked, their histories forgotten, their needs ignored. With globalization and conflict, social and political changes in the last decades has given rise to the need to understand the world's minorities, the diversity they represent, the challenges they face, the modes of coexistence that have evolved and the frictions that must be addressed. This resource is a three-volume, A-Z encyclopedia, with some 600 essay entries that provides a quick and clearly-written introduction to minority groups and the themes and concepts that help students understand the issues. Entries, ranging from 1,000 to 5,000 words, fall into four main categories for ease of use. Each entry is followed by a list of selected futher readings. The four categories are: Minority entries; Topic entries; Biographical entires; and Country entries.
Meet The Interns In Kisumu, I joined the KRep and africa Now team to visit farmers, I wasalso able to see first-hand their effect on indigenous peoples and communities http://www.mcgill.ca/arts/internships/interns/
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2004 africa Now provides training and administration at local agricultural colleges I was also able to see firsthand their effect on indigenous peoples and http://www.mcgill.ca/arts-internships/experiences/2004/
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Extractions: See also Central Africa Guinea Coast Southern Africa , and Western and Central Sudan Arab-Swahili trading families on the coast foster a favorable trade environment in the interior through strategic marriages with local chiefs, forming Islamic states that adopt elements of Arab political and material culture. Many inland communities that have been converted to Islam retain elements of traditional sculpture such as masks and figures but recast them as representations of shetani (the Arabic term for Satan). Collections of East African ethnographic materials compiled in the first decade of the twentieth century reveal that during the nineteenth century a broad range of sculpture was employed for religious and secular purposes by non-Muslim peoples of the region. Of particular importance are funerary sculptures acquired in what is today central and western Tanzania that take the form of articulated marionettes or figures with cavities meant to receive ancestral remains. Indigenous sculptors also begin to create artworks to sell to European visitors at this time.
LiP Media Blog: October 2004 Archives was not embarrassed to suck virgin land and indigenous peoples into the embrace 10.11.2004 Getting Beyond Bush; Interviews with Chuck D, Le tigre, http://www.lipmagazine.org/mediapicks/archives/2004/10/
Extractions: On October 15, Jon Stewart was invited to appear on Crossfire. Early on, he appealed to the Crossfire hosts: âSo I wanted to come here today and say... Stop, stop, stop, stop hurting America,â and closed by telling host Paul Begala: âYou know whatâs funny? Youâre as big a dick on your show as you are on any show. . .â All points between are just as pointed. http://forums.pcper.com/printthread.php?t=357345 And hereâs an article about Stewartâs appearance, from the Toronto Sun: Dumb Show Earned Below-the-Belt Barb Last Friday afternoon, when comedian Jon Stewart called CNN Crossfire co-host Tucker Carlson a body part exclusive to men, maybe half a million viewers finally saw an honest moment on this program. Too bad. While it was not the first time ever on TV that the American media punditocracy was ripped for its failures, it was probably the most satisfying.
OneWorld Africa Home / In Depth / Development Animali partita la marcia per salvare l?orso indigenous PEOPLESRiches Out fromUnder tigre suelto contra burro amarrado. Caricatura contra el TLC http://africa.oneworld.net/article/archive/512/
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Africa Access Review Of Children S Materials, Ed. Brenda Randolph Review Each volume in The Heritage Library of African peoples is about the The indigenous people are pejoratively referred to as tribespeople. http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/Proceedings_Rev/afrik_access.html
Extractions: UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA - AFRICAN STUDIES CENTER ed. Brenda Randolph ISBN: 0-03-047424 Subjects: Africa/Literature/African Americans/Diaspora Review: This textbook on African American literature includes selections by some of Africa's most outstanding writers. Claude Ake, Buchi Emecheta, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Leopold Senghor, and Amos Tutuloa are among the writers included. In addition, there are two works from the past, a poem by Pharoah Akhenaton, and an excerpt from Olaudah Equiano's famous narrative on his capture and enslavement in the 1700s. These selections and others in the text are preceded by background notes and information on the literary form being highlighted. At the conclusion of each offering, a "Responding to the Selection" section provides a review of the material covered. Additional features include a map of Africa which shows the birthplaces of the contributors, a pronunciation guide for Igbo words, and splendid photographs, many of which are in color. This outstanding collection is a must purchase for all schools. (Brenda Randolph) Subjects: Folklore/Mpongwe/West Africa Subjects: Ethiopia/ East Africa Review: This book portrays contemporary Ethiopian life in most of its vital aspects. Unfortunately, much has changed that raise question marks, for example, Lenin's statue in Addis Ababa which was toppled with the fall of the Mengistu government. However, for the curious young reader that should not be a problem; helped by a knowledgeable teacher, the rest of the pictures can fill in some gap in the knowledge of young students about Africa. (Bereket Habte Selassie)
Afro-Asiatic: Definition And Much More From Answers.com BC At that time the indigenous languages of Ethiopia were Cushitic, BC, but Berberspeaking peoples have lived in N africa since c.3000 BC, http://www.answers.com/topic/afro-asiatic-languages
Extractions: showHide_TellMeAbout2('false'); Business Entertainment Games Health ... More... On this page: Dictionary Encyclopedia WordNet Wikipedia Mentioned In Or search: - The Web - Images - News - Blogs - Shopping Afro-Asiatic Dictionary Af·ro-A·si·at·ic Äf rÅ-Ä zhÄ-Ät Äk, -shÄ-, -zÄ- var tcdacmd="cc=edu;dt"; Encyclopedia Afroasiatic languages Äf rÅÄ zhÄÄt Äk ) , formerly Hamito-Semitic languages hÄm ÄtÅ-sÉmÄt Äk ) , family of languages spoken by more than 250 million people in N Africa; much of the Sahara; parts of E, central, and W Africa; and W Asia (especially the Arabian peninsula, Iraq, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, and Israel). Since four of the Afroasiatic tongues, Arabic, Hebrew, Coptic, and Syriac, are also respectively the languages of Islam, Judaism, and two sects of the Christian faith, the language family reaches many millions in addition to its native speakers. The Afroasiatic family is divided into six branches: Egyptian, Semtic, Berber, Cushitic, Omotic, and Chadic. According to one theory, the languages of the Afroasiatic family are thought to have first been spoken along the shores of the Red Sea. Another theory holds that the language family came into being in Africa, for only in Africa are all its members found, aside from some Semitic languages encountered in SW Asia. The existence of the Semitic languages in W Asia is explained by assuming that African Semitic speakers migrated from E Africa to W Asia in very ancient times. At a later date, some Semitic speakers returned from Arabia to Africa.
Years Of Anguish: A Political RPG - List Of Ethnic Groups: Baka one of the Pygmy peoples of central africa. See also Twa, Aka, Mbuti,Binga and Gelli Dagestani peoples - indigenous groups of northern Caucasus http://yearsofanguish.proboards41.com/index.cgi?board=join&action=display&thread
National Workshop Report In addition, the cultures and languages of the indigenous peoples were This is a case study to show that the peoples in the Horn of africa have time http://www.ossrea.net/nw/ethiopia02/ethiopia02-01.htm
Extractions: 2.1 Theories and Conceptual Frameworks of the Nature, Causes and Consequences of Conflict Humanity is posed with resolving the enigma of conflicts and ending their unprecedented, ignominious outrage. Fixing a broken peace perforce demands the understanding of the nature and causes of conflicts. Hence, this paper is a synopsis of the theories and conceptual framework of the nature, causes and consequences of conflict and approaches to resolve them. The paper commences by providing global perspective on the nature and causes of conflicts. It identifies assumed racial, ethnic and religious superiority, and autocratic rules as the main sources of conflict that breed from hankering for economic and political power. In addition to the above and other sources that the paper enlists, conflicts may also be triggered by demand for justice and access to social and physical infrastructures. Demand for justice also involves crave for civil, political, cultural and religious rights. It may also include the quest for secession and independence. The manifold social, economic and political repercussions of conflicts consecrate collective security as the best means to end the recurrence of wars. This was the bedrock for the establishment of the League of Nations and later the United Nations. However, such institutional approaches failed as they derailed to serve the interests of the powerful ones. 2.2 The Fundamental Causes of Armed Conflict in Human History: Reinterpretation of Available Sources
Community-based Forest Management / Africa These welcomed other peoples from the South and the North (the Fon, Important naturally regenerating indigenous trees are being left and managed on farm 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.
Kassam which was established under the aegis of the dominant tigre peoples The indigenous Oromo NGO Hundee was established in early 1995 as part of the http://www.asa2000.anthropology.ac.uk/kassam/kassam.html
Extractions: In the substantive literature that has been generated on indigenous knowledge systems and development since the 1980s (Brokensha 1980; Croll and Parkin 1992; Chambers 1983; Hobart 1993;Richards 1985;Warren et al. 1995), little attention has been paid to the concept of development in non-western societies. One notable exception is a study by Dahl and Megerssa (1992:157-174) on the theory of development of the Oromo of East and Northeast Africa. This study formed part of a research project conducted by the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Stockkholm to explore local notions of development in different parts of the world (Dahl and Rabo 1992). The study is based on an interview carried out by Gemetchu Megerssa with his exiled Boorana Oromo mentor, Dabassa Guyyo, in Kenya in 1987. The text of this interview, transcribed and translated into English, was reproduced in Megerssa's (1993) doctoral dissertation on the Oromo system of knowledge. Another interpretation of this material was also provided by Kassam (1994) as part of the 1989-90 Rockefeller Foundation 'Reflections on Development' fellowship programme.
ASU Center For Latin American Studies: Faculty Staff: L To P Los escarabajos tigre (Coleoptera Cicindelidae) de Venezuela sue identificadión, Research Andean ethnohistory, indigenous peoples in the Americas, http://www.asu.edu/clas/latin/Faculty_Staff/L_P.htm
E-LAW Partners In The News Archive August 15, 2003 The Business Report (South africa) reports that ELAW Advocate programs respect the environment and the rights of indigenous peoples. http://www.elaw.org/news/partners/default.asp
Extractions: Search: Stay Informed Keep up-to-date on critical environmental challenges around the world. E-Bulletin , electronic notices of breaking news, events, and interviews with leading environmental defenders. E-LAW Advocate , our quarterly newsletter, which highlights E-LAW's work around the world and examines innovative legal strategies E-LAW Partners are using to protect the environment. view past E-LAW Advocates online View our privacy statement here E-LAW advocates attract national and international press as they help communities protect local environments and build sustainable futures. Read the latest press clips. Protecting Mexico's Fragile Coast
Project List Guatemala, Management and Protection of Laguna del tigre National Park Persistent Toxic Substances, Food Security, and indigenous peoples of the Russian http://www.gefonline.org/projectlist.cfm?showomereports=y
