Encyclopedia Of The World's Minorities Taiwan s indigenous peoples Tajiks Tamils Tatars Tharu Tibetans tuareg TurkmenTurks Tutsi Tuvans Twa Tyrolese Germanspeakers Udmurts Ukrainians http://www.routledge-ny.com/ref/minorities/thematic.html
Encyclopedia Of The World's Minorities africa A Continent of Minorities? africanAmerican Nationalism and Separatism Taiwan s indigenous peoples Tajikistan Tajiks Tamil Tigers http://www.routledge-ny.com/ref/minorities/azentries.html
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).
North Africa overview of the indigenous people of North africa from antiquity through the The tuareg, People of the Ahaggar Jeremy Keenan CULTURAL PORTRAIT http://www.longitudebooks.com/find/d/672/pc/North Africa/mcms.html
Extractions: This book documents the folk architecture, houses and markets of Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia in the late 1970s in stunning black-and-white and color photographs. With extensive notes and text by photographer-architect Norman Carver. The author traveled throughout the region and this excellent book reflects his familiarity with the people, culture and geography of the region.
Extractions: Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues Second Session th th INDIGENOUS LANDS SEVERELY DAMAGED BY DEVELOPMENT, MINING, TOURISM, PERMANENT FORUM TOLD, AS DEBATE BEGINS ON ENVIRONMENT Speakers Urge Halt to Lumber, Oil Concessions, During the morning meeting, the Forum concluded its discussion on economic and social development, with speakers highlighting the need for governments to recognize indigenous rights over their land and natural resources, and to compensate them for any destruction. They also stressed that indigenous peoples should design, implement and evaluate their own development programmes, according to their needs, aspirations and cultural values. Other participants applauded the decade for indigenous peoples, which had brought their concerns to international attention, and called on the Forum to declare the coming decade an indigenous one as well. They also highlighted the importance of information and shared experiences in strengthening democracy and fostering economic growth, recommending that the Forum develop a mechanism to spread information to indigenous communities.
Human Rights Internet - The Human Rights Databank In UNsponsored meetings, representatives of indigenous peoples and many governmentshave tuareg - 900000 (Algeria, Libya, Niger, Burkina Faso, Mali. http://www.hri.ca/doccentre/docs/handbook97/tribal.shtml
Extractions: No general, universal agreement defines indigenous peoples. This observation is stated in many forms, in relevant UN commissions and working groups, as well as in the World Bank's Operational Directive on Indigenous Peoples. Most countries currently seeking to address indigenous issues do so within the context of their national constitution, and according to their reading of history, rather than as an issue of universal character. In UN-sponsored meetings, representatives of indigenous peoples and many governments have expressed the view that a definition of the concept of indigenous peoples is not necessary at the intenational level, although such definitions may be advisable and necessary at the national level. In addition, indigenous peoples have questioned the need for a universal definition of the concept of "indigenous peoples:" "peoples"
Journal Of North African Studies - Abstracts and the UNs Draft Declaration on the Rights of indigenous peoples, The article shows that most of the problems facing Algerias tuareg today stem http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/archive/fnas-abs.asp
Extractions: This article attempts to capture and analyse key elements of the pre-colonial and early colonial period of Tuareg history before they become lost or fixed forever in what is a predominantly French and imperialistic perspective. This perspective, which provides the sole literary record of this crucial era, has contributed not only to a very distorted notion of the social structure and dynamics of Tuareg society at the time of the French arrival in the Central Sahara, and what is meant by traditional society, but also, because of the Tuaregs own lack of written records, to the Tuaregs own increasingly misconstrued notions of their history. The article shows that the picture of Tuareg society that France presented to the world after the final pacification of the Algerian Sahara in 1920 was a semblance almost a caricature of traditional society.
ROUTLEDGE/Major Works: Opere Di Consultazione Con Sconto Speciale Afghanistan; africa a continent of minorities?; africanAmericans; Shan; Shor; Siberian indigenous peoples; Sidama; Sierra Leone; Sikhs; Sindhis; 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.
Africa Stage: Making A Difference - September 11, 1999 there are several ways you can help the indigenous people of the Niger Delta . Kevin Chez tuareg - House of tuareg, A Desert Tea Party http://www.worldtrek.org/odyssey/africa/091199/091199madoil.html
Extractions: Ken Saro-Wiwa, the gallows just before execution, November 10th 1995. One of the world's most devastating combinations of human rights abuse and environmental destruction is still occurring in the West African country of Nigeria. Who are the culprits? American oil companies, namely Shell and Chevron. These companies continue to spend billions of dollars per year in search of new sources of oil at the expense of biodiversity and indigenous cultures. Ogoni is a land of half a million people in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. While Ogoni's oil wealth has been exploited, and the local people have suffered economic deprivation, the environmental devastation of their land and the discriminatory policies of successive Nigerian governments. The World Trek Team has seen environmental abuses by oil companies before in Guatemala and Peru . While the effects are harmful in every country invaded by the oil companies, the story of human death due to protest has been made poignantly famous in Nigeria.
Coach Mart's Personal Vision Quest the tuareg, a nomadic indigenous people, many of whom still live in the Sahara.The caravan consisted of 21 people. Eleven were tuareg guides, http://www.consciousawareness.com/life-coaching-african-visionquest.html
Extractions: Reprinted with the permission of the Gainesville Sun. When the war in Iraq started in March, suddenly it seemed that most of America was on edge. Even for those who simply watched the bombs drop from the safety of their favorite armchair, uneasiness was practically inescapable. Now imagine you are Martin Goldberg, a Gainesville attorney. On the night bombs started dropping on Iraq, he was heading down to Orlando to catch a plane to Algeria, a Muslim country located on the northern border of Africa, for a three-week camelback trip through the Sahara. Algeria might not have been the ideal place for a white, Jewish male to be when there is a war raging across a few miles of water and the prevailing opinion of Americans throughout Europe is anything but friendly. However, months of planning had gone into this trip, and Goldberg wouldn't let himself back out. He tried not to think about the potential danger, thinking instead about the opportunity to be a sort of emissary. This would be, he thought, his chance to let Europeans know - since most of his travel companions were going to be European - that not all Americans shared the same sentiments regarding the war. "From their media, they (had) the idea that all Americans felt the same way," Goldberg said.
Extractions: Development From Diversity to Pluralism ... United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization UNESCO Sitemap Glossary Links News and Events ... Search Languages English Français Español Publications Statutory Texts Write to us Frequently Asked Questions About Culture Anniversaries, Days and Decades Fellowships Funding and Patronage Prizes Recruitment and Internships Who's Who? Entrance at 125 avenue de Suffren, Paris 75007 Programme The first part of the Symposium (15-16 May) explored the interaction and complementarities of the oral and written, as well as the role of traditional or modern supports in the safeguard and transmission of indigenous cultural values. The second part of the Symposium (17-18 May) focused on the impact of new technologies (multimedia, Internet) on research and teaching in anthropology, museology and current protocols for the re-appropriation of the tangible and intellectual cultural property of indigenous peoples.
MAR | Data | Minority Group Assessments For All Regions Bolivia, indigenous Highland peoples indigenous. Bolivia, Lowland indigenouspeoples United States of America, AfricanAmericans ethnoclass http://www.cidcm.umd.edu/inscr/mar/assessments.asp?regionId=99
UEA Saharan Studies Programme: Publications Keenan, J., The tuareg People Paying the Price for the US militarisation ofAfrica in The indigenous World 2005, International Work Group for indigenous http://www.uea.ac.uk/sahara/ssp-publications.html
Extractions: UEA Saharan Studies Programme Home News Contact Us About Us ... Future Projects Publications Postgraduate Opportunities Sponsors Links Programme Publications Forthcoming Keenan, J. Alice in the Sahara: Moving Mirrors and the USA War on Terror in the Sahara, Pluto (2005) Keenan, J. The Lesser Gods of the Sahara. Social Change and Contested Terrain amongst the Tuareg of Algeria . Routledge, p.298. (Published by Frank Cass in 2003). First published as Special Issue of Journal of North African Studies . Vol. 8 numbers 3-4, Autumn-Winter 2003. Keenan, J The Lesser Gods of the Sahara. Social Change and Contested Terrain amongst the Tuareg of Algeria , London: Frank Cass. Journal Articles Forthcoming Keenan, J 'Chad-Cameroon Oil Pipeline: World Bank and ExxonMobil in 'Last Chance Saloon'' in Review of African Political Economy (ROAPE) , 32 (104), June 2005 (in press). Keenan, J Journal of North African Studies Special Issue, Autumn-Winter 2005. Keenan, J Journal of North African Studies Special Issue, Autumn-Winter 2005.
Extractions: Presentation by: HELENE E. HAGAN TAZZLA INSTITUTE FOR CULTURAL DIVERSITY BURBANK, CA. 91604, USA THE IMPORTANCE OF INTERNATIONAL ALLIANCES FOR THE AMAZIGH MOVEMENT OF NORTH AFRICA Summary: In this presentation, I will first introduce the Imazighen, and the Amazigh culture of the thirty million or so autochthonous people of North Africa. I will review the various local, national and international branches of our fast growing international movement, and the manner in which means of communication and international alliances have formed and serve the communities of base in North Africa and sub-Saharan countries, the "Diaspora" of Europe, and the Amazigh communities of Canada and the United States. Amazigh culture and Imazighen of Africa. "Amazigh" means "Free Human Being," and Imazighen means "Free Human Beings," "Tamazgha" means the Amazigh territory which extends from the Oasis of Siwa and the banks of the Nile in Egypt to Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, the Canary Islands off the shore of Africa in the Atlantic Ocean, the Sahara, and sub-Saharan countries of Niger, Mali, Burkina-Faso and Mauritania. The language spoken by all these groups, in different dialects of it, is Tamazight. We are a minority in all of these nation states, except in Morocco where the odd case of a majority of indigenous people live under Arabic rule. In all of these states, the ruling powers exercise iron-fisted policies toward our people, and the struggle for Amazigh linguistic, cultural, and democratic rights is an ongoing one. This struggle involves different countries, and different problems and solutions, but it is one and the same for all Imazighen: freedom of expression, linguistic, cultural and human rights. The suppression takes different aspects, but is always a major one, sometimes a bloody one, as the events in Algeria of the past year and of today witness, and the struggle of Tuaregs in Niger has proved to be, where Peace Accords with the government has followed several years of massacres and armed rebellion.
Amazigh History The term Amazigh represents the Berber people of North africa. tuareg elementsin Mali call their ancestral homeland Azouad (in northwestern Mali), http://www.libyamazigh.org/history.htm
Extractions: Since the dawn of history, Imazighen have been the indigenous inhabitants of North Africa, their territory stretching from Egypt to Mauritania and from the Mediterranean to the boundaries of historic sub-Saharan Black Africa. Various empires and peoples have conquered portions of historic Tamazgha , beginning with the Phoenicians and Greeks and continuing through the Romans, Vandals, Byzantines, Arabs, Turks, French, British, Spanish, and Italians. Imazighen have been subjected to various religious beliefs: their own early pantheistic concepts; the polytheistic dogmas of the Phoenicians, Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans; and monotheistic Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Since the 13th century, most Imazighen have professed the Islamic faith and Islam has sunk most deeply into their psyches. Throughout their history, the Imazighen have always had their heroes or heroines who have defended their ancestral homeland but then succumbed to the superior "civilization" might of their conquerors. In 814 B.C., for example, Amazigh chief Larbas negotiated a deal to marry Princess Dido, daughter of the King of Tyre, in return for a small piece of real estate that eventually became Qart Hadasht (i.e., the New City, or Carthage). King Juba and king Massinissa intrigued with the Romans against the Carthaginians. Royal prince Jugurtha learned Roman fighting techniques and then led a formidable rebellion from 106 to 104 B.C. according to the Roman historian Sallust's account of the Jugurthine War.
North Africa The Berbers are the indigenous people in the Maghreb, and are believed to have The majority of people in North africa are ultimately of Berber descent, http://www.algebra.com/algebra/about/history/North-Africa.wikipedia
Extractions: Regular View Dictionary View (all words explained) Algebra Help my dictionary with pronunciation , wikipedia etc North Africa is a region generally considered to include: The Azores Canary Islands Ethiopia Eritrea , and Madeira are sometimes considered to be a part of North Africa. The Maghreb (also called Northwest Africa or Tamazgha ) is the portion of North Africa that consititutes Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya (thus excluding the Nile Valley ). In common usage - particularly in French - the term is often restricted to the first three countries, as all are former French colonies. In Arabic , the term can also refer to Morocco alone. Some North African countries, particularly Egypt and Libya, often get included in common definitions of the Middle East , not being part of the Maghreb. In addition, the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt is often considered part of Asia, and hence of the Middle East. North Africa is often set apart from the sub-Saharan African region, as the desert serves more of an obstacle to communication than the sea itself. It is principally inhabited by Berbers and Arabs , who are scarcely distinguishable physically, along with minorities of other ethnic groups. The Berbers are the indigenous people in the
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Extractions: Day two begins with an exploration of Lome , the vibrant capital of Togo . We will visit the central market of Lome with its famous Mercedes Mama's (Nana-Benz), the colonial buildings in the administrative quarter, and the fetish market- where an eclectic assortment of all the necessary ingredients for love potions and magical concoctions are sold. Afterwards we travel north to Atakpame a wonderful city surrounded by hills, in order to visit the weavers of kente, a fabric worn by kings and queens on ceremonial occasions. Traveling to central Togo we visit villages inhabited by people indigenous to northern Togo . Their ancestors were forced to settle in central Togo by the colonial government many generations ago. Despite the passage of time the indigenous northerners practice their ancient traditions in order to maintain a symbolic link to the land of their origins. In the evening we are invited to witness a fire-dance, which is an animist tradition still practiced today despite the century long presence of Islam. Trusting the power transmitted from father to son, the dancers throw themselves fearless into the fire. Not only do they walk on the burning embers, they also hold fire red coals in their hands and pass them over their body without leaving any burn marks on their skin.
Tuareg - Definition Of Tuareg In Encyclopedia The tuareg people also identify themselves, with the word Tamust, the nation . Tinariwen, a tuareg band that fuses electric guitars and indigenous http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/Tuareg
Extractions: Tuareg Total population: Between 100,000 http://wwwusers.imaginet.fr/~yusuf/introduction.html and 3.5 Million http://membres.lycos.fr/temoust/press_release7500.htm Significant populations in: These numbers are all estimates http://www.ethnologue.com/ , and may exclude Tuaregs who are assimilated into the general population of these countries. others? The Tuareg are an African ethnic group or nation . They call themselves Kel Tamasheq, Kel Tamajaq ("speakers of Tamasheq"), Imouhar Imuhagh , or Imashaghen ("the free"). The Tuareg people also identify themselves, with the word Tamust , the nation. The meaning of the word Tuareg has been long discussed. It may have come from a Libyan region known today as Fezzan , but once called Targa . The Arabic word "Targui", for Tuareg, may have derived from the Targa valley, the main city
IRIN Africa West Africa NIGER Slavery - An Unbroken Chain She was owned by a nomadic tuareg tribesman who roamed the vast expanses of northern Azara is one of at least 43000 people born into slavery in Niger, http://www.irinnews.org/S_report.asp?ReportID=46200&SelectRegion=West_Africa
