MSN Encarta - Search View - Africa This equatorial lake system includes lakes turkana, Albert, Tanganyika, About 15 per cent of africa s people practise only indigenous, or local, http://uk.encarta.msn.com/text_761572628__1/Africa.html
ITDG - East Africa - Conflict In Northern Kenya turkana district has the highest number of displaced persons. The figure currentlystands at 41097 people. Most of the displaced are from Kakuma and http://www.itdg.org/?id=conflict_in_northern_kenya
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IRIN Africa East Africa KENYA KENYA Struggling Against For most people of the region, livestock is a living bank a savings In some parts of turkana the drought has wiped out 70 percent of the livestock. http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=47464&SelectRegion=East_Africa
Investing In Africa Can Be Quite A Challenge But Good Deals Are Other communities such as the Maasai continue to practice indigenous beliefs . Something important to note, in African culture people do not maintain http://www.escapeartist.com/efam/71/Investing_In_Kenya.html
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.
Extractions: including the Turkana, Pokot, Maasai, Kikuyu, Borana and Rendille This wonderful collection of utilitarian objects was collected in the bush several years ago by Esther Kahonge when she was doing research for the University of Nairobi in Kenya. These pieces have been well worn and therefore may have cracks or other damage that has sometimes been repaired and sometimes not. The repairs were made in the bush with whatever was handy, such as strips of aluminum, leather, wire or even colored plastic, adding more interest to the piece. In our "throwaway society" we might find it hard to understand why these people would take so much time and care repairing an object instead of creating a new one. There is a lesson there for all of us.
East Africa Living Encyclopedia Like many other ethnic groups in africa, turkana men have several wives. With a PreHistoric People The Akikuyu of British East africa. http://www.africa.upenn.edu/NEH/kethnic.htm
Minorities At Risk (MAR) with smaller groups of indigenous peoples such as the Somalis, Maasai, andTurkana. The colonial settlers forcibly evicted the indigenous African http://www.cidcm.umd.edu/inscr/mar/data/kenluhya.htm
Extractions: There is only one factor that increases the chances of future protest actions by the Luhya: significant political restrictions that include limits on free movement, voting, and recruitment to the police, military, and high political office. Low-level protest by group members only emerged in the late 1990s. The elections to choose a successor to Moi, scheduled for late 2002, will likely influence the group's political prospects. More than forty ethnic groups comprise Kenya's population. While no single group forms a majority, the Luhya (14%) are the second largest group after the Kikuyu (22%). Other significant populations include the Luo (13%), Kalenjin (12%), and Kisii (6%) along with smaller groups of indigenous peoples such as the Somalis, Maasai, and Turkana. The term Luhya was first introduced during the colonial era to refer to a linguistic grouping that consists of fifteen different peoples (LANG = 1). They are the Bukusu, Dakho, Kabras, Khayo, Kisa, Marachi, Maragoli, Marama, Nyala, Nyole, Samia, Tachoni, Tiriki, Tsotso, and Wanga. The Luhya follow the same customs as the country's larger groups (CUSTOM = 0). Group members primarily live in the Western Province and adjacent areas of the Rift Valley Province. There has been little group movement across the country's regions (MIGRANT = 1).
Content, Technical Three elements of indigenous peoples and rangelands will be explored. A corporate land manager with extensive interests, an indigenous African speaker http://www.rangelandcongress.com/cntTechnical.htm
Extractions: In the opening plenary "People and Rangelands", delegates will be challenged to consider the broad rangeland issues involving people, financial and natural resource systems and their interrelationships. It will set the scene for the Congress with three speakers and a Panel Discussion. The speakers will focus on issues of People and Rangelands from the perspectives of past impacts the current struggle and future needs Each will participate in the subsequent discussion along with additional Panel Members who will provide a variety of perspectives from around the world. Congress delegates will have an opportunity to contribute to the discussion. People and Rangelands: Past Impacts Dr. Tim Flannery, Archaeologist and Biologist, Senior Research Scientist, Australian Museum, Sydney, Australia and Visiting Professor, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA Tim Flannery is an archaeologist and biologist and author of the highly acclaimed book "The Future Eaters". "Since that first brave adventurer left the great Afro-Asian homeland to travel down the long chain of islands to Australasia, human beings have consumed the resources they would need for their own future. The Aborigines, Maoris and Polynesians were the world’s original future eaters. They changed the flora and fauna in ways that now seem inconceivable. Europeans have made an even greater impact. Today Future Eating is a universal occupation". David Suzuki said of this book "An original, very important thesis that gives us powerful insight into our current destructive path." Tim will provide a controversial and challenging view of prehistory of the rangelands and its lessons for our use of them.
Kenya Kenya Menu Abbreviations Acronyms List Of Sources On the other hand, most of the internally displaced people belong to indigenous nomadic pastoralists (Kalenjin, Maasai, Samburu and turkana) from the http://www.db.idpproject.org/Sites/IdpProjectDb/idpSurvey.nsf/wViewSingleEnv/Ken
Extractions: This order and the consequent violent displacements coincided almost exactly with the amendment of the Kenyan Constitution to permit multi-party politics in September 1991 (Article 19, Oct 1997, p. 24). Soon afterwards, parties were formed along tribal lines, with KANU officials paying landless youth to harass and force mainly Kikuyu people out of their homes and constituencies. The major periods of violence and displacement centred around the 1992 and 1997 elections and the main perpetrators of the violence in both these elections were predominantly dispossessed Kalenjin and Maasai supporters of the KANU government against members of opposition groups. By 1993 about 300,000 people had fled their homes (HRW, June 1997, p.36). In addition to the upheaval in the Rift Valley, there was a major outbreak of violence in the Mombasa region/Coast province in August and early September 1997. This violence caused the displacement of up to 120,000 people and left at least 100 dead. The victims again belonged largely to groups perceived to be associated with the political opposition, while the perpetrators were mainly disgruntled young men who were paid to commit the atrocities (US DOS, 30 January 1998, sect 1a; Nowrojee 1998, p. 65; USCR 1998).
Other Announcements indigenous People Want Power to Veto World Bank Plans May 2005 Dana Declarationat the World Parks Congress, Durban, South africa, September 2003 http://users.ox.ac.uk/~cnpc/main_announcements.html
Extractions: International Human Dimensions Programme On Global Environmental Change International Council for Science (ICSU) and the International Social Science Council (ISSC) invite applications for the above position. The IHDP is an international, interdisciplinary and non-governmental science organisation, focussing on social and human dimensions of environmental change. The IHDP is dedicated to promoting, catalysing and coordinating research, capacity-building, and networking on the human dimensions of global environmental change. The IHDP, from a social science perspective, examines areas of concern for societies on global change and works at the interface between science and practice. For detailed information on the programme please visit www.ihdp.org
Postcolonial.html For the majority of people in Nairobi and in East africa, the postcolonial Swallowing the Colonial System indigenous african Elites and Officials http://www.lclark.edu/~soan/postcolonial.html
Extractions: CHAPTER 5: Inheriting a Legacy of Domination: The Postcolonial Period The Preservation of "North/South" Dependency Jarrett (1996) begins this process of deconstruction by arguing that the destructive impacts of African "neo-colonialism" (an apt title referring to the continuing exploitation and domination of African human and natural resources during the postcolonial period) involve a number of "key participants in the exploitation of Africa's economy" (82), the most important of which are: the indigenous political and administrative officials and elites of Kenya and Tanzania; and the corporate and capitalist interests of developed nations, represented by the continuing involvement of the World Bank, the IMF, and "Northern" interests on a governmental level within the context of the East African geography. The importance of each of these actors within the context of postcolonial power dynamics, conservation and development issues, and the reproduction of extractive and oppressive capitalist interests in East Africa and in the context of the "global economy," are considered below. Swallowing the Colonial System: Indigenous African Elites and Officials pictured here Go to next section on The Postcolonial Period...
Afrika.no - Kenya: A Fragile Peace In The Desert afrika.no The Index on africa and africa News Update. a non-governmentalorganisation ( NGO) in Isiolo that promotes indigenous people s land rights, http://www.afrika.no/Detailed/9577.html
Extractions: find: in Entire afrika.no Index on Africa News Update Norske sider English Pages April advanced search Fellesrådet The Index on Africa Africa News Update ... English You are here: Archive April Kenya: A fragile peace in the desert Isiolo - Ethnic clashes, blamed on competition for increasingly scarce water and grazing, are sweeping northern Kenya, as drought and famine intensify in the neglected region. Since the beginning of the year, more than 100 people have been killed in renewed violence perpetrated under the cover of long-simmering ethnic animosities, and fueled by the myriad conflicts which surround northern Kenya. The Lord's Resistance Army in northern Uganda, militias in southern Sudan, Oromo Liberation Front guerillas in southern Ethiopia and Somali warlords who consider East Africa's deserts their personal fiefdoms, provide a constant supply of weapons to feuding tribes. The British charity, Oxfam, says northern Kenya is awash' with weapons. In Mandera district, which borders Somalia, the Garre and Murule clans are fighting, and in the most recent flare-up, 23 Garre villagers - mostly women and children - were massacred in a hail of AK-47 gunfire as they slept in their huts. Similar clashes between different ethnic groups are claiming scores of lives in the Marsabit and Turkana regions of Kenya.
Extractions: Pastoralists in the rugged, harsh terrain of Northern Kenya are increasingly using indigenous medicine rather than modern veterinary services to care for their livestock. Instead of relying on regular dipping and spraying with acaricide, which is expensive and unavailable in isolated areas, the herders are using locally available herbs to control ecto-parasites, particularly ticks. Surveys carried out in the Samburu and Turkana districts revealed that the two pastoral communities used more than 50 plant-based remedies to treat livestock diseases. The Intermediate Technology Development Group-Eastern Africa (ITDG-EA), an international non-governmental organisation, has been working with pastoralists in animal health care issues to equip them with knowledge to manage their livestock. The project, called Ethnoveterinary Knowledge (EVK), was designed to help communities stop depending on conventional drugs and to become self-reliant and confident when it comes to using local herbs. Dr. Jacob Wanyama, EVK Project Manager, says that livestock diseases such as East Coast Fever have killed thousands of cattle per year across Eastern and Southern Africa. This constraint to livestock production in communities located in arid and semi-arid lands (ASAL) "reduces productivity of millions."
New Items Tens of millions of people are displaced worldwide, but africas share has been Multiple SocioEconomic Relationships Improvised between the turkana and http://www.displacement.net/newitems.htm
Extractions: News UPDATED RESETTLEMENT NEWS FOR JAN 2005 A review of a new book from Japan Displacement Risks in Africa Itaru Ohta and Yntiso D. Gebre (eds.) 2005. Kyoto: Kyoto University Press and Melbourne: Trans Pacific Press This new and intellectually rich scholarly volume on population displacement and resettlement in Africa is the result of extensive research. Some of the worlds leading scholars in this field are among its group of co-authors, which consists of: Michael M. Cernea, Jeff Crisp, Chris de Wet, Yntiso Gebre, Art Hansen, Gaim Kibreab, Eisei Kurimoto, Jean Marara, Itaru Ohta, Kai Schmidt-Soltau, Roos Willems, and Shinichi Takeuchi. The academic community, international organizations, African governments, policy makers, investing corporations, planners, will find up-to-date information and analyses on the socio-economic, demographic, and political issues of Africa today. Tens of millions of people are displaced worldwide, but Africas share has been very high. The scourge of civil wars causes big waves of refugees. But Africas internally displaced persons (IDPs) include now not only conflict-displaced refugees and populations uprooted by civil wars, but also people displaced by numerous development programs, by natural disasters, conservation programs, the construction of military bases, etc.
UNEP/GRID-Arendal - Press Releases The turkana of Northern Kenya traditionally plan crop planting around an to the people living at Kargi who have been the custodians of the indigenous http://www.grida.no/newsroom.cfm?pressReleaseItemID=32
Anthropology, Preliminary Edition - Allyn & Bacon / Longman Catalog LESSONS APPLIED The Global Network of indigenous Knowledge Resource Centers . CROSSING THE FIELDS The Prehistoric Use of Red Ochre in Southern africa http://www.ablongman.com/catalog/academic/product/0,1144,0205469469-TOC,00.html
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COE21 Characterization of indigenous agricultural systems in africa based on ecoregional In african dry zones, pastoral people have developed cultures and http://areainfo.asafas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/english/activities/msub2.html
Extractions: Members' Research Activities Back ARAKI Shigeru Characterization of indigenous agricultural systems in Africa based on eco-regional classification Various indigenous technologies have been developed in African agriculture thereby utilizing specific environment and natural resources on sustainable basis. As a matter of fact, environment, technology and society are inseparable components of a farming complex that plays a crucial role in contemporary Africa. Through quantitative estimation of productivity and environmental potentials on the one hand, and socio-cultural adaptation on the other, the future perspective of the farming complex will be drawn. Araki, S. (1992) The role of miombo woodland ecosystems in Chitemene shifting cultivation in northern Zambia, Japan InfoMAB, 11; 8-15. Araki, S., Msanya, B., Magoggo, J. P., Kimaro, D. N., and Kitagawa, Y. (1998) Characterization of soils on various planation surfaces in Tanzania, Proceedings of the 16th World Conference of Soil Science, Montpellier, France, CD-Rom. Araki, S. (ed.) (2003) Agro-environmental study of indigenous agriculture in Tanzania and Zambia, A report for Grant-in-Aid for International Scientific Research of Japanese Ministry of Education, Science and Culture ( #11691186), in press.
