Waterose: Mountain Gorillas The economic needs of the indigenous people in the homeland of the Mountain The tutsi use the mountain meadows to graze their cattle, which destroys http://www.geocities.com/Waterose_Test/gorilla.html
Extractions: Articles Projects Resume Cartoons ... Album Are we Killers or Saviours of the Mountain Gorilla? by Waterose Gorilla populations are confined to central Africa and may be divided into three subspecies differentiated by morphological variations attributed to habitat variations: the Western lowland gorilla ( Gorilla, gorilla, gorilla ), the Eastern lowland gorilla ( Gorilla, gorilla, graueri ), and the Mountain gorilla ( Gorilla, gorilla, beringei ) (Dixson, 1981). Population estimates were: 10,000 Western lowland gorilla (Fossey, 1983); 258 Eastern lowland gorilla (Biological Conservation, 1993), and 300 Mountain gorilla (Science, 1995). The ranges of the gorillas may be defined in geographical terms. They range in an equatorial belt across central Africa between five degrees north and five degrees south of the equator (Schaller, 1963). The Western lowland gorilla ranges in the Congo and Gaboni lowland basin on the west side of the African continent. The Eastern lowland gorilla ranges in the eastern lowlands of Zaire. The Mountain gorilla ranges in the eight volcanic mountains comprising the Virungas at the edge of the great African rift valley. The Virunga mountains reach elevations from 11,000 to 15,000 feet. The Virunga mountain range of the Mountain gorilla is bordered by three countries: Zaire, Rwanda and Uganda. The majority of the Mountain gorillas are in Rwanda (Fossey, 1983).
ID21 - Communicating Development Research The MRG encourages those working on minority and indigenous peoples rights Go to the School of African and Asian Studies, University of London, UK site http://www.id21.org/society/s6cfb1g1.html
Extractions: Rural livelihoods Natural resources Technology Poverty ... Site map Women belonging to minority groups: facing multiple disadvantages? Women are discriminated against in many ways but if a woman is also a member of a minority or indigenous community, she faces multiple disadvantages. Despite some efforts, neither gender equality nor minority and indigenous rights are integral to international law or human rights. Ignoring this discrimination leads to a failure in recognising the many ways women are ill-treated. A report from the Minority Rights Group International (MRG) examines how factors such as gender, minority and indigenous status combine to affect women. The MRG encourages those working on minority and indigenous peoples rights to include gender issues. It also urges those working on gender equality and women's rights to include minorities and indigenous peoples within their remit. The report points out the different ways in which women from minority or indigenous groups are discriminated against: Trafficking in women across borders is often based upon racial subordination: in many cases specific groups of women are targeted for trafficking or sale which also reflects the ill-treatment given out to them in their country of origin.
Adherents.com: By Location The Batwa made up 0.4%, some 20000 people, the Hutu and tutsi comprised 85% and The Community of indigenous People of Rwanda (CAURWA) is uniting three http://www.adherents.com/adhloc/Wh_290.html
Extractions: Notes African Traditional Religion Rwanda *LINK* web page: "Geographical Distribution of Followers of ATR in African Nations "; (viewed 13 March 1999); Arranged by Chidi Denis Isizoh from the entries made in: Barret, D.B. World Christian Encylopedia . Nairobi (1982). Table: "Geographical Distribution of Adherents of African Traditional Religion in the Continent of Africa " African Traditional Religion Rwanda *LINK* Nance Profiles web site (orig. source: Nov. `93 CHURCH AROUND THE WORLD); (viewed Aug. 1998; now restricted Total pop.: 4,400,000. African Traditionals 30%. African Traditional Religion Rwanda *LINK* web page: "Geographical Distribution of Followers of ATR in African Nations "; (viewed 13 March 1999); Arranged by Chidi Denis Isizoh from the entries made in: Barret, D.B. World Christian Encylopedia . Nairobi (1982). Table: "Geographical Distribution of Adherents of African Traditional Religion in the Continent of Africa "; Projection, made circa 1982.
Extractions: The past also lives in the present through literary and artistic texts. In Morrison's trilogy, Milton's Paradise Lost is rewritten as an alternative North American history; the New Eden is lost through the founding fathers' original sinsthe murder of the indigenous people, the enslavement of Africansand through the very desire to relinquish history, to erase knowledge of the past. In Paradise, one can see Dante's Divine Comedy, Genesis, Exodus, and Numbers, stories of origins, migrations, and the writing and interpreting of Laws, the Gospels, as well as African creation myths of "Paradise Lost" of the Nuer, Tutsi, Lugbara, Dinka, and Yoruba people, rewritten from African American perspectives. (13) Morrison's literary dialogue with these sacred and canonical texts both reveals their power in the present and loosens their grip as unquestioned truth and supreme knowledge.
Suburban Blight: What Kind Of World... integrate the indigenous people into their European way of life, PostColonial africa has achieved a level of corruption, brutal tyranny and just http://www.suburbanblight.net/archives/001684.html
Extractions: Main ...do we live in, here? What does it take to twist and pervert a mind so, that it could grow to even dream of such a diabolical thing, such a horrible, evil thing ? What does it take to bend and snap a conscience to the point where training children to murder and torture seems acceptable or even normal? And on such a grand scale, too. What is wrong with Mugabe's subjects that they will allow this to happen? Just accept it and give their children over to brutal re-education, rape, torture - and classes in the most efficient ways to perform same? Africa has proved itself unable, unwilling, or just unfit to deal with its own brutal regimes. If someone with money and power (i.e., the west) doesn't step in, twenty years from now these children will be our worst nightmare. Yet we continue to read these stories, cluck our tongues, and say "how sad". I'm not suggesting that the United States go in there. I don't know what I'm suggesting. I have no answers. All I know is that the African continent is diseased and rotten to its core. It has been raped and polluted and left in a ditch to die. I'm sick to my stomach.
CIA - The World Factbook -- Rwanda The tutsi rebels defeated the Hutu regime and ended the killing in July 1994,but approximately 2 Rwanda is the most densely populated country in africa http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/rw.html
Extractions: Select a Country or Location World Afghanistan Akrotiri 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 Dhekelia 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
African News 18-09-2003 - D Mr Kagame, a tutsi, won 95% of the vote against two candidates from the indigenous people deserved compensation but to let them manage the parks where http://ospiti.peacelink.it/anb-bia/week_2k3/030918d.htm
Extractions: WEEKLY NEWS ISSUE of: 18-09-2003 PART #4/4 - From MAURITANIA to ZIMBABWE * Mauritania. Torture alleged after coup attempt The mothers, daughters and sisters of 129 soldiers detained in connection with a failed June coup accused two army officers Sunday of torturing the accused men. Hundreds of the soldiers female relatives staged a sit-in on 13 September outside the courthouse in the capital, Nouakchott, demanding to see the detainees. In a statement on 14 September , the women said the soldiers were tortured by two lieutenant colonels before being taken to prison in the northwest African country. They described the treatment as a «serious violation of human rights» and demanded the officers be brought to justice. The government has denied allegations of torture. The 129 soldiers are charged with «high treason, assassinations, sabotage and plotting against the constitutional order.» (CNN, USA, 15 September 2003)
Reunification 2000 In Rwanda one sometimes hears people claim they represent Hutus, What linksrich educated tutsi or Hutu in the capital to a jigger infested poor, http://www.rwandemb.org/english/rwanda_reunification2000.html
Extractions: Ladies and Gentlemen: It gives me great pleasure to say a few words on this occasion celebrating what Africa in general and Rwanda in particular so desperately needs - Unity. In 1884, at Berlin in Germany, by the stroke of a foreign pen, our continent was divided into politico-economic structures with neither our input nor knowledge. We have therefore in our hands the unenviable task of making sure that those structures and norms which we inherited are not turned into permanent barriers and sources of division, but rather serve as membranes, allowing for a free exchange of ideas and engendering co-operation in all fields. Fellow Rwandans
RACE - Keynote: RACE Unlocking Prejudice Racism is about people from dominant groups exerting their power unjustly 7 indigenous Guatemalans are not numerically a minority but their share of http://www.newint.org/issue260/keynote.htm
Extractions: The guilt returns every time I remember the incident. And with it comes a different kind of anger, deeper and more durable. It is an anger against everything that had colluded to prompt those words to a child. The insidious learning of racism which comes about through our friends and families, the films we watch, the stories we hear, the education we get, the line our politicians peddle. Because racism affects both offender and victim, albeit unequally. Racist societies are literally sick societies. Their myopia will not let them see that their economic woes are due to economic policies rather than scapegoats: they bear the ulcers of violence, mistrust and inequality. The racist is chained to hatred; it defines and controls. For the person subject to race hatred, every social interaction can be a reminder.
Extractions: Winners, Losers, and Wild Cards in the Great Lakes Conflict Dr. Richard A Griggs, Independent Projects Trust (Dr. Griggs is Research Director for Independent Projects Trusta non-governmental organization in durban, South Africa. Griggs is also coordinator for the Center for World Indigenous Studies Fourth World Atlas Project.) Imagine Africa as a game board consisting of 50 brightly coloured political states. The pieces are influential people, cash, armies, and capital that the political players must move into the right places at the right time to facilitate outcomes favourable to their strategic or political interests. Like Park Lane in monopoly, one of the biggest prizes on this game board is Zaire, the second largest state and a geostrategic zone of great natural riches at the heart of Africa. The players who win influence there gain access to: vast quantities of minerals such as copper, zinc, gold, and industrial diamonds; strategic minerals such as uranium and cobalt [Zaire is the world's largest producer of this ingredient vital to jet engines]; unfelled forests, enough hydroelectric potential to meet all of Africa's needs, and enough fresh water to quench Southern Africa's thirst. The Winners Tutsi Alliance: The genius behind the Tutsi alliance is not Laurent Kabila but President Museveni. Kabila constantly consults the old master whose own National Resistance Movement [MNR] successfully defeated the corrupt Obote regime in 1986. The MNR included many Tutsis from neighbouring Rwanda and Zaire. For instance, Paul Kagame, now Rwanda's Vice-President and Defence Minister, was former head of Uganda's military intelligence. In turn, the RPF-ruled Rwandan regime assumed power in 1994 with Ugandan support. Thus, Museveni's Tutsi-led revolution has not ended but extended itself to Rwanda, Burundi and Zaire.
Ethnicity And Race By Countries Liberia, indigenous African tribes 95% (including Kpelle, Bassa, Gio, Venezuela,Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Arab, German, African, indigenous people http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0855617.html
Extractions: World Countries Afghanistan Pashtun 42%, Tajik 27%, Hazara 9%, Uzbek 9%, minor ethnic groups (Chahar Aimaks, Turkmen, Baloch, and others) Albania Albanian 95%, Greeks 3%, other 2%: Vlachs, Gypsies, Serbs, and Bulgarians (1989 est.) Algeria Arab-Berber 99%, European less than 1% Andorra Spanish 43%, Andorran 33%, Portuguese 11%, French 7%, other 6% (1998) Angola Ovimbundu 37%, Kimbundu 25%, Bakongo 13%, mestico (mixed European and Native African) 2%, European 1%, other 22% Antigua and Barbuda black, British, Portuguese, Lebanese, Syrian
Horn Of Africa Review - August 1996 The economic committee of the Global Coalition for africa (GCA) met in Addis Two people were killed and 10 injured as a result of the 6 August bomb http://www.africa.upenn.edu/EUE/eue_har896.html
Extractions: UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME EMERGENCIES UNIT FOR ETHIOPIA HORN OF AFRICA REVIEW 20 JULY 1996 - 31 AUGUST 1996 The following is the fourth in a series of updates prepared by the UNDP Emergencies Unit for Ethiopia (UNDP/EUE) on the general situation in the countries of the Horn of Africa. Updates cover events in Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Sudan, Somalia and Uganda. Information in this update has been obtained from UN, NGOs and media reports; reference is made to the sources as appropriate. No claims are made by the EUE as to the accuracy of these reports. IGAD The Rwandan government has asked to join the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development - IGAD (currently comprised of Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Sudan, Uganda and Somalia) and the East African Co-operation (comprised of Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania) in an effort to boost the country's economic recovery. The request was announced by the Rwandan President, Pasteur Bizimungu, at the end of a four day visit to Kampala in early August.
UNA-NCA > About Africa Business and finance information and daily updates for North africa Over thepast eight years up to 200000 people out of a population of six million http://www.unanca.org/aboutafrica.htm
Extractions: Mission Statement It is no surprise that in the absence of an African perspective in documentation, coverage, and dissemination of African related news and information, the general information and historical documentation made available to societies around the world about Africa, often through western media, is either limited or distorted in context.
Batwa Unrepresented Nations and peoples Organisation IFPRERLOM Focuses on IndigenousIssues in Batwa 200503-23 IFPRERLOM raise multiple points on which the http://www.unpo.org/member.php?arg=10
2004 Conference Abstracts This social reciprocity defines local people as citizens of rebel groups for indigenous Africans, reinforcing the notion that indigenous African men http://www.cas.ed.ac.uk/confabstracts04.html
Film Fest Journal: New York African Film Festival Archives A leading figure in the South African Coloured People s Congress during the 1960s keepersmemory.gif A tutsi herdsman and genocide survivor sits atop a http://www.filmref.com/journal/archives/2005_journal/new_york_african_film_festi
Extractions: The Sundjata Epic into the contemporary, cautionary tale of cultural marginalization in the face of increasing Westernization in Burkina Faso, Keita, The Heritage of the Griot Posted by acquarello at May 01, 2005 Permalink Comments (0) Story of a Beautiful Country Ten Posted by acquarello at Apr 30, 2005 Permalink Comments (0) Part first-hand historical testament on South African anti-apartheid movement and part essay confessional (or perhaps even emotional exorcism) on the filmmaker and activist, Rehad Desai's absence during the formative years of his own son's life, Born into Struggle is an intimate and provocative examination of the personal legacy and intangible familial toll caused by the patriarch, Barney Desai's political activism and consuming obsession towards the struggle for freedom in his beloved homeland. A leading figure in the South African Coloured People's Congress during the 1960s (and subsequent leader in the Pan-Africanist Congress in the 1990s), Barney Desai would continue his campaign for equal justice even while in exile in England, working as an advocate for minority clients who found themselves running afoul with the police (most notably, during the labor strikes of the 1970s) and documenting the torture and death of West Cape activist and Muslim elder Imam Haron while under police detention in 1969 through the publication of the book
Extractions: Accueil Structure Chercheurs Réalisations ... Alizés n°16 African Indigenous Languages as Semi-official Languages: A Study in the Causes of Political Conflicts in Africa opyright 1998 Alizés ISSN : 1155-4363 1.0 The Beginnings B Colonialism thus gave birth to a new type of nationhood a nationhood in which the natives surrendered their ethnic loyalties for those of the colonising power. This involved the acquisition and application of the Western notions of nationism and nationalism. Nationism denotes governance while nationalism denotes the patriotic feelings one has for ones nation. In both governance and patriotism, language poses a problem. Governance requires, according to Fasold, communication both within the governing institutions and between government and the people (1984: 3). The people who were to be governed or who were being governed were illiterate and diverse. They needed to be educated and united. The need for the language of governance, that of education and national cohesion engendered the desire for an official language (OL) a prestigious, bias-free highly efficient language capable of handling the functional load of governance, trade, modern religion and diplomacy. Only the colonising languages satisfied these requirements. They were therefore imposed as the official languages. 1.1 Indigenous Languages Under the Canopy
Suburban Blight What Kind Of World The native people were excluded for so long that they never really PostColonialAfrica has achieved a level of corruption, brutal tyranny and just http://www.suburbanblight.net/archives/001684.php
Extractions: Main ...do we live in, here? What does it take to twist and pervert a mind so, that it could grow to even dream of such a diabolical thing, such a horrible, evil thing ? What does it take to bend and snap a conscience to the point where training children to murder and torture seems acceptable or even normal? And on such a grand scale, too. What is wrong with Mugabe's subjects that they will allow this to happen? Just accept it and give their children over to brutal re-education, rape, torture - and classes in the most efficient ways to perform same? Africa has proved itself unable, unwilling, or just unfit to deal with its own brutal regimes. If someone with money and power (i.e., the west) doesn't step in, twenty years from now these children will be our worst nightmare. Yet we continue to read these stories, cluck our tongues, and say "how sad". I'm not suggesting that the United States go in there. I don't know what I'm suggesting. I have no answers. All I know is that the African continent is diseased and rotten to its core. It has been raped and polluted and left in a ditch to die. I'm sick to my stomach.
