Legitimizing Spiritually-centred Wisdoms Within The Academy Goduka, IN (1999) indigenous EpistemologiesWays of Knowing In Molefi K. asante and Abdulai S. Vandi. Spiritual Teacher Songs for the People Teachings on http://www.kk.ecu.edu.au/sub/schoola/research/confs/aiec/papers/igoduka04.htm
Extractions: African/indigenous philosophies: Legitimizing Spiritually-centred wisdoms within the academy Ivy Goduka, Central Michigan University Back Up Conclusion As I conclude this journey, I would like to emphasize two major points. First, I caution the reader to appreciate the limitations of writing such an important piece of work. Alas! Only some of the many facets of indigenous philosophies can be discussed in such a short space of time and place without compromising the rich and varied body of spiritually-centred wisdom thriving in indigenous thought. Therefore, indigenous learners and scholars in Africa and around the globe are challenged to engage in extensive research and writing to legitimize indigenous epistemologies in the library, classroom, and wherever other knowledges, sciences and technologies are in existence. Such cultures and experiences have been devalued and denigrated in the academy; even worse, they have been treated as if they never existed. As we enter the next millennium, there is growing anger among indigenes and a desire to engage in what Amadiume (1997) terms
Extractions: African Religions I D-30.14.63 shows the Odente shrine [Dente] shrine, a powerful shrine that was often consulted during war times. People relied on it for the exposure of evil, especially witchcraft, in communities. The presence of the shrine in the forest ensured the preservation of the vegetation as no farming or hunting activity was permitted in the vicinity of the shrine.
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Extractions: Home About Patriensa GHACLAD Vision GreenStar Internet Marketing Multipurpose Telecentre Telecentre Indigenous Healing Out-Patient Services Health Launching Pictures Computer Training Telecentre Guest Services Community Forum Listen To Music View Movies Picture Gallery AAMCT Asante Akim District Edutech Computer Literacy ... AAMCT Advisory Board AAMCT: CENTER DESCRIPTION The AAMCT is the first solar-powered center in Ghana. This project is a joint initiative between the Ghana Computer Literacy and Distance Education, Incorporated (GhaCLAD), a registered non-profit organization based in Chicago, committed to the inclusion of Ghana and the rest of Africa in the mushrooming information technology movement and the empowerment of disadvantaged groups in rural and urban Ghana in gaining access to indigenous and emerging information communications technologies; and Greenstar, a US non-profit organization which specializes in operating solar-powered telecentres in rural community around the world. Of the 17 rooms at the Center, eleven have been fully completed. One of the rooms serves as the Centers IT training center. Equipped with 10 computers, an overhead, slide, and a data projector, it is capable of handling most training needs. The e-mail/Internet room at the Center is
The Village Of Patriensa of the information revolution to the people of Patriensa urban Ghana in gaining access to indigenous and emerging asante AKIM MULTIPURPOSE COMMUNITY TELECENTRE. http://www.patriensa.com/news.htm
Extractions: Home About Patriensa GHACLAD Vision GreenStar Internet Marketing Multipurpose Telecentre Telecentre Indigenous Healing Out-Patient Services Health Launching Pictures Computer Training Telecentre Guest Services Community Forum Listen To Music View Movies Picture Gallery AAMCT Asante Akim District Edutech Computer Literacy ... AAMCT Advisory Board ABOUT PATRIENSA Patriensa is one of the 26 villages/towns within the Asante Akim district. The district itself measures approximately 100,000 square Kilometers, with about 140,000 The village has an agrarian economy with about 74% of the population working in the agricultural sector. The incomes of the people are very limited since most of the crops grown are for local consumption. The illiteracy rate is high, and unemployment rate is very high. Access to health services is very limited at the village. Currently, there is no health facility at the village. View Videos On August 4, 2001, the village launched the first solar-powered telecentre, the Asante Akim Multipurpose Community Telecentre (AAMCT), in Ghana. With the launch of a business partnership and the opening of the AAMCT, this Ashanti village has now been transformed into a 21st century community in the midst of Africa. In conjunction with The Greenstar Corporation, who funded the solar installation, the people of the village have also begun the digitization of the village's art, music and other cultural assets in a novel investment in Ghana's future.
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Extractions: The Pan African Resource Project is pleased to announce that we are accepting campus booking for our Fall Academic Term 2001 Pan African University Lecture series. We can provide you the opportunity to book progressive, insightful speakers, with first hand knowledge of the struggles for justice and development in Africa, the Caribbean and North America (USA and Canada). Included among our speakers are history makers such as Sister Teodora Gomes of the struggle in Guinea-Bissau, Brother Ismael Rashid from Sierra Leone and many others. (Contact us for a complete list. See contact list below for the rep in your area.) We urge your group to sponsor a presenters from the Pan African University Lecture series on your campus, it could well be your organizing advantage. Undoubtedly, as college students, you have been exposed to mainstream ideas of the existing social order that are communicated to you in the classroom; at programs where special guests have been invited to speak; in textbooks and in official socio-cultural activities. These ideas are used to shape and mold your opinion about the problems and solutions confronting Africans and the other oppressed peoples of the world. However, history teaches us clearly that these ideas and perspectives emanating from the existing social order were not the source of inspiration for great leaders such as: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Ahmed Sekou Toure, Omowale Malcolm X, Harriet Tubman, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, Dr. W.E.B. DuBois; and so many others. Quite to the contrary, these great leaders were motivated by ideas that were a direct challenge to and came from outside the prevailing social order. This is wholly logical considering that African people have been struggling for freedom from the so-called "accepted social order" for over 500 years.
Background History Molefi asante, Classical African Civilization (1994 of Ethiopia, Red Sea Press, 1999 Catherine Odora Hoppers, indigenous Knowledge and People and Plants Online. http://www.africahistory.net/afrihist.htm
Extractions: AFRICA'S HISTORY Professor of History and African Studies, Central Connecticut State University. Northeast Africa is the cradle of African civilization. Note the Legacy of Africa and the antiquity of Olduvai, Northern Tanzania. We must also take into account The Ishango Complex of East-Central Africa and several sites in Southern Africa and other parts of the continent. Africa's oldest boat has been found in Ancient Nigeria and this is about 8000 years old. Multiregional and uniregional theories of human origins point to Africa as the birthplace of humanity. Several molecular biologists and paleontologists confirm this to date. The evidence so far implies that the first humans in the world (homo sapiens) emerged in Africa about 200,000 years ago and migrated to the various continents much later-perhaps as recent as 45,000 years ago in the case of migration to Europe. Recent fossil finds suggest that the world's earliest hominids lived approximately 6 million years before that in Kenya. We note also the 4 million year old fossils of Dinknesh (Lucy) and her descendants and the 1996 discovery in Southern Ethiopia of stone tools 2.5 million years old. The Kenyan -Ethiopian- Tanzanian region is perhaps the birthplace of modern humans, subject to new finds.Note also that several religions do not accept this view on human origins. Ancient Africans migrated within Africa, vertically and horizontally, as well as OUT OF AFRICA to populate the world. For views on the African and Afro-Pacific (Afro-Australian) origins of some Ancient Americans such as the Ancient Brazilians see Dr.Walter Neves,University of Sao Paolo, Brazil (BBC Homepage: Thursday August 26, 1999).
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Extractions: Purdue University Press Kwaku ASANTE-DARKO Author's Profile: Kwaku Asante-Darko works in African literature, literary theory, and poetry at the National University of Lesotho. His most recent publications include "The Co-Centrality of Racial Conciliation in Negritude Literature" forthcoming in Research in African Literatures in May 2000 and "The Flora and Fauna of Negritude Poetry: An Ecocritical Re-Reading" in Mots Pluriels (September 1999). He also writes poetry dealing with the political chaos in post-independence Africa. His forthcoming novel, The Beast in Man k.asante-darko@nul.ls Language and Culture in African Postcolonial Literature 1. Post-colonial literature is a synthesis of protest and imitation. It blends revolt and conciliation. This duality permeates its stratagem, its style, and its themes in a manner that is not always readily perceptible to critics. This has practical didactic implications for the contemporary literary endeavor in Africa. The central concern of this article is to assess the extent to which African protest literature seems to have imitated European and colonial literary discourse in matters such as thematic concerns, aesthetics, and methodology. The relationship of imitation, exchange, and hybridity is presented with the view to highlighting the thematic, methodological, and aesthetic differences between some aspects of African literature on one hand and the Western literary tradition on the other.
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Extractions: Ghanahotels.com Your link to travel,accommodation and business in Ghana AKWAABA~ our traditional word of welcome Welcome to Ghana...welcome to the best in Africa.Situated right in the heart of West Africa,Ghana extends from the Gulf of guinea and miles of sun-dappled beaches to the rugged contrast of the sahel lands in the far north. Ghana,the land of gold offers some of the best travel experiences in Africa. Land of smiles... Few countries in Africa have an appeal that can compare with the attractions of Ghana.Ghana dazzles you with its historic past and charms you with its natural beauty.join in our spectacular festivals ,and discover the friendliness of our people.Revel in our music and dance, and excite your taste buds with our delicious Ghanaian food.Discover our beaches,Our National Parks,our bustling village markets,And our vibrant towns and cities.Discover why its great in Ghana. The people of Ghana are known as the people of smiles.In our land of many peoples,with many different langueges and tribes,we are all drawn together, proud to be modern Ghanaians.All our people,from whichever tribe honour their chiefs and royal families,and cherish their traditional rites and celebrations.
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Extractions: AND ABSTRACTS OF APPROVED MA THESES All Field Research projects are based on forty hours of professional-style field work in and about Nairobi directed by lecturers and facilitated by Kenyan university graduates trained as field assistants. The field assistants work with students on a one-to-one basis making contacts, translations, explanations and interviews. The field research is written up in a required fifteen page research/integration paper on file at the MIAS library. FIRST SESSION COURSE : African Culture: An Overview Topics Researched: Polygamy in Africa: Its Practices and Pastoral Ministry (John Byung-Keun, Ahn, Korean, Kenya Resident) The Biblical Concept of Table Fellowship as Reflected in Gusii Communal Sharing (Mervin John Noronha, Indian, Kenya Resident) A Study of Gikuyu Culture on Decision-making and Problem Solving in Traditional and Modern Families (Loretta Brennan, Australian, Kenya Resident) An Investigation into Ways that Africans were Changed by the coming of Christianity and Ways Missionaries were Changed by their Contact with Africa and its People (Barry Callan, Australian)
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Extractions: Main About Us Publications and Videos Regions and Themes ... Feedback References Adu-Tutu, M.; Y. Afful, K. Asante-Appiah, D. Lieberman, J. B. Hall and M. Elvin-Lweis. 1979. Chewing stick usage in southern Ghana. Economic Botany 33: 320-328. Alder, D. and Synnott, T. J. 1992. Permanent sample plot techniques for mixed tropical forest. Oxford Forestry Institute, Oxford. Anderson, S. and F. Staugard. 1986. Traditional midwives: traditional medicine in Botswana. Ipelegeng publishers, Gaborone.Anon. 1991. CARE: An overview. Annual meeting, September 11, 1991. CARE-International, New York. Anon. 1992. Population figures for DTC project. Unpublished report, DTC project, Ikumba, Uganda. Ashford, R. W., G. D. F. Reid and T. M. Butynski. 1990. The intestinal faunas of man and mountain gorillas in a shared habitat. Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology 84: 337-340. Balasubramanian, V. and A. Egli. 1986. The role of agroforestry in the farming systems in Rwanda with special reference to the Bugesera-Gisaka-Migongo (BGM) region. Agroforestry Systems 4: 271-289.
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