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).
Emory University: Linguistic Anthropology: Bemba A Linguistic Profile South africa Company's army indigenous languages (along with Lozi, Nyanja, and Tonga) to be used in education and mass media. With the extensive migration of bembaspeaking peoples http://www.emory.edu/COLLEGE/ANTHROPOLOGY/FACULTY/ANTDS/Bemba/profile.html
Extractions: Institute of Economic and Social Research, University of Zambia Language Name: Bemba. Autonym: iciBemba. Alternate spellings: ciBemba, ChiBemba, ichiBemba. Location: Principally spoken in Zambia, in the Northern, Copperbelt, and Luapula Provinces; also spoken in southern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and southern Tanzania. Family: Bemba is a Central Bantu language. The Bantu language family is a branch of the Benue-Congo family, which is a branch of the Niger-Congo family, which is a branch of Niger-Kordofanian. Related Languages: Most closely related to the Bantu languages Kaonde (in Zambia and DRC), Luba (in DRC), Nsenga and Tonga (in Zambia), and Nyanja/Chewa (in Zambia and Malawi). Dialects: Principal dialects are: Aushi, Bemba, Bisa, Chishinga, Kunda, Lala, Lamba, Luunda, Ng'umbo, Swaka, Tabwa, and Unga. Each of these dialects is distinguished by its association with a distinct ethnic group, culture, and territory of the same name. Each dialect exhibits minor differences of pronunciation and phonology, and very minor differences in morphology and vocabulary. Because Bemba is such a widely used
Minorities At Risk (MAR) Choose a Region. africa (SubSaharan) Asia. Latin America Caribbean 0.0300. indigenous peoples. BURUNDI. HUTUS. 4707 0.1600. ethnonationalist. ZAMBIA. bemba. 2554. 0.2700 http://www.cidcm.umd.edu/inscr/mar/data/africatbl.htm
African Studies - History And Cultures shows, and maps. african indigenous Science and Knowledge Systems Page Azande. Kanuri. Somali. bemba. Libyan Bedouin. Tiv involving the Mande peoples of West africa, and the neighbors http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/indiv/area/Africa/cult.html
Extractions: Africa Forum (H-Africa, H-Net Humanities and Social Sciences OnLine, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan.) "History facing the present: an interview with Jan Vansina" (November 2001) and Reply by Jean-Luc Vellut "Photography and colonial vision," by Paul S. Landau (May 19, 1999, Dept. of History, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut) H-Africa Africa Forum Home Page H-Africa Network Home Page
World Food Habits Bibliography: Africa for the anthropological study of food, eating habits, and nutrition in africa Change of indigenous peoples. Asian Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 12(3)3449. africa; Middle East social relations, diet, food habits; africa; bemba Richards A http://www.lilt.ilstu.edu/rtdirks/AFRICA.html
Extractions: FOOD AND CULTURE Africa Aborampah O. 1985. Determinants of Breast-feeding and Post-partum Sexual Abstinence: Analysis of a Sample of Yoruba Women, Western Nigeria. Journal of Biosocial Science . 17:461-9. [infant feeding; Africa] Aboud FE; Alemu T. 1995. Nutrition, Maternal Responsiveness and Mental Development of Ethopian Children. Social Science and Medicine [child nutrition; Africa] Acho-Chi C. 2002. The Mobile Street Food Service Practice in the Urban Economy of Kumba, Cameroon. Singpore Journal of Tropical Geography . 23(2):131-48. [food distribution; Africa] Almedom AM. 1991. Infant Feeding in Urban Low-income Households in Ethiopia. Ecology of Food and Nutrition . 25:97-109. [infant nutrition; Africa] Anigbo OA. 1987. Commensality and Human Relationship among the Igbo. University of Nigeria Press. [social relations; African; Nigeria; Igbo] Aunger R. 1994. Sources of Variation in Ethnographic Interview Data: Food Avoidances in the Ituri Forest. Ethnology . 33(1):65-99. [food proscriptions; Africa; Zaire] Aunger R. 1994. Are Food Avoidances Maladaptive in the Ituri Forest of Zaire?
Extractions: Activity Three: Culture, Society, and Production in Southern Africa As a region, the peoples, cultures and societies of southern Africa share some communalities. However, just as there is geographical and environmental diversity within southern Africa, so too is there social and cultural diversity within the region. Indeed, the social and cultural diversity can be explained, in part, by the geographic diversity of the region. For example, in the semi-arid and desert areas of southern Africa, the social organization and cultural practices of the people who live in these areas are quite different from the organization and practices of people who have lived in the well watered coastal plains on the east coast of the region. Can you think of some geographical and environmental reasons for these social and cultural differences? History is also important to understanding social and cultural diversity within southern Africa. For the past ten to twenty thousand years the southern region of Africa has been home to
Africana Resources For Undergraduates / Schmidt in print. peoples of africa ( Prospect Heights, Ill the Zulu, Ngwato (Tswana), bemba, Ankole, Kede, Kavirondo, Tallensi concepts and practices of indigenous religions related to the http://www.indiana.edu/~libsalc/african/schmidt.html
Extractions: for the web version of this essay. Although courses on Africa have been part of the undergraduate curriculum in American colleges and universities for more than three decades, it is surprising how few materials have been written specifically for undergraduates. The resources included in this essay were written for undergraduates or are relatively accessible to them. The focus is on resources in English published or reissued since 1980, which cover the whole continent or sub-Saharan Africa, rather than individual countries. It is beyond the scope of this essay to provide resources specific to Africa's more than fifty nation-states. However, resources on South Africa have been included, since a chapter on South Africa is included in this volume. [p. 414] This essay is addressed to undergraduate students, librarians who select materials for undergraduate collections, and faculty who teach undergraduate courses. Accurate, up-to-date materials which could form a core collection for undergraduate libraries have been selected for inclusion in the essay. Sections on audiovisual and computer resources have been included, since they are as essential to curricula on Africa in the 1990s as are print resources.
Extractions: See also: Science: Social Sciences: Area Studies Science: Social Sciences: Ethnic Studies Science: Social Sciences: Geography: Human Geography Society: Ethnicity: Indigenous People ... Amhara - A ethnographic report on the Amhara people of Africa. Andamans - Isolated group of foragers living on the Andaman Islands. Anthropology Research Guide - A annotated list of resources primarily for conducting bibliographic and Internet research on the ethnographic present. Arabesque Dance Project - Features "Dance Described" project. Contains book excerpts, genres, images, and videography of North Africa, Central and Western Asia. Aranda - Ethnography and culture history of one of the largest aboriginal groups in central Australia. Archive of Turkish Oral Narrative - Full-text ethnographic materials from Central Asia in PDF and MP3 formats [English, Turkish]. Features description of the collection and links to related sites.
Africa highlands came to dominate the indigenous Bantu. tropical rain forests, Bantuspeaking peoples established agricultural new states as the bemba Kingdom, Kasanje http://www.emayzine.com/lectures/africa3a.html
Extractions: Africa Some 5 million years ago a type of hominid, a close evolutionary ancestor of present-day humans, inhabited southern and eastern Africa. More than 1.5 million years ago this toolmaking hominid developed into the more advanced forms Homo habilis and Homo erectus. The earliest true human being in Africa, Homo sapiens, dates from more than 200,000 years ago. A hunter-gatherer capable of making crude stone tools, Homo sapiens banded together with others to form nomadic groups; eventually these nomadic San peoples spread throughout the African continent. Distinct races date from approximately 10,000 BC. Gradually a growing Negroid population, which had mastered animal domestication and agriculture, forced the San groups into the less hospitable areas. In the 1st century AD the Bantu, one group of this dominant people, began a migration that lasted some 2000 years, settling most of central and southern Africa. Negroid societies typically depended on subsistence agriculture or, in the savannas, pastoral pursuits. Political organization was normally local, although large kingdoms would later develop in western and central Africa. see Aksum, Kingdom of
Science, Social Sciences, Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology: Ethnography A short ethnography on the bemba of africa. A ethnography on the Hausa people of africa. resources worldwide provided by the indigenous peoples Specialty Group http://www.combose.com/Science/Social_Sciences/Anthropology/Cultural_Anthropolog
Extractions: Related links of interest: Science:Social Sciences:Area Studies Science:Social Sciences:Ethnic Studies Science:Social Sciences:Geography:Human Geography Society:Ethnicity:Indigenous People ... Amhara - A ethnographic report on the Amhara people of Africa. Andamans - Isolated group of foragers living on the Andaman Islands. Anthropology Research Guide - A annotated list of resources primarily for conducting bibliographic and Internet research on the ethnographic present. Arabesque Dance Project - Features"Dance Described"project. Contains book excerpts, genres, images, and videography of North Africa, Central and Western Asia. Aranda - Ethnography and culture history of one of the largest aboriginal groups in central Australia. Archive of Turkish Oral Narrative - Full-text ethnographic materials from Central Asia in PDF and MP3 formats [English, Turkish]. Features description of the collection and links to related sites. Aymara - An ethnographic description of a people located mainly on the Bolivian and Peruvian altiplano, centering about Lake Titicaca. Azande - A report on the Azande pastoralists of Africa.
The Languages And Writing Systems Of Africa but, Hausa, Yoruba, Ibo and a number of indigenous languages are Ewe in the south and Voltaicspeaking peoples in the Tonga, Nyanja and bemba are some of these http://www.intersolinc.com/newsletters/africa.htm
VMM In Zambia - Africa The Lozi and bemba peoples are especially well known for their Values 5075% of the Zambian people are Christians Muslim and Hindu and 1% have indigenous beliefs http://www.iol.ie/~vmmeurgo/zambia.html
Extractions: Teachers, Tealth workers, Counsellors, Finance managers, Accountants, Bookeeper, Nurses, Doctors, etc. VMM In Zambia: VMM has had a presence in Zambia since 1970 when volunteers were first sent there. The living standards for the majority of the population was better in 1970 than it is today. It is one of the most peaceful of African nations, is four times the size of the UK, and is rich in culture. Being landlocked makes it expensive to transport goods to and from Zambia and the value of the currency (kwacha) is very weak. It has a tropical climate with rains only in the season from October to April and being at high altitude makes Zambia cooler than many of its neighbouring countries. Government: The present constitution dates from 1973. Legislative power is held by the unicameral National Assembly with 135 members, 125 of whom are elected every five years by universal adult suffrage (the remaining ten are presidential appointees). Executive power is held by the president who appoints a cabinet, headed by a prime minister, to conduct the administration of the government.
World Food Habits Bibliography: Africa Northwest african and Middle Eastern Food and Dietary Change of indigenous peoples. Reprint edition 1995. social relations, diet, food habits; africa; bemba. http://lilt.ilstu.edu/rtdirks/AFRICA.html
Extractions: FOOD AND CULTURE Africa Aborampah O. 1985. Determinants of Breast-feeding and Post-partum Sexual Abstinence: Analysis of a Sample of Yoruba Women, Western Nigeria. Journal of Biosocial Science . 17:461-9. [infant feeding; Africa] Aboud FE; Alemu T. 1995. Nutrition, Maternal Responsiveness and Mental Development of Ethopian Children. Social Science and Medicine [child nutrition; Africa] Acho-Chi C. 2002. The Mobile Street Food Service Practice in the Urban Economy of Kumba, Cameroon. Singpore Journal of Tropical Geography . 23(2):131-48. [food distribution; Africa] Almedom AM. 1991. Infant Feeding in Urban Low-income Households in Ethiopia. Ecology of Food and Nutrition . 25:97-109. [infant nutrition; Africa] Anigbo OA. 1987. Commensality and Human Relationship among the Igbo. University of Nigeria Press. [social relations; African; Nigeria; Igbo] Aunger R. 1994. Sources of Variation in Ethnographic Interview Data: Food Avoidances in the Ituri Forest. Ethnology . 33(1):65-99. [food proscriptions; Africa; Zaire] Aunger R. 1994. Are Food Avoidances Maladaptive in the Ituri Forest of Zaire?
Extractions: You are about to embark on a journey to a country that is the newly discovered jewel in the crown of African Tourism. An interesting country, both culturally and politically, with the potential to be a leader in African Democracy . Blessed with stunning National Parks and wildlife, the mighty Zambezi River and Victoria Falls, this is one of the 'must visit' countries in central Africa. Much of Zambia is high plateau with a flat or gently undulating terrain. Elevations average from about 3,500 to 4,500 feet above sea level. Mountains in the northeast exceed 6,500 feet. The major rivers in Zambia include the Zambezi, the Kafue and the Luangwa in the South and East with the Luapula in the North. Lake Bangweulu in the north, is surrounded by a vast swampy region . In the south, Lake Kariba, one of the largest man made dams in the world, was formed with the construction of the Kariba Dam wall on the Zambezi River. Zambia claims the eastern shores of Lake Mweru, and the southern tip of Lake Tanganyika reaches into the northeastern parts. English is the official and administrative language of Zambia and is most common in the cities. In rural areas the indigenous languages are more widely spoken. The major local languages are Bemba in the Copperbelt and Northern and Central provinces; Nyanja in the Lusaka and Eastern provinces; Tonga in the Southern Province and Lozi in the Western Province.
People And Peoples (AC) An aborigine is a member of an indigenous people. Absalom. The bemba are an african people of northern Zambia. The berbers are a race of people in north africa. http://www.ii.uj.edu.pl/~artur/enc/C1.htm
Joshua Project - Peoples By Country Profiles Alternate People Names Northern bemba. People Code (ROP3) 100620. People Name General Aushi. Language. Primary Language Aushi. indigenous Fellowship of 100+ http://www.joshuaproject.net/peopctry.php?rop3=100620&rog3=ZA
Bibliography Of Indigenous Knowledge And Institutions Resource Values on indigenous peoples Are Nonmarket Valuation Agricultural Water Management in East africa." african Affairs The Rights of indigenous peoples in InterGovernmental http://www.indiana.edu/~workshop/wsl/indigbib.html
Extractions: WORKSHOP RESEARCH LIBRARY Abay, Fetien, Mitiku Haile, and Ann Waters-Bayer 1999. "Dynamics in IK: Innovation in Land Husbandry in Ethiopia." Indigenous Knowledge and Development Monitor Abbink, John. 1993. "Ethnic Conflict in the 'Tribal Zone': the Dizi and Suri in Southern Sudan." The Journal of Modern African Studies Acharya, Bipin Kumar. 1994. "Nature Cure and Indigenous Healing Practices in Nepal: A Medical Anthropological Perspective." In Anthropology of Nepal: Peoples, Problems, and Processes . M. Allen, ed. Kathmandu, Nepal: Mandala Book Point. Acheson, James M. 1994. "Transaction Costs and Business Strategies in a Mexican Indian Pueblo." In Anthropology and Institutional Economics . J. Acheson, ed. Lanham, MD: University Press of America. (Monographs in Economic Anthropology, no. 12). Acheson, James M. 1990. "The Management of Common Property in a Mexican Indian Pueblo." Presented at "Designing Sustainability on the Commons," the first annual conference of the International Association for the Study of Common Property, Duke University, Durham, NC, September 27-30, 1990. Acres, B. D. 1984. "Local Farmers' Experience of Soils Combined with Reconnaissance Soil Survey for Land Use Planning: An Example from Tanzania."
Joshua Project - Peoples By Country Profiles People Name General bemba. Language. Primary Language bemba. Language Code (ROL3) BEM, Ethnologue Listing. Languages Spoken 2. indigenous Fellowship of 100+ http://www.joshuaproject.net/peopctry.php?rop3=101243&rog3=TZ
General Essay On The Religions Of Sub-Saharan Africa The choice of indigenous traditions has been made on authority among an East African people London Oxford Girl s Initiation Ceremony among the bemba of Zambia http://philtar.ucsm.ac.uk/encyclopedia/sub/geness.html
Extractions: Religion in Sub-Saharan Africa has changed and evolved over the last two to three thousand years in many different ways. While the traditions depicted in this chart provide examples of those that exist today, and that were affected by the expansion of European colonialism in the 19th century, peoples living in the vast area south of the Sahara desert had already sustained rich systems of belief and practice long before the arrival of Christianity and colonialism, and certainly in some cases befroe the Muslim expansion from the Arabian peninsula. Islam entered Sub-Saharan Africa in the eighth century, and within six hundred years of the prophet's death had penetrated from the Sahara to the Sudanic belt, and from the Atlantic to the Red Sea, making its presence felt among the indigenous peoples who inhabited this expanse. Other transplanted religions have had virtually no impact upon Sub-Saharan traditions. With the exception of Judaism, these did not make any permanent incursion into the region until the 19th or 20th centuries. The chart suggests three wide areas of religious beliefs and practices: (I) Indigenous African religions; (II) World Religions (Baha'i, Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Jainism, Sikhism and Zorastrianism); (III) New Religious Traditions (African Independent Churches).
Zambia Travel | Lonely Planet World Guide and Asian (1%); European (1%) Language English, bemba, Religion Christian (5075%), indigenous beliefs (50 - 75%); many people follow both http://www.lonelyplanet.com/destinations/africa/zambia/
Extractions: Zambia Zambia has excellent national parks teeming with birds and animals, as well as the spectacular Victoria Falls and Zambezi River. Apart from sightseeing, these places are also centres for a range of activities ranging from canoeing to white-water rafting and bungee jumping. For independent travellers Zambia is still a challenge - distances are long, and getting around takes persistence, particularly once you get off the main routes. But for many people, the challenge is the main attraction. Without a doubt, in Zambia you come pretty close to finding the 'real' Africa. For many years Zambia was the Cinderella of Africa, often overlooked by tourists, and forgotten by the rest of the world as disastrous politics in the 1970s and 1980s led to poverty and the virtual breakdown of the country. But by the 1990s the fortunes of Zambia changed, as a massive shift on the political scene lead to economic reforms and other improvements. Full country name: Republic of Zambia Area: 752,600 sq km
