Ethiopia Country Study, Library Of Congress, Presented By Seedy find on our CD "africa on CD", which in Refugees, Drought, and Famine . . . . . Ethiopia's peoples. Ethnic Groups of Belief and Practice. indigenous Religions. Foreign Missions http://www.samizdat.com/ethiopia_country_study.html
Whoseland.com Kenya, as in the whole of Eastern africa, people who are categorized as indigenous are the Maasai of Kenya and Tanzania, Turkana, borana, Samburu, Bendille http://www.whoseland.com/paper6.html
Extractions: "Indigenous people" is a concept we now often encounter in discussions on human rights, democracy, political development and civil society. This has followed from the continuing and deepening crisis if human suffering on a larger scale I the political, social, economic and cultural field as well as human rights abuses. At the same time, there have been political responses to colonial and post colonial pressures and political alienation of indigenous peoples. In many parts of Africa people are looking for new perceptions and new solutions to old problems and difficulties and taking part in the global discussion on indigenous rights has become one of the strategies in the struggle for a just development. This brief overview on indigenous peoples of Kenya is supposed to serve as a guideline in defining, planning and prioritizing assistance to the poor, marginalised indigenous peoples of Kenya. It was requested as a further elaboration of MS's development assistance to Kenya. It begins by recalling definitions used to identify indigenous peoples in the world and in Africa, then it assesses the "indigenousness" of those groups of people who have been identified as indigenous in Kenya and their struggle for recognition and demands for fairness and justice. There is also a brief discussion on the relevance of MS's policy on indigenous peoples and a few points on strategies to be followed by potential donors in order to alleviate the suffering of indigenous peoples in the region.
Destinations traditional lifestyles of the indigenous peoples, living among their political stability; the people are helpful come across nomadic borana, Rendille, Turkana http://www.robinhurtphotosafaris.com/destinations.htm
Extractions: Destinations To this day, East Africa remains the finest wildlife paradise on earth. Travelling through landscapes of staggering beauty, witnessing the fascinating traditional lifestyles of the indigenous peoples, living among the spectacular herds of game and sleeping under canvas beneath the vast African sky, stimulates all the senses; the never-to-be-forgotten experiences that provoke moments of profound reflection. As Mick Jagger wrote in our guest book, it Took me back. Africa takes people back to their roots, to childhood dreams of striped horses, spotted cats, and giraffe, creatures impossible to believe until you see them in their natural habitat, in the landscape where our own kind began. Robin Hurt Photo Safaris supports sustainable ecotourism and to this end we patronize community group ranches that promote conservation in such areas as Il Ngwesi and Namunyak in northern Kenya. Both Kenya and Tanzania are acclaimed for their political stability; the people are helpful and friendly, and officials, polite and courteous.
SIM Country Profile: Mauritius Ethnic Groups There are no indigenous peoples; all ethnic groups immigrated within the descended from early settlers, who brought workers from africa for the http://www.sim.org/country.asp?cid=32&fun=2
SIM Country Profile: Zimbabwe Portuguese were the first Europeans to attempt colonization of southcentral africa, including the Meanwhile, mass migrations of indigenous peoples took place. http://www.sim.org/country.asp?CID=52&fun=1
Center For Archaeoastronomy: A&E News Archive indigenous European, Arabic, American, and Polynesian astronomies have a result, telling time among the borana is not to africa to interview people about their http://www.wam.umd.edu/~tlaloc/archastro/ae28.html
Extractions: by Jarita Holbrook, History Dept. UCLA Stellar Navigation: Stellar navigation is a method of using the stars to determine directions when traveling at night. During my field work in Tunisia, North Africa, I discovered that the fishermen of the Kerkennah Islands still used stellar navigation to reach their fisheries at night (Holbrook 1998). Since then I've unveiled several sites of stellar navigation all over Africa. A second site which I am researching is the Afar people in Eritrea (Holbrook 1998). During the struggle for independence which ended in 1993, the Afar where consulted to navigate troops at night. Other potential stellar navigation sites are in Senegal, Ghana, Nigeria, and Madagascar. Most but not all of the sites as associated with ocean travel. Summary: My preliminary findings on African Astronomy reveals a continent rich in astronomical traditions. I have presented four of these traditions as separate from each other, but in fact they overlap in interesting and unexpected ways. Such as stars being named for their use in navigation or being named for the season which begins with their appearance. In addition to the four topics mentioned here there are several more focusing on the moon, the sun, the major planets, and the relationship between the stars and man. I continue to search the literature for mention of African astronomical traditions as well as taking trips to Africa to interview people about their astronomy.
Oromia Online - Oromia And The Oromo People and evidences that Oromo are indigenous to this given to them by neighbouring peoples, particularly Amhara of the person Oromo represented by borana and Barentu http://www.oromia.org/OromiaBriefs/Oromo&Oromia.htm
Extractions: Oromo Related Web Sites Sagalee Bilisummaa Oromoo Oromia Support Group (OSG) Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) Voice of America - Afaan Oromoo Other Links Sidama Liberation Front Sidama Concern Ogaden Online International News Stand BBC News Africa Daily Nation IRIN News VisAfric ... New York Times Oromia and the Oromo people The following summary information was adopted from the book by Gadaa Melbaa, Khartoum, Sudan 1988. Summary Information
Extractions: (A.B. Cunningham) 1. Introduction As ethnobotanical research is at the interface between disciplines, it poses an interesting problem in terms of literature review. Significant contributions are made to this field of study by anthropologists, archaeologists, architects, chemists, linguists and naturalists as well as botanists. Ethnobotanical research in East and southern Africa could be divided into five main themes in roughly historical order: (i) a focus, for more than a century, on recording vernacular names and uses; (ii) nutritional and chemical analyses of edible and medicinal wild plants species. These were compiled in Watt and Breyer-Brandwijk's classic (1962) book on East and southern African medicinal plants and by Fox and Norwood-Young (1982) and Wehmeyer (1986) on edible plants for southern Africa and Fowden and Wolfe (1957), Imbamba's (1973), Miege and Miege (1979) and Kalenga Saka and Msonthi (1994) for East and south-central Africa; (iv) quantitiative studies on human impacts on plant resources, particularly those entering commercial trade, such as the impact of palm sap tapping (Cunningham, 1990a,b), the harvesting of aloe resins (Bond, 1983), craft materials (Cunningham and Milton, 1987; Cunningham, 1987, 1988b), traditional medicines (Cunningham, 1991, 1993), Phragmites australis reeds (Cunningham, 1985) and Cymbopogon thatching grass (Shackleton, 1990).
Extractions: Abbot, P.G. Research and Development of Simple Silvicultural Systems for Community Management of Miombo in Malawi, pp 98-105 in Piearce, G.D. and Gumbo, D.J. (eds.), The Ecology and Management of Indigenous Forests in Southern Africa, Zimbabwe Forestry Commission, Harare. Abdool Karim, S.S.A., Ziqubu-Page, T.T. and R. Arendse. 1994. Bridging the gap: potential for a health care partnership between African traditional healers and biomedical personnel in South Africa. S A Medical Journal, December 1994: 1-16. Anderson, S. and F. Staugard. 1986. Traditional midwives: traditional medicine in Botswana. Ipelegeng publishers, Gaborone. Anokbonggo, W.W. 1972. Preliminary pharmacological experimental approach to some Ugandan traditional medicines. Planta Medica 21(4): 364-373.
Call indigenous health systems among the borana community in have overlooked or ignored indigenous people s knowledge the medicine practised in africa is traditional http://www.nuffic.nl/ciran/ikdm/5-1/communications/calls.html
Extractions: A programme of research to document indigenous knowledge and methods of crop protection in the South Pacific region is being planned by the School of Agriculture, of the University of the South Pacific, in Alafua, Western Samoa. Although a considerable amount of information has been published on traditional farming systems in the South Pacific region, this information contains very little detail about indigenous methods of crop protection. Authors acknowledge that production is increased by indigenous practices that control pests and limit the damage they cause, but up to now little of this knowledge appears to have been documented. The research programme will cover various aspects of indigenous pest control, including: the use of companion plants to deter pests; cultural practices that indirectly limit pests; traditional practices of weed control; physical methods of pest control: e.g. communal hand-picking or culling;
Ethiopia Oromo groups, such as the borana, remain pastoralists Among indigenous religious system, the names of certain the everyday concerns of the people and addressed http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/cultural/oldworld/africa/ethiopia.html
Extractions: Location: Ethiopia is located in east-central Africa, bordered on the west by the Sudan, the east by Somalia and Djibouti, the south by Kenya and the northeast by Eritrea. History: Archaeologists have found the oldest known human ancestors in Ethiopia, including Ardipithecus ramiidus and Australopithecus afarensis Ethnicity and Language: Religious Life: Among indigenous religious system, the names of certain deities and spirits recur frequently, especially among groups speaking related languages. Certain features of these traditional belief systems are broadly similar. For instance, the existence of a supreme god identified with the sky and relatively remote from the everyday concerns of the people and addressed through spirits. References: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/ettoc.html http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0107505.html Written by, Isao Ishihara
Kenya Safari Game Lodges Destination East Africa Safari And borana appears cut off The house is surrounded by lush gardens and indigenous forests and accommodations poptop mini-buses that seat 6/7 people accompanied by http://www.kenya.za.net/search/Diani_House.html
Kenya Safari Game Lodges Destination East Africa Safari And borana appears cut off Package Information Desert Rose assists the local people by providing The house is surrounded by lush gardens and indigenous forests and http://www.kenya.za.net/search/_Voyager_Luxury_Beach_Resort.html
Extractions: The economy is overwhelmingly agricultural, with cassava, sweet potatoes, plantains, millet, and sorghum as the chief subsistence crops, and coffee (which provides over 90% of export revenues), cotton, tea, and tobacco are the principal cash crops. Stockraising, fishing, and hardwood production are also significant. Its natural resources include cobalt, copper, salt, and limestone. Of Uganda's 21 million people, an estimated 66 percent are Christian, 18 percent practice traditional beliefs, and 16 percent are Muslim. The Anglican and Catholic churches as well as the United Methodist Church are among the many Christian churches found in Uganda. Uganda, most of whom worship in Jinja and Busia near the border with Kenya. English is Uganda's official language. Archeology tells that prehistoric man walked the earth in what is now Uganda and many sites have been excavated that show habitation over the centuries. One of the more recent excavations is in Kiboro, near Lake Albert, where there are traces of village life going back thousands of years. Around A.D. 1100. Bantu-speaking people migrated into the area that is now Uganda, and by the 14th century they were organized into several independent kingdoms. The most powerful of these were Bunyoro (16th-17th cent.) and later Buganda (18th-19th cent.). In 1962 Uganda gained independence under a federal constitution that gave Buganda a large measure of autonomy.
Upbeat - Spring 2003 are encouraging the development of an indigenous mission agency initiative to minister among unreached peoples in the is helping to reach the borana nomads of http://www.bgcworld.org/newstand/upbt_fall03.htm
Extractions: by Mike Flinchum There's great news regarding the need to expand the number of missionaries working among unreached people groups. God is raising up a new source of vigorous and committed laborers for desperately needy places where the gospel has never before been preached. Non-Western missionaries from parts of Africa, Asia and Latin America are making an important contribution to the hard work of evangelism, church planting and humanitarian service among the world's least-evangelized peoples. Ibero-Americans are defined as Latin Americans, Portuguese, Spaniards and North American Hispanics. It was estimated in 1996 that there were 3900 Ibero-American missionaries. Today there are 6500 serving in more than 100 countries. Brazil leads the way with the strongest missionary sending program - with well over 1000 missionaries in some form of cross-cultural ministry. BGC missionaries are involved, eager to help in forming national agencies and training Brazilians for missionary service. The Argentine expansion
AFRICA NEWS ON LINE EUROPEAN SETTLERS CAME TO EAST africa, PARTICULARLY BRITISH GOVERNMENTS WERE USING THE borana CLANSMEN AS ITS IMPOSSIBLE FOR THE TWO indigenous PEOPLE OR CLANS http://www.africanewsonline.com/gharri2.html
Rustic Chic Wildlifestyles is a style defined by the indigenous people, handcrafted and of East africa raw, real and africa untamed, others borana appears cut off from the outside world http://www.unchartedoutposts.com/company/webpages/main/uoi_rusticchic.php
Extractions: What was once considered chic and stylish was confined to style editors and fashions gurus, however there has been over the past ten years a new trend that has its roots firmly entrenched in the deep rich soil of the African plains, this new game (and please excuse the double entendre) as game is exactly what is dictating this new style. Wild designs, hewn and molded from the earth, ancient lava rocks torn from the lava flow construct the walls, the golden grasses of the African plains adorn the roofs, wild olive wood weaves its magic around the structure bringing warmth and grace that only wood can add. These fabulous creations are styled and created with nothing but heaps of creative bush ingenuity and true originality. It is a style defined by the indigenous people, handcrafted and truly unique. Escape Your Daily Rigors We value the need to escape our daily rigors of fax machines, constant email contact, phones and televisions constantly whirring in our ears, our complicated lives demand a less complicated way of travel and it is this fact - pure and simple which separates Uncharted Outposts from everyone else out there! A return to something special, something from another time, a more perfect way of life, a chance to give something back to the world, to the earth and a chance to enjoy the world again without the unnecessary spoils of our times.
Travelogs - UOI Past Travellers The hospitality of Fuzz and Bimbi at borana was outstanding I got a sense that the indigenous people support the changes in the times of our africa air flights http://www.unchartedoutposts.com/company/webpages/main/travelog_pasttravellers.p
Extractions: We just returned from a most extraordinary trip. Two weeks in Kenya! The trip surpassed all our expectations and will forever be imprinted on our minds. Once we left Nairobi it felt like we were able to step into and experience a time long past, where the animals roam freely and where we all possibly came from. For 2 weeks we became immersed in the savannas west of Kilimanjaro and in the foot hills of Mt. Kenya, the rugged country of the Rift valley, the wildlife, and the natives of African and European descent.
HOPE E.V. Uganda Profile might thus be called aboriginal or indigenous people, were various Eastern Lacustrine peoples include the Buganda (whose such as the Maasai, borana (Oromo) and http://www.hope-international.org/Entwicklungshilfe/Spende/english/uganda_profil
Extractions: The Republic of Uganda is an independent nation in central Africa (East Africa), bordered on the east by Kenya, on the south by Tanzania and Rwanda, on the west by Zaire, and on the north by Sudan. The country has many lakes and swamps, among them Lake Victoria and Lake Kioga, both of which flow into the Nile river. Other lakes include Lake Edward and Lake Albert. Although most of Uganda is flat, there are volcanic mountains, including the Ruwenzori, which straddle Uganda's border with Zaire, as well as Mount Elgon near the border with Kenya. Southwestern Uganda is also mountainous. The rest of the country is made up of grassy woodlands and, in the northeast, semi-desert.
Liberating The Oromo People as Omotic and Nilotic respectively, are indigenous inhabitants just For example, in the borana region of southern community to support the peoples in Ethiopia http://www.oromoliberationfront.org/Liberating The Oromo People For Development.
Extractions: VII. What Needs to Be Done The Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) is ready to go an extra mile in search of peaceful resolution of the political crisis in Ethiopia. The OLF will contribute towards any meaningful peace effort, as it did in the past, to reach at a comprehensive settlement to achieve just peace for the Oromo and other peoples caught in the political conflict of the Ethiopian empire state. However, it should be understood, at the outset, that the current conflict and resultant crisis in the Horn of Africa has its roots in the colonization of the Oromo and other southern peoples by Abyssinians over 105 years ago. This colonial domination still persists.
