Extractions: (Pokot, Turkana, Samburu and Marakwet communities) In 2003 ITDG EA conducted a study on traditional conflict resolution mechanisms as practiced by the Pokot, Turkana, Samburu and Marakwet pastoralists and agro-pastoralists communities in Kenya. This study was funded by USAID/Kenya and East Africa Cross-Border Biodiversity Project (EACBBP). Abstract This publication details the indigenous methods of conflict resolution among the Pokot, Tukana, Samburu, and Marakwet communities of North Rift Kenya. Traditional conflict resolution structures are closely bound with socio- political and economic realities of the lifestyles of the African communities. These conflict resolution structures are rooted in the culture and history of African people, and are in one way or another unique to each community. The overriding legitimacy of indigenous conflict resolution structures amongst these communities is striking. The publication outlines scarce and unequal access to natural resources and power, ethnic mistrust (ethnocentrism), inadequate state structures, border tensions and proliferation of illicit arms into the hands of tribal chiefs, warlords and fellow tribesmen as some of the causes of inter-ethnic conflicts in northern Kenya.
Extractions: In a celebrated break from known tradition of ethnic hostilities and enmity amongst the pastoralist Turkana, Pokot, Marakwet and Samburu communities, peace committee members from the said communities took part in a one-week learning tour of Eastern and North Eastern provinces of Kenya. The visits were held from 2nd to 10th August 2003. Previously, it was seldom for members of the said communities to engage in a constructive discussion, drink and dine together or even sleep in the same room! This particular tour took conflict pundits by suprise as at the end of the trip you could not differentiate a Pokot from Marakwet, Samburu or Turkana and vice versa save for the cultural regalia and dialect of the respective communities. The tour commenced with a meeting between Samburu District Peace Committee, Samburu District Security Committee and the visitors from Tapach (West Pokot), Kapyegon (Marakwet) and Loima (Turkana) peace committees. They discussed several issues ranging from peace committees collaboration, the problem of illicit arms, cattle raids and wildlife conservation. Mr Moses Lenairoshi, Samburu District Peace Committee chairman, underscored the role of indigenous peace pacts citing the peaceful relations and military alliance between the Pokot and Samburu communities that was hatched hundreds of years ago. He also challenged the other committee members to emulate such arrangements if cattle raiding in the north rift is to be something of the past.
Indigenous Groups of NativeWeb, which focuses on the indigenous people of Mexico nor any other species of government will succeed in africa. A Case Study Of The pokot And Maasai http://www.crinfo.org/v3-masterresults.cfm?pid=583
Seminar On Minorities And Indigeneous People In Africa Mariach Lousot representing the pokot people of Kenya stated that the experience of indigenous people in East africa was similar to other regions of africa. http://www.icescolombo.org/Research/Minority/MIPAfrica/MIPAReport.htm
Extractions: Working Group on Minorities Sixth session 22 -26 May 2000 Report on the Seminar on "Multiculturalism in Africa: Peaceful and constructive group accommodation in situations involving minorities and indigenous peoples" held in Arusha, United Republic of Tanzania 13-15 May 2000 Chairperson-Rapporteur Naomi Kipuri (Kenya ) 3. Ms. Tharanga de Silva on behalf of the ICES opened the seminar by welcoming the participants. She provided information about her organization which she explained carried out research on ethnic issues in the South Asia as well as other regions. Mr Benedict Ole Nangoro on behalf of the Tanzanian participants to the meeting welcomed the visitors to his country and invited everyone to-take part in a traditional Maasai blessing which is used to bring harmony to discussions and fruitful conclusions.
New Directions :: Touching People, Reaching Nations National Partners africa, Friday, May 14, 2004, we have witnessed some changes in the pokot who have We still need more indigenous people to lead the church, as http://www.newdirections.org/index.php/nationalpartnersafrica/11
Extractions: var ace_path = 'http://www.newdirections.org/'; National Partners- Africa Friday, June 11, 2004 Email Subscription Testimony / Ministry Description 08/12 :: The Story of Stephen Ouma The Story of Stephen Ouma :: 08/12 The call of a missionary is a call of sacrifice, whether it is an American going overseas to minister in a foreign land or a believer witnessing to another people group in his own country. This is the case with Pastor Stephen Ouma. Stephen felt a distinct call to the Pokot tribe when he did his week of mission training during his time at Moffat Bible College in Kijabe, Kenya. After graduating, he gave up a comfortable job in his home area to come to this hostile Pokot/Muslim community. Stephen will be working among about 3,000 Pokot and about 200 Somali Muslims, as well as a couple dozen government workers in the town of Tangulbei, in northern Kenya. The Tangulbei Church where Pastor Stephen is had been struggling to grow due to the difficulty in reaching these people. So the church district council felt it needed a fully trained pastor. This church was built by NDI partners in 2000, and Stephen has been supported the last few years by NDI partners as well. At the time the Spirit of the Lord touched us to come and work with the Pokots, I can't imagine when that call was easy to us. I delayed it for some times because I thought it could be my own ambitions, and I could think of other people who are better than me to respond to it. I had many excuses but the Spirit convicted us that we were the right people to come to work in AIC Tangulbei and here we are. He opened the door of our ministry in Pokot and has never forsaken us. Anyway, we have many challenges (I don't want to call them problems because the devil might think he has power to thwart the work of God). This has been because we have gone cross-cultural, but thank God for we are on the winning side.
The Rights And Concerns Of Indigenous People indigenous people are found not only in the Americans, but also in Europe Norway, Finland, and Sweden) africa (the Tuareg of West africa, the pokot of Kenya http://www.odu.edu/al/mun/2003/ecosoc-rcip-ngo.htm
Extractions: Economic and Social Council As defined by Merriam-Webster Online, Indigenous refers to those- (people) having originated in and being produced, growing, living, or occurring naturally in a particular region or environment. The United Nations (UN) declared the1990s as the Decade of the Indigenous Peoples, with the purpose of helping the native persons of the world to declare their natural rights and distinctiveness, and also to assist them in their fight against subjugation and the denial of these rights. The UN also brought to light the issues, concerns, and challenges faced by indigenous peoples and their concerns with their collective futures. Indigenous people have long been labeled by Westerners as Indians, natives, savages and primitives and have long been taken advantage of because they are deemed inferior beings because it appears to us that they are uncivilized for living simple lives or even different lives than most in the developed world are accustomed to us (The Origins of Indigenism, 4). Indigenous people can be found all over the world, from the more famous one here in North America, such as the native tribes that previously existed in large numbers before the coming of Columbus and the pilgrims.
EAST AFRICA Feature - Pastoralism Viable Despite Constraints communities such as Kenya s Turkana and pokot, Uganda s Dodoth Other recent EAST africa reports on employees, says study, 11/Feb/04 indigenous people pledge to http://www.plusnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=36103&SelectRegion=East_Africa, Horn
EAST AFRICA Special Report On Violence Against Women - OCHA IRIN Sabiny people and 20,000 Upe (Ugandan pokot), with initiation Other recent EAST africa reports on employees, says study, 11/Feb/04 indigenous people pledge to http://www.plusnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=24161&SelectRegion=East_Africa
Welcome To Webster Gardens Missions Team Ministry planting movement among unreached peoples of East from each congregation identified indigenous partners in Gospel working among the pokot people in northwest http://www.webstergardenschurch.org/missions.html
Extractions: The book of Acts records Jesus’ last appearance to His disciples, including His final words before returning to heaven: "But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth" (Acts 1:8). One word in Acts 1:8 is often overlooked, but shouldn’t be. Jesus says that we will receive power to be "witnesses in Jerusalem AND in Judea AND Samaria AND to the ends of the earth." That little word "AND" indicates that God wants us to see our mission challenges in all these arenas—not just in one or two, but in all of them.
Africa A-F culture, drama, illiterate, indigenous, leadership, media the organization of the africa Inland Church and social organization of the traditional pokot people. http://www.fuller.edu/swm/abstracts/africa.html
Extractions: 30 Years of Mission Abstracts Africa Faculty Introduction How to use this volume Search Our Site Author: Addai, Joseph William Degree: Ph.D. ICS Title: Metaphors, Values, and Ethno-leadership: A Missiological Study with Implications for Christian Leaders in Ghana. (U.M. 9925349) 301 pp. Abstract This missiological research examines the problem of developing functional leadership in Ghana, Africa. The premise is that leadership values of any identifiable culture are reflected by their everyday metaphors, and than an understanding of those values is crucial to effective leadership in that context. Key Words African, Ashanti, Akan, biblical leadership, Ghana, Ghanaian, leader, leadership, culture context, world view, tradition, effective leadership, ethno-leadership, ethno-values, functional leadership, holistic leadership, leadership situations, African proverbs, symbols, stools, metaphor, assumptions, English influence, images Author: Adekeye, George Niyi
Africa the first language of most people is one Nyanja, Tonga, and about 70 other indigenous languages, Yes. pogolo poke pokomam pokomo pokonchi pokot portuguese punu http://www.ethiotrans.com/africa.htm
Extractions: ALRC County Flag Language Support Algeria Arabic (official), French, Berber dialects Yes Angola Portuguese (official), Bantu and other African languages Yes Benin French (official), Fon and Yoruba (most common vernaculars in south), tribal languages (at least six major ones in north) Yes Botswana English (official), Setswana Yes Burkina Faso French (official), native African languages belonging to Sudanic family spoken by 90% of the population Yes Burundi Kirundi (official), French (official), Swahili (along Lake Tanganyika and in the Bujumbura area) Yes Cameroon 24 major African language groups, English (official), French (official) Yes Central African Republic French (official), Sangho (lingua franca and national language), Arabic, Hunsa, Swahili Yes Chad French (official), Arabic (official), Sara and Sango (in south), more than 100 different languages and dialects Yes Congo, Democratic Republic of the
AFRICA WATCH africa Watch Understanding election clashes in Kenya, 1992 to include the Maasai and pokot ethnic groups government that would give the indigenous people of the http://www.iss.co.za/Pubs/ASR/8No4/AfricaWatch.html
Extractions: Institute for Security Studies INTRODUCTION This article focuses on two aspects of the Kenyan socio-political arena, and explains how these provide a useful setting for the President to manipulate the political process to his advantage. The first of these features may be described as a system of personal rule; the second as the ethnicisation of politics. These act as the context within which Moi, by instigating and exacerbating conflict, could and can control the political process. The argument is made here that, in so far as this continues to be the nature of politics in the country, Moi or any eventual successor, can choose to use the same means to retain political power virtually at will. CHRONOLOGY OF VIOLENCE During the course of the December 1992 elections, there was a lull in fighting after which conflict restarted and escalated, now encompassing the Molo, Narok, Pokot, Londiani, Elburgon and Burnt Forest areas of the Rift Valley. The perpetrators of this latest violence expanded to include the Maasai and Pokot ethnic groups. These attacks were aimed primarily at the Kikuyu. After another lull in fighting, there was renewed violence in March 1994. The Kalenjin again fought with the Kikuyu in the Rift Valley and Burnt Forest areas. This was followed by the forced eviction of Kikuyu by the Maasai in the Enoospukia region. In 1995, in the Mai Mahiu area of Naivasha, fighting broke out that left 300 000 people displaced.
Work Camps By VFA In East And Central AFrica- Marigat, Kenya The Tugen and Jemps people occupy this land in and escarpments, and the rich indigenous culture, brings these shores around Loruk, the pokot community performs http://www.vfa2.8m.net/favorite_links.html
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Prof. Dr. Michael Bollig Translate this page in an Egalitarian Society - The Pastoral pokot of Northern Nomadic peoples 4 NS (im Druck). and Pastoral Perceptions Degradation and indigenous Knowledge in http://www.uni-koeln.de/phil-fak/voelkerkunde/institut/bollig.htm
Extractions: 1961 in Dattenfeld/Sieg geboren Okt. 1987-Sept. 1989 Feldforschung zu intra- und interethnischem Konfliktmanagement in Nordwestkenia. Sept.-Okt. 1993 Feldforschung zu Krisenmanagement und Risikominimierungsstrategien in Nordwestkenia Aug. 1996 Feldforschung in Kenia, um demographische Daten zu aktualisieren 1999 Habilitation in Ethnologie an der Philosophischen Fakultät der Universität zu Köln; Titel: "Risk Management in a Hazardous Environment. A Comparative Study of Two Pastoral Societies. (Pokot NW Kenya and Himba NW Namibia)"
I Dreamed Of Africa - Mukutan the largest known population of undisturbed indigenous black rhino accommodation for up to twelve people in the walks with the secretive pokot tribesmen, camel http://www.bortonoverseas.com/mukutan2004.htm
Extractions: East Africa Trip Notes I Dreamed Of Africa Begins: Nairobi, Kenya Ends: Nairobi, Kenya Accommodations: Three separate large cottages, with a spacious central building provide private, luxurious and romantic accommodation for up to six people. Built in elegant, traditional style using local stone, papyrus and native woods; each cottage is original and different in decoration and layout. All rooms have a double fireplace, with open private verandahs, spacious bathrooms and double beds. Throughout the Retreat Swahili and Lam furniture features prominently, supported by pieces hand hewn by local craftsmen. The central lounge and dining area have the pleasant atmosphere of a private home where every item has been individually selected: from the antique cutlery, hand blown glass, old chests, ethnic artifacts and African books to the copper and brass lamps which lend the place a magical atmosphere at night. Mukutan proprietor, Kuki Gallmann, has painstakingly modeled the Retreat to be the ultimate African destination. Every object is a hand-selected part of a perfect puzzle that delivers the Africa of lore
800 delineation of the continent s indigenous Black peoples. Southern African peoples 14 titles/volumes, pokot is outstanding, with excellent integration of http://www.learning-opp.com/Rosen_catalog_AfricanPeoples.asp
Extractions: steve@learning-opp.com A complete Catalog/index of Rosen titles A complete index of Multicultural Titles Teen materials and books by: Welcome to our category breakdown of: The Heritage Library of African Peoples Select one or all of the categories for titles and full information on titles 4 categories - total of 56 books/volumes/titles AN AWARD-WINNING, 56-VOLUME LIBRARY DIVIDED INTO 4 SETS COVERING: EAST AFRICA, WEST AFRICA, CENTRAL AFRICA, AND SOUTHERN AFRICA. COVERS 4 AFRICAN COUNTRIES. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED FOR SCHOOL AND PUBLIC LIBRARIES BY THE MULTICULTURAL REVIEW "Each book methodically records contemporary culture, sociopolitical dynamics, and life-ways as well as historically significant events and rituals - all the while maintaining an unwavering focus on a complete and accurate delineation of the continent's indigenous Black peoples. Color maps of the continent and the subject regions enable students to familiarize themselves with geographic areas. The texts are consistently well written and engaging. Vivid, well-keyed photographs particularize and amplify the prose. Mini essays provide complementary cultural details. - -'The multicultural Review'. This is the first multi-volume reference on African peoples for middle and high school students. Richly illustrated with outstanding photographs, historical images, and colorful inset boxes, the books are written by African authors and leading Africanists. Each volume details the rich history fascinating traditions, and struggle for freedom of one African people. The series also examines the modern context of the forty-one African countries where the people covered in the series are found today.
The Constitution Of Kenya Review Commission Ya Wanawake Nomadic Pastrolist peoples Organization (NOPPO and Development Group pokot Welfare Association Women Group Sengwer indigenous Development Project http://www.kenyaconstitution.org/docs/04ad008.htm
Peace Building And Transformation From Below Indigenous of raids and skirmishes among pastoral peoples, have existed based on those of the indigenous cultures. communities include the Turkana, the pokot, the Samburu http://www.accord.org.za/web.nsf/0/6bedbe22d9e29db742256b640031ef58?OpenDocument
American University Library - African Mediagraphy the activities of three communities, the pokot in Northern Namibia africa s last colony country s vast mineral resources, while the indigenous people have been http://www.library.american.edu/subject/media/africa.html
Extractions: Feature Films and Fictional Short Africa . 1984. 4 videocassettes (114 min each). Gives a history of Africa from many locations showing life as it is today plus archival film and dramatized reconstructions of historical events. VHS 588-591 Africa: a history denied Lost civilizations . 1995. 1 videocassette (ca. 50 min.). Film looks at the extraordinary achievements of Africa's indigenous civilizations. Because Africa's white settlers couldn't believe that natives were responsible for the once great kingdoms of Great Zimbabwe and the Swahili Coast, these ancient cultures were credited to everyone from wandering Phoenicians to the Queen of Sheba. Now the place where human history began is being reclaimed from centuries of indifference by the descendants of those lost kingdoms and the glories of their accomplishments are being revealed. VHS 5178
Vacation Packages - Africa inhabited by the fiercely traditional pokot people, mountain slopes on is sustaining both its people and its lakes, rolling farm lands, indigenous rain forest http://www.go2africa.com/articles_temp.asp?article_id=2
