African Timelines Part I language is Arabinfluenced swahili, which is used as AND CULTUREAs Africas peoples established themselves and Spoken African languages indigenous to the continent are http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/timelines/htimeline.htm
Extractions: Kwanini Kwanini ni muhimu Malengo Mafanikio ... Mrejesho Key Resources for Indigenous Knowledge The key resources presented here are suggestions byIK Program staff. They provide reliable information on the subject. The resource list will change over time. Inclusion or omission of a source does not constitute any endorsement or disapproval on behalf of The World Bank. Integrating Indigenous Knowledge in Project Planning and Implementation Key Documents Important Web Links Key Players International Institute for rural reconstruction (1996). Recording and using indigenous knowledge: International Institute of Rural Reconstruction, Silang, Cavite, Philippines A manual for development practitioners and field workers, available on-line at IIRR (Indigenous Knowledge and Development Monitor) Newsletter
East Africa Living Encyclopedia The Luo people are mainly traders and artisans. The principal nonindigenous ethnic minorities are the Arabs have Kenyan citizenship, speak swahili rather than http://www.africa.upenn.edu/NEH/kethnic.htm
Joshua Project - Peoples By Country Profiles People Name General swahili. Language. Primary Language swahili. Language Code (ROL3) SWA, Ethnologue Listing. indigenous Fellowship of 100+ http://www.joshuaproject.net/peopctry.php?rop3=109644&rog3=ZA
Africa #3 - East helpful swahili language chapter. Truck along africa s worst roads. Trek to see Pygmies, the indigenous people of Congo s Ituri forest. http://www.maps2anywhere.com/Travel_Guides/lonely_planet_~_africa_3.htm
Extractions: 16 page color wildlife guide in-depth coverage of the region's tribal groups and cultures useful information on organized safaris and national parks up-to-date information on visas, border crossings and safety 117 detailed maps, including full-colour regional map Click here to order this Lonely Planet book
Toguna - The African Studies Program Newsletter put it in the framework of africa, with swahili being one of things for a development project to succeed in africa. You have to have indigenous people involved http://www.ohiou.edu/african/toguna/okonv4n1.htm
Extractions: Interview with John Mugane, - Professor of Swahili Q: Welcome back to Ohio University. Could we have your sentiments about Nyerere's passing away? Dr. Mugane: He is the kind of person who was a true African Nationalist. In East Africa, when South Africa was fighting for independence, he was the only one who allowed South A~icans to come and live in Tanzania for free since they were running away from apartheid. Also, Tanzania was the only country who went into Uganda to remove Idi Amin. People like Julius Nyerere for whom the atrocities created in Uganda by Idi Amin were sufficient enough to take all his country's resources, Tanzania was poor, and go overthrow Idi Amin. Also, after leaving power, he overtly admitted that his program failed. That's again not common in nowadays leaders. He said that his Afiican socialism did not work, but he always insisted that capitalism doesn't have a human face. So it's a huge loss for Tanzania. Among his accomplishments, on a personal interest, he promoted African languages. He wrote, translated Shakespearean plays into Swahili. He was doing so to show that African languages can be as artistic, intellectual as anybody can decide and make them Can you find a leader in Africa to attribute those credentials? A good thing, in his favor, is that we can at least be able to point at somebody. We don't have leaders like Julius Nyerere and Mandela.
Africa People Burundi, and Rwanda with link to Teaching swahili. A network linking indigenous organizations in africa to Anthropology 269; People and Cultures of africa. http://www.calacademy.org/research/library/biodiv/biblio/afcul.htm
Africa People Copenhagen International Work Group for indigenous Affairs, 2000 Turnbull, Colin M. The Forest People. Feelings, Muriel L. Moja Means One swahili Counting Book http://www.calacademy.org/research/library/biodiv/biblio/afcul-update.htm
Extractions: Africa Online http://www.africaonline.com Gateway to news and information about Africa. African Peoples Resources http://www.uiowa.edu/~africart/toc/people.html Site provides information about peoples in Africa such as language, art, economy etc. Africa Research Central http://www.africa-research.org/mainframe.html Database allows you to locate primary source repositories in Africa. Africa: South of the Sahara http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/guide.html Information about Africa by country/region and topics. African Studies at Penn http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/AS.html Contributes to understanding of continent's social, political and economic systems. African Web Links http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/Home_Page/WWW_Links.html Annotated links on Africa by topic. Country-Specific Pages http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/Home_Page/Country.html
SIRIS Image Gallary Bassonge, Sotho Basuto Sotho Basuto, South africa South africa, swahili swahili. including some of the earliest images of indigenous people worldwide; and http://sirismm.si.edu/siris/naaLot97africaculture.htm
The Languages And Writing Systems Of Africa Libya, (Socialist People s Libyan Arab Jamahirya), Arabic is Ibo and a number of indigenous languages are the official languages, but swahili also predominates. http://www.intersolinc.com/newsletters/africa.htm
Extractions: Africa The Languages and Writing Systems of Africa Country Language Script Algeria, Al Djazair, Algérie, (Democratic and Popular Republic of) Arabic, French and a Berber language. Arabic, Latin, Berber Angola, (Republic of) Portuguese is the official language, but a Bantu language is widely spoken. Latin, Bantu Benin, former kingdom, situated in present-day SW Nigeria French and Fon Latin, Fon Botswana, ( Republic of) English is the official language, but the population is mainly Tswana, who speak a Bantu language. Latin, Bantu Burkina Faso or Burkina, formerly Upper Volta French is the official language. Latin Burundi, Republic of Official languages are French and Kurundi (a Bantu language) Swahili is also spoken Latin, Bantu
Extractions: note: estimates for this country explicitly take into account the effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lower population and growth rates, and changes in the distribution of population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July 2003 est.) Age structure: 0-14 years: 44.3% (male 7,988,898; female 7,938,979) 65 years and over: 2.6% (male 405,803; female 524,713) (2003 est.) Population growth rate: 1.72% (2003 est.) Birth rate: 39.5 births/1,000 population (2003 est.) Death rate: 17.38 deaths/1,000 population (2003 est.) Net migration rate: -4.91 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2003 est.) Sex ratio: at birth: 1.03 male(s)/female
Africa the first language of most people is one NigerCongo languages, Nilo-Saharan languages, swahili, Arabic, Nyanja, Tonga, and about 70 other indigenous languages, 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.iafrica.com | Countryinfo | Kenya | People KENYA People. Population 28 808 658 (July 1999 est.). Languages English (official), swahili (official), numerous indigenous languages. http://africa.iafrica.com/countryinfo/kenya/people/
Extractions: [Select country] Algeria Angola Benin Botswana Burkina Faso Burundi Cameroon Cape Verde Cent.Afr.Rep Chad Comoros Cote D'Ivoire DRC Djibouti Egypt Eq. Guinea Eritrea Ethiopia Gabon Gambia, The Ghana Guinea Guinea Bissau Kenya Lesotho Liberia Libya Madagascar Malawi Mali Mauritania Mauritius Morocco Mozambique Namibia Niger Nigeria Rep. of Congo Reunion Rwanda Sao Tome Senegal Seychelles Sierra Leone Somalia South Africa St Helena Sudan Swaziland Tanzania Togo Tunisia Uganda W. Sahara Zambia Zimbabwe
Africa.iafrica.com | Countryinfo | Tanzania | People mainlandChristian 45%, Muslim 35%, indigenous beliefs 20 many local languages note Kiswahili (swahili) is the mother tongue of the Bantu people living in http://africa.iafrica.com/countryinfo/tanzania/people/
Extractions: [Select country] Algeria Angola Benin Botswana Burkina Faso Burundi Cameroon Cape Verde Cent.Afr.Rep Chad Comoros Cote D'Ivoire DRC Djibouti Egypt Eq. Guinea Eritrea Ethiopia Gabon Gambia, The Ghana Guinea Guinea Bissau Kenya Lesotho Liberia Libya Madagascar Malawi Mali Mauritania Mauritius Morocco Mozambique Namibia Niger Nigeria Rep. of Congo Reunion Rwanda Sao Tome Senegal Seychelles Sierra Leone Somalia South Africa St Helena Sudan Swaziland Tanzania Togo Tunisia Uganda W. Sahara Zambia Zimbabwe
The Use Of Indigenous Signs By Interpreters a country, there is no indigenous sign for it evoke emotions consider Negro , Colored People , People of Color for africa was derived from swahili and began http://www.rit.edu/~dabdis/indj/intro.html
Extractions: Last updated 5/26/2000 There is a movement among some Deaf people to use indigenous signs for foreign countries and their cities. By indigenous I mean, for example, the Japanese Sign Language sign for "Japan", rather than the ASL sign. This development has been sparked by an increasing interaction between American and foreign Deaf people through activities such as international Deaf sports, Deaf Way, Deaf tourists (who can communicate more easily with foreign Deaf than Hearing people in a similar situation), Deaf missionary work, and Deaf people working in such settings as the Peace Corps. Should interpreters begin to use these signs in their work too? I believe two articles from Silent News are very helpful in examining this issue. The articles are "A sign of African-American pride" by Emmanuel Azodeh, March 1994, and "In England, deaf community fights to keep their offensive signs" by Rajeev Syal, month? 1994. Azodeh discusses the various signs that have been used for "Africa" over the years. Since Africa is a continent, not a country, there is no indigenous sign for it, but it is interesting to see the emotions that a sign can evoke, just as labels of ethnic groups evoke emotions: consider "Negro", "Colored People", "People of Color", "Afro-American", "Black", and "African American". To encapsulate the parts of his article that are of interest to us here, Azodeh says that about five years ago the sign for Africa, which begins with a
Extractions: The half-million people known as Swahili live along the coastline of East Africa from Somalia to Mozambique. Their language is taught in the United States as a basic "African" language, but few if any Swahili ever crossed the Atlantic as slaves: they themselves exported slaves across the Indian Ocean to Arabia and the East. Who are the Swahili? Like any other peoples, they claim a particular identity, although one that has changed during their long history. They see it in ethnic terms, that of their believed place of origin. To understand this we need to know not only who they say they are and where they came from but also the roles they have played in the past and today. Most African peoples are rural farmers, with their own indigenous religions, but the Swahili are urban dwellers with a Muslim and literate civilization. For centuries, they were merchants in the ancient commerce between the interior of Africa and the countries of the Indian Ocean, dealing mainly in ivory, gold, and slaves from Africa and in cloth and beads from Asia. To their ports came sailing ships from Arabia and India and foot caravans from the African interior. The British abolition of the export of slaves in 1873 and slavery itself in 1897 in Tanzania and 1907 in Kenya destroyed much of their former economy, and their role of wealthy merchants has been taken from them during the 20th century by international companies. The Swahili merchants live in towns, many founded a thousand years ago. Other Swahili, farmers and fishermen, live in coastal villages. Each town is formed around its central mosque attended by the men (women may not enter mosques). The merchants' houses, set in narrow streets and often two or three stories high, are elaborately designed and furnished, and in the past were of great wealth and luxury, with many domestic slaves. Merchant families kept themselves ethnically "pure" by marrying only their own close kin, in expensive and elaborate weddings. With their present impoverishment most of the luxury and splendor have gone.
Africa Proverbs, Stories And Sayings - Map Of Africa proverbs and sayings in swahili written eLandnet africa/General/Language africa Language links about unrepresented nations, indigenous people and national http://www.babieca.com/cgi-bin/engine/smartsearch.cgi?keywords=Africa Proverbs,
LANGUAGES-ON-THE-WEB: BEST XHOSA LINKS Nomadic Tribes Two groups of indigenous people were said to the Gamtoos River The Khoisan people no longer Kamusi Links Language/Xhosa swahili.africa.yale.edu http://www.languages-on-the-web.com/links/link-xhosa.htm
Extractions: www.saol.co.za/xhosa/welcome.htm The Heritage Virtual Resource Network is the holding Organisation[Network] which steers and oversee all the networks within this domain.It is in this regard that The Heritage Virtual Resource Network announces the soon to be launching networks in its domain. These include the current Xhosa Network, the Sotho Network, the Afrikan Network and the Zulu Network will follow later after that.
Mozambique The people. Ethnic MakuaLomwe, Yao, Makonde, Chewa, Nyanja, Tsonga, Chopi, Shona. Language Portuguese (official), swahili, indigenous dialects including Makua http://213.131.178.162/Nations/Africa/Mozambique/default.asp
Extractions: Language: Portuguese (official), Swahili, indigenous dialects including Makua, Ronga, Tsongan and Muchope. Portuguese was retained as the official language after independence because no single African language was sufficiently dominant. Most Mozambicans speak a Bantu language and Portuguese. Swahili is commonly used in some coastal areas.
FPP Web Page2 Secretariat of the International Alliance of indigenousTribal peoples Programme working with the Twa people in SW (Languages English, Kinyarwanda, swahili). http://forestpeoples.gn.apc.org/FPP/fpp_ann_rep_2001.htm
Extractions: ANNUAL REPORT FOR 2001 Report to Funders Forest Peoples Programme 1c Fosseway Business Centre, Stratford Road, Moreton-in-Marsh, GL56 9NQ, England Tel: + 44 1608 652 893 Fax: + 44 1608 652 878 Email: info@fppwrm.gn.apc.org Registered in the Netherlands as a non-profit organisation as Stichting Forest Peoples Programme The Northern Office of the World Rainforest Movement What is the Forest Peoples Programme? The Forest Peoples Programme exists to support the response of forest peoples to the global forest crisis. It aims to secure the rights of peoples, who live in the forests and depend on them for their livelihoods, to control their lands and destinies. The programme seeks to create political space for forest peoples to exercise their right to self-determination and to practise sustainable forest management. The Programme has five main goals: to support an effective global movement of forest peoples. to promote coordinated action on forests by NGOs of North and South in line with forest peoples visions and concerns. to promote the rights and interests of forest peoples in international forest policy and human rights fora.
