Tucson Weekly Print Friendly and even the name sounds cool, but swahili is spoken by will under the bonds of slavery, then people should speak one of the more indigenous Bantu tongues http://www.tucsonweekly.com/gbase/Tools/PrintFriendly?url=/gbase/opinion/Content
Extractions: Modernizing indigenous crops - cropping images of indigenous people: an interdisciplinary evaluation study in late 20 th -century Machakos (East Kenya) Nurit Bird-David (anthropologist, University of Haifa, Israel) and Winifred Karugu (agricultural economist, Jomo Kenyatta University, Kenya A draft: please do not cite without authors permission Introduction We present a study conducted within an international program that promotes research for and with African countries, combining theoretical and practical contributions, and establishing academic networks. Our particular project addressed a problematic attempt to re-introduce indigenous food-crops in the drought-prone semi-arid and arid areas of Machakos (East Kenya). Specifically, we sought to understand why the Sorghum and Millet Improvement Program (SMIP) that had tried to promote the cultivation of indigenous sorghum failed, and local people continue to grow maize although it keeps failing in their harsh environment and brings them recurrently to the brink of famine. We approached this question by casting our theoretical and empirical net as wide as possible, using time and other resources that policy makers and implementers rarely have at their disposal. We questioned received assumptions underlying SMIP, including the informing images of Third World rural women , subsistence farmers , and indigenous crops and people, and not least the gap between such stereotyped representations and the realities of late 20 th -century rural Machakos. We argue in this paper that sweeping generalizations about rural African people, their indigenous knowledge, and their gendered labor and households, misled the program, deflecting it from directions in which it could and can in the future be effective. We illustrate the advantages of paying attention to cultural differences, not least between donors and recipients , and the fruit of inter-disciplinary and cross-cultural dialogue.
Islamic World.Net Countries supporting the rights of the indigenous people whose Mau of Mount Kilimanjaro and home of Maasai people. Masai Mara map, wildlife, useful swahili, and photo http://islamic-world.net/countries/kenya.htm
