Africa Indigenous People Baule africa, african Anthropology General Resources. By peoples. Pende Pokot Punu San Senufo Shambaa Shona Songo Songye Suku Swahili Tabwa Tuareg urhobo We Wimiama http://www.archaeolink.com/africa_indigenous_people_baule.htm
Extractions: Baule Home Africa, African Anthropology General Resources By peoples Akan Akuapem Akye Anyi ... Zulu ArtWorld AFRICA - Baule "One of the Akan group sharing similar language and, in general, matrilineal inheritance. They broke away from the Asante of Ghana in the 18th century, bringing with them craftsmanship in gold and gold leaf decoration." - From University of Durham - http://artworld.uea.ac.uk/teaching_modules/africa/cultural_groups_by_country/baule/welcome.html Baule People "The Baule belong to the Akan peoples who inhabit Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire. Three hundred years ago the Baule people migrated westward from Ghana when the Asante rose to power. The tale of how they broke away from the Asante has been preserved in their oral traditions." You will find material related to history, culture, religion, political structure, art and more. - From University of Iowa - http://www.uiowa.edu/~africart/toc/people/Baule.html
MOTHERLAND NIGERIA: PEOPLES (by Boomie O.) NATIONAL PLEDGE. MOTTO. peoples. POPULATION. RELIGION IFA The indigenous Faith of africa. Yoruba Nigerian Galleria Art Life in africa. urhobo Ethnologue Nigeria. urhobo Nigerian http://www.motherlandnigeria.com/people.html
African Environment And Conservation On The Internet An annotated guide to internet resources on african conservation and the environment. and Institutions Center, africa indigenous Knowledge and Forestry Preservation Bolivia and Indonesia" "Forest peoples in the Central african ac.zw/sea/ urhobo Historical Society. The http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/eco.html
Extractions: Topics : Environment Search: Countries Topics Africa Guide Suggest a Site ... Africa Home See also: Environmental History South Africa - Environment Reqires free registration to access. Was a virtual game preserve which closed down. Read the first part of the webcam's rise videoing live from waterholes in the Djuma Game Reserve (South Africa). The site hopes to reappear. In the meantime Djuma operates two Web cams at
Africa South Of The Sahara - Culture And Society An annotated guide to internet resources on african culture and society. architecture, Islam and indigenous african cultures, Shawabtis her course peoples and Cultures of africa has information .edu/CapeCoastArchive/ urhobo Waado, urhobo Historical Society http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/culture.html
Rhodes: Academics: Library: Subject Guides: Anthropology images and sounds of africa contributed over the years information about the urhobo peoples of Southern Nigeria Page /LSU. indigenous peoples' Literature. indigenous peoples' of Mexico http://www.rhodes.edu/public/2_0-Academics/2_5-Library/2_5_2-SubjectGuides/2_5_2
Extractions: "...allows users to search simultaneously the holdings of various archeological collections, such as the National Excavation Index for England, the National Monuments Record of Scotland, the Microfilme Index for England, and the Society of Antiquaries of London." Scout Report, Social Sciences, 9/30/98.
The Africa Fund by Michael Fleshman, Human Rights Coordinator, The africa Fund. spilling over to the urhobo community, whose companies have driven the indigenous peoples of the http://www.prairienet.org/acas/alerts/nigeria/nigeria1.html
Extractions: by Michael Fleshman, Human Rights Coordinator, The Africa Fund The immediate cause of the crisis was a 1997 decision by now deceased dictator General Sani Abacha to relocate a Local Government Authority (effectively a town council) in Warri from a district occupied by the majority Ijaw people to that of the minority Itsekeris. The move was made to bolster the despised dictator's political fortunes and to punish the Ijaw community for its increasingly visible opposition to his regime. Resentment in the Ijaw community boiled over on Inauguration Day, May 29, when Ijaw activists protested the installation of an Itsekeri politician at the head of the disputed LGA, triggering clashes between the communities and spilling over to the Urhobo community, whose young men have also battled armed Itsekeri youth. Western press reports and the oil companies have focused on the ethnic character of the violence to portray it as "tribal warfare" unrelated to the decade-long struggle by the various minority peoples of the Niger Delta oil fields against the oil companies and military rule. Nothing could be further from the truth. Nigerian human rights and environmental activists, trade union and religious leaders and elected officials say that the failure of both theAbacha and Abubakar military regimes to redress local grievances, the deliberate manipulation of ethnic tension by the military and gross economic exploitation and environmental destruction of the minority communities by the oil companies have driven the indigenous peoples of the region to the very edge of survival and fueled a desperate competition between them for what little resources are available.
African Studies - History And Cultures african indigenous Science and Knowledge Systems Page involving the Mande peoples of West africa, and the neighbors about about the urhobo Historical Society itself and about urhobo 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
Itse Sagay's Faulty Analysis Of Urhobo-Itsekiri Relations urhobo Historical Society. By Peter Ekeh, Chair, urhobo Historical Society comment on the views of the indigenous AgbarhaWarri and Okere-urhobo peoples of Warri on this matter the rest of tropical West africa, had the disadvantage of not having http://www.waado.org/UrhoboHistory/WesternNigerDelta/Sagay-2003/Sagay-Ekeh.htm
Extractions: On May 11, 2003, Itse Sagay wrote an impassioned article in the Vanguard Chief Daniel Obiomah Vanguard May 25, 2003). Writing in the same venue, Victor Ak' Denla said that it was untrue and unfair to say that Urhobos ever attacked any Itsekiri territory. Then more recently, Chris Akiri , writing in the Guardian opinions Itse Sagay has now replied to his critics ( Guardian , 30 June 2003) Contemporary Relations between the Urhobo and the Itsekiri The low point in Urhobo-Itsekiri relations was in 1952. A newly constituted Action Group Government of Western Nigeria had changed the title of the King of Itsekiri from Olu of Itsekiri to Olu of Warri the violence of June 1999 Itsekiri History and the Itsekiri Establishment A History of Warri Kingdom History of Itsekiri, first published in 1936. William Moore was a descendant of Olu Akengbuwa whose death in 1848 resulted in a hiatus in the history of Itsekiri royalty. A 1904 pioneering student of Government Intermediate School at Sapele History of Itsekiri A History of Warri Kingdom.
WARRI CITY AND THE WESTERN NIGER DELTA CRISIS legitimacy of the claims of the indigenous Agbassa and Okereurhobo peoples to the ownership of Warri City or Hausa and Jukun in africa can tell us why they bear http://www.nigerdeltacongress.com/warticles/warri_city_and_the_western_niger.htm
Extractions: WARRI CITY AND THE WESTERN NIGER DELTA CRISIS Submission of the Urhobo Historical Society to the T. Y. Danjuma Panel By The Urhobo Historical Society General T. Y. Danjuma (Rtd.) Abuja, Nigeria Dear General Danjuma: In March 2002, a member of Itsekiri Leaders Forum challenged the publication of Protection Treaties, which the British made with Itsekiri Chiefs of Benin River in 1884 and 1894 and with the Agbassa of Warri District in1893, in Urhobo Historical Societys web site. Itsekiri Leaders Forum complained that: Urhobo Historical Society exchanged correspondence with Itsekiri Leaders Forum on these allegations. (Please see Appendix I.) We believe we conclusively proved to the Forum that it was completely mistaken in these allegations. We are therefore disappointed to read from the submissions by the Itsekiri Leaders Forum and Warri National Council to President Olusegun Obasanjo and to the Danjuma Panel on the Warri Crisis a repetition of these same allegations. The Itsekiri submissions have now been published in
African Studies - Past Conferences New York City the supreme aim of urhobo Historical Society africa s indigenous peoples First peoples or Marginalized Minorities ? Centre of african http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/africa/cuvl/pconfs.html
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Nigeria Report On The Crisis In The Niger Delta The Africa Fund Fleshman Human Rights Coordinator, The africa Fund The and spilling over to the urhobo community, whose oil companies have driven the indigenous peoples of the http://www.nadir.org/nadir/initiativ/agp/free/imf/africa/nigeria/990610crisis_ni
Extractions: Nigeria: Report on the Crisis in the Niger Delta The Africa Fund 50 Broad Street, Suite 711 New York, NY 10004 USA Tel: (212) 785-1024 Fax: (212) 785-1078 Nigeria Transition Watch Dateline: Lagos, Nigeria, June 10, 1999 Report on the Crisis in the Niger Delta by Michael Fleshman Human Rights Coordinator, The Africa Fund The violence that has devastated the city of Warri near Chevron's Escravos tank farm is only the most recent and most tragic manifestation of the rage sweeping the impoverished communities of Nigeria's oil fields after decades of repression and exploitation by military dictatorships and western oil companies. Since the current violence began in late May, 600 homes have been destroyed, as many as 300 people have died and thousands more have fled the city center and outlying residential districts to escape attacks by hundreds of young men in military uniforms armed with machine guns and assault rifles. The days old civilian government of newly elected President Olusegun Obasanjo rushed thousands of troops into the area and declared a dusk-to-dawn curfew on June 8 in an effort to contain the fighting. The Nigerian pressreported yesterday, June 9, that a tense calm had been established, punctuated by sporadic clashes between the opposing sides and with the security forces on the outskirts of town. The immediate cause of the crisis was a 1997 decision by now deceased dictator General Sani Abacha to relocate a Local Government Authority (effectively a town council) in Warri from a district occupied by the majority Ijaw people to that of the minority Itsekeris. The move was made to bolster the despised dictator's political fortunes and to punish the Ijaw community for its increasingly visible opposition to his regime. Resentment in the Ijaw community boiled over on Inauguration Day, May 29, when Ijaw activists protested the installation of an Itsekeri politician at the head of the disputed LGA, triggering clashes between the communities and spilling over to the Urhobo community, whose young men have also battled armed Itsekeri youth. Western press reports and the oil companies have focused on the ethnic character of the violence to portray it as "tribal warfare" unrelated to the decade-long struggle by the various minority peoples of the Niger Delta oil fields against the oil companies and military rule. Nothing could be further from the truth. Nigerian human rights and environmental activists, trade union and religious leaders and elected officials say that the failure of both theAbacha and Abubakar military regimes to redress local grievances, the deliberate manipulation of ethnic tension by the military and gross economic exploitation and environmental destruction of the minority communities by the oil companies have driven the indigenous peoples of the region to the very edge of survival and fueled a desperate competition between them for what little resources are available. Warri, like other towns in the oil fields, presents a harsh contrast of staggering wealth and appalling poverty.Heavily guarded oil company compounds with paved streets, swimming pools, satellite telephones and supermarkets sit yards away from villages without electricity, running water or a school. By law, Nigeria's oil wealth and the land above it is owned by the Federal government, not by the local communities. For decades Nigeria's ruling generals and the oil companies have extracted billions of dollars a year from these communities and returned virtually none in the form of jobs, health care, or education. Oil spills and decades of pollution and acid rain from gas flaring have destroyed the livelihoods of the indigenous people. Compensation for the devastating effects of oil production is always inadequate, often unpaid, and commonly stolen by corrupt traditional leaders beholden to the Federal government in far-away Abuja for their positions, and to oil company patronage for money. The small sums of money doled out by the national government to LGAs for salaries and administration are often the only real source of income in local communities, making control of local governments a life-and-death matter, dividing communities along ethnic lines and weakening collective action against abusive government and corporate policies. The reality of the current tragedy was summed up in an commentary in the current edition of the respected weekly Tempo newspaper. "The animosity, actually, is not among the feuding communities. Rather it is a sort of resentment against the state which exploits the oil yielding billions of dollars and leaves the area underdeveloped. And when such animosity lasts too long, the concerned people start suspecting one another of collaborating with the enemy or of being too passive with him. Hence the inter-communal clashes, which only justice in the sharing of oil revenue can solve in the long run." The outstanding head of the Nigerian oil workers union Pengassan, former prisoner of conscience Milton Dabibi, told me last night that only the immediate intervention of the Obasanjo government, and the establishment of a credible dialogue between the communities, the government and the oil companies on a fundamental restructuring of economic and political institutions in the region can bring an end to the bloody crisis in Nigeria's oil fields. In recent weeks he has traveled extensively throughout the Niger Delta, including Warri, to establish just that dialogue. His initiatives deserve the full backing of the international community. But to date the major multi-national producers, Shell, Mobil and Chevron have refused to support it. Dabibi had high praise for President Obasanjo's efforts to resolve the Warri crisis. The President is expected to fly to Warri on Friday to meet with leaders of the communities in Warri to end the fighting. But until the legitimate demands of the peoples of the Niger Delta for control of their land and resources, for economic and social justice and for an end to repression are met, the political fires raging in the Delta will continue to burn. Michael Fleshman is traveling in Nigeria for a month. Founded in 1966 by the American Committee on Africa, The Africa Fund works for a positive U.S. policy toward Africa and supports African human rights, democracy and development. Contact: The Africa Fund, 50 Broad Street, Suite 711, New York, NY 10004 USA. Tel: (212) 785-1024. Fax: (212) 785-1078. E-mail: africafund@igc.apc.org website: www.prairienet.org/acas/afund.html.
Africa Book Centre Ltd Nigeria Biafran War and the non acceptance of indigenous technology in the law, with emphasis on the urhobo nation the creative output of the varied peoples of Nigeria http://www.africabookcentre.com/acatalog/Online_Catalogue_Nigeria_62.html
Africa:Forests Under Threat The urhobo also demanded for immediate clean up of all Many of africa s rarest trees, such as mahogany indigenous peoples of the oilrich Niger Delta region http://www.wrm.org.uy/countries/Africa/trouble8.html
Extractions: The value of biodiversity in a fragile environment Known by its historical past because of the vast and powerful empire that surprised European visitors in the XIV century, nowadays the Malian territory comprises more than 1,200,000 square kilometres in West Africa, over the Sahara desert in the north, the Sahel grasslands in the centre and the savannah region in the south. In the Sahel, human life as well as that of the flora and fauna follow the Niger River's annual flood cycle, with high water levels between August and November. More plentiful rainfall and water courses - including the Niger River - in the southern region give place to a more lush biodiversity. With more than 58% of its land desert and another 30% threatened by the continued encroachment of the Sahel, Mali faces desertification and deforestation as two capital environmental problems, both of them strongly related to the loss of biodiversity. The wide variety of plants and animals from the forests and other ecosystems containing trees - like the savannah - constitute an important component of household food supply. In many villages and small towns, the "hidden harvest" from forests and trees is essential for food security since it provides a number of essential dietary products. For example, the fruit of Saba senegalensis is widely eaten in Mali. The failure of the plantation projects using alien fast growing species in order to mitigate the effects of the drought registered in the decade of 1970, was due to the fact that they did not recognise that for many rural people the non-timber forest products are important to their social and economic survival. Thus they preferred native species to alien ones, no matter how fast they could grow.
Nigeria Delta Update, Wed, 30 Dec 1998 the continuos survival of the indigenous peoples of the 5. Ijaw youths and peoples will promote the to our neighbors the Itsekiri, Ilaje, urhobo, Isoko, Edo http://www.africa.upenn.edu/Urgent_Action/apic_123098.html
Extractions: +security/peace+ Summary Contents: This posting contains several documents updating the situation in the oil-rich Delta region in Nigeria, including (1) the Kaiama Declaration from a conference of Ijaw youth, distributed by Project Underground, (2) excerpts from an update by the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP), and (3) a press release from MOSOP on formation of a new security task force for the Delta. Additional relevant background documents can be found in the postings on the shell-nigeria-action listserv, archived at: http://www.essential.org/listproc/shell-nigeria-action/ +++++++++++++++++end profile++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ THE KAIAMA DECLARATION BEING COMMUNIQUE ISSUED AT THE END OF THE ALL IJAW YOUTHS CONFERENCE WHICH HELD IN THE TOWN OF KAIAMA THIS 11TH DAY OF DECEMBER 1998.
USA Nigeria Policy, Letters, 08/22/00 Ireland Bayelsa Center USA Bonny indigenous Group (BIG Ijaw peoples Association of Great Britain and Ireland Third World Social Services urhobo Ethnic Minority http://www.africa.upenn.edu/Urgent_Action/apic-082200.html
Extractions: UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA - AFRICAN STUDIES CENTER USA: Nigeria Policy, Letters Date distributed (ymd): 000822 Document reposted by APIC +++++++++++++++++++++Document Profile+++++++++++++++++++++ Region: West Africa Issue Areas: +political/rights+ +economy/development+ +security/peace+ +US policy focus+ Summary Contents: This posting contains two letters to President Clinton on policy toward Nigeria. One focuses on a range of issues and is from groups that are members of the Washington-based International Roundtable on Nigeria (IRTON) and Advocacy Network for Africa (ADNA). The other focuses specifically on the Niger Delta, signed by groups around the world associated with the Delta, as well as individuals and other groups. Two related postings yesterday included a statement from the Africa Fund and the Africa Policy Information Center, and excerpts from the new book on Nigeria: This House Has Fallen. +++++++++++++++++end profile++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ August 21, 2000
Musées Afrique indigenous Knowledge in South africa Aquarelles de Joy Adamson peoples of Kenya Ijo, Ogoni, Ibibio, Oron, Ibo, urhobo, Eket, Igala http://www.unil.ch/gybn/Arts_Peuples/Ex_Africa/ex_Af_musaf.html
Extractions: Cape Town South African National Gallery Government Avenue ma-di 10-17 Arts de la perle / Expositions temporaires Cape Town Gold of Africa Museum . Martin Melck House 96 Strand Street Bijoux d'or d'Afrique de l'Ouest (coll Barbier-Mueller); objets d'or des civilisations d'Afrique australe Cape Town - Gardens South African Museum 25 Queen Victoria Street lu-di 10-17 terres cuites de Lydenburg San (peintures rupestres), Zimb abwe Tsonga , Khoikhoi, Sotho, Nguni, Shona, Lovedu... Exposition " Ulwazi Lwemvelo - Indigenous Knowledge in South Africa Cape Town - Rosebank University of Cape Town Irma Stern Museum Cecil Road ma-sa 10-17 Arts de Zanzibar et du Congo: Lega, Luba Durban Art Gallery City Hall lu-sa 8.30-16; di 11-16 Durban Local History Museum Aliwal Street East London East London Museum lu-ve 9.30-17; sa 9.30-12
[Imc-uk-process] [Imc-finance] $19,000 For AFRICA CARAVANA makes imc strong is low budget indigenous structure ñ activists (indymedia!), is to defend and promote the peoples? to Ughelli, dem go speak urhobo, We travel http://lists.indymedia.org/pipermail/imc-uk-process/2002-June/000620.html
Extractions: Mon Jun 17 13:52:09 PDT 2002 zpub2000 at yahoo.com From: "Prishani" < prishani at union.org.za To: ilias_ziog at hotmail.com Subject: imc-sa proposal Date: Sun, 19 May 2002 18:11:39 +0200 by the Indymedia South African national committee The South African Indymedia collective was surprised to realize last week that proper discussions were happening on the IMC-Finance list, concerning a proposal for a $20 000 posted to the imc-sa list, no effort has been made to figure out what we could be thinking about that. We ignored approach. We though recognised that the African IMCs need a speaks of. The South African IMC is probably one of the very few that was set up without a direct American/European participation. A month before the World Conference Against Racism last year, about 35 activists met together in
Ecocopia Peace Organizations Organizations in SubSaharan africa The Peace and children in general and indigenous peoples in particular. Involving Ijaw, Itsekiri, and urhobo of Nigeria s http://www.ecocopia.com/cat/Peace Organizations.htm
Extractions: Bangwa Home Africa, African Anthropology General Resources By peoples Akan Akuapem Akye Anyi ... Zulu ArtWorld AFRICA -Bangwa "The Bangwa occupy a mountainous and part forested countryside west of the Bamileke in south-eastern Cameroon, near the headwaters of the Cross River. They comprise nine chiefdoms. People live in separate family compounds, sometimes with large meeting houses where visitors may be received." - From University of Durham - http://artworld.uea.ac.uk/teaching_modules/africa/cultural_groups_by_country/bangwa/welcome.html Bangwa People "Authority among the Bangwa was traditionally instituted as part of the Bamileke political complex. Like most of the western Grasslands people, Babanki political authority is vested in a village chief, who is supported by a council of elders, and is called Fon." You will find material related to Bangwa history, culture, arts, political structure and more. - From University of Iowa - http://www.uiowa.edu/~africart/toc/people/Bangwa.html
Urhobos And Warri Crisis: A Reply To Professor Itse Sagay's Claims On Warri Draft Declaration on the Rights of indigenous peoples from which to enslave countless ablebodied urhobo men and and Dore Numa (both Itsekiri people) were in http://www.waado.org/UrhoboHistory/WesternNigerDelta/Sagay-2003/Sagay-Akiri.html
Extractions: By Chris Akiri T HE May 11, 2003 edition of The Sunday Vanguard carried Prof. Itse Sagay's provocative article, titled " The Itsekiris, Ijaws, Urhobos and the political control of Warri territory ", in which he fruitlessly and ludicrously tried to use international law to determine the ownership of Warri territory. He helplessly found refuge in the so-called UN Draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples from which he quoted ad nauseam inapposite Articles directed at sovereign States in their relationship to the minority groups within their borders and not at three fellow minority groups of which the least populous seeks to lord it over and stand astride the other. Traditionally, the Itsekiris are riverine dwellers, who built their stilted homesteads in the creeks along the Benin River. They had a kingdom about the 15th century whose capital" Ode-Itsekiri" was also in this area. If any Itsekiri monarch or high-class chief passes on, he is interred at Ode-Itsekiri, their ancestral home. Prof. Sagay wove his sophistic argument around two premises in a syllogistic style: The group in political control of Warri land when the British colonisers came to the area were the owners of Warri; Nana Olomu and Dore Numa (both Itsekiri people) were in political control of Warri land when the British colonisers came to the area. Therefore, the land belongs to the Itsekiris! It is like saying that the people who were in control of Port Harcourt at Independence in 1960 were the owners of the Garden City!! This fallacy of the undistributed middle ignores all the established legal ways of proving ownership of land. Sagay calls his preposterous theory "a simple expedient".
