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Extractions: Cameroonian Groups Complaint Against Pipeline Project Filed With World Bank Author: Center for the Environment and Development Publisher: Center for the Environment and Development Publication Date: September 25 , 2002 Language: fr Communities in Cameroon affected by the World Bank financed Chad-Cameroon Pipeline filed this complaint (in French) with the World Bank's independent Inspection Panel. The claimants charge that several World Bank policies are violated during the ongoing construction of the pipeline, which traverses their villages, lands and, in the case of the Bakola pygmy communities, their traditional hunting areas in the coastal rainforest. The claim includes cited violations of World Bank policies on Natural Habitats, Indigenous Peoples, Environmental Impact Assessment, Poverty Reduction, Public Disclosure and Consultation and Project Supervision [ View Resource ]
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Extractions: The ethnicity of Nigeria is so varied that there is no definition of a Nigerian beyond that of someone who lives within the borders of the country (Ukpo, p. 19). The boundaries of the formerly English colony were drawn to serve commercial interests, largely without regard for the territorial claims of the indigenous peoples (38). As a result, about three hundred ethnic groups comprise the population of Nigeria (7), and the country's unity has been consistently under siege: eight attempts at secession threatened national unity between 1914 and 1977. The Biafran War was the last of the secessionist movements within this period (3). The concept of ethnicity requires definition. Ukpo calls an "ethnic group" a "group of people having a common language and cultural values" (10). These common factors are emphasized by frequent interaction between the people in the group. In Nigeria, the ethnic groups are occasionally fusions created by intermarriage, intermingling and/or assimilation. In such fusions, the groups of which they are composed maintain a limited individual identity. The groups are thus composed of smaller groups, but there is as much difference between even the small groups; as Chief Obafemi Awolowo put it, as much "as there is between Germans, English, Russians and Turks" (11). The count of three hundred ethnic groups cited above overwhelmingly enumerates ethnic minority groups, those which do not comprise a majority in the region in which they live. These groups usually do not have a political voice, nor do they have access to resources or the technology needed to develop and modernize economically. They therefore often consider themselves discriminated against, neglected, or oppressed. There are only three ethnic groups which have attained "ethnic majority" status in their respective regions: the Hausa-Fulani in the north, the
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Extractions: A food vendor walks past a gas station destroyed during a 5-day bout of ethnic violence that killed at least 10 in Warri, Nigeria in February, 2003. (Photo: AFP) The endless ethnic violence in Nigerias port town of Warri continues; Ijaw and Itsekiri youths take to the streets, killing, burning, and destroying property. They are used to bloody confrontations. This year alone, the two riverine communities of Ijaw and Itsekiri in Delta state have engaged each other twice in bloody wars, losing lives and property on both sides. The two communities are up in arms again, shooting at each other as enemies. And the recent warfare appears to be the bloodiest. Since the first shots were heard on March 13, more than 100 people have reportedly been killed on both sides. Properties worth millions of naira have been destroyed in the confrontation led mainly by youths. Soldiers who were deployed by the federal government on a peace mission in the area were not spared. Reports said about 16 of them had been killed, with a large number of them seriously wounded. The soldiers were drawn from the 2nd Mechanized Division of the Nigerian army in Ibadan [the capital of Oyo state] and the Western Naval Command, which is stationed at the NNS [Nigerian Naval Ship] Umalokun at the Warri Naval Base.
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Extractions: TOWARDS TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION IN WARRI By Dr. Emmanuel Ojameruaye Phoenix, Arizona I admire Prof. Itse Sagay for his profundity and commitment to the struggle and unity of the Niger Delta people. This quality was eloquently displayed in his article that was published in the Guardian of August 16, 2002, in which he stated thus: "Okonjo called me, ... an Itsekiri man who is a political jobber for the Urhobos. On the last issue, it would appear that Okonjo has been a beneficiary of the Itsekiri - Urhobo disputes and is extremely disturbed by a possible alignment of views between the two Sister Nations. Of course the present location of the Delta State Capital in Anioma State is a fallout of this dispute, with outside opportunists stoking the embers of the dispute and making away with the rights and interests of the quarrelling sisters.... As for my so called Urhobo benefactors, it will be the happiest moment of my existence, when the Itsekiris, Urhobo and also the Ijaws start working together like one family that they have been for over 500 years. We have the same culture, food, identical mode of dressing; we have intermarried and are intertwined. The relationship can no longer be unravelled. Okonjo hopes in vain that the Urhobo/Itsekiri quarrels will prevent us from identifying our areas of common i! nterest. He hopes in vain. Let the Urhobos be my benefactors, whatever that may mean. I accept that insult.... My crime is that I do not hate the Urhobo too, for in Okonjo's imagination, every true Itsekiri man must hate the Urhobos. Well I don't. Many Itsekiri don't. They are our kinsmen. We shall reconcile and claim back our rights together, whether in terms of resource control or our estranged capital. Okonjo's rabid outburst will be an incentive for our unity.'' However, I was taken aback by his recent article on the Warri crisis, which was published in
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Extractions: Vol. II, Issue 3 (Summer, 1995): Languages of Africa HOME ARCHIVES What languages should African playwrights, poets, novelists and film producers use in their works? Is the use of French, English, Portuguese or German, elitist and deliberately exclusive of the generality of the African population? Have these languages been sufficiently Africanised on the continent to make them indigenous? What of languages such as Swahili, Dyula, Mande and Hausa? Are they widely enough used to be formally adopted as the major languages? Is Namibia right to adopt English as one of its official languages? These are some of the various questions with which African policymakers, administrators and scholars have been faced from time to time.
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Extractions: Chapter 20 NORTH AND WEST AFRICA Overview The region as treated here includes all countries in the bulge of West Africa (on the southern coast from Nigeria westward) and to the east Chad, Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia and countries north. Insects of at least 25 species are eaten, belonging to at least 21 genera, 13 families and 7 orders (see the Regional Taxonomic Inventory below). Of this group, the specific identity is known for only 21 species, the generic identity for another 4, only the family identity for one and the order identity for one. Nigeria is the best-studied country in the region insofar as its food insect use is concerned, and it is presented first with others following alphabetically. Other countries on the southern coast of West Africa probably have edible insect use similar in variety to that of Nigeria, but less information is available. North of the coastal countries, the variety is greatly reduced, limited mainly to locusts, and primarily the desert locust, Schistocerca gregaria Regional Taxonomic Inventory Taxa and stages consumed Countries Coleoptera Beetles/beetle larvae Ivory Coast, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone
Extractions: One of the most exciting areas in the growth of African oral literary study within the last two decades has been the specialized interest in the continent's heroic epics: stories about great warriors, empire builders, and culture heroes like Sunjata among the Mandinka of Mali, Lianja among the Nkundo of Zaire, Shaka among the Zulu of South Africa, Ozidi among the Ijo of Nigeria's delta country, and many others. So widely has this interest growninvolving the collection of hitherto ignored epic texts and the critical study of themthat Indiana University Press, without doubt the sturdiest publisher of African studies in the United States, has seen fit to establish an African Epic Series to enshrine this body of work within the canons of higher education. With so much that has come to light, it is no longer possible to doubt, as was the case up to the 1970s, that the epic is a characteristic feature of Africa's oral traditions. And yet, if we took time to look beyond the walls of the academy, and projected our study of the epic within the larger context of the realities around us, we would find reason enough to temper our enthusiasm for this subject with a certain concern. In the more than three decades that African nations have been free from the colonial shackles that held them down for pretty much one century, most of them have been ruled by indigenous leaders who have done much worse to their people than the foreign usurpers. If we looked closely at the power profiles of these recent leaders, we would find them uncomfortably similar to the heroes we have grown accustomed to glorifying in our studies: leaders who held absolute power, exercising total proprietorship over the material and perhaps spiritual lives of those who lived under the shadow of their might.
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Extractions: This paper is therefore designed as a response and contribution towards the on going debates and search for new ways to conflict management in Africa. The discussion focused on the examination of the contexts and dynamics of ethnic conflicts in Africa. Precisely, some of the forms, causes, and the underlying consequences of such with reference to some recent scenario in the continent was discussed. One of the major issues pointed out is how imperialism and colonialism impacted on ethnicity and ethnic conflicts which are traceable to the colonial masters systems of administration, arbitrary delimitation and partitioning the continent. This paper also borders on how persistent these conflicts have been and how the various western models and paradigms of conflict management have failed on the altar of peace deliberations due to their inadequacy to fit in properly into the Africa context. In conclusion, African traditional alternatives to conflict resolution were suggested for adoption in the next millennium.
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Extractions: IRIN The article "At least 60 reported killed as troops battle Delta militants" At least 60 people were killed on Thursday in Nigeria's volatile Niger Delta oil region during a pitched battle between troops and ethnic Ijaw militants fought a pitched battle, military sources and militants said. The latest confrontation signaled a worsening of a confrontation that has disrupted the operations of oil transnationals in the area and cut Nigeria's oil exports of about two million barrels a day by more than 10 percent. A military boat on Thursday brought in the bodies of five soldiers said to have been killed in an exchange of fire with Ijaw militants near the riverine village of Okerenkoko. Their colleagues told reporters the bodies of five other dead soldiers were yet to be recovered. Activists of the Federated Niger Delta Ijaw Communities (FNDIC) said troops armed with machine guns and bazookas attacked their positions, killing at least 50 militants.
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