21. Guinea -- Culture Overview live in the coastal areas of the baga and Sousou landmark theater, the Palace of the People, built by Built in the indigenous beehive style in 1730, the mosque http://expedition.bensenville.lib.il.us/Africa/Guinea/culture.htm

Guinea - Culture Overview The Republic of Guinea is located on the coast of West Africa, and its people have shared in the long, complex history of that region. By the 13th century, many local inhabitants had come under the influence of the Mali Empire, and as the Fula peoples migrated in from the north, they formed their own kingdom in the mountainous area of the country known as the Fouta Djallon. In spite of the stiff resistance put up by Guineans, France made the area an autonomous colony in the 1890s. Embittered by the Guinean desire for independence in 1958, the French withdrew all investment and any goods they could move. The hero of independence, Ahmed Sekou Toure, led the new nation into a political and economic isolation that preserved many cultural traditions, but at the expense of greater development. Since his death in 1984, people are more free to oppose the government but Guineans of different ethnic backgrounds have had difficulty sharing the national patrimony. Guinea has several distinct regions. Some 20% of the population live in the coastal areas of the Baga and Sousou peoples, who have been a dominant force in the government during the 1990s. In the Fouta Djallon another 40% of the people are the Fula who have always been underrepresented in national affairs. In Upper Guinea, the region of Sekou Toure, some 21% of the people are Malinke, descendents of the Mali Empire. The remaining peoples live in Forested Guinea in several such small groups as the Kissi, Kono, Guerze, and Toma. There is also a small Lebanese population in the cities and several thousand refugees from the conflicts of neighboring countries. French is the official language, taught in the schools since the 1980s, but over 100 local languages are spoken. The vast majority of Guineans are Muslims. There are a handful of Christians in and around the capital, and most of the people in the forested southeast follow animist religions.

22. Business Day In countries such as Zimbabwe and in West africa african traditional medical It has been used for hundreds of years by indigenous peoples throughout the http://www.bday.co.za/bday/content/direct/1,3523,1230744-6096-0,00.html

Privatisation Special Technology Top 100 Business Directory Maps ... Technology Much to be said for natural medicine THERE are some very interesting initiatives being taken by some dedicated people to use natural medicine in the treatment of serious diseases such as TB, cancer, AIDS and other immune deficient diseases. There is a vast body of nonwestern medical knowledge that has for thousands of years been utilised by African, Asian and South American people. In countries such as Zimbabwe and in West Africa African traditional medical practice co-exists with western medical practice. In this country the increasing availability and use of Chinese herbal medicine was facilitated by the sale of Chinese herbal preparations manufactured by the Green Medicine Company, an Australian company. Toren Wing, a business man passionate about the use of natural medicine, first brought Chinese herbal products to SA seven years ago. Through his perseverance, several medical doctors use Chinese herbs in the treatment of their patients. Anecdotal evidence from patients and doctors show that the formulas do assist in improving the quality of life of patients. In a recent conversation I had with a nurse, Lynne Maritz, she indicated that in the second stage of HIV, lifestyle changes can prolong the period from the average three to four years to 10 to 12 years.

23. African Tribes baga. The ndako gboya appears to be indigenous; a spirit that affords protection There is a great diversity of sculptural tradition among peoples inhabiting the http://users.pandora.be/african-shop/tribe_info.htm

Home Up African-Antiques site map masks ... tribes Hear the news and discuss it, join African art goup in English or Discussions AntiquesAfricaines Français Join also our free monthly newsletter packed with auction news, fairs, exhibitions, recent items, new websites, stolen items, buying tips,... We Respect Your Email Privacy David Norden. Sint Katelijnevest 27. B2000 Antwerp. Belgium. Tel: +32 3 2273540 African tribes in African art. A complete African tribes art list, african sculptures and masks description. The visual, performing, and literary arts of native Africa, particularly of sub-Saharan, or black, Africa. The arts include the media of sculpture, painting, textiles, costume, jewelry, architecture, music, dance, drama, and poetry. visit Central Africa South Africa Madagascar Art West Africa Join our FREE MONTHLY NEWSLETTER packed with auction news, fairs, exhibitions, items descriptions, new websites, stolen items, buying tips,... African art Discussions in English A free group related on African art with more than 450 members. Share your love for African art.

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Home Up [ sculpture info ] Western-Soudan Guinea-Coast Nigeria Central Africa ... tribes Hear the news and discuss it, join African art goup in English or Discussions AntiquesAfricaines Français Join also our free monthly newsletter packed with auction news, fairs, exhibitions, recent items, new websites, stolen items, buying tips,... We Respect Your Email Privacy David Norden. Sint Katelijnevest 27. B2000 Antwerp. Belgium. Tel: +32 3 2273540 Sculptures and associated arts See also African Tribe info This page was made with the help from Britannica , follow the link for more related articles but they aren't free as in the past anymore. Although wood is the best-known medium of African sculpture, many others are employed: copper alloys, iron, ivory, pottery, unfired clay, and, infrequently, stone. Unfired clay is and probably always was the most widely used medium in the whole continent, but, partly because it is so fragile and therefore difficult to collect, it has been largely ignored in the literature. Join our interesting discussion list (450 members now): Click to subscribe to AfricanAntiques Small Daima clay figures. Neolitic period.

25. Conakry Report Fula (3) 2,553,000; Kissi 287,000; baga 32,000 Landoma 14,000; Nalu 13,000 Nonindigenous 0.04 the capital, is the most populous city with 930,000 people in the http://www.africamissions.org/africa/conakry.htm

An On-Site Study of GUINEA and CONAKRY its Capital August 1995 Research Team: Eric Guild James Scudder Richard Chowning Purpose : study to the city of Conakry in order to evaluate its potential and need for church growth. Objectives: 1. Get a general understanding of the social make up of the city. 2. Interview all mission agencies and denominations to understand what they have done and how they view the Christian movement in Conakry and Guinea as a whole. 3. Test for receptivity. 4. Collect contact information. 5. Understand the present and historical church growth situation. 6. Ascertain logistical and living condition variables. 7. Make recommendation. 8. Get an overview of Guinea. An overview of Guinea Introduction Guinea is one of the most unreached countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. The high percentage of Muslims and the persecution by a former regime made it a difficult field for church growth from 1960s through the 1980s. "Guinea understandably still has some of the worst church/mission statistics in West Africa" (Vanderaa, 1991). Guinea has not been a priority country for most missions, but a reevaluation is in order. There was a time in when the current President, Conte, wanted Guinea to be Muslim country. He is now very cooperative with Christians. His second wife is a Christian. Population Weather As much as one hundred and twenty inches of rain can fall in Conakry in one season. It rained every day we were in the country. It was humid. The Monsoon season does not wash away top soil or other valuable substances from the land. Conakry is built on a field of iron ore.

26. In The Presence Of Spirits and sculptural inventiveness of the cultures indigenous to these peoples of Côte d’Ivoire, the baga from Guinea of objects from the Bidjogo peoples who live http://www.africans-art.com/index.php3?action=page&id_art=534

27. The Scientists Article Poirier has done fieldwork in africa and Asia and has found reports of animals by indigenous peoples to be of great value in his conventional research. http://www.ncf.carleton.ca/~bz050/HomePage.scza.html

The-Scientist January 11, 1993. TI : Cryptozoologists: An Endangered Species Researchers who stalk rare or fantastic creatures must endure the scorn of colleagues and funding agencies AU : PAUL MC CARTHY TY : NEWS PG : 1 Physical anthropologist Grover Krantz sometimes fantasizes about flying his ultra-light aircraft over the Pacific Northwest on a warm spring day. Controls in one hand and an infrared heat detector in the other, Krantz scans the thawing ground-cover in search of the telltale heat of a rotting Bigfoot carcass. Bagging a body would be the ultimate evidence in a decades-old quest that has left the Washington State University professor an authority on Bigfoot, thought by some to be a surviving Pleistocene ape, Gigantopithecus blacki. Krantz is a member of a small band of scientists called cryptozoologists, who stalk previously undescribedand, some would say, nonexistentanimals. This includes new species of lizards, monkeys, and other ho-hum creatures, but also beasts of mythic proportion: Consider the Loch Ness Monster, a giant octopus with tentacles more than 100 feet long; or Mokele-Mbembe, a dinosaur-like critter and purported denizen of a 50,000-square- mile swamp in the People's Republic of the Congo. The term "cryptozoology" was coined in the late 1950s by French zoologist Bernard Heuvelmans to describe the study of unverified animals. The purpose of the field, says J. Richard Greenwell, secretary of the Tucson, Ariz.-based International Society of Cryptozoology (ISC), is to determine if certain reported species exist and, if so, to "add them to our zoological inventories." Cryptozoologists obtain their leads from sighting reports, explorers' accounts, old manuscripts, archeological artifacts, artwork, and folklore, says Greenwell. Some society members have actually found previously undescribed creatures (see story on page 5).

28. The First Masks Over thirty thousand years ago, somewhere in africa, an indigenous Hunter the Latin, persona, which means mask. For early indigenous peoples, masks were a http://www.webzinemaker.net/africans-art/index.php3?action=page&id_art=28378

29. UNDP - United Nations Development Programme Henry Basson Riemvasimaak IPACC P/baga 10 Riemvasimaak Box 128 Alexanderbay 8209 South africa Tel 084 Agnes Lox Akoth Reachout the indigenous People Sudan Box http://www.undp.org/equatorinitiative/secondary/events/WPC-CommunityPark-Partici

Español Français Events World Parks Congress ... Community Park The Community Park at the V th WORLD PARKS CONGRESS 2003 Durban, South Africa Durban 2003 - Community Park Participants Romeo Adams Riemuasmaale South Africa Box 736, Kakamas 8870 South Africa Tel: 0839913564 Fax: 0544310945 John Riemuasmaale South Africa Box 736, Kakamas 8870 South Africa Tel: 0732638183 Ernest KI2N San Box 32769 Verulem 4345 South Africa Tel: 0726512089 Tejaswirni Apte International Alliance of Tribal People Defence Colony New Dheli 24 India Goutamkumar Chauma Parbatya Chattagram Rangamati 4500 Bangladesh Tel: 008835163284 Email: tkehallrna@hotmail.com Edmurd Barrow IUCN-EARO Box 68200 Nto Kenya Tel: 25420890605 Email: egb@iucnearo.org

30. African Tribal Art Books (tw3)(afr1Page2) people). corner of Namibia live the Himba, one of africa s geatest indigenous tribes baga, Marka, Kra, Senufo, Mossi, Ibo, Idoma, Ekoi, Fang, Bakwele, Batshioko http://www.tribalworldbooks.com.au/afr1Page2.html

Africa page links Page 2 of 3 TRIBAL WORLD BOOKS index Fagg (text), Pemberton Holcombe (editor). YORUBA Sculpture of West Africa. BNo. 0-394-71039-8. First Edition, 1982 (pb). Pp: xiv, 210; 305mm x 230mm; 1.00kg. 35 col, 35 b/w, 57 b/w photographic credits. A good paperback copy. Wrp: g. (minor wear at corners). Borzoi Book, Alfred A. Knopf Inc, New York, 1982. (The book is illustrated with Yoruba works of art from museums and private collections from around the world which provides a comprehensive view of Yoruba art) (Keywords: Ethnology, cultural history, West Africa, Nok, Ife, Owo, Benin, Oyo, Gelede, Ekiti, Odo Shango, Eshu). Book Code: AU index Gelfand , Michael. SHONA RELIGION . With special reference to the Makorekore. BNo. n/a. First Edition, 1962. Pp: (xii), 184; 215mm x 135mm; 0.42kg. 77 b/w(pl), 1 map(fd). Foreword, preface, index. Town, 1962. (This study on the religion of the Shona is based on personal observation of the author over a long period of the traditional cult and ritual practices which he attended. The greater part of the work deals with the Shona-speaking people) (Keywords: Anthropology, Southern Africa, Shona, MaKorekore

31. Tribal Arts - Links - Autumn Gallery Handcrafted Tribal Arts Information available for the following peoples Akan Akuapem Akye Anyi Aowin Asante Babanki baga Bali Bamana Rainforest Jewels. Rare indigenous Folk art from http://www.autumngallery.net/links_tribalarts.html

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32. Spirits and sculptural inventiveness of the cultures indigenous to these with a series of artworks from the Dan peoples of Côte d’Ivoire, the baga from Guinea http://www.nmafa.si.edu/exhibits/spirits/intro.htm

MM_preloadImages('images/introH.gif'); MM_preloadImages('images/wcaH.gif'); MM_preloadImages('images/konH.gif'); MM_preloadImages('images/matH.gif'); MM_preloadImages('images/zomH.gif'); MM_preloadImages('images/choH.gif'); MM_preloadImages('images/ngaH.gif'); MM_preloadImages('images/bidH.gif'); MM_preloadImages('images/retH.gif'); Also at the Smithsonian: Worshiping the Ancestors at the Sackler Gallery looks at the spirits of China. In the Presence of Spirits This exhibition examines an impressive group of over 140 objects that reflect the influences of the supernatural world in both public and private life throughout sub-Saharan Africa. The exhibition is organized according to both geography and the numerous cultural groups represented in the National Museum of Ethnology's collection. In the Presence of Spirits features objects that derive mainly, although not exclusively, from those areas where the Portuguese were present, such as Angola, Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau. A group of important artworks from western, central and southern Africa complements this selection. These artifacts demonstrate the rich variety and sculptural inventiveness of the cultures indigenous to these regions and provide insight into many of their spiritual practices. Highlights of the exhibition include figures, decorated stools and chairs, pipes, masks, staffs and dolls used by kings, queens, chiefs, priests, priestesses and diviners to summon spiritual forces. Major themes include an examination of prestige objects and power figures, initiation and funerary rituals, and symbols of spiritual and secular authority.

33. FRENCH GUINEA The cotton and coffee plants are indigenous; banana plantations still the religion of the baga and other Many of the coast peoples show, however, distinct http://13.1911encyclopedia.org/F/FR/FRENCH_GUINEA.htm

FRENCH GUINEA FRENCH GUINEA , a French colony in West Africa, formerly known as Rivires dii Sud. It is bounded W. by the Atlantic, N. by Portuguese Guinea and Senegal, E. by Upper Senegal and the Ivory Coast, and S. by Liberia and Sierra Leone. With a sea-board running N.N.W. andS.S.E. from Io 50 N. to 9 2 N.~ a distance, without reckoning the indentations, of 170 m., the colony extends eastward 450 m. in a straight line and attains a maximum width N. to S. of nearly 300 m., covering fully Ioo,ooc sq. m., and containing a population estimated at z,ooo,ooo tc 2,500,000. Physical Features.Though in one or two places rocky headland~ jut into the sea, the coast is in general sandy, low, and much broker by rivers and deep estuaries, dotted with swampy islands, giving ii the appearance of a vast delta. In about 9 30 N., off the promon tory of Konakry, lie the Los Islands (q.v.), forming part of the colony The coast plain, formed of alluvial deposits, is succeeded about 30 m inland by a line of cliffs, the Susu Hills, which form the first stel in the terrace-like formation of the interior, culminating in th~ massif of Futa Jallon, composed chiefly of Archean and graniti rocks. While the coast lands are either densely forested or covere with savannas or park-like country, the Futa Jallon tableland i: Towns.The principal towns are Konakry the capital, Bok, 01

34. Taj Mahal Books William M. and L. Jan Slikkerveer (editors), indigenous Knowledge and Lamp, Frederick, Art of the baga A Drama of Cultural Schieffelin, HM, PEOPLE OF africa. http://www.indusbook.com/cgi-bin/indus/scan/mp=keywords/se=Africa/st=sql/ml=1000

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35. Toxic Trade News JOHANNESBURG, South africa, 11 December 2000 Diplomats from 122 countries agreed said Mr. Charlie, a member of the Arctic indigenous peoples Against POPs http://www.ban.org/ban_news/world_treaty.html

space Press Releases, News Stories WORLD TREATY WILL BAN CERTAIN TOXIC CHEMICALS By Corrina Schuler, National Post (Canada) JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, 11 December 2000 Diplomats from 122 countries agreed yesterday to a global ban on 12 of the most toxic chemicals on Earth and no one was more relieved than John Buccini, the Canadian chemist who led a five-year fight for the agreement. "This treaty will protect present and future generations from the cancers, birth defects and other tragedies caused by persistent organic pollutants," a red-eyed Mr. Buccini told reporters in Johannesburg yesterday after an all-night marathon session of talks. Mr. Buccini, recently retired from Environment Canada, started studying the impact of the "dirty dozen" group of chemicals in 1995 for the United Nations Environment Program. He has chaired five conferences with negotiators from around the world. The treaty, to be signed in Sweden in May, will govern the production, use, export and disposal of pesticides and industrial chemicals, as well as their harmful by-products dioxins and furans. The chemicals have been blamed for everything from learning disabilities in some children living around the Great Lakes to smaller-than-average penises among Florida alligators.

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37. Reconciling Alaska's Urban-Rural Split of the United Nations for indigenous affairs, something next summer, next fall, in South africa will be the issues that the Alaska native peoples are wrestling http://www.commonwealthnorth.org/transcripts/1urbanruralsplit.html

Community Forum Reconciling Alaska's Urban-Rural Split Wilda Marston Theater, Loussac library, Anchorage November 11, 2000 Proceedings I UNIDENTIFIED VOICE : ...being televised statewide, most of which has been videotaped and is available for anyone who would like to see those, please get in touch with us, and we will make them available to you. We'd like to thank our many sponsors for this particular forum. Commonwealth North, which is helping prepare a transcript of the forum. They have made a transcript of the forum that we had about six months ago available in a transcript form on their web site, and they're going to be doing that again with this one. And the Loussac Library which has provided the use of this facility for the forum. Taylor has been done yeoman's service in getting most of the urban-rural split forums pulled together. We're very pleased and delighted that he is our moderator today, and I'd like to ask you to welcome him. TAYLOR BRELSFORD : Thank you very much. Good morning, and welcome to the second community forum on reconciling Alaska's urban/rural split. We first met together last April to join with many other civic and church groups in addressing the growing polarization between urban and rural Alaska. We were aware of the growing frustration and despair of many rural Alaskans on issues ranging from self-governance and subsistence to legislative budget reductions in programs that are crucial to rural communities. These would include education spending and municipal revenue sharing amongst several others.

38. Art/Museums: Echoing Images, Couples In African Sculpture At The Metropolitan Mu illustrated in plate 28 the Chamba peoples couple , a style are the Dogon, Bamana, Senufo, Lobi and baga. response to an assault on indigenous belief systems http://www.thecityreview.com/echoing.html

Echoing Images Couples in African Sculpture The Metropolitan Museum of Art February 10 to September 5, 2004 Commemorative Couple, Vezo peoples, Madagascar, 19th-20th Century, wood, male figure is 22 7/8 inches high, the female figure is 17 11/16 inches high, private collection By Carter B. Horsley In contrast with the stupendous and gargantuan exhibition on Byzantium at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the spring of 2004, this intimate show of "Echoing Images, Couples in African Sculpture" at the same institution demonstrates the maxim that small can often be better. A themed rather than chronological show, it is not encyclopedic but the few objects on display are mostly of extremely high and memorable quality. The finest "couple" in the exhibition is unquestionably a 19th-20th Century commemorative couple, Vezo peoples, from Madagascar. The male wood figure is 22 7/8 inches high and the female figure is 17 11/16 inches high and both come from a private collection. Somewhat eroded, these figures are remarkably graceful and have quite lyrical and almost Oriental poses. These world-class figures are exquisite. Commemorative couple, Sakalava peoples, Madagascar, 19th-20th Century, wood, male figure is 70 7/8 inches high, female figure is 61 7/16 inches high, private collection

39. Fourth Grade - Visual Arts - Overview - April the influence of Native American indigenous architecture of exhibition reveals the loss of baga traditions as for ancestors among West African peoples of Ife http://www.cstone.net/~bcp/4/4AArt.htm

Fourth Grade - Visual Arts - Overview - April The Visual Arts lessons for the month of April follow the History lessons, centering on the arts of Ancient and Medieval Africa. The first lesson looks at some artworks of Kush (ancient Nubia) and Axum in East Africa. Students recall some of the tombs of Ancient Egypt, which they studied in First Grade; historians now know that many of these massive structures come from the civilization of Ancient Nubia. The students also look at a stele from Axum as well as churches carved out of rock under the Christian King Lalibela. The Second Lesson moves to West Africa; the students look at indigenous architecture for West African mosques and compare it with that of other Islamic mosques they studied last month. They complete a model of an indigenous West African mosque as well. In the Third Lesson, the students look at artworks from the three West African Medieval kingdoms of Ghana, Mali, and Songhay, concentrating on masks and headdresses that either represent animals or incorporate human and animal aspects together. They then create their own masks or headdresses in the style they have observed. Finally, the students look at some of the sculpture that was done at the height of the cultures of the cities of Ife and Benin, especially the cast bronze heads that honor kings and royal families. They learn that these strikingly naturalistic sculptures were made to honor kings and the ancestors of kings. They were placed on altars or shrines, which the students make in honor of their own ancestral families, by constructing simple dioramas with symbolic objects and images brought from home.

40. Nat'l Academies Press, Lost Crops Of Africa: (1996), 1 African Rice in africa have largely ignored this indigenous heritage, african bagamale, male, riz des baga Mali Issa (People use a basket or calabash, and sometimes they http://books.nap.edu/books/0309049903/html/17.html

Read more than 3,000 books online FREE! More than 900 PDFs now available for sale HOME ABOUT NAP CONTACT NAP HELP ... ORDERING INFO Items in cart [0] TRY OUR SPECIAL DISCOVERY ENGINE Questions? Call 800-624-6242 Lost Crops of Africa: Volume I: Grains Office of International Affairs ( OIA CHAPTER SELECTOR: Openbook Linked Table of Contents Front Matter, pp. i-xvii Contents, pp. xviii-xxii Foreword, pp. 1-2 Introduction, pp. 3-16 1 African Rice, pp. 17-38 2 Finger Millet, pp. 39-58 3 Fonio (Acha), pp. 59-76 4 Pearl Millet, pp. 77-92 5 Pearl Millet: Subsistence Types, pp. 93-110 6 Pearl Millet: Commercial Types, pp. 111-126 7 Sorghum, pp. 127-144 8 Sorghum: Subsistence Types, pp. 145-158 9 Sorghum: Commercial Types, pp. 159-176 10 Sorghum: Specialty Types, pp. 177-194 11 Sorghum: Fuel and Utility Types, pp. 195-214 12 Tef, pp. 215-236 13 Other Cultivated Grains, pp. 237-250 Wild Grains, pp. 251-272 Appendix A: Potential Breakthroughs for Grain Farmers, pp. 273-284 Appendix B: Potential Breakthroughs in Grain Handling, pp. 285-296 Appendix C: Potential Breakthroughs in Convenience Foods, pp. 297-311

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