81. History and defeated the Bantuspeaking Zulu people who tried Kongo (all Bantu), and the mangbetu-Azande (Hamitic Liberia indigenous African tribes 95% (including major http://www.africaalmanac.com/history.html

The World's Top 50 Newsmakers Chick the links below to access information Defining dates in African history, 5000 B.C-2000 A.D Major assassinations and political killings in African history, 1950-2003 African leaders who died of natural causes or in accidents African Countries' Tribes Defining dates in African history, 5000 B.C-2000 A.D 5000 B.C The people of northern Africa began practicing farming. The vast area stretching across northern Africa and down to central Africa began drying up, turning into what is today the Sahara desert. Upper and lower Egypt were united by King Menes to become Egypt of antiquity, one of the greatest of world civilizations. Menes also founded the first Egyptian dynasty. Construction work on the pyramids and the Great Sphinx of Egypt began. The first great pyramid, called the Step Pyramid, was built for the king Zoser and it stood at about 60 metres high. The Third Pharaoh of the First Egyptian Dynasty conquered the Nubian people of the Upper Sudan area. The future Kushite empire grew out of this conquest.

82. Maps.com - Reference HIV/AIDS people living with HIV/AIDS Definition Field Kongo (all Bantu), and the mangbetu-Azande (Hamitic 10%, other syncretic sects and indigenous beliefs 10 http://www.maps.com/reference/geoshelf/factbook/congodemocratic.html

Plan a Trip Reference Find a Friend Games ... Business Solutions Search Maps.com Plan A Trip Reference Geography Bookshelf History Maps ... Business Solutions Find A Hotel Check In : January February March April May June July August September October November December Check Out : January February March April May June July August September October November December Enter a City: Powered by Hotelsbycity.com Site Map Help Home ... Physical Map Democratic Republic of the Congo Legend Definition Field Listing Rank Order Introduction Congo, Democratic Republic of the Top of Page Background: Geography Congo, Democratic Republic of the Top of Page Location: Central Africa, northeast of Angola Geographic coordinates: 00 N, 25 00 E Map references: Area: total: 2,345,410 sq km water: 77,810 sq km land: 2,267,600 sq km Area - comparative: slightly less than one-fourth the size of the US Land boundaries: total: 10,730 km

83. National Anthem Mp3 Download Congo, Democratic Republic of the, People, Top of Page. Kongo (all Bantu), and the mangbetuAzande (Hamitic 10%, other syncretic sects and indigenous beliefs 10%. http://www.national-anthems.net/countries/main/cg.shtml

www.national-anthems.net National Anthems: Home Africa Americas Asia ... Europe Passports: Home Africa Asia Europe ... E-mail / FAQ Users online: 14 New Olympic Anthem . Search for Country (First letter , part of name, whole name etc.) Congo Democratic Republic of the Population: Total Area 2,345,410 sq km 0-14 years: Land 2,267,600 sq km 15-64 years: Water 77,810 sq km 65 years and over: Coastline Population growth: Birth rate: 45.12 births/1,000 Death rate: 14.87 deaths/1,000 Capital city: Kinshasa Congo Democratic Republic of the Border length Burundi 233 km Congo Republic of the 2,410 km Zambia 1,930 km Central African Republic 1,577 km Rwanda 217 km Sudan 628 km Tanzania 459 km Uganda 765 km Angola 2,511 km Map of Congo Democratic Republic of the Congo Democratic Republic of the Lyrics of National Anthem: This page was modified on: June 4, 2004 7:39

84. CV Stone The Soul of Mbira Music Traditions of the Shona People of. mangbetuZaire. International Council of. 43. Ingenious Invention The indigenous Kpelle Script in http://www.indiana.edu/~folklore/cvstone.htm

R UTH M S TONE Curriculum Vitae January 2003 Work Ethnomusicology Institute Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology 504 N. Fess, Indiana University , Bloomington, Indiana 812-855-0398, Fax 812-855-4008, E-mail: stone@indiana.edu Education Indiana University , Ph.D., 1979; Folklore major, ethnomusicology emphasis; African studies and anthropology minors Hunter College , M.A., 1972; Musicology major, ethnomusicology minor University of Northern Iowa, B.A., 1966 (with high honors); Music major, voice minor Honors and Listings Who's Who in Music , 13th and 14th editions Fulbright Research Fellow1988-89 National Endowment for the Humanities Research Fellow1982-83 Fulbright Pre-doctoral Fellow1975-76 Social Science Research Council Fellow1975-76 Purple and Gold Award, University of Northern Iowa, 1966 (highest academic honor in music) University Employment Professor, Folklore Institute; African Studies, Adjunct ProfessorSchool of Music Indiana University 1989-present Associate Professor, Folklore Institute and African Studies, Adjunct ProfessorSchool of Music

85. TradePort Country Profiles From World Trade Press Country Facts. The People. Nationality. The other portion of the population is made of the Hamitic mangbetuAzande. Religious Composition. 10%. indigenous beliefs, http://www.tradeport.org/countries/democraticrepublicofcongo/01grw.html

TradePort Home Country Profiles Home Country Facts The People Nationality Congolese (singular and plural) Ethnic Composition Bantu Mangbetu-Azande (Hamitic) Note: There are over 200 African ethnic groups of which the majority are Bantu, comprised of three main tribes, the Mongo, Luba, and Kongo.  The other portion of the population is made of the Hamitic Mangbetu-Azande.  Religious Composition Roman Catholic   Protestant   Kimbanguist   Muslim  Indigenous beliefs  Languages Spoken French and Lingala are the official languages of government and business in Democratic Republic of Congo. Kingwana (a dialect of Kiswahili or Swahili), Kikongo, and Tshiluba are all spoken in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Education and Literacy Democratic Republic of Congo's overall adult literacy is around 77.3 percent. Among males it is 86.6 percent and females 67.7 percent. Labor Force Total:  14.51 million (1993) By occupation: Agriculture Industry Services Geography Land Mass Total 905,567 sq mi (2,345,410 sq km)

86. UW-M News Notes No. 41- Winter 93 an exhibition catalogue, and videos, mangbetu in the Black and white people have misunderstood one another UFITIFoundation of an indigenous Philosophy of http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/Newsletters/UW_41.html

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA - AFRICAN STUDIES CENTER Michael G. Schatzberg, Political Science, coordinated the African Studies Program annual symposium titled "The Past as Prologue: Historical and Cultural Roots of Contemporary Zaire" on October 2, 1993. The symposium was held in conjunction with the Elvehjem Museum of Art exhibit African Reflections: Art from Northeastern Zaire, which was on display through January 4, 1994. "Segments of the state structure remain in place, but basic public services have been disastrously affected." "In Search of Zaire: The Shattered Illusion of the Integral State" was the theme of M.Crawford Young's lecture. Young stated that, for the past century, Zaire has experienced persistent efforts to construct a leviathan state invested with the mission of transforming society according to an image of its rulers. Young characterized the developments within the concept of the "integral state" - a state which seeks to achieve unrestricted domination over civil society. Three versions of the integral state in the history of Zaire include the colonial state at the peak of its power from the 1920s to 1950s, the vision of the forces of Patrice Lumumba who served as Prime Minister for a brief period in 1960, and the rule of Mobutu Sese Seko since 1965. Young suggested that the undertaking of an "integral state" has proven to be a flawed notion from the outset, strongly reinforced by collapse of regimes in Eastern Europe whose structures bear a strong resemblance. He posited that a reinvented Zaire will be grounded in a relationship between state and civil society that is profoundly different from that imposed by the integral state.

87. ZS_03 Mongo, Luba, Kongo (all Bantu), and the mangbetuAzande (Hamitic Sahari people are Saharawi indigenous Saharawis began fighting for independence in 1976, and the http://www.zagrebsalon2003.iskon.hr/zs_final/info/ev_ex_multip_en.htm

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88. WWW.ADVENTUREFORUM.NET™ - CONGO, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE - World Facts F Luba, Kongo (all Bantu), and the mangbetuAzande (Hamitic 10%, other syncretic sects and indigenous beliefs 10%. People note. NA. GOVERNMENT top. Country name. http://www.adventureforum.net/mod_.pl?cy=57

89. Democratic Republic Of Congo SuttonLink Factsheet Luba, Kongo, Mongo (Bantu), the mangbetuAzande (Hamitic to allow the free circulation of people and goods Mai-Mai warriors are groups of indigenous to North http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/suttonlink/za_fct.html

This Page was last updated on the 12th. April, 2004. All information is checked as much as possible but things may vary, such as in the section Rebel and Militia Groups Involved Return to the Country Index Page Country Official Name Democratic Republic of Congo (DROC)(Republique Democratique du Congo) Former Name Capital Kinshasa Main Towns Kinshasa, Kisangani, Lubumbashi Subdivisions 10 provinces: Bandundu, Bas-Congo, Equateur, Kasai-Occidental, Kasai-Oriental, Katanga, Maniema, Nord-Kivu, Orientale, Sud-Kivu . 1 city: Kinshasa. Independence 30 June 1960 (from Belgium) National Holiday Independence Day, 30 June (1960) UN Membership 20 September 1960 OAU Membership 25 May 1963 Commonwealth n/a Other Organisations Population 44,060,636 (July 1995), 53,624,718 (July 2001 est.) 56,625,039 (July 2003 est.) Area 905,355 sq. mls. (2,344,858 sq. kms.) Density 17 per sq.km. (1995), 57 people per sq. ml. (22 per sq. km.)(2000) Highest Point Margherita Peak (Mont Ngaliema or Mount Stanley) 16,763 ft. (5,109 m.) Lowest Point Atlantic Ocean - sea level Neighbours Angola (S), Burundi (E), Cabinda (W), Central African Republic (N), Congo (W), Rwanda (E), Sudan (NE), Tanzania (E), Uganda (E)

90. N. Scott Robinson-World Music And Percussion, Frame Drums, Riq, Tambourines came about as a result of the uprising of indigenous black Africans (Examples of various mangbetu players of (Example from Cameroon of The Fulhe Peoplesanza). http://www.nscottrobinson.com/mbira.php

SCHEDULE DISCOGRAPHY ORDER PRESENTATIONS ... Berimbau New Items on Ordering Page Click Here to Order Riq solo, Tamburello solo, Pandeiro duo, Bendir solo, Riq duo, and Conga trio. PUBLICATIONS Mbira Sanza Introduction The mbira or thumb piano is a percussion instrument of African origin. It consists of a wooden board or box with strips of metal or wood attached in such a way that the player's thumbs or fingers can pluck the metal strips to produce a rhythmic melody. Mbira are made from an assortment of materials, such as wood, metal gas and insecticide cans, gourds and coconut shells, and in a great variety of sizes, shapes and types, and they exist as acoustic or electric instruments. The number of traditional African types alone would take an entire book to detail, and a diverse assortment of these instruments can be found in the Western world as well. Sanza of Collin Walcott Nomenclature mbira kalimba or sanza may appear, but it is more often used as an exotic name than as an identifier of a specific African instrument. Although the term "

91. APFT Pilot Report - English - III - FOREST POPULATIONS practice is to exploit nonindigenous and semi These influential political people do not necessarily have In contact with mangbetu groups (Maele, Meje, Aberu http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/Sonja/RF/Ukpr/Report133.htm

III - FOREST POPULATIONS A) TYPES OF EXPLOITATION OF THE ENVIRONMENT B) THE MAIN CHARACTERISTICS OF FOREST SOCIETIES 1) Traditional populations and the forest 2) From symbiotic to specialized economies ... 2) The main ethnic groups A) TYPES OF EXPLOITATION OF THE ENVIRONMENT Throughout the forest, from the Atlantic to the East African Lakes, from the 4th Parallel North and 4th Parallel South, different strategies for exploiting the forest co-exist. Traditional swidden agriculturists living in dense rainforest areas make up about 80 % of forest populations. Shifting agriculture provides the basis of their food system, supplemented by hunting, gathering and fishing. All these populations are dependent on wild forest products, whether they themselves engage in hunting, gathering and fishing or whether they obtain them from groups specializing in these activities, hunter-gatherer Pygmies or fishing populations along the rivers. In the Congo Basin, vast swampy areas of flooded forest have emerged around the big rivers ; these particular ecological niches have lead to the development of specific economic systems which include fishing populations living on the islands on the rivers and fishing-agriculturist populations exploiting the silted land. These areas have long since been characterized by a symbiotic network of regional exchanges and the high degree of specialization in fishing and commercial exchanges.

92. African Art Course Slide List - Bowles Metropolitan Mus., NY (M41). indigenous West African women. ca. ReliquaryFigure. Kuba people, Zaire. Blackened wood paint. mangbetu, Kinshasa, Congo S40. http://members.aol.com/GRBowles/art-hist/af-slide-list.html

African Art Slide List (no images shown) Personal Slide Library of Gerard Bowles July 1999 I now have 709 African art slides. Of these 542 are African (incl. Egypt-Nubian), 117 Egyptian (non-Nubian), and 47 African American introduction slides. This page lists the African, Egypt-Nubian, African American introduction, and a few of Western art influenced by African art. This page does not list my Egyptian non-Nubian slides, and additional African American and African European slides, which are on different lists. In addition to the above slides, I show additional works or art on the 20 videotapes I have on African art and related culture, and art processes. The timeframes of these tapes range from approximately 15 to 90 minutes. I plan to write a Web page of notes on these tapes. In teaching African art, I use all or part of these slides, videotapes, and other materials, depending on the nature and purpose of the course, and the course's place in the institution's curriculum. This list divides the continent into three geographic divisions, North, East and Southern, West, and Central. Each division is subdivided by traditional, crafts, and neo-African art as recent as 1999. The list concludes with African-influenced art and crafts, and an introduction to African American art if the latter is appropriate. Use your Web browser's search engine to find a specific artist, title of work, type of art, people, culture, society, town, country, or continental division.

93. Zaire basin and eastern highlands ZairePeople Population 44,060,636 Kongo (all Bantu), and the mangbetuAzande (Hamitic in hard currency as indigenous bank notes http://www.beetfoundation.com/words/z/zaire.html

94. African Masks Burkina Faso centuries ago, they subjugated indigenous populations. the Boa/Bwa/Bowa/Baboa/Mboa people from north are in frequent contact with mangbetu and Zande http://www.vub.ac.be/BIBLIO/nieuwenhuysen/african-art/african-art-collection-mas

Pictures / photos / images of some MASKS and headdresses in the African tribal, antique, ritual, ethnographic, classical, "primitive" art collection (of variable age, artistic quality, and degree of authenticity) Many African societies see masks as mediators between the living world and the supernatural world of the dead, ancestors and other entities. Masks became and still become the attribute of a dressed up dancer who gave it life and word at the time of ceremonies. In producing a mask, a sculptor's aim is to depict a person's psychological and moral characteristics, rather than provide a portrait. The sculptor begins by cutting a piece of wood and leaving it to dry in the sun; if it cracks, it cannot be used for a mask. African sculptors see wood as a complex living material and believe each piece can add its own feature to their work. Having made certain the wood is suitable, the sculptor begins, using an azde to carve the main features, a chisel to work on details and a rough leaf to sand the piece. He then paints the mask with pigments such as charcoal (to give a black colour), powders made from vegetable matter or trees (for ochre/earth tones) or mineral powders like clay (to give a white colour).

95. Welcome To Africans-art.com country Zaire people Pende medium wood, paint size indigenous medicines were given for the physical http://www.africans-art.com/index.php3?action=album&id_class=41

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