George Dei communities (see Rattray 1927, for asante of Ghana specific nature of the linkagebetween indigenous knowledge and We must involve local peoples in all stages http://www.brocku.ca/epi/casid/dei.htm
Extractions: It is no exaggeration to say that the cultural resource base and knowledge of local peoples have been the least analyzed for their contributions to African development (see also Matowanyika, 1990; Warren, Slikkerveer and Brokensha, 1995). This paper calls for a shift in the development paradigm to examine what the indigenous African cultural knowledge base can offer in terms of an alternative approach to African development. Enthusing an alternative, African-centred development To discuss the African indigenousness, it is important to acknowledge the ethnic and cultural diversity, as well as the historical contingencies and specificities of African peoples. I am also aware of the fact that some common elements in African indigenous knowledge systems can be found in diverse or variant forms among indigenous peoples in other parts of the world (see also Dia, 1991). Furthermore, indigenous knowledge systems and traditions contain sites and sources of cultural disempowerment for certain groups in society (e.g., women and ethnic/cultural minorities)[Machila, 1992: 18]. Cultural resource knowledge is not frozen in time and space. While I focus on some common underlying socio-cultural themes and values (see also Machila, 1992: 16), I also recognize that the actual practices associated with these social values may differ across space and time.
Ajepong Syllabus in the vocabulary of the peoples of Sub Two Dimensional Kuba Textile Design AsantePolitical Expansion Story Architecture Islam and indigenous African Cultures http://cehd.ewu.edu/faculty/ntodd/GhanaUDLP/Adjepong.html
Extractions: Vice Chancellor, University of Cape Coast Course Description: An opportunity to explore the great African continent. The concept "African culture" will be defined and delineated. The major characteristics of African culture will be outlined, including: kinship, family and marriage, indigenous political systems and traditional economic patterns and belief systems. Students will learn how agents of social change such as industrialization, colonial rule, education, urbanization and Christianity have shaped African culture. The status of women in contemporary African society will also be explored. I. INTRODUCTION 1. The myth of the "homogenous" African culture; the reality of cultural pluralism in Africa. Note: Africa has been a dynamic partner in civilization. The earliest civilization (OLDUVAI CIVILIZATION) more than 2000 years ago, has been found near Tanganyika. Africa is the cradle of humanity. (i) Egypt: the art of writing Kush: irrigation technology Axum: astronomy Moroe: geometry and medicine Moroe: the invention of paper Moroe: the pyramids Moroe: the mummification of the dead Ancient Egyptians were black. Egypt was founded by people from the south of Africa. Most names of Pharaoh's were Ethiopian.
African Literature And Art indigenous people need to come together to share ideas, knowledge, resources AsanteSana. Youth Cultureal Organization PO Box 2113 Arusha, Tanzania East africa. http://www.indigenouspeople.net/AfricanLit/
Extractions: That is why the top of the tree looks likes it's roots." We hope you are fine and well by the smile of the most high. We are an NGO, based in Tanzania made by natives of Tanzania. Our NGO is working to promote and preserve the tribal knowledge which in these times is ignored and left to disappear. Many of our young warriors are leaving villages and moving to town where they hope to seek the glamor of modern world. The TV and Media promote the values of the West which are destructive and not relevant to our culture. Above all, it triggers our warriors to beleive in material wealth, ignoring the spiritual foundations of our society. Indigenous people need to come together to share ideas, knowledge, resources, and to build networks and develop closer ties. We, the people from the Maasai, Segeju, Punjabi, and Haya tribes of Tanzania, want to say that we are with our native brothers around the world in their struggle to build their community and history that was severely demaged in the past.
Intro. African Studies I themes examined include the peoples, cultures, economies of Africans including theindigenous religions and Molefi Ashante and Kariamu asante, African Culture http://www.mville.edu/academics/departments/african_studies/ogunsuyi/Afs1.htm
Extractions: Email: ogunsuyia@mville.edu Course Description The course is inter-disciplinary. The themes examined include the peoples, cultures, economies, and societies of early Africa; political systems; social and cultural institutions of Africans including the indigenous religions and the new religions of Islam and christianity; African external relationships and encounters including the slave trade; European imperialism and African resistance to colonialism, and the post independence struggles and achievements. The approach will be thematic and within a chronological framework. Format The class meets two times a week in a lecture discussion format which focuses on lecture topics and assigned readings. We have the privilege of having the assistance of africancultures.guide@about providing internet assistance to this course this semester. We shall generate many reading and writing assignments from the websites. Required Reading
Africana.com: Gateway To The Black World.Screen Name Service one of the two most common indigenous languages of spoken by the Khoikhoi and Sanpeoples of southern Ghana; and the Akan languages, including asante and Fante http://www.africana.com/Articles/tt_162.htm
Africana.com: Gateway To The Black World.Screen Name Service of gold and slaves, the Togolese peoples retained a to slave raiders from the neighboringAsante and Dahomey provided the basis for an indigenous, mostly Ewe http://www.africana.com/Articles/tt_522.htm
Asante-darko00-1 Email k.asante-darko@nul.ls but also to the flexibility and pragmatism of Africanpeoples when it least the old and the new, the Western and the indigenous. http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb00-1/asante-darko00.html
Extractions: Purdue University Press Kwaku ASANTE-DARKO Author's Profile: Kwaku Asante-Darko works in African literature, literary theory, and poetry at the National University of Lesotho. His most recent publications include "The Co-Centrality of Racial Conciliation in Negritude Literature" forthcoming in Research in African Literatures in May 2000 and "The Flora and Fauna of Negritude Poetry: An Ecocritical Re-Reading" in Mots Pluriels (September 1999). He also writes poetry dealing with the political chaos in post-independence Africa. His forthcoming novel, The Beast in Man k.asante-darko@nul.ls Language and Culture in African Postcolonial Literature 1. Post-colonial literature is a synthesis of protest and imitation. It blends revolt and conciliation. This duality permeates its stratagem, its style, and its themes in a manner that is not always readily perceptible to critics. This has practical didactic implications for the contemporary literary endeavor in Africa. The central concern of this article is to assess the extent to which African protest literature seems to have imitated European and colonial literary discourse in matters such as thematic concerns, aesthetics, and methodology. The relationship of imitation, exchange, and hybridity is presented with the view to highlighting the thematic, methodological, and aesthetic differences between some aspects of African literature on one hand and the Western literary tradition on the other.
CÔTE D'IVOIRE up almost onethird of the indigenous population of East Atlantic cultures are Akanpeoples, speakers of eighteenth-century migrants from the kingdom of asante. http://www.supportmpci.org/TheIvoryCoast.htm
MIAS Research Projects And Theses in the Economic Development of Marginalized peoples of Nairobi and Training of theAsante Priestess and identifying themselves as indigenous religious within http://www.mias.edu/projects.htm
Extractions: AND ABSTRACTS OF APPROVED MA THESES All Field Research projects are based on forty hours of professional-style field work in and about Nairobi directed by lecturers and facilitated by Kenyan university graduates trained as field assistants. The field assistants work with students on a one-to-one basis making contacts, translations, explanations and interviews. The field research is written up in a required fifteen page research/integration paper on file at the MIAS library. FIRST SESSION COURSE : African Culture: An Overview Topics Researched: Polygamy in Africa: Its Practices and Pastoral Ministry (John Byung-Keun, Ahn, Korean, Kenya Resident) The Biblical Concept of Table Fellowship as Reflected in Gusii Communal Sharing (Mervin John Noronha, Indian, Kenya Resident) A Study of Gikuyu Culture on Decision-making and Problem Solving in Traditional and Modern Families (Loretta Brennan, Australian, Kenya Resident) An Investigation into Ways that Africans were Changed by the coming of Christianity and Ways Missionaries were Changed by their Contact with Africa and its People (Barry Callan, Australian)
Asante-darko00-1 (k.asantedarko@nul literacy but also to the flexibility and pragmatism of Africanpeoples when it at least the old and the new, the Western and the indigenous. http://collection.nlc-bnc.ca/100/201/300/clcweb/2000/v1n1-v2n1/clcweb00-1/asante
Extractions: http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/clcwebjournal/clcweb00-1/asante-darko00.html Kwaku ASANTE-DARKO Author's Profile: Kwaku Asante-Darko works in African literature, literary theory, and poetry at the National University of Lesotho. His most recent publications include "The Co-Centrality of Racial Conciliation in Negritude Literature" forthcoming in Research in African Literatures in May 2000 and "The Flora and Fauna of Negritude Poetry: An Ecocritical Re-Reading" in Mots Pluriels (September 1999). He also writes poetry dealing with the political chaos in post- independence Africa. His forthcoming novel, The Beast in Man , treats the armed conflicts in independent Africa. ( k.asante-darko@nul.ls Language and Culture in African Postcolonial Literature Post-colonial literature is a synthesis of protest and imitation. It blends revolt and conciliation. This duality permeates its stratagem, its style, and its themes in a manner that is not always readily perceptible to critics. This has practical didactic implications for the contemporary literary endeavor in Africa. The central concern of this article is to assess the extent to which African protest literature seems to have imitated European and colonial literary discourse in matters such as thematic concerns, aesthetics, and methodology. The relationship of imitation, exchange, and hybridity is presented with the view to highlighting the thematic, methodological, and aesthetic differences between some aspects of African literature on one hand and the Western literary tradition on the other.
SERSAS Compared to the asante kingdom, with its glitter and to which asafo was an indigenousinstitution, or gradually rubbing off on coastal peoples, scholars have http://www.ecu.edu/african/sersas/Papers/ShumwayRebeccaFall2001.htm
Extractions: NOTE: This is a draft. Please do not cite without the permission of the author. Introduction. The patrilineal networks created by one's membership in an asafo company, and the inherent conflicts that exist between these ties and one's matrilineal ties, have caused some anthropologists to label the Fante as practicing a system of "double descent," meaning simply that a person can be a member of two different descent groups-one matrilineal and one patrilineal, for separate purposes. But a debate has arisen as to whether or not this pattern of double descent is really a product of a European patrilineal influence on coastal society. The implication being that if the pattern of inheritance and succession within the father's line was adopted from European practices on the Ghana coast, it is somehow less authentic or "indigenous." Historians have stumbled over some rather different aspects of the asafo institution, most notably the origins of the military structure and symbolism displayed by asafo companies. The asafo described in the anthropological literature of the colonial era displayed many features reminiscent of European military groups. For instance, a typical Fante traditional state will have the equivalent of an army general (Tufohen), a senior commander (Supi), multiple captains of subdivisions (Asafohen), and a variety of lesser officers including linguists, executioners, flag carriers, hornblowers, drummers and priests/priestesses.
African Art On The Internet Features a wide variety of links devoted to the study and display of ancient and modern African art. http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/art.html
Extractions: Topics : Art Search: Countries Topics Africa Guide Suggest a Site ... Africa Home See also: South African Art Photographs In Italian. A quarterly magazine about African culture and society. Has the table of contents. Topics covered: literature and theatre, music and dance, visual arts (painting, sculpture, photography) , cinema, immigration. Owned by Lai-momo, a non-profit co-operative. Contact:
