History Today - Andromeda History Encyclopedia name given by the Greeks to the indigenous peoples of east Leone West African republic,settled by mende and Temne and home of the Shona and Ndebele peoples. http://www.historytoday.com/index.cfm?articleid=476
Sierra Leone Religions Islam 40%, Christian 35%, indigenous 20%. to have been the earliest inhabitantsof Sierra Leone, followed by the mende and Temne peoples in the http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0107959.html
Extractions: World Countries Infoplease Atlas: Sierra Leone Republic of Sierra Leone President: Ahmad Tejan Kabbah (1998) Area: 27,699 sq mi (71,740 sq km) Population (2003 est.): 5,732,681, (growth rate: 2.3%); birth rate: 43.9/1000; infant mortality rate: 146.9/1000; density per sq mi: 207 Capital and largest city (1994 est.): Freetown, 1,300,000 Monetary unit: Leone Languages: English (official), Mende, Temne, Krio Ethnicity/race: 18 native African tribes 99% (Temne 30%, Mende 30%, other 39%), Creole, European, Lebanese, and Asian 1% Religions: Islam 40%, Christian 35%, Indigenous 20% Literacy rate: Economic summary: GDP/PPP (2001 est.): $2.7 billion; per capita $500.
CHART OF BLACK CIVILIZATION 150,000 B.C. TO 1600 AD the history of the Black preColumbian indigenous African-Americans A number of otherBlack Negroid peoples mentioned in or Xi, who were of mende, West African http://community-2.webtv.net/NUBIANEM/CHARTOFBLACK/page5.html
Extractions: Buddha with Black Negroid racial features from SE Asia Black Negro-Australoid male from India: Carvings portraying ancient Blacks from India. Artwork from Black Shang Dynasty China 2200 B.C. to 1100 B.C. showing persons with Negroid features Obelisk in area that was part of Axumite Empire of Ethiopia Ancient churches carved in solid rock in Lailebella, Ethiopia Carved head of Ethiopian noble from Aksum, Ethiopia Black Negroid Indians (Black Negroid Aboriginals of North America) living among the Mongoloid Indians during the 1730's. Illinois during the The presence of Blacks throughout the Americas before Columbus, before the Christian era and even before some Mongoloid American Tribes is a fact that has been kept hidden. See the essay "Black Civiliza of Ancient America," http://community.webtv.net/nubianem or get the book, "A History of the African-Olmecs," for more detailed facts, pub. by 1stBooks Library, www.1stbooks.com Map of Territory of Black African-Americans (Descendants of Prehistoric African Mound Builders...The "Black Giants" of the Mississippi, South West, South and Midwest) One of the most hidden aspects of American history is the history of the Black pre-Columbian indigenous African-Americans of the U.S., Canada, Mexico/Central America and the Caribbean. This map shows the territory of three of the Great Black African-American natons that existed into the late 1800's, including one, the Washitaw of Louisiana who still continue to exist and is recognized as an independant Black African-Ameriçan nation by the United Nations and many others (see
Sculture Info In preparing their rice farms, the mende often uncover The ndako gboya appears tobe indigenous; a spirit of sculptural tradition among peoples inhabiting the http://users.pandora.be/african-shop/sculpture-info.htm
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The Probert Encyclopaedia - People And Peoples (M-P) People and peoples (MP). Despite Madagascar's proximity to africa, Malagasy containsonly a small number mende The mende are a west african people living in the http://sesic.sep.gob.mx/basemin/biblioteca/enciclop/C5.HTM
Extractions: Nigeria Nigeria The best known of the northern peoples, often spoken of as coterminous with the north, are the Hausa. The term refers also to a language spoken indigenously by savanna peoples spread across the far north from Nigeria's western boundary eastward to Borno State and into much of the territory of southern Niger. The core area lies in the region in the north and northwest where about 30 percent of all Hausa could be found. It also includes a common set of cultural practices and, with some notable exceptions, Islamic emirates that originally comprised a series of centralized governments and their surrounding subject towns and villages. These precolonial emirates were still major features of local government in 1990. Each had a central citadel town that housed its ruling group of nobles and royalty served as the administrative, judicial, and military organization of these states. Traditionally, the major towns were also trading centers; some such as Kano, Zaria, or Katsina were urban conglomerations with populations of 25,000 to 100,000 in the nineteenth century. They had central markets, special wards for foreign traders, complex organizations of craft specialists, and religious leaders and organizations. They administered a hinterland of subject settlements through a hierarchy of officials, and they interacted with other states and ethnic groups in the region by links of warfare, raiding, trade, tribute, and alliances.
South America Blackantiquity.com indicate a West African Mandinka (mende) presence in Olmec terracotta figurines ofNegroid peoples of ancient are parts of separate, indigenous groups living http://www.blackantiquity.com/SouthAmerica.html
Extractions: The fist civilization of ancient America is called the Olmec. It was located along the Mexican Gulf Coast and began more than three thousand years ago. The most significant and widely acknowledged sculptural representations of African people in the Western Hemisphere (the "NewWorld") were sculpted by the Olmecs. The Olmec developed the first civilization of the Americas. At least seventeen monumental basalt stone heads, each weighing ten to forty tons, have been unearthed in Olmec sites along the Mexican Gulf Coast. One of the first European-American scientists to comment on the Olmec heads, archaeologist Mathew Stirling, described their facial features as "amazingly Negroid." Although major aspects of Olmec culture and history remain vaque, enough has been recovered to demonstrate a significant African presence in the Americas many centures before the advent of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Some scientists have even concluded that the Olmecs may have originally been an African settler-colony. Others are convinced that the African presence among the Olmecs was confined to a small and highly-influential elite community. Native legends of the Americas abound with the exploits of early Black people. In the Southwest Indian story of the Emergence, a story that is as important in the region as the Book of Genesis is to Christians, the First World is called the Black World!
The_recontextualization purist interpretations have represented indigenous cultural traditions that openscommunication between peoples and cultures Glasgow (Art of the mende The Guy http://www.therai.org.uk/pubs/at/museums/therecon.html
Extractions: Until recently, local museums have done little to dispel this chilling, but to some intensely compelling and romantic image of arrested time and decay. There are few other areas where the effects of lethargy and neglect have been more acutely felt than in ethnography displays, where under-capitalization, lack of specialized expertise and problems of contextualization have threatened the preservation of materials and compromised the commitment of serious curators to provide appropriate settings for their collections. The Marischal Museum, Aberdeen, combines excellent visual presentation with a challenging comparative approach to anthropological themes.
Resources / Land GENDER AND RESOURCE USE AMONG THE mende OF GOLA declaration on the rights of indigenouspeoples (SubCommission OF LAND AND PROPERTY IN EASTERN africa Diana Lee http://www.earthsummit2002.org/wcaucus/Resources/land/land.htm
Extractions: CSD NGO Steering Committee CSD NGO Women's Caucus Resources: Land Resources We are constantly gathering useful resources, references, networking information, etc. Please let us know which other references should be included! Reports, Books, Articles Web-Sites Discussion Groups Reports, Books, Articles RAINFOREST RELATIONS: GENDER AND RESOURCE USE AMONG THE MENDE OF GOLA, SIERRA LEONE hardback - International African Library 13. Published in association with the International African This book brings forest dwellers' own differentiated perspectives to current rainforest debates. After reviewing changing conservation agendas, and gender and environment approaches, it draws on detailed fieldwork to examine the importance of forest resources to local economy and society, and how dynamic gender relations condition women's and men's different environmental relations. It shows that neither an understanding of forest use and change, nor adequate conservation policies, can be achieved without a concern for gender.
The 1996 CIA World Factbook Page On Sierra Leone can read and write in English, mende, Temne, or on English law and customary lawsindigenous to local the February 1996 elections; National peoples Party (NPP http://www.umsl.edu/services/govdocs/wofact96/223.htm
Extractions: View GIF from CIA (22 KB) Download TIFF from CIA (388 KB) Download PDF from CIA (31 KB) Description: three equal horizontal bands of light green (top), white, and light blue View GIF from CIA (1 KB) Download TIFF from CIA (6 KB) View GIF from CIA (2 KB) Download TIFF from CIA (365 KB) Location: Western Africa, bordering the North Atlantic Ocean, between Guinea and Liberia
Ethnog02 in women's spaces gender relations in mende rice farming Deborah Bird Rose 1999 Indigenousecologies and an Reprinted in EP Skinner (ed.) peoples and Cultures http://www.gla.ac.uk/departments/sociology/Ethnog02.htm
Extractions: K.G. Heider 1976 Ethnographic Film . Austin: University of Texas Press A.B. Weiner 1978 Epistemology and ethnographic reality, American Anthropologist M. Eaton (ed.) 1979 Anthropology - Reality - Cinema. The films of Jean Rouch . London: BFI I. Jarvie 1983 The problem of the ethnographic real, Current Anthropology Methodology in Anthropological Filmmaking . Gottingen: Edition Herodot T. Asch 1988 Collaboration in ethnographic filmmaking. In J.R. Rollwagen (ed.) Anthropological Filmmaking . Chur: Harwood S. Freudenthal 1988 What to tell and how to show it: issues in anthropological filmmaking. In Rollwagen op. cit. 'Disappearing World': Television and Anthropology . London: Boxtree A. Ostor 1990 Whither ethnographic film? American Anthropologist Cahiers d'Etudes Africaines Film as Ethnography . Manchester: MUP op.cit.
Sierra Leone Facts & Figures KARIMU, chairman; Sierra Leone peoples Party or Religions Muslim 60%, indigenousbeliefs 30 Languages English (official,), mende (principal vernacular in the http://free.freespeech.org/isierra-leone/factsfigures/
Extractions: SIERRA LEONE is an independent nation in western Africa, bounded on the north and east by Guinea, on the southeast by Liberia, and on the southwest and west by the Atlantic Ocean. The capital of Sierra Leone is Freetown, Other major towns include Bo, in the South, Makeni in the North, and Kenema and Koidu in the East. GOVERNMENT MILITARY GOVERNMENT Sierra Leone is governed under a 1991 constitution that provides for a multiparty democratic system and human rights guarantees. A president is both head of state and head of government. The president is popularly elected to a five-year term and may serve no more than two consecutive terms. Legislative authority rests with the single-chamber House of Representatives, which has 68 members elected by popular vote and 12 paramount chiefs chosen by district tribal councils. Representatives serve five-year terms. The constitution was suspended from 1992 to 1996 and from mid-1997 to early 1998 following military coups.
Sierra Leone (01/02) Party (DCP), National Unity Party (NUP), peoples Democratic Party PEOPLE The indigenouspopulation is made up of 18 The Temne in the north and the mende in the http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/5475.htm
Africans Art 15,000 members of the Bidjogo peoples inhabit some manage to preserve many indigenoustraits. African People Yoruba mende Bamana Kongo Yaka Chokwe http://www.webzinemaker.net/africans-art/index.php3?action=page&id_rubr=38
Africans Art must consider both perspectives the indigenous as well the cultures of other peoplesonly by from a longstanding Western, imperialistic involvement in africa. http://www.webzinemaker.net/africans-art/index.php3?action=page&id_art=360
MEXICAN ARCHEOLOGISTS EMBARRASSED BY DISCOVERY OF ANCIENT A the mende language and used the mende script. actual descendants of precolumbian African/Negriticpeoples of the to 100 was a war against indigenous people of http://www.lauralee.com/_Forum/00000174.htm
Untitled The mende of Sierra Leone A West African Warren and Oswald Weiner (eds.), Indigenousknowledge systems of Tanout Arrondissement, Niger , Nomadic peoples 11,26 http://csac.anthropology.ac.uk/CSACMonog/Waldie/bibilog.html
Extractions: Baxter, P.T.W. 1984. "Butter for barley and barley for cash: petty transactions and small transformations in an Arssi market", in Sven Rubenson (ed.) Proceedings of the seventh international conference of Ethiopian societies; University of Lund, 26-29 April 1982. Addis Abeba: Institute of Ethiopian studies.
Untitled of writing from trade with Semiticspeaking peoples and then A survey of the indigenousscripts of Liberia and Sierra Leone Vai, mende, Loma, Kpelle http://nersp.nerdc.ufl.edu/~ufruss/language.contact.htm
Extractions: Historically, literacy has spread through contact between peoples who spoke written languages and those who did not. Contact results from trade, religious proselytizing, and schooling, the last often in cases of conquest and occupation. Three thousand years ago there were an estimated half million bands, tribes, chiefdoms, and states all independent political units (Carneiro 1968). Today, there are about 6000 languages spoken in around 200 countries. Languages are thus now in contact more than ever. Writing was invented independently at least twice. Some scholars hold that all early writing systems in the Old World derive from a single invention (around 3200 BCE) that was spread by culture contact. The writing of the ancient Indus civilization, around 2500 BCE, for example, may have been stimulated by contact with traders from the Middle East. Others argue that writing was invented independently in what is today Iraq, Egypt, India, and China.
Spotlight On Teaching groups such as the Ibibio, Oromo, Edo and mende. implicit in the tradition, usingindigenous categories and to learn more about the Yoruba and Dogon peoples. http://www.aarweb.org/Publications/spotlight/previous/1-2/01-02-05more.asp
Extractions: University of California, Davis For the past ten years or so, I have been involved in teaching, among other courses, African traditional religion, in Nigerian universities, especially at Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-lfe. In the last two years, I have offered this same course in four colleges and universities in the United States. My teaching and research experiences in these two countries have been quite different though mutually beneficial. They form the subject of this paper. To begin with, I examine the syllabus and general course content, before turning to my teaching methods and approaches. There I consider various textual and audio-visual materials and discuss the course requirements and students' assessment of the course. My primary intention in the course is to provide a general overview of the traditional religions of Sub-Saharan African peoples with a focus on four main regions: west, east, central, and southern Africa. In addition, we focus on well-studied ethnic groups such as the Yoruba, Zulu, Bambara, Asante, Igbo, Nuer, Ewe, Xhosa and Dinka and less considered groups such as the Ibibio, Oromo, Edo and Mende. It is important to emphasize to the students that case studies of specific ethnic religions are preferred to general overviews. In the course, both approaches are utilized in order to do justice to both the breadth and depth of African religions. I use the same standard syllabus for Nigeria and the U.S. The topics and themes, which are revised and updated every semester, are generally similar.
West Africa - EthnoBass English Major ethnic groups indigenous African tribes 95 tribes 90% (Temne 30%, Mende30%, other http://www.ethnobass.org/afr_west.html
