Report Of Bassam 2000 Challenge of the Remaining Task, The Role of the indigenous African Church groupsthe Tamacheq, the Fulani, the Malinke related peoples, the wolof, and the http://www.ad2000.org/re00605.htm
Extractions: Report of Bassam 2000 Dear AD2-Announce Reader: Greetings from Africa, a continent on the move for God! Praises be to Him! Please pray for God's continued hand and provision on the church and leadership in that region. I would urge those so inclined to send words of encouragement and support to Wayne and the other ministries laboring there throughout that region. Against the backdrop of wars, AIDS, poverty, etc. - the church of Christ is on the move in Africa, a sense I pray you will see and agree as you review this report. May His name be praised! That all may hear! International Director Report of Bassam 2000 - May 8-12, 2000 350 key church and mission leaders from across French speaking Africa came to Grand Bassam, Cote d'Ivoire for Bassam 2000, a follow-up consultation to Dakar '98 focusing on the remaining Unreached Peoples Groups of West and Central Africa. These leaders came from 30 different countries, both African and non-African. They represented a wide array of different cultures and languages, not to mention a variety of church and mission organizations, denominations, and agencies. The following main points represent a brief summary of what took place at what many participants referred to as the most strategic, inspirational and widely representative of any Franco-phone West and Central African consultation that they have ever attended. There were many inspiring reports of what God is doing through partnership efforts as well as in a number of different National Initiatives across West and Central Africa. Challenging plenary sessions were greatly appreciated and included; The Challenge of the Remaining Task, The Role of the Indigenous African Church, Reconciliation, and National Missionary Training and Sending. Each afternoon the following working groups meet for two hours each day: Research, Social Action, Prayer, Radio, Women's Ministry, Translation and Literature, Mission to Muslims, and National Mission training and sending. A special time of focusing on specific strategic unreached people groups was held for each of the following groups: the Tamacheq, the Fulani, the Malinke related peoples, the Wolof, and the UPGs of the Lake Chad Basin.
People And Peoples (T-Z) Tukano The Tukano are an indigenous South American Indian Vlachs are a group of Romanianpeoples living mainly in wolof The wolof are the majority ethnic group http://www.sneaker.net.au/docs/encyclo/C7.HTM
Extractions: about dmoz add URL update URL become an editor ... help the entire directory only in Cultural_Anthropology/Ethnography Top Science Social Sciences Anthropology ... Cultural Anthropology : Ethnography Description See also: Science: Social Sciences: Area Studies Science: Social Sciences: Ethnic Studies Science: Social Sciences: Geography: Human Geography Society: Ethnicity: Indigenous People ... Amhara - A ethnographic report on the Amhara people of Africa. Andamans - Isolated group of foragers living on the Andaman Islands. Anthropology Research Guide - A annotated list of resources primarily for conducting bibliographic and Internet research on the ethnographic present. Arab-esque Dance Arts Research Resources - Features "Dance Described" project. Contains book excerpts, genres, images, and videography of North Africa, Central and Western Asia. Aranda - Ethnography and culture history of one of the largest aboriginal groups in central Australia. Archive of Turkish Oral Narrative - Full-text ethnographic materials from Central Asia in PDF and MP3 formats [English, Turkish]. Features description of the collection and links to related sites. Aymara - An ethnographic description of a people located mainly on the Bolivian and Peruvian altiplano, centering about Lake Titicaca.
Religion And Human Rights: Africans rule, conflicts emerged between indigenous and European argues that the precolonialWolof societies in fostering harmonious relations among peoples and nations http://www.geocities.com/r_traer/Culture/Africa/africans.fhr.htm
Extractions: CESP... Religion and Human Rights Center for the Study of Ethics and Social Policy at the Graduate Theological Union Links News Reports Research Email ... Sitemap Africans [Have you done any research in this area? If so, please share it.] Robert Traer* In 1972 Kéba Mbaya, President of the Senegal Supreme Court, asserted the "right to development," which he defined as "The recognized prerogative of every individual and every people to enjoy in just measure the goods and services produced thanks to the effort of solidarity of the members of the community." This right of development reflects communitarian values indigenous to the African cultures, as well as modern notions of human rights. In this chapter I will review some of the arguments made for the protection of human rights within traditional African cultures. In addition, I will discuss the recent attempt to develop new concepts of human rights in Africa that draw both on traditional convictions and values that Africans have adopted from Western culture. Traditional Human Rights Musa Ballah Conteh suggests that the history of human rights in Africa is best described in three phases. He argues that human rights were present in the first phase of traditional society, although in a context quite unlike that of the West. Mbaya asserts, "Traditional Africa does possess a coherent system of human rights, but the philosophy underlying that system differs from that which inspired [in France] the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen."
The MIA Curriculum Only indigenous African languages are eligible to count of courses in Arabic, Hausa,Swahili, wolof, and Zulu Anthropology G4328 African peoples in the World http://www.columbia.edu/cu/sipa/MIA/afr.html
Extractions: McNeil became part of a small group of SIPA students who wanted to promote investment in Africa. Today, development is much more about capital markets than it is about trade flows. Most people are not aware of the exponential growth of stock markets in Africa, especially South Africa. In the next few decades, I think infrastructure development based on new technologies is what is going to propel Africa forward. And I expect to be part of it. Tel: 212-854-4663 Director: Mahmood Mamdani F ounded in 1959, the Institute of African Studies has prepared generations of Africa practitioners for careers in development, diplomacy, business, governance, journalism, law and human rights, and academic research and teaching. It provides a special forum for students, faculty, and others interested in the multitude of issues facing the African continent. A weekly brown bag lecture series features presentations by academicians, diplomats, journalists, activists, business leaders, and development practitioners. The monthly University Seminar on Africa invites distinguished scholars to present their research; the Diplomatic Forum attracts diplomats from around Africa to speak to faculty and students. In addition, a number of conferences and panel discussions draw specialists from around the world. Each spring, students affiliated with the Institute organize a conference on a theme of their own choosing.
African Studies - History And Cultures and continuing development of Uganda's indigenous art forms Dxeriku, Hambukushu, Wayeyi,and Xanekwe peoples. Paradise Visualizing Islam in West africa and the http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/africa/cuvl/cult.html
Extractions: Africa Forum (H-Africa, H-Net Humanities and Social Sciences OnLine, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan.) "History facing the present: an interview with Jan Vansina" (November 2001) and Reply by Jean-Luc Vellut "Photography and colonial vision," by Paul S. Landau (May 19, 1999, Dept. of History, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut) H-Africa Africa Forum Home Page H-Africa Network Home Page
International Dalit Solidarity Network from diverse groups such as the wolof and Soninkes. They are among the pygmy peoplesof africa but not been recognised by many as the indigenous inhabitants of http://uk.geocities.com/internationaldalitsolidarity/africa/cerdpaper.html
Extractions: The International Dalit Solidarity Network "Working globally against discrimination by work and descent" Discrimination based on descent in Africa 1. Introduction This paper is based upon research of existing materials of an ethnological and anthropological nature, as well as items from the media, papers written by non-governmental organisations (NGOs), websites and submissions to local, national and international commissions. I have restricted the material to cover those forms of discrimination which exist in Africa which rely entirely on the application of the descent limb of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD). Without this aspect of the ICERD, the cases discussed below have no recourse to international human rights mechanisms to tackle the discrimination they suffer. The first types of descent based discrimination I deal with are the caste systems that exist in areas of the Sahel , particularly West Africa , but also Somalia and the surrounding areas. These are systems of exclusion based on occupational specialization of endogamous groups, in which membership is based on ascription, and between which social distance is regulated by the concept of pollution . This definition can be applied to many of the casted peoples, usually occupational specialists in blacksmithing, potting, barding, leatherworking, weaving and other craft professions, who form a small proportion of some communities across the
Muslim Legacy In Early Americas - W. Africans, Moors And indeed possible that the symbol was indigenous to the it most significant that theAfrican peoples which Winters as the Manding, Fula, Moors, wolof and Berbers http://www.erols.com/ameen/africanm.htm
The Oral Tradition - Drumming of the Manding (Mande) group of peoples, who were rhythms, instruments and eventually,texts in wolof and other The addition of the indigenous tama drum with http://www.si.umich.edu/chico/UMS/Drummers/drumming.html
Extractions: (after arriving in Africa for the first time to meet Doudou N'diaye Rose) Styles of playing The styles described here are divided into several groups: Manding and Mbalax, based on the traditional music of the Manding and Wolof peoples and modern African and contemporary Western music. African drumming has heavily influenced by Cuban dance music and western pop. Manding Manding music is the music of the Manding (Mande) group of peoples, who were the inhabitants of the vast Manding empire 13th to 15th century. It stretched from the south of what is now Senegal and Gambia, and included Mali and the west of Guinea as well. Music used to be the exclusive domain of a caste of musicians, the Jalis or griots . Though this is now starting to change, this is still obvious nowadays. There are three main styles, related to a language and people of the same name: Maninka, Bamana (or Bambara) and Mandinka. The last few years, the Wassoulou style from the region of the same name is gaining popularity.
Ethnic Groups and east of Senegambia (where wolof is the source of information about the peoplesof africa concerning Native, Aboriginal, and indigenous internet resources http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/cm/africana/ethnicit.htm
Extractions: African Ethnicities Please note that I have a separate page available on African languages A number of Web pages have been produced by members of indigenous minority and majority ethnic groups world-wide. Rather than primarily serving as academic, encyclopedic, or anthropological resources, they are often self-promotional, but several provide excellent information and rigorous documentation. This is a small collection of such pages produced primarily by Africans, along with some material produced by others. Most often, these African ethnic group home pages are a direct expression of individual members of the group, but in several cases represent an academic, official, or institutional point of view. If you are looking for an "objective" presentation, these links may not be the best sources for your work. Nevertheless, most have very good cultural, historical, and other background information, and many provide links to related sites that you may also find useful. Below the list, there is a collection of Other sites with information on African ethnic groups with different kinds of resources, for example, with a national, cultural anthropological, or linguistic focus. Finally, because this is an area that is not well represented on the web, a
The World Bank - NGOs this has been less successful in africa and the languages ( the number of hits inWolof and Kiswahiliala could be far worse for indigenous peoples, as many http://lnweb18.worldbank.org/essd/essd.nsf/All/DB02A7A0C73A245785256B90007A92FA?
Atlantic Social Studies Curriculum Grade 6 610, indigenous peoples of North America. 7-12, The Heritage Library of Africanpeoples. Asante, Boateng, 0-8239-1975-7, $30.65. wolof, Sallah, 0-8239-1987-0, $30.65. http://www.saundersbook.ca/curriculum/atlantic_soc_6.html
Extractions: Back To Atlantic Curriculum Atlantic Social Studies Curriculum Grade 6 Curriculum Area R. L. Series Title / Book Title Author ISBN List Price Grade 6 Unit 1: Roots of Culture: Canada Artisans Around the World North America Tull Canadian History New France and the Fur Trade Baldwin Indigenous Peoples of North America The Iroquois Bjornlund Native Americans of the Northwest Coast Jones Native Americans of the Northeast Kallen People Who Made History Native Americans Hook Modern Nations of the World Canada Grabowski Grade 6 Unit 2: Expressions of Culture: West Africa The Library of African American Arts and Culture African American Quilting Greg C. Wilson
West Africa In the past, many wolof were matrilineal, and Traditionally, most West African peoplesregarded a girls as The payment usually follows indigenous rules rather http://www.law.emory.edu/IFL/region/westafrica.html
Extractions: West Africa Links to legal datasheets for countries in this region. The Region and Its History Islam first reached West Africa by way of traders from North Africa and the Middle East who settled in the area in the late tenth and early eleventh centuries. Over the next five hundred years, assorted West African rulers and local merchants who wanted to do business with the Muslim traders adapted themselves to Islam and its customs. But the practice of the religion did not spread far outside of towns and the commercial elite until the Muslim jihads of the 18th and 19th centuries. These wars were led by Muslim scholars and teachers who were determined to turn the region's small Islamic colonies into Muslim states. They arose in dispersed places all the way from modern-day Chad to Benin, but gradually they influenced each other and culminated in the region-wide struggle to
Untitled africa came to be dominated by foreign peoples. Asian, Indian, over 1000 differentindigenous groups (including Toulou, Tuareg, Tutsi, Twa, wolof and Yoruba). http://www.osearth.com/resources/sampleNWG/NWG_beta/reports/ssa/hist.html
Extractions: Sub-Saharan Africa was originally inhabited by a group of people who were probably the forefathers of the Pygmies, Bushmen and Hottentots of today. In 30,000 BC, they were pushed to the Northwest and South by another group of people who were taller and larger. Sub-Saharan Africa was home to several great kingdoms before European colonization. The Ghana Empire, which began in the fourth century and reached its height in the tenth century, commanding most of the area between Timbuktu and the Atlantic Ocean. The Mali Empire (also known as the Madingo Empire) was a trading kingdom which controlled most of West Africa as well as the city of Timbuktu and extended into the southern Sahara. Under Mansa Musa, the Mali Empire reached its apogee in the fourteenth century. The Arab traveler Ibn Batuta visited and wrote on the Mali empire in the mid-fourteenth century. Africa came to be dominated by foreign peoples. The Portuguese were the first to explore Sub-Saharan Africa in 1270. By the nineteenth century, Sub-Saharan Africa had been colonized by almost every European nation and was host to a series of battles, conflicts of interest and treaties. The dynamics of this colonial period for the most part determined Africa's borders today. Countries include: Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Reunion, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zaire, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
Alphabetical List Of Articles / Encyclopedia Of The World's Minorities United Nations Draft Declaration on indigenous peoples, 1000 words. United NationsWorking Group on indigenous Populations, 1000 words. wolof, 1000 words. http://www.fitzroydearborn.com/chicago/minorities/articles-alpha.php3
Extractions: A B C ... W X Y Z (back to top) Abadhi 1000 words Abkhazians 1000 words Aborigines 2000 words Acehnese 1000 words Achebe, Chinua (Nigerian) 1000 words Adams, Gerry (Northern Ireland Catholic) 1000 words Adare (Harar) 1000 words Adja 1000 words Afar 1000 words Affirmative Action 2000 words Afghanistan 1000 words Africa: A Continent of Minorities? 5000 words African-American Nationalism and Separatism 2000 words African-Americans 5000 words Africans: 1: Overview 1000 words Africans: 2: Asia 1000 words Africans: 3: Europe 2000 words Afrikaners 1000 words Afro-Arabs 1000 words Afro-Brazilians 2000 words Afro-Caribbean-Americans 1000 words Afro-Caribbeans 2000 words Afro-Cubans 1000 words Afro-Latin Americans 3000 words Afrocentricity 1000 words Aga Khan (Ismali) 1000 words Ahmadiyas 1000 words Ainu 2000 words Alawis 1000 words Albania 1000 words Albanians (Kosovars) 5000 words Alevis 1000 words Alfurs 1000 words Algeria 1000 words Ali, Muhammad (African-American) 1000 words Alsatians 1000 words Altai 1000 words Ambedkar, Bhimrao Ramji (Harijan)
Get A Domain Site .com .net .org .biz .info of families and ethnic groups, giving peoples such as instruments and eventually,texts in wolof and other The addition of the indigenous tama drum with its http://www.sabrinatindal.20megsfree.com/tradition.htm
Extractions: ( Africa "Mother Land") The Gambia's main indigenous groups have a highly stratified society wherein status is determined by birth. At the top of the social heap are traditional noble and warrior families, followed by the farmers, traders and persons of caste - blacksmiths, leather workers, wood workers, weavers and griots (GREE-oh). Griots are the lowest of the castes but are highly respected, as they are in charge of passing on the oral traditions and are usually the only ones who can recite a family or village history. Slaves occupied the lowest rung of the social ladder, and although slavery is now long gone, many descendants of former slaves still work as tenant farmers for the masters of old. The overwhelming majority of The Gambia's population is Muslim, though many practitioners combine their faith with traditional beliefs. It's not uncommon to see Gambians wearing a small leather pouch around their neck, arm or waist; called gris-gris (pronounced 'gree-gree'), these amulets are thought to ward off evil or bring good luck. Devout Muslims sometimes hedge their bets by keeping a small verse from the Quran inside.
Latin American Muslim Unity: History Of Islam In Latin America possible that the symbol was indigenous to the Among the African Islamic peoples whichWinters identifies territories were the Mandig, Fula, wolof, Berbers and http://www.latinmuslims.com/history/before.html
Extractions: Muslims Were in America Before Columbus Back to "Islam in Latin America" main page The works of men such as Ivan van Vertima, Barry Fell and Alexandervon Wuthenue represent 20th century scholarship which has stated directly or indirectly that there has been a significant Muslim presence in the early Americas. While it is true that there have been a number of Muslim writers such as Clyde-Ahmad Winters who have sought to enlighten folks to that fact, it is perhaps more significant that "non-Muslims" have conceded such evidence of pre- and post-Columbian Muslims on this continent. New Zealand archaeologist and linguist Barry Fell in his work Saga America (1980) pointed to existing evidence of a Muslim presence in various parts of the Americas. In addition to drawing several cultural parallels between West African peoples and certain "Indian" peoples of the south-west, Fell points out that the south- west's Pima people possessed a vocabulary which contained words of Arabic origin. The presence of such words among the Pima is compounded by the existence of Islamic petrogyphs in places like California. Fell informs us that in Inyo country, California, there exists an early American petroglyph (rock carving) which stated in Arabic: "Yasus bin Maria", ("Jesus son of Mary"), a phrase commonly found within the surahs of the Holy Qur'an. Fell is convinced that this glyph is many centuries earlier than Columbus' discovery of America.
Unreached People Groups into the needs and opportunities among the influential wolof. clips, images of workamong UPGs, indigenous music, and 50 hiRes images such as peoples of China http://www.missionsmobilisation.com/resources/unreached.htm
Extractions: Home Newsletters Acts 13 - Breakthrough Resources ... World Missions Unreached People Groups Walk through the process of adopting an unreached people group; resources and pointers for further research. Designed for the mission group, pastor or church leader to use; a lot of information that could be overwhelming to the average churchgoer. Aus$5 + carriage. Contact Anna Heinrich, National Target 2000, PO Box 8501, Perth Business Centre, Perth, WA 6849, Australia Telephone: ( Visit their new website: www.adoptapeople.org Excellent WEC booklets on specific people groups, highlighting the work of the church at its cutting edge. Current titles: The Arab World; Children in Crisis; Poorest of the Poor? (Sahel); The Rim of Fire (Indonesia / Malay peoples); The Silk Road (Turkic peoples); India. New titles due. Contact: OM Publishing, PO Box 300, Carlisle, Cumbria, CA3 0QS, UK.
Suffolk University Dakar Campus and Dahomey; Asante (Ashanti); Tekrur, wolof and Serer being undertaken by the peoplesof these words, africa's preconquest indigenous sociological structures http://www.suffolk.edu/dakar/oascourse.html
Extractions: Study Abroad in Dakar, Senegal Program Information Academic Year Schedule Course Offerings Sample Week in a ... Faculty During the fall semester of 2002 and the spring semester of 2003, the following courses principally for study-abroad students in African Studies and related disciplines will be offered on Suffolk University's Dakar Campus, in accordance with the following schedule: Fall Semester 2002: AFRICAN STUDIES 301 Senegal Studies, 3 semester hours, 2 weeks, Monday through Friday, 2 p.m.-6 p.m., taught by Prof. Sarita Henry, Lecturer in History and Sociology, Suffolk University Dakar Campus. AFRICAN STUDIES 302 Great Civilizations, Empires and Kingdoms of Africa: Politics, Religion and Trade, 3 semester hours, 12 weeks, Tuesday and Thursday, 2 p.m.-3:20 p.m., taught by Prof. Sarita Henry, Lecturer in History and Sociology, Suffolk University Dakar Campus.
