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  1. African Voices, African Lives: Personal Narratives from a Swahili Village
  2. The World of the Swahili: An African Mercantile Civilization by Professor John Middleton, 1992-06-24
  3. Tradition and Politics: Indigenous Political Structures in Africa by Olufemi Vaughan, 2004-04
  4. Continuity and Autonomy in Swahili Communities: Inland Influences and Strategies of Self-Determination (Issues in Environmental Politics)

1. WorldViews: The Peoples Of Africa
africa africa World Press Guide A rich diversity of ancient and proud societies There are strengths and weaknesses attached to the study of africa through a focus on the continent's diverse and numerous peoples. concern on the state of the world's indigenous peoples, with the peoples of africa included among them. J. McIntosh and S. J. McIntosh; and The swahili, by Mark Horton.
http://worldviews.igc.org/awpguide/peoples.html
AFRICA: Africa World Press Guide
compiled and edited by WorldViews
AFRICA'S PEOPLES
A rich diversity of ancient and proud societies
T here are strengths and weaknesses attached to the study of Africa through a focus on the continent's diverse and numerous peoples. The strengths are that the continent is reduced to a more manageable size, the diversity and the rich traditions of Africa's peoples are accentuated, and the similiarities and differences among peoples everywhere in the world can be identified and analyzed. Finally, a study of the particularities of discrete societies throughout the African continent cha llenges the misperception of Africa as an undifferentiated mass of peoples. The attendant weaknesses in this approach are that Africa's population of 735 million may be reduced to exotic images and stereotypes of one or another African society or they may remain frozen in the context of the particular historical period or geog raphic locale being studied. In the introdution to his book, The Shona and their Neighbours (Beach 1994), historian David Beach (University of Zimbabwe) clearly delineates the traps that can ensnare the unwary in a study of the peoples of Africa. H e takes, as just one example, the rock paintings and stone buildings for which inhabitants of the Zimbabwean plateau are reknowned. "From the standpoint of Shona studies," Beach points out, "[the paintings and buildings] have been both a blessing and a cu rse. On the one hand, the sheer beauty of the former attracted many of the minority of educated whites into the discipline of archaeology, but it also ensured that they devoted their attention to a period and people fairly remote from the [modern-day] Sho na and their recent neighbours." Clearly, as Beach suggests, the particularlities and generalities must be kept in proper balance at all times.

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3. SABCnews Indigenous Peoples Angry Over Document Wording
Ancient Empires and peoples of africa. Later Empires and local region expanded and redirected indigenous production systems. Foreign languages in africa and swahili poetic verse.
http://www.sabcnews.com/south_africa/general/0%2C1009%2C20412%2C00.html
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south africa ... Indigenous peoples angry over document wording September 05, 2001, 16:45 "We are in South Africa, with apartheid six short years ago, yes, I'm hopeful...", says Madonna Thunder Hawk, who is taking part in a demonstration for indigenous peoples' rights at the World Conference Against Racism. It is a "giant step" to have indigenous issues being discussed at an international meeting, she says, having travelled to Durban, from South Dakota to represent the Cheyenne River Sioux Indian Reservation and to show solidarity with other indigenous groups.
"What happens here trickles down directly," she says. Indigenous peoples from all corners of the world, who have gathered in the east coast city for the UN World Conference Against Racism are drawing inspiration from what South Africa has achieved in breaking free of its apartheid chains, seven years ago in fact, in 1994.
At a round table discussion, attended by Mary Robinson, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and the conference's secretary general, they queued up at the microphone with individual stories, but a collective plight.

4. African Studies Center, Tuesday Bulletin - April 25, 2000 Spring # 15 (MSU)-
still available to Intermediate and Advanced swahili students. 2425, 2000 in Edinburghon africa's indigenous People 'First peoples' or 'Marginalized
http://www.isp.msu.edu/AfricanStudies/TUESDAY/TBS15-00.htm
April 25, 2000 Spring # 15 Url: http://isp.msu.edu/AfricanStudies/ E-mail: africa@msu.edu Please submit information on Africa-related events or news seven to 10 days in advance of the day it should appear in the Tuesday Bulletin. Submissions may be brought, faxed, or e-mailed to the African Studies Center, Room 100, Center for International Programs, Michigan State University. Telephone: (517) 353-1700, Fax: (517) 432-1209.
EVENTS
No Events listed at this time. MSU ANNOUNCEMENTS
Summer 2000 Intensive Swahili Language Program will be held from June 19 to July 21, 2000 This five-week Intensive Summer Program in Swahili will be preceded by a three-day gratis seminar on East Africa. The three-day workshop on East African culture for students, faculty, and members of the public with a special interest in East Africa will be offered June 15-17, 2000. Lecturers will be drawn from across the nation and from MSU faculty who have taught, worked, and conducted research in East African countries. A limited number of FLAS fellowships are still available to Intermediate and Advanced Swahili students. Application forms for the FLAS fellowships are available from the Center.

5. EDU2 : Level 3
AND CINEMA OF africa AND CARIBBEAN; Useful swahili; Welcome to african writingsystems; indigenous peoples' Literature; Inuktitut Translations; Kiowa Orthography;
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  • TURKISH *AFRICA*
  • African 300 - Hausa Verbal Art in Translation - Hunter
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  • 6. Profile Of The Dorobo Peoples Of Kenya And Tanzania
    Illustrated in b w by his water colors and photographs, tales collected and translated from swahili. factfilled craft books to explore the wildlife and indigenous peoples of africa.
    http://www.geocities.com/orvillejenkins/profiles/dorobo.html
    Profiles Menu Orville Jenkins Home People Profile
    The Dorobo Peoples of Kenya and Tanzania Population
    Religion
    : Animism
    Status : 1% Christian Location : The "Dorobo" are not one tribe. Rather, the term Dorobo referred to the original forest-dwelling hunters in the Rift Valley of what is now Kenya and Tanzania. These peoples live in scattered groups in the plains of the Rift Valley and the forests of the neighboring escarpments. History : Southern Cushite peoples, followed by Eastern Cushites, settled in East Africa's Rift Valley during the first millennium after Christ. They found San (Bushmen) peoples already here. Bantu traditions refer to these early peoples whom their ancestors found there. Early Nilotes, then various waves of Bantu and later Nilotes subsequently came into the area. The Kikuyu refer to a people in Central Province as the Athi (the ground people), after the source the names Athi Plains and Athi River. Oral traditions say the Kikuyu paid the Athi to move into their land. The Athi seem to be either the Cushites or the original San people. (The Sandawe and the Hadzapi in northern Tanzania still speak San languages. The Bantu name "Twa" for the pygmies in Rwanda-Burundi-Zaire is the same word the Zulus use for the Khoisan click-language speakers they found in their early migrations into what is now Natal Province. There is still a San tribe there today called Twa.)

    7. Key Resources - Indigenous Knowledge - Africa Region - The World Bank
    Eight case studies from Southern africa are summarized, supplemented by Communitybasedmanagement, Collaborative management and indigenous peoples management.
    http://www.worldbank.org/afr/ik/swahili/swkey.htm
    (Samahani, bado tunatengeneza Webu ya Kiswahili)
    Kwanini
    Kwanini ni muhimu Malengo Mafanikio ... Mrejesho Key Resources for Indigenous Knowledge
    The key resources presented here are suggestions byIK Program staff. They provide reliable information on the subject. The resource list will change over time. Inclusion or omission of a source does not constitute any endorsement or disapproval on behalf of The World Bank. Integrating Indigenous Knowledge in Project Planning and Implementation Key Documents Important Web Links Key Players
    Key Documents
    Paper prepared by the World Bank in November 1998 describing the important contribution that indigenous practices can make in development.
    version francaise
    IK-Notes
    Publication of the Indigenous Knowledge Program Available in French and in Portuguese. IIRR
    International Institute for rural reconstruction (1996). Recording and using indigenous knowledge: International Institute of Rural Reconstruction, Silang, Cavite, Philippines A manual for development practitioners and field workers, available on-line at IIRR (Indigenous Knowledge and Development Monitor) Newsletter

    8. Indigenous Knowledge - Home Page - Africa Region - The World Bank
    World Bank, launches the first swahili Website of of the disease, the Bank's AfricaRegion indigenous Collaborative management and indigenous peoples management
    http://www.worldbank.org/afr/ik/newsflsh.htm
    IK News Archives
    Upcoming Events
    Biodiversity and biotechnology and the protection of traditional knowledge, St. Louis, USA, Spring 2003
    The event will focus on the agricultural and plant aspects of the biotech revolution, including its impact on the protection of biodiversity;
    with particular attention to the protection of traditional knowledge and other intellectual property mechanisms of interest to the developing world. 5th European colloquium on ethno-pharmacology, Valencia, Spain, 8-10 May 2003 The main themes are indigenous knowledge and practices related to curative natural products, uses of medicinal plants and scientific studies of their diffusion.
    theme: "Traditional Healing & HIV/AIDS" will take place at Hotel Meridien President, Dakar, Senegal, West Africa in July 20-21, 2004. The conference is being organized in association with the Government of the Republic of Senegal and ENDA TM. Additional information can be found on the Africa First website.

    9. Canadian Field Studies In Africa: Peoples And Cultures Of East Africa
    early explorers, who describe peoples encountered and forms of agrarian economy,indigenous environmental knowledge Giriama), and townspeople (swahili, Mombasa
    http://www.langara.bc.ca/africa/course4.htm

    Click here to return to the course list.
    ANTH 1116: PEOPLES AND CULTURES OF EAST AFRICA
    East Africa enjoys an extraordinary degree of social and cultural diversity, with representatives of all four of the major cultures families of the continent occurring in the region. How did this cultural variety arise, how does it relate to environmental diversity we find in East Africa? Amidst diversity how has the region evolved a high degree of social commonality and cohesion? This course will provide academic context for pursuing field study in East Africa. Including team teaching it will offer background to the history, politics, languages, and cultures of the region, and will focus on study of those societies visited during the program. These will include representatives of the major cultures of the region: Bantu, Nilotic and Cushitic-speakers. The course will includes an introductory overview of the peopling of East Africa, the emergence of ethic groups and evolution of the human use of natural resources, drawing on recent work in genetics archaeology, historical linguistic, and pre-colonial history. We will examine reports written by early explorers, who describe peoples encountered and their own responses to them, and will ask whether these documents reflect accurate accounts of East African societies, and in what ways might they be biased? We will investigate the structure and function of some major social institutions that characterize East Africa s culture groups, among them: local forms of agrarian economy, indigenous environmental knowledge; environmental adaptations, territory and political organization; kinship, age-organization, family, and domestic life; and cultural traditions ; oral literature, ritual, religion and music.

    10. Indigenous Knowledge Links
    is available in English, Portuguese, French, swahili and Wolof capacity in the fieldof IK in South africa. that aims to extend to indigenous peoples and local
    http://www.scidev.net/dossiers/indigenous_knowledge/iklinks.html
    DOSSIER
    Indigenous Knowledge Home PLEASE REGISTER HERE Readers' Comments Key Documents ... Indigenous Knowledge Homepage Indigenous knowledge: links Centre for Biodiversity and Indigenous Knowledge (CBIK)
    The Centre for Biodiversity and Indigenous Knowledge (CBIK) is an NGO based in Kunming (China) dedicated to conserving nature and culture. CBIK promotes socially equitable and environmentally sound development in mountainous areas of southwest China that are inhabited by ethnic minorities. The website includes links, articles and notices of events. Centre for International Ethnomedicinal Education and Research (CIEER)
    The Centre for International Ethnomedicinal Education and Research is nonprofit educational and research organisation that aims establish a focal point for the exchange of ethnomedicinal knowledge and an international network of ethnobotanical researchers. The website offers links to bibliographies, publications, research projects and events. COMPAS: newsletter for endogenous development
    COMPAS is an international network for the enhancement of endogenous development. The Compas Magazine is published twice a year. Recent issues have discussed how biological and cultural diversity and the sustainable management of natural resources can be enhanced by building on indigenous knowledge systems and local leadership. Consortium for Indigenous Crop Protection (CICP)
    This website, run by Oregon State University, offers three databases with information about indigenous crop protection practices in sub-Saharan East Africa. One covers the status and significance of indigenous crop protection; the second is a register of natural and traditional crop protection products; and the third is a bibliographic database of worldwide literature on indigenous pest control practices and natural products.

    11. YDCFA Store - Books About Africa - Children's
    his water colors and photographs, tales collected and translated from swahili. filledcraft books to explore the wildlife and indigenous peoples of africa.
    http://www.marekinc.com/StoreBooksChildrens.html
    RETURN TO STORE Press the covers to get a more full synopsis and order. BOOKS (By author last name) CHILDREN'S Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain: A Nandi Tale , by Verna Aardema. The story of how Ki-pat brings rain to the arid Kapiti Plain. Cumulative rhyming tale with the rhythm and repetition of The House That Jack Built . . . Illustrations are stylized, simple, and dramatic. The Fortune-Tellers, by Lloyd Alexander. An unhappy carpenter seeks the advice of a fortuneteller, from whom he hears only what he wants to hear. The rendering of scenes in the central-African country of Cameroon delights the eye. A book that pulses with life and good humor. Longing for Darkness: Kamante's Tales from Out of Africa, Kings and Queens of West Africa, by Sylviane Anna Diouf. For many centuries there have been organized states and powerful empires in West Africa. The stories of three rulers convey the history of the region and show the important role trade played. How to Play Djembe , a Book and CD set by Alan L. Dworsky and Betsy Sansby. A complete, user-friendly course on how to play djembe, the popular West African hand drum. Right from the start, students will learn interlocking parts for seven of the most popular West African rhythms. The Village of Round and Square Houses

    12. CourseList (Fill-in) Legal Size
    166, Natural Resource Policy and indigenous peoples, Carr, CJ, F 39100, 010, PrecolonialAfrica An Introductory Survey, 52103, 001B, Elementary swahili, Khisa, MTuWTh 8
    http://ias.berkeley.edu/africa/Courses/coursesS2003.htm
    Center for African Studies 342/356 Stephens Hall University of California Berkeley, CA 94720-2314 tel: 510.642.8338; fax: 510.642.0721;
    asc@uclink4.berkeley.edu
    http://www.ias.berkeley.edu/africa African Studies Related Courses
    at UC Berkeley for Spring 2003
    This Schedule is based on the published schedule of classes for this semester.
    Check with departments for changes. Please consult course schedules, catalogs, and individual departments for more information on these courses. http://schedule.berkeley.edu/ CCN: Course # Course Title Instructor Time Location AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES Africa: History and Culture (Modern) Oguto TTh 8-9:30 20 Barrows Political and Economic Development in the Third World Ahluwalia TTh 10-12 200 Wheeler Caribbean Literature By Women Authors Clark 100 Wheeler Interdisciplinary Research Methods-Post Structuralism Ahluwalia M 2-5 140 Barrows AGRICULTURAL AND RESOURCE ECONOMICS Development Planning TBA TBA TBA Nutritional Economics and Policy Sabry TTh 2-3:30 83 Dwinelle ANTHROPOLOGY Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology Graburn TuTh 9:30-11 Wheeler Aud Archaeology of the African Diaspora Kojan TuTh 12:30-2:00 115 Kroeber CITY AND REGIONAL PLANNING International Housing Roy TuTh 11-1230 105 North Gate DEMOGRAPHY See Dept.

    13. CourseList (Fill-in) Legal Size
    166, Natural Resource Policy and indigenous peoples, Carr, TuTh 34903, 004, Worldpeoples and Cultural Environments, 52103, 001B, Elementary swahili, Mchombo, MTuWTh34,
    http://ias.berkeley.edu/africa/courses/coursesS2000.html
    Center for African Studies 342/356 Stephens Hall University of California Berkeley, CA 94720-2314 tel: 510.642.8338; fax: 510.642.0721;
    asc@uclink4.berkeley.edu; http://www.ias.berkeley.edu/africa African Studies Related Courses
    at UC Berkeley for Spring 2000
    This Schedule is based on the published schedule of classes for this semester.
    Check with departments for changes. Please consult course schedules, catalogs, and individual departments for more information on these courses. http://schedule.berkeley.edu/ CCN: Course # Course Title Instructor Time Location AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES Africa: History and Culture (Modern) Gamal MW 12-2 2 LeConte Political and Economic Development in the Third World Hintzen MW 10-12 100 Wheeler Black Nationalism Mostern, K MW 4-6 210 Wheeler Special Topics in Cultural Studies of the Diaspora: African Quayson Tu 2-5 115 Barrows Literature in Comparative Perspective Racisms and Race Small W 2-5 172 Barrows ANTHROPOLOGY Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology Brandes TuTh 11-12:30 Wheelr Aud Field Production of Ethnographic Film Anderson MW 2-4 155 Kroeber Area Studies: Sub-Saharan Africa Moore MW 12-2 110 Barrows African Prehistory Gifford-Gonzal TuTh 12-2 15 2224 Piedmnt Cultural Politics: Landscape, Power, And Identity

    14. I Have A Right To | BBC World Service
    Josephine Onike Hazeley English for africa To mark the death penalty and the rightsof indigenous peoples. Fernández Jumbe Omari Jumbe - swahili Jumbe Omari
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/people/features/ihavearightto/four_b/producers
    @import "../newbrowsers.css";
    Front Page
    Case Studies Programmes Reporters Stories ... Project
    BBC Producers: English (Africa) English (Global) Albanian Arabic ... Urdu
    Reporters Archive - 2000/2001
    The global education project "I have a right to..." features radio programmes produced in 2000-2001 by BBC World Service producers who have traveled the world over, from Sierra Leone to the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
    The programmes, which have been produced in eleven languages, highlight not only human rights violations but also bring to the fore examples where change and progress are being made.
    Majlinda Zeqiri - Albanian
    In a series of nine programmes, Majlinda Zeqiri examined the child victims of vendetta crimes, juvenile crime, and women's rights. She also looked at the co-existence with Roma and Serbs in Kosovo, Greeks in Albania and Albanians in Macedonia.
    Broadcast from January 2001.
    Click here to read an interview with Majlinda Zeqiri

    Mounira Chaib - Arabic
    Mounira Chaib visited the Headquarters of the United Nations Commission for Human Rights in Geneva and attended a conference organised by Article 19, the human rights and press freedom organisation based in London. Her radio series marked the 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights (UDHR).

    15. Staff
    Teaching and research interests East africa and Indian Ocean; swahilispeakingcoastlands of Native American cultures; museums and indigenous peoples.
    http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/isca/staff.html

    University of Oxford
    Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
    Staff at ISCA
    Academic Staff
    Associated Staff and Others Centres Linked to ISCA Support Staff
    Academic Staff
    Teaching and supervision for the various graduate and undergraduate degrees are available from the following members of the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology. In addition, a number of other anthropologists in Oxford provide teaching and supervision as necessary. A list of two sample publications by ISCA staff can be seen here Professor Marcus Banks - ISCA (Acting Head of Department 2002-2003) Teaching and research interests: Visual anthropology and ethnographic film; Indian urban society and Jainism; ethnicity; research methods and computing.
    (Tel: (2)74675, Email:

    16. Recent ISCA Publications
    indigenous peoples of Asia. Prehistoric exchange and interaction in southeasternsouthern africa marine shell and Autorité et pouvoir chez les swahili.
    http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/isca/publish.html
    Some recent publications by ISCA staff
    Religionswissenschaft Allen, N. J. 1999a Hinduism as Indo-European: cultural comparativism and political sensitivities. Pp. 19-32 in Johannes Bronkhorst and Madhav M Deshpande (eds.) Aryan and non-aryan in South Asia: evidence, interpretation and ideology. Cambridge, Mass: Department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies, Harvard University.
    Banks, Marcus 1996. Ethnicity: anthropological constructions . London: Routledge. Banks, Marcus and Howard Morphy (eds) 1997 Rethinking visual anthropology . London and New Haven: Yale University Press. Barnes, R. H. Andrew Gray and Benedict Kingsbury (eds) 1995. Indigenous Peoples of Asia. (Monographs and Occasional Paper Series, Number 48). Ann Arbor, Michigan: Association for Asian Studies. Barnes, R. H. 1996. Sea Hunters of Indonesia: Fishers and Weavers in Lamalera. Oxford: Clarendon Press. Dresch, Paul 1989. Tribes, Government, and History in Yemen. Oxford: Clarendon Press. Dresch, Paul 1995. Race, culture and what? Some pluralist certainties in the United States. In Wendy James (ed.) The pursuit of certainty London and New York: Routledge Goodman, Roger 1990.

    17. 100gogo Expedition Of Africa, Africa's Super Predators & Mammals Safari
    On the coast are the various swahilispeaking tribes, while in Tanzania are the Theother indigenous groups are all Bantu-speaking peoples, originally from
    http://www.100gogo.com/africa/
    Africa - The Birthplace of Modern Humans You either love it or hate it . . . Africa Map Click here to see large map
    Introduction
    Features of Africa
    Africa is the second-largest continent , after Asia, covering 30,330,000 sq km; about 22% of the total land area of the Earth. It measures about 8,000 km from north to south and about 7,360 km from east to west. The highest point on the continent is Mt. Kilimanjaro - Uhuru Point - (5,963 m/19,340 ft) in Tanzania. The lowest is Lake 'Asal (153 m/502 ft below sea level) in Djibouti. The Forests cover about one-fifth of the total land area of the continent.
    The Woodlands, bush lands, grasslands and thickets occupy about two-fifth.
    And the Deserts and their extended margins have the remaining two-fifths of African land. World's longest river : The River Nile drains north-eastern Africa, and, at 6,650 km (4,132 mi), is the longest river in the world. It is formed from the Blue Nile, which originates at Lake Tana in Ethiopia, and the White Nile, which originates at Lake Victoria. World's second largest lake : Lake Victoria is the largest lake in Africa and the is the world's second-largest freshwater lake - covering an area of 69,490 sq km (26,830 sq mi) and lies 1,130 m (3,720 ft) above sea level. Its greatest known depth is 82 m (270 ft).

    18. African People And Culture
    a mixture of Arab stock with indigenous peoples such as is also strong in East africa,where intermarriage Bantu produced the distinctive swahili culture, and
    http://www.clcaloha.org/empowerafrica/africa/culture.htm
    African People and Cultures The people and cultures of Africa are as diverse as its geography. North of the Sahara the inhabitants are a mixture of Arab stock with indigenous peoples such as the Berbers. Egypt, Libya, and the Maghreb (Arabic for "west," comprising Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco) have strong cultural and ethnic ties with the Arabic Middle East. In many ways they are more a part of that world than of Africa south of the Sahara. Arab influence is also strong in East Africa, where intermarriage of Arabs with the local Bantu produced the distinctive Swahili culture, and in Western and Central Africa just south of the Sahara. Hamito-Semitic peoples are found in the Horn of Africa (Ethiopia and Somalia), as well as in Egypt, while the extreme southwestern part of the continent is the home of certain Khoisan peoplesthe Bushmen and Hottentots. Most of the rest of the continent is dominated by black peoples of various ethnic groups. Anthropologists have identified almost 3,000 different ethnic groups or peoples in Africa. For the most part, Europeans who planned to settle in Africa went to the southern parts of the continent. The Dutch arrived in South Africa as early as the mid-17th century, settling first in the Cape and then moving north, where they fought a series of wars with the Africans. Later, the British also settled in South Africa, principally in Natal, as well as in Northern and Southern Rhodesia (now Zambia and Zimbabwe) and in the Eastern Highlands. The Germans went to South-West Africa (Namibia) and the Portuguese to Angola and Mozambique.

    19. Tim Knickerbocker's Website - Academic Resume
    local conservation theories and practices; indigenous peoples and cultural Historyof East africa, World Civilizations Skills Competent in swahili Other Related
    http://weber.ucsd.edu/~tknicker/cvres.htm
    MMW Stuff
    Curriculum Vitae
    Timothy J. Knickerbocker
    309 N. Willowspring Dr.
    Encinitas, CA 92024
    tknicker@weber.ucsd.edu
    http://weber.ucsd.edu/~tknicker
    Education
    Ph.D. University of California, San Diego
    Anthropology, September 2002
    Dissertation: "Digo Discontents and the Future of Conservation Illusions in Kenya." My research contributes to a growing field of political ecology studies, and draws attention to the complexities of using the concept of indigenous peoples in natural resource management discourse. By analyzing historical processes, fluid Digo identities, local-level political events, and Digo responses to "others," I argue that the two distinct conservation projects operating in Kenya influence and are influenced by Digo cultural beliefs and practices Areas of Specialization: political ecology; global to local conservation theories and practices; indigenous peoples and cultural change; Digo (Mijikenda) ethnography. M.A. University of California, San Diego Anthropology, 1997 Thesis: "The History of Islamic Conversion Processes in East Africa." B.A.

    20. Africa People
    Burundi, and Rwanda with link to Teaching swahili. A network linking indigenous organizationsin africa to Nurse, George T. The peoples of Southern africa and
    http://www.calacademy.org/research/library/biodiv/biblio/afcul.htm
    African People Bibliography
    CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES LIBRARY World Wide Web Resources Books Children's Books Periodicals World Wide Web Resources For Kids
    Africa Discovery, Understanding and Conservation at the Field Museum of Chicago
    In addition to exhibits on Africa's natural history, art, and culture, the site has an image gallery.
    Africa News
    Weekly news summaries cover the entire continent.
    Africa: One Continent. Many Worlds
    An on-line exhibit from the African collections of the Field Museum of Natural History and Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.
    Africa Online
    Country-specific information on business, education, health, sports, travel, organizations, some current news.
    Africa Research Central
    A gateway to the archives, libraries, and museums with important collections of African primary sources.
    Africa: South of the Sahara
    A major website with an annotated set of web links that can be searched or browsed by topic or country.
    African Art Resources
    A listing of annotated web links on visual arts, dance, music, and literary arts.
    African Studies at Penn
    A major website for nearly all topics relating to the people and resources of Africa.

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