Films And Videos On AFRICA brought about the women's movement and the associations of indigenous peoples whoseek to With his help Mani kongo is reunited with his daughter and http://www.library.yorku.ca/SMIL/subjectguides/Area_Studies/africa.htm
Extractions: Print this page Library Home Sound and Moving Image Library Subject Guides to Films and Videos Last updated October 2001 The films and videorecordings listed below are owned by York University Libraries and available for academic use by the York University community. Requests for these materials can be made in writing, by telephone, or in person to the
Search The Standards Database Britain, France, Spain, and the indigenous peoples of the trade in West and CentralAfrica and circumstances Dahomey, Benin, Lunda, and kongo; different forms http://www.mcrel.org/compendium/Benchmark.asp?SubjectID=6&StandardID=29
Extractions: - The Editor, http://www.uctp.org/lavoz.htm The following excerpt was part of an article, which was originally published in the 1992 Festival of American Folklife catalogue; reprinted with permission from the Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage of the Smithsonian Institution. (http://www.si.edu/maroon/educational_guide/23.htm) " Maroons: Rebel Slaves in the Americas" by Richard Price The man who was to become the first African-American maroon arrived within a decade of Columbus' landfall on the very first slave ship to reach the Americas. One of the last maroons to escape from slavery was still alive in Cuba only 15 years ago. The English word "maroon" derives from Spanish itself based on an Arawakan (Taino) Indian root originally referred to domestic cattle that had taken to the hills in Hispaniola, and soon after it was applied to American Indian slaves who had escaped from the Spaniards as well. By the end of the 1530s, the word had taken on strong connotations of being "fierce," "wild" and "unbroken," and was used primarily to refer to African-American runaways. The following excerpt was taken from the Exhibition "The Sacred Art of Vodou" hosted at the American Museum of Natural History from October 1998 until January 1999.
African Studies - Art And Archaeology africa Forum (Hafrica, H-Net Humanities and Social essays on 'indigenous sculptural arts of South africa', 'modern' sculpture of in the lives of african peoples. This project is http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/indiv/area/Africa/AfArt.html
Religions Of The World -- African Background information and links.Category Society Religion and Spirituality African Buganda's indigenous Religion A southern Ungandan Tradition, ozric.eng of ZimbabweThe Shona Ndebele peoples, www.stg 7. Pan America kongo / Palo Mayombe. http://members.aol.com/porchfour/religion/african.htm
Extractions: African and African-Derivative Religions are a large group of beliefs and practices based upon ancient indigenous faiths of sub-Saharan African peoples. Within the last 100 years in Africa (see Table of Statistics ) indigenous religion has declined under the influence of colonialism, Western acculturation and proselytizing by Islam and Christianity. In the African Diaspora (mainly in the Americas) African-derived belief systems are in a state of impressive growth. ithin just the last two years the amount of information made available through the Internet is also impressive. Some of the best information comes to us from Italy, Sweden and Brazil. We are no longer dependent upon reports from academia or encyclopedias. There are now numerous websites maintained by the faithful themselves and, while the quality and quantity of information varies enormously among them, one may now hear from practitioners their own statements of faith. In many, if not most, cases African spirituality has evolved in the Americas. Ancient practices brought westward by slaves became syncretized, more or less, with religious traditions of the slaves' masters. This syncretization is most noticeable in areas dominated by the Catholic faith and where the celebration of saints, votive offerings and other practices found parallels in ancient traditions.
Assignment Page VIII: HIST 360/560, The Spanish Empire What factors led to warfare in Western africa? some african areas, like Benin andKongo, at times found to control the labor of indigenous peoples in Castilian http://www.isu.edu/~owenjack/spemp/readver5.08.html
Extractions: Coerced African labor and its great forced migration in the Atlantic world. The increasing integration of the Americas into the developing global economic system. Special attention will be given to the establishment of networks of major administrative, commercial, and production centers from Manila to Northwest Europe and Southwest Africa and to the development of the "plantation complex" as the focus of agricultural production, machine technology, labor migration, capital investment, and long-distance commerce. Reading: Thornton, chs. 3 and 4; Burkholder and Johnson, ch. 4; Thornton, ch. 5.
Extractions: BACK ISSUES BOOK REVIEW Reviewer: Kofi Akosah-Sarpong in Ottawa, Canada TITLE: KONGO POLITICAL CULTURE AUTHOR: Wyatt MacGaffey PUBLISHER: Indiana University Press, 601 North Morton Street, Bloomington, IN 47404-3797 USA. 2000 PAGES: 269 PRICE: US$39.95 From independence to date, Africans have practiced Socialism, Marxism, Communism, and all brands of democracy. Africans have practiced America’s Presidential system, the French system, and Britain’s Parliamentary system. All these have been imported by Africa's modernizing elite thought by their unsuspecting African followers as ‘educated", ‘learned’, ‘brilliant’, and all that. From Ghana’s Kwame Nkrumah to Guinea’s Sekou Toure to Ghana’s Kofi Busia to Kenya’s Jomo Kenyatta to Ethiopia’s Mengistu Haile Mariam to Malawi’s Kamuzu Banda to Benin Republic’s Mathieu Kerekou to Zambia’s Kenneth Kaunda Africa has seen not only the continuation of colonial values but also the deliberate copying of alien political values on Africans.
Congo (Zaire) Major peoples and gatherers to centralized chiefdoms, from settled indigenous villagecommunities to Established in the late 1300s, the kongo Kingdom expanded http://www.uiowa.edu/~africart/toc/countries/Congo_(Zaire).html
Extractions: Country: Congo (Zaire) Location: Central Africa Independence: June 30, 1960 Nationality: Congolese Capital City: Kinshasa Population: Important Cities: Kisingani, Lubumbashi, Kolwesi Head of State: Lawrence Kabila Area: 2,345,410 sq.km. Type of Government: Dictatorship, presumably undergoing transition to Representative Government Currency: 4.5 CF=1 USD Major peoples: Azande, Chokwe ,Songo, Kongo ,Kuba,Lunda,Bembe Religion: Roman Catholic 50%, Protestant 20%, Kimbanguist 10%, Muslim 10%, African 10% Climate: Equatorial Literacy: Official Language: French Principal Languages: Lingala, Azande, Chokwe, Kongo, Luba Major Exports: Copper, Cobalt, Diamonds, Crude Oil, Coffee Pre-Colonial History The precolonial past of Congo (Zaire) was complex. A diversity of social aggregates developed, ranging from small, autonomous groups of hunters and gatherers to centralized chiefdoms, from settled indigenous village communities to predominantly Muslim and Arab trading communities. Established in the late 1300s, the Kongo Kingdom expanded until the mid-17th century. The
Recent Books By Jouvert Board Members: Volume 2 political, cultural, and ecological war against indigenous peoples. of colonial andindigenous practices. origins of European culture, kongo nationalism, the http://social.chass.ncsu.edu/jouvert/v2i1/jbooks2.htm
Extractions: Allen, Paula Gunn. Life is a Fatal Disease: Collected Poems 1962-1995 . Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1996. More than eighty poems are collected in Life is a Fatal Disease ; the volume both records Paula Gunn Allen's poetic trajectories during the past four decades and consolidates her reputation as a major voice in American Indian Literature. Although much of the work addresses aspects of Indian cultures, the book also includes excursions into other areas of experience in the Americas, including the autobiographical. Ashcroft, Bill, Gareth Griffiths, and Helen Tiffin. Key Concepts in Post-Colonial Studies . New York: Routledge, 1998. As a subject, post-colonial studies stands at the intersection of debates about race, colonialism, gender, politics and language. This volume provides an essential guide to understanding these intersections and the issues that characterize post-colonialism: explaining what it is, where it is encountered, and why it is crucial in forging new cultural identities. There are suggestions for further reading at the end of each entry, a comprehensive glossary, and a bibliography of essential writings. Brown, Stewart, ed.
Exploring Africa -> Students-> Geography Of Africa-> Movement ago a massive migration of peoples, which continued the movement of people whose indigenouslanguage belonged the same language familythe kongo-Niger language http://exploringafrica.matrix.msu.edu/curriculum/lm6/activityfive.htm
Extractions: Movement-Explain So far Module Six: The Geography of Africa has focused on the location of Africa, the physical features of the continent, its climate, vegetation and natural resources. In investigating these characteristics, you have learned that there is great geographic diversity in Africa, and as a consequence of this diversity, peoples and societies develop different ways of living, organizing themselves, and making a living. In addition to studying specific places in Africa and the natural features that characterize these places, geographers are interested in the movement of people, goods, services, social and cultural practices, and knowledge. Another way of saying this is that geography is the study of exchanges, communication and movement that connects people in different locations. In studying movement, geographers are particularly interested in three things:
Teachers -> Exploring Africa ago, a massive migration of peoples, which continued the movement of people whoseindigenous language belonged to same language familythe kongo-Niger language http://ex.matrix.msu.edu/africa/curriculum/lm6/te_activityfive.htm
Extractions: Movement-Explain Unlike the previous activities in this module, this activity will be facilitated by teacher lead discussion and aided by maps (down-loadable) and photographs. Down-Loadable Resources: So far, Module Six: The Geography of Africa has focused on the location of Africa, the physical features of the continent, its climate, vegetation, and natural resources. In investigating these characteristics, you have learned that there is great geographic diversity in Africa and, as a consequence of this diversity, peoples and societies develop different ways of living, organizing themselves, and making a living. In addition to studying specific places in Africa and the natural features that characterize these places, geographers are interested in the movement of people, goods, services, social and cultural practices, and knowledge. Another way of saying this is that geography is the study of exchanges, communication, and movement that connect people in different locations.
WoYaa Search Engine - Africa References Online - SOCIETY/RELIGION provocative documentation and exclusive photographs of the indigenous African/Edenicpeoples of Israel 50 Rating 10.00 Votes 1) Rate It. kongo religion. http://www.woyaaonline.com/links/SOCIETY/RELIGION/
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Africa highlands came to dominate the indigenous Bantu. tropical rain forests, Bantuspeakingpeoples established agricultural the 14th century the kongo Kingdom was http://www.emayzine.com/lectures/africa3a.html
Extractions: Africa Some 5 million years ago a type of hominid, a close evolutionary ancestor of present-day humans, inhabited southern and eastern Africa. More than 1.5 million years ago this toolmaking hominid developed into the more advanced forms Homo habilis and Homo erectus. The earliest true human being in Africa, Homo sapiens, dates from more than 200,000 years ago. A hunter-gatherer capable of making crude stone tools, Homo sapiens banded together with others to form nomadic groups; eventually these nomadic San peoples spread throughout the African continent. Distinct races date from approximately 10,000 BC. Gradually a growing Negroid population, which had mastered animal domestication and agriculture, forced the San groups into the less hospitable areas. In the 1st century AD the Bantu, one group of this dominant people, began a migration that lasted some 2000 years, settling most of central and southern Africa. Negroid societies typically depended on subsistence agriculture or, in the savannas, pastoral pursuits. Political organization was normally local, although large kingdoms would later develop in western and central Africa. see Aksum, Kingdom of
Spirits sculptural inventiveness of the cultures indigenous to these of artworks from theDan peoples of Côte d lids and funerary figures from various kongo peoples. http://www.nmafa.si.edu/exhibits/spirits/intro.htm
Extractions: MM_preloadImages('images/introH.gif'); MM_preloadImages('images/wcaH.gif'); MM_preloadImages('images/konH.gif'); MM_preloadImages('images/matH.gif'); MM_preloadImages('images/zomH.gif'); MM_preloadImages('images/choH.gif'); MM_preloadImages('images/ngaH.gif'); MM_preloadImages('images/bidH.gif'); MM_preloadImages('images/retH.gif'); Also at the Smithsonian: Worshiping the Ancestors at the Sackler Gallery looks at the spirits of China. In the Presence of Spirits This exhibition examines an impressive group of over 140 objects that reflect the influences of the supernatural world in both public and private life throughout sub-Saharan Africa. The exhibition is organized according to both geography and the numerous cultural groups represented in the National Museum of Ethnology's collection. In the Presence of Spirits features objects that derive mainly, although not exclusively, from those areas where the Portuguese were present, such as Angola, Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau. A group of important artworks from western, central and southern Africa complements this selection. These artifacts demonstrate the rich variety and sculptural inventiveness of the cultures indigenous to these regions and provide insight into many of their spiritual practices. Highlights of the exhibition include figures, decorated stools and chairs, pipes, masks, staffs and dolls used by kings, queens, chiefs, priests, priestesses and diviners to summon spiritual forces. Major themes include an examination of prestige objects and power figures, initiation and funerary rituals, and symbols of spiritual and secular authority.
Africa A-F culture, drama, illiterate, indigenous, leadership, media kongo (Church of the kongo)based on africa, african traditional religion, authenticity, Bakongo people http://www.fuller.edu/swm/abstracts/africa.html
Extractions: 30 Years of Mission Abstracts Africa Faculty Introduction How to use this volume Search Our Site Author: Addai, Joseph William Degree: Ph.D. ICS Title: Metaphors, Values, and Ethno-leadership: A Missiological Study with Implications for Christian Leaders in Ghana. (U.M. 9925349) 301 pp. Abstract This missiological research examines the problem of developing functional leadership in Ghana, Africa. The premise is that leadership values of any identifiable culture are reflected by their everyday metaphors, and than an understanding of those values is crucial to effective leadership in that context. Key Words African, Ashanti, Akan, biblical leadership, Ghana, Ghanaian, leader, leadership, culture context, world view, tradition, effective leadership, ethno-leadership, ethno-values, functional leadership, holistic leadership, leadership situations, African proverbs, symbols, stools, metaphor, assumptions, English influence, images Author: Adekeye, George Niyi
Traditions And Encounters | Multiple Choice D), forging a military alliance with neighboring kongo. 5, The indigenous religionsof subSaharan African were B), native peoples frequently escaped into the http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072424354/student_view0/chapter26/multipl
Africa South Of The Sahara - Culture And Society An annotated guide to internet resources on african culture and society.Category Regional africa Society and Culture Bwa, Dogon, Fang, Hemba, Ibibio, kongo, Kota, Kuba twostory architecture, Islam andindigenous african cultures The web site for her course peoples and Cultures http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/culture.html
Africa Books five african civilizations Yoruba, kongo, Ejagham, Mande of africa practiced bypeoples with vastly the historical development of indigenous african belief http://carlos.emory.edu/ODYSSEY/Teachers/wab/sbsafricaBK.html
Extractions: This reference work provides a succinct account of the development of African society from the first appearance of man to the complex polity of today. Kingdoms and Empires are only part of the story. The Atlas covers the development of modern man, the differentiation and spread of African languages, the first crossings of the Sahara, the exploration of the Niger, and the search for 'the fountains of the Nile'. Gold and ivory lure traders from far away; Christendom and Islam compete for African attention. Colin McEvedy outlines this progress with the aid of sixty maps and a clear, concise text. Though his synthesis will be especially useful to those involved in the teaching of African history, its broad perspectives will undoubtedly appeal also to the general reader. 144 pages, and sixty maps. Diop, Cheikh Anta.
Africans Art sculptural inventiveness of the cultures indigenous to these lids and funerary figuresfrom various kongo peoples. of objects from the Bidjogo peoples who live http://www.webzinemaker.net/africans-art/index.php3?action=page&id_art=534
AARDOC: African-American Religion In The Atlantic World of African descent also encountered an indigenous population with all the people ofthe kingdom of kongo. are an increasing number of Native American peoples. http://www.amherst.edu/~aardoc/Atlantic_World_1.html
