African Studies - History And Cultures by Michael Fleshman, Human Rights Coordinator, The africa Fund spilling over to the urhobo community, whose young men have have driven the indigenous peoples of the region to http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/indiv/area/Africa/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
African Studies - History And Cultures and continuing development of Uganda's indigenous art forms.'; ethnographic researchamong the Sherbro peoples of Sierra urhobo Waado Web Site of the urhobo 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
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Extractions: Countries Nigeria Search: Countries Topics Africa Guide Suggest a Site ... Africa Home An Annotated Directory of Nigeria on the Internet Nigeria News Nigeria Election Sites "AJ is an impartial, non-partisan, independent non-profit, non governmental organization based in Lagos, Nigeria. Established in 1999, AJ researches and advocates reform of systems, systemic
Urhobo And The Nigerian Federation, A Guest Lecture By Peter Ekeh At Seminar Of An assessment of the relationships between Nigeria and its ethnic relations as reflected in Nigeria's constitutions under colonial rule, selfgovernment, and military rule. for the origins of peoples by looking for kingdoms from Those original indigenous people of our lands are as Old World from africa. I daresay that the urhobo and the http://waado.org/Organizations/UNA/GuestLecture_Ekeh.html
Extractions: A guest lecture presented at Urhobo National Assembly's Seminar on Whither Nigeria? The Position of the Urhobo at Petroleum Training Institute, Effurun, Delta State, Nigeria on October 27, 2001. I thank Dr. Igho Natufe, Senior Policy Research Advisor for the Government of Canada, Ottawa; Mr. Onoawarie Edevbie, an engineer in City of Detroit Water Resources, Michigan; and Professor Isaac James Mowoe, State University of Ohio, Columbus, for their important help in reading through the draft of this paper and for several suggestions for correction in it. They are my worthy colleagues in Urhobo Historical Society from whose chair I serve the Urhobo people, the Niger Delta, and Nigeria. It is an indication of the stress and turbulence of our times that Nigerians are everywhere reexamining the purpose of the Nigerian state and the relationships between their ethnic groups and the Nigerian federation. There has been no other occasion in our history when men and women, otherwise engaged in professions far removed from politics and public affairs, have been so concerned about the future of their ethnic groupings and about the purpose of their country's political arrangements. I believe that this is an important and forward-looking development that wise leaders would do well to embrace and to help advance. In worrying about their future and about the prospects of their ethnic groups, Nigerians have leaned backwards to probe their own foundation histories. In that process, they have raised important questions concerning the nature of Nigeria's constitutional arrangements that have implicated their cultural groupings.
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Extractions: "...allows users to search simultaneously the holdings of various archeological collections, such as the National Excavation Index for England, the National Monuments Record of Scotland, the Microfilme Index for England, and the Society of Antiquaries of London." Scout Report, Social Sciences, 9/30/98. "Designed as an online supplement to Archaeology: An Introduction and created by the textbook's author Kevin Greene, this Website offers a novel approach to the typical subject-specific Web directory. The organizing principle here is the content of the original text with chapter subheadings serving as categories. The Website also provides brief excerpts from the text to give a sense of the topics covered in each subheading's annotated links. This allows one to use the Website as either a supplement to the original text or as a kind of hypertext online curriculum in introductory anthropology. Frequently updated, the site is ideal for college students in their first anthropology course."
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Extractions: University of London Number 42 issued October 1999 LONDON A joint conference by Institute of Commonwealth Studies and the National Maritime Museum at Greenwhich is being held on the 15 and 16 October. The conference, entitled The Exhibiting Empire: Visual Material is being held at the National Maritime Museum. Further information can be obtained from Helen Jones (tel: 0208 312 5716 website: http://www.nmm.ac.uk Following the conference in May 1999 on Administering Empire: the British Colonial Service in Retrospect a number of further symposia are being organised. Enquiries should be directed to Michael Twaddle, Institute of Commonwealth Studies (tel: 0207 862 88839/e-mail: mtwaddle@sas.ac.uk Worldaware will be organising four meetings on Sustainable Agriculture. Details from Christine Price (tel: 0171 831 3844/fax: 0171 831 1746/e-mail: education@worldaware.org.uk website: http://www.worldaware.org.uk A one-day conference entitled Toufann and other Tempests: Shakespeare in Post-Colonial Contexts will be held in The Harkness Hall 2, Birkbeck College, Malet Street on 11 December. The conference (organised by Dr Mpalive Msiska (Birkbeck College) and Peter Jenkins (The Africa Centre) and Michael Walling (Border Crossings) in conjunction with Michael Walling's production at the Africa Centre of Toufann, a version of the Tempest by Mauritian playwright Dev Virahsawmy) will bring together eminent academics and theatre practitioners to explore ways in which Shakespeare is translated, adapted and appropriated in post-colonial contexts, particularly in Africa and the Caribbean. For further information and registration enquiries contact The Africa Centre, tel: 0171 836 1973)
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Africa:Forests Under Threat The urhobo also demanded for immediate clean up of all Many of africa's rarest trees,such as mahogany indigenous peoples of the oilrich Niger Delta region http://www.wrm.org.uy/countries/Africa/trouble8.html
Extractions: The value of biodiversity in a fragile environment Known by its historical past because of the vast and powerful empire that surprised European visitors in the XIV century, nowadays the Malian territory comprises more than 1,200,000 square kilometres in West Africa, over the Sahara desert in the north, the Sahel grasslands in the centre and the savannah region in the south. In the Sahel, human life as well as that of the flora and fauna follow the Niger River's annual flood cycle, with high water levels between August and November. More plentiful rainfall and water courses - including the Niger River - in the southern region give place to a more lush biodiversity. With more than 58% of its land desert and another 30% threatened by the continued encroachment of the Sahel, Mali faces desertification and deforestation as two capital environmental problems, both of them strongly related to the loss of biodiversity. The wide variety of plants and animals from the forests and other ecosystems containing trees - like the savannah - constitute an important component of household food supply. In many villages and small towns, the "hidden harvest" from forests and trees is essential for food security since it provides a number of essential dietary products. For example, the fruit of Saba senegalensis is widely eaten in Mali. The failure of the plantation projects using alien fast growing species in order to mitigate the effects of the drought registered in the decade of 1970, was due to the fact that they did not recognise that for many rural people the non-timber forest products are important to their social and economic survival. Thus they preferred native species to alien ones, no matter how fast they could grow.
Extractions: One of the most exciting areas in the growth of African oral literary study within the last two decades has been the specialized interest in the continent's heroic epics: stories about great warriors, empire builders, and culture heroes like Sunjata among the Mandinka of Mali, Lianja among the Nkundo of Zaire, Shaka among the Zulu of South Africa, Ozidi among the Ijo of Nigeria's delta country, and many others. So widely has this interest growninvolving the collection of hitherto ignored epic texts and the critical study of themthat Indiana University Press, without doubt the sturdiest publisher of African studies in the United States, has seen fit to establish an African Epic Series to enshrine this body of work within the canons of higher education. With so much that has come to light, it is no longer possible to doubt, as was the case up to the 1970s, that the epic is a characteristic feature of Africa's oral traditions. And yet, if we took time to look beyond the walls of the academy, and projected our study of the epic within the larger context of the realities around us, we would find reason enough to temper our enthusiasm for this subject with a certain concern. In the more than three decades that African nations have been free from the colonial shackles that held them down for pretty much one century, most of them have been ruled by indigenous leaders who have done much worse to their people than the foreign usurpers. If we looked closely at the power profiles of these recent leaders, we would find them uncomfortably similar to the heroes we have grown accustomed to glorifying in our studies: leaders who held absolute power, exercising total proprietorship over the material and perhaps spiritual lives of those who lived under the shadow of their might.
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Extractions: This paper is therefore designed as a response and contribution towards the on going debates and search for new ways to conflict management in Africa. The discussion focused on the examination of the contexts and dynamics of ethnic conflicts in Africa. Precisely, some of the forms, causes, and the underlying consequences of such with reference to some recent scenario in the continent was discussed. One of the major issues pointed out is how imperialism and colonialism impacted on ethnicity and ethnic conflicts which are traceable to the colonial masters systems of administration, arbitrary delimitation and partitioning the continent. This paper also borders on how persistent these conflicts have been and how the various western models and paradigms of conflict management have failed on the altar of peace deliberations due to their inadequacy to fit in properly into the Africa context. In conclusion, African traditional alternatives to conflict resolution were suggested for adoption in the next millennium.
Dance In Sub-Saharan Africa their stereotypes of blacks as sexualized, warlike peoples. The Nigerian urhobo womenperform a dance during of the dance's connection to indigenous religions. http://www.africana.com/Articles/tt_134.htm
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Women Through urhobo land pipelines carry up to a million to road tankers to supply Nigeriaand west africa. in 1993 to launch the decade of indigenous peoples. http://www.uoguelph.ca/~terisatu/Counterplanning/c9.htm
Extractions: Women's uprisings against the Nigerian oil industry in the 1980s* and M.O. Oshare, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Warri, Delta State, Nigeria June 1993 *This is a revised version of a paper which Terisa E. Turner presented at the annual conference of the Canadian African Studies Association in Montreal in May 1992. Thanks are due to H. Rouse-Amadi, J. Ihonvbere, H. Veltmeyer and J. Fiske for comments on an earlier draft, and to this Journal's anonymous referees for their critical insights. Research for this article was done in Nigeria in the 1970s and 1980s, supported in part by the Canadian Social Science and Humanities Research Council. ABSTRACT In the 1980s women attacked oil industry installations and personnel throughout Nigeria. This article considers two revolts: the 1984 Ogharefe women's uprising and the 1986 Ekpan women's uprising. In the oil centre of Warri where both took place, women do most of the peasant farming but land is controlled by men. The study argues that oil-based industrialization superimposed on this local political economy a new regime which dispossessed women of access to farm land. Women responded by attacking the oil industry with varying degrees of success. In the 1984 uprising women seized control of a US oil corporation's production site, threw off their clothes and with this curse won their demands. These had to do with financial compensation for pollution and alienation of land. In the 1986 uprising women shut down the core of the whole region's oil industry. They were less successful in winning their demands for land compensation and oil industry jobs.
Extractions: Funded Projects-Regional Conflict Africa ACADEMIC ASSOCIATES PEACE WORKS, Ibadan, Nigeria (Project Director(s): Celestine O. Bassey and Judith Asuni): A project to address the increasing conflict among the Itsekiri, Urhobo and Ijaw ethnic groups in the Niger Delta of Nigeria, including a study of the conflicts, training workshops in conflict management for youth and adult leaders, conciliation efforts through members of the Nigeria Corps of Mediators, a conciliation meeting with key leaders and follow-up support of the peace process. (USIP-125-98F) $40,000 AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH, Washington, DC (Project Director(s): Robert A. Licht): A grant to assist with the publication of a book of essays which resulted from a conference held in South Africa on the relevance of the United States constitution to the new South African constitution, now in the process of being negotiated and written. The essays, written both by American and South African constitutional specialists, will consider areas in which lessons can or can not be drawn for South Africa from American constitutional experience. (SG-52-92) $35,000 ASSOCIATION FRANCAISE POUR LES ETUDES ET RECHERCHES SUR L'AFRIQUE, Antony, France (Project Director(s): Jean-Pierre Chretien): A project to delineate internal and external actors that have determined the cycles of violence that have characterized the Great Lakes region of Central Africa. It will measure the impact of identity consciousness and identity conflicts; the existence of historical models or paradigms for social violence; the role of regional and international dynamics during and after the Cold War; the politics of internal factional struggles; and the economic motor of networks of accumulation controlled by transnational rebel movements. (SG-99-00) $25,000
Extractions: Funded Projects: Conflict Resolution and Other Professional Training Approaches ACADEMIC ASSOCIATES PEACE WORKS, Ibadan, Nigeria (Project Director(s): Celestine O. Bassey and Judith Asuni): A project to address the increasing conflict among the Itsekiri, Urhobo and Ijaw ethnic groups in the Niger Delta of Nigeria, including a study of the conflicts, training workshops in conflict management for youth and adult leaders, conciliation efforts through members of the Nigeria Corps of Mediators, a conciliation meeting with key leaders and follow-up support of the peace process. (USIP-125-98F) $40,000 AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION-FUND FOR JUSTICE AND EDUCATION, Washington, DC (Project Director(s): Nicolas Mansfield): A project to establish a training institute to raise the level of professionalism of judges in Bosnia as a step toward a strong and independent judicial system, seen as a critical component of democratic development. (SG-132-99) $39,953 CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, SACRAMENTO, Sacramento, CA (Project Director(s): Ernest Uwazie): A collaborative project with the Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies to train a multi-ethnic Nigerian team in mediation, negotiation, and conflict resolution techniques. The purpose is to develop the capacity of Nigerian community organizations to manage and resolve inter-ethnic and religious conflict. (SG-46-96) $40,000 CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY SACRAMENTO FOUNDATION, Sacramento, CA (Project Director(s): Ernest E. Uwazie): A conflict resolution training initiative to develop curricular materials and provide training for ethnic and religious leaders and NGO representatives in Ghana and Nigeria. The project will also prepare, publish and make available a directory of organizations active in the field as part of an effort to strengthen the network of groups working on conflict resolution in West Africa. (SG-44-01) $40,000
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Extractions: Mon Jun 17 13:52:09 2002 zpub2000@yahoo.com From: "Prishani" < prishani@union.org.za To: ilias_ziog@hotmail.com Subject: imc-sa proposal Date: Sun, 19 May 2002 18:11:39 +0200 by the Indymedia South African national committee The South African Indymedia collective was surprised to realize last week that proper discussions were happening on the IMC-Finance list, concerning a proposal for a $20 000 Africa Caravana. Although we have seen Marcus Sky=92s letters posted to the imc-sa list, no effort has been made to figure out what we could be thinking about that. We ignored the letter because we deeply disagreed with the =91Caravana=92 approach. We though recognised that the African IMCs need a lot of basic capacities =96 but not in the sense Mr Sky speaks of.
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