Extractions: Africa - The Birthplace of Modern Humans You either love it or hate it . . . Africa Map Click here to see large map 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. 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).
MOST Ethno-Net Publication: Anthropology Of Africa Anthropology of africa and the Challenges of of the coastal peoples, presenting themselves as an the bamileke were ready to use their numbers to exclude the indigenous minorities http://www.ethnonet-africa.org/pubs/p95konings.htm
Africa: Art Museums And Exhibition Centers. Universes In Universe Annotated links african museums, exhibition centers and collections ordered according to location are the Tikar, Bamoun and bamileke populations. Part of the of the various peoples in southern, western and central africa. fine collection of indigenous KwaZulu-Natal art and craft. http://www.universes-in-universe.de/africa/e_mus.htm
VADA - Volkeren En Stammen Peoples Tribes B BAMBUTI (Afrika africa). bamileke (Kameroen - Cameroon). BAMUM (Kameroen - Cameroon) BOIS-BRULES (Noord Amerika - North America). indigenous peoples in BOLIVIA. BOLOVEN (Laos) http://www.vada.nl/volkenbb.htm
Extractions: BAGA (Guinee) H+K Gallery - About the Baga Tribe - An enormous head with beak nose and horseshoe ears (typical of the work of west Atlantic tribes), the whole heavily scarified, is cantilevered on a long neck. The huge breasts are carved in one with the shoulders and it is worn on the head of the dancer, whose body is hidden under a raffia costume, so that the head and breasts are all that is visible of the carving
Extractions: Reunification discourse has generated controversy in Cameroon since the 1990s and hinges on the issue of the degree of commitment of Anglophone and Francophone Cameroonians to its realization. This essay provides a chronological, comprehensive, and critical survey of the reunification question. Often only part of the history is presented, either inadvertently or deliberately. It is argued in this essay that reunification was a minority ideology conned largely to the Cameroon people of the Southwestern quadrant. That notwithstanding, its chief proponents were Francophones who conceived it, propagated it, and sustained it until the United Nations recognized it in the 1960s. The 1961 reunification of the British Southern Cameroons and the former French Cameroons was an extraordinary event, as peoples of different colonial backgrounds decided to form a single state. It presented a countercurrent in postcolonial Africa to the prevailing trend of the balkanization of old political unions or blocs.
Africa Architect Exposition "Ulwazi Lwemvelo - Indigenous Knowledge In South Afr This Electronic Research Collection (ERC) web page is an older archived page from the U.S. Department of State web site. peak (13 353 ft.) in africa. Climate Northern plains Christian (40%), Muslim (20%), indigenous african (40%). of Cameroonian peoples (UPC), based largely among the bamileke and Bassa http://www.africa-architect.com/architect/galerie.htm
Extractions: Cape Town South African National Gallery Government Avenue ma-di 10-17 Arts de la perle / Expositions temporaires Cape Town - Gardens South African Museum 25 Queen Victoria Street lu-di 10-17 Ethnographie et archéologie de l'Afrique australe: terres cuites de Lydenburg San (peintures rupestres), Zimbabwe Tsonga , Khoikhoi, Sotho, Nguni, Shona, Lovedu... Exposition "
Musées Afrique indigenous Knowledge in South africa . Arts du CamerounBamoun, bamileke, etc. Aquarelles de Joy Adamson peoples of Kenya . http://www.unil.ch/gybn/Arts_Peuples/Ex_Africa/ex_Af_musaf.html
Extractions: Cape Town South African National Gallery Government Avenue ma-di 10-17 Arts de la perle / Expositions temporaires Cape Town - Gardens South African Museum 25 Queen Victoria Street lu-di 10-17 terres cuites de Lydenburg San (peintures rupestres), Zimb abwe Tsonga , Khoikhoi, Sotho, Nguni, Shona, Lovedu... Exposition " Ulwazi Lwemvelo - Indigenous Knowledge in South Africa Cape Town - Rosebank University of Cape Town Irma Stern Museum Cecil Road ma-sa 10-17 Arts de Zanzibar et du Congo: Lega, Luba Durban Art Gallery City Hall lu-sa 8.30-16; di 11-16 Durban Local History Museum Aliwal Street East London East London Museum lu-ve 9.30-17; sa 9.30-12 Grahamstown Albany Museum. Natural Sciences and History Museums Somerset Street lu-ve 9-13 / 14-17; sa-di 14-17 Johannesburg MuseuMAfricA Newtown Cultural Precinct
Background Notes Archive - Africa Christian (40%), Muslim (20%), indigenous African (40%). or grasslanders), includingthe bamileke, Bamoun, and 2) coastal rain forest peoples, including the http://dosfan.lib.uic.edu/ERC/bgnotes/af/cameroon9603.html
Geography For example, the bamileke peoples populated the highlands in the These peoples wereable to populate much of africa women on one hand, women indigenous to the http://www.rmc.edu/facstaffpages/nlebon/public_html/CHAMEG/about_cameroon.htm
Extractions: Geography of Cameroon One of the major geographical features of Cameroon is Mount Cameroon, upon which CHAMEG is located. This mountain is the highest point in Cameroon and is actually a still active volcano. Another of the major geological features are the huge rivers that wind through much of Cameroon: the Logone, the Sanaga, the Nyong, and the Benoue. The peoples of Cameroon rely heavily upon these rivers for their livelihood. The capital of Cameroon is Yaounde, which began as a German trading station. Another important city is Douala, which actually existed before colonialism as a small native settlement. Both of these cities' creations and/or developments can be traced to the colonialism that forged the country's history, as is the case with all the cities in Cameroon. View of the city of Yaounde History of Cameroon Pre-Colonial Era In the 17th century, cassava (a tuber/root) was introduced into the area, seriously altering women's lives ever since. Since it was considered a woman's role to grow and process the cassava, this lead to a shift in labor that seriously disadvantaged women. In the 19th century, Fulani Muslims from the north invaded what would be Cameroon. There were two consequences of this invasion for women: on one hand, women indigenous to the invaded regions resisted this invasion mainly because the Fulani's cattle were damaging their crops. Secondly, since this resistance was not successful, and because the Fulani were Muslim, a religion known for its seclusion of women and their subordination to their husbands, those women in the northern region of the country who were converted to the religion saw their circumstances change drastically.
Extractions: Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas Sotheby's Saturday, May 19, 2001, 10:15AM Sale 7659 By Carter B. Horsley This season Sotheby's has combined its Tribal Art, American Indian Art and Pre-Columbian Art auctions into one catalogue. The 87 lots of Oceanic Art start the auction at 10:15AM, Saturday, May 19, 2001, followed by 159 lots of the arts of Africa. The afternoon session, which starts at 2PM, will begin with 27 lots of American Indian Art, the smallest number in many seasons, followed by 148 lots of Pre-Columbian Art. While the sale recorded some good prices, only 75.66 percent of the 419 offered lots sold fora total of $6,767,745 including the buyer's premiums. Oceanic Art The Oceanic section of this auction has many fine works included a superb canoe prow, a fine canoe splash board, a wonderful dance paddle, an excellent gope board, a nice "pig killer," a fine ancestor plaque, and some good masks. Lot 38, canoe prow, 83 inches long, Geelvink Bay, Irian Jaya The canoe prow, shown, above, Lot 38, comes from the Geelvink Bay in Irian Jaya and measures 83 inches in length and has a conservative estimate of $60,000 to $90,000. It sold for $55, 375 including the buyer's premium as do all results mentioned in this article.
Cameroon / Cameroun by the Southern Cameroons peoples Conference in of rainforests, forests, biodiversity,indigenous cultures and Le cas de bamileke Three page article by A. Kom http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/camer.html
Extractions: The Africana Periodical Literature Bibliographic Database has citations to journal articles from the mid-19th c. to date and indexes the e-journals - Africa Update, African Studies Quarterly, Electronic Journal of Africana Bibliography, Internet Journal of African Studies, Jouvert, a Journal of Postcolonial Studies, West African Review. Maintained by Davis Bullwinkle. http://WWW.AfricaBib.Org African Anthropology: Journal of the Pan African Anthropological Association (Yaounde, Cameroon)
Trefon they are generally Eton, Bassa, bamileke, Bafia, Yambassa that 1993 was declared Yearof indigenous peoples by the ignored by our informants in central africa. http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/Rainforest/trefon/findings.html
Extractions: The forest is perceived as, and is in reality, a vast reservoir of all kinds of vital foodstuffs and raw materials as well as other socially and culturally important substances. It is also perceived as "a profane inanimate entity, to be plundered so as to satisfy gross economic demands." Fuel wood and bush meat are the forest products most extensively used by city dwellers throughout central Africa on a regular basis for both economic and cultural reasons. While both are renewable resources in theory, insufficient effort is made to conserve them and even less to renew them: they are accordingly disappearing at an alarming rate. These reasons, combined with the desire to formulate recommendations on how to help diminish their depletion, have consequently motivated the specific focus of our research. The other forest products which are also used daily, again for economic and cultural purposes, were not investigated in significant detail because their use does not seriously threaten the forest - at least in the immediate future. (The cities which are the greatest consumers of fuelwood and bush meat head the next two sections.) 7.1.1 FUELWOOD
Findings ethnically, they are generally Eton, Bassa, bamileke, Bafia, Yambassa 1993 was declaredYear of indigenous peoples by the by our informants in central africa.(91 http://www.ulb.ac.be/soco/apft/GENERAL/PUBLICAT/RAPPORTS/TREFON/find.htm
Extractions: 7.1 Use of forest products The forest is perceived as, and is in reality, a vast reservoir of all kinds of vital foodstuffs and raw materials as well as other socially and culturally important substances. It is also perceived as "a profane inanimate entity, to be plundered so as to satisfy gross economic demands."( ) Fuel wood and bush meat are the forest products most extensively used by city dwellers throughout central Africa on a regular basis for both economic and cultural reasons. While both are renewable resources in theory, insufficient effort is made to conserve them and even less to renew them: they are accordingly disappearing at an alarming rate. These reasons, combined with the desire to formulate recommendations on how to help diminish their depletion, have consequently motivated the specific focus of our research. The other forest products which are also used daily, again for economic and cultural purposes, were not investigated in significant detail because their use does not seriously threaten the forest - at least in the immediate future. (The cities which are the greatest consumers of fuelwood and bush meat head the next two sections.) 7.1.1 Fuelwood
Foundation For Endangered Languages. Home Nahuatl, Italian, Turkish, Ingush, bamileke Dschang (Cameroun Sudan), and West africa(especially eastern makes available to indigenous peoples, scholars, and http://www.ogmios.org/146.htm
Extractions: 6. Allied Societies and Activities (My thanks to David Nash for sending me the collection of abstracts and hand-outs for the event.) This conference was held at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia, under the chairmanship of David Bradley. As well as a few talks on aspects of the general phenomenon of language endangerment, there were a larger number of talks on individual languages which may be considered endangered, notably those of Oceania and the Pacific Rim. And a feature of the conference was a final session on technical aspects of language support work: desirable properties of dictionaries and technical tools, and the particular problems that arise when one attempts to re-create a language on the basis of 19th century documents. In the case studies of individual languages, it was possible to discern the current situation of Irish in Ireland and Finnish in Sweden (both under heavy pressure from incursions of English Anders Ahlqvist), German in Pennsylvania (Kate Burridge), Tsimshian on the British Columbia coast (Tonya Stebbins), as well as many south-east Asian languages: theYi languages in southern China (David and Maya Bradley); Tai languages in Assam (Stephen Morey), and the languages of East Timor (John Hajek); was Taba being swamped by Malay in North Maluku (John Bowden)? In this geographic area, a special focus of the conference was bilingual phenomena in transplanted immigrant communities. So Aone van Engelenhoven asked how the politically inspired Alifuru concept, with its emphasis on Malay as a common language, and designed to preserve cultural solidarity of the Moluccans away in the Netherlands, had affected the survival of their various indigenous languages. (Her answer: very variously, sometimes eliminating the memory of languages (Leti), in other cases breeding a reaction and language revival (Ewav, Allang, Amahei), enabling the renaissance of protoypical languages (Alune, Fordata). Margaret Florey (whose paper appears in this issue of Ogmios) looked into the effects of its new immigrant setting in the Netherlands on the Amahai language, now being revived in later generations. Christina Eira compared the different, and increasingly incompatible, varieties of Hmong which are developing among refugees in Melbourne.
La Culture Camerounaise and other cultural artifacts of the bamileke, Nso and Bali Stuttgart 1987) used theword indigenous to speak of and thus to identify the peoples who occupied http://www.spm.gov.cm/cameroun/culture/cam_culture_a.htm
Extractions: Cultural Cameroon Dance Fables Dishes Music ... Art THE CAMEROON CULTURE The microcosm of Africa's culture Cameroon has rightly been described as the "microcosm" of Africa. On its territory are found cohabiting, mingling and intermingling all the major cultures and traditions of sub-Saharan Africa, namely: A quick overview of Cameroon's cultural landscape sprawling from the Atlantic coast to Lake Chad makes it possible to distinguish and better highlight a number of major cultural spheres, each with its own original and specific features. These include the coastal region, the Bantu forest region, the grassfields and the northern region. The coastal or sawa culture Cameroon's coast stretches over close to 400km from Rio del Rey on the western border with Nigeria to Campo near the border with Gabon and Equatorial Guinea and is inhabited by such peoples as the Dualas, Bakweris, Bakokos and Batangas all of whom belong to the coastal Sawa Culture.
Africast.com - Cameroon People Religions Christian 40%, Muslim 20%, indigenous African 40%. or grassfielders), includingthe bamileke, Bamoun, and Islamic or recently Islamic peoples of the http://www.africast.com/country_people.php?strCountry=Cameroon
MOST Ethno-Net Publication: Anthropology Of Africa nomination within his ruling Cameroon peoples Democratic Movement Here the Bamilekeexcel as a vibrant hard the fact that Cameroonian indigenous ethnic groups http://www.ethnonet-africa.org/pubs/p95forje2.htm
Extractions: Can a study of democratization and ethnicity in Algeria, Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, Chad, Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda, South Africa, Sudan , etc. hold general lessons? Is the state of ethnicity and ethnic conflict the same in these countries? Did democratization begin with the granting of independence to Ghana following the fall out of Macmillans famous speech of the "wind of change blowing across the continent of Africa?" Africa since the late 1950s and early 1960s jumped on the bandwagon of democratization and good governance for better or worse. Nkrumahs adage of "seek ye first the political kingdom" was practically converted to "fill ye my stomach" by the new generation of African leaders and their subordinate citizens. Some analysts even doubt that African states are yet to democratize. Their argument is that African states since the attainment of political independence have been more concerned with "politics of the belly" rather than the proper transfer and appropriate use of power to address the changing and challenging predicaments of the society. It is the governing elites and not the masses that matters. As long as the elites enjoy the benefits of the nations wealth, there is the presumption that all is fine with the suffering population or the rest of society can go to hell and as long as the power base of the ruling elites is not contested and threatened by the suffering silent majority.
SIL Bibliography: Notes On Anthropology Community development through indigenous leadership The supreme god concept amongthe Eastern Sudanic peoples of southern Skulls, gods and revenge in bamileke. . http://www.ethnologue.com/show_serial.asp?name=Notes on Anthropology
Cameroon (05/02) Religions Christian 53%, Muslim 22%, indigenous African 25%. or grassfielders), includingthe bamileke, Bamoun, and Islamic or recently Islamic peoples of the http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/2822.htm
Untitled interpersonal relatons in two bamileke chiefdoms, Cameroon and Oswald Weiner (eds.),indigenous knowledge systems 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.
