Kenya Kenyan Ethnic groups Kikuyu 22%, luhya 14%, Luo 13 official), Kiswahili (official),numerous indigenous languages Literacy by wave upon wave of peoples from all http://www.safari.nl/2002/landen/kenia.html
Extractions: Environmental Justice Case Study: Maasai Land Rights in Kenya and Tanzania By: Julie Narimatsu Table of Contents Problem Background Key Actors Demographics ... Back to EJ Case Studies Homepage PROBLEM While many people perceive the term eco-tourism to mean a more friendly, sustainable kind of tourism, most are not aware of the negative impacts that result from this type of tourism. Most of what goes on is what is considered "nature tourism." It is based on the use of natural resources in an undeveloped state. Therefore, when tourists engage in "nature tourism," they are seeing the wilds of Africa, South America and Australia, among other destinations, free of human interaction or disruption. To distinguish among the many types of tourism, we will define the more idealistic eco-tourism as "progressive, educational travel, which conserves the environment and benefits the locals (Schaller, 2)." In Africa, the Maasai tribes of Kenya and Tanzania have endured a long history of colonization by the British. The value of the natural resources in these areas became apparent from the very beginning, when the British perceived the pastoralist Maasai and other tribes to be incompatible with the wildlife that inhabited the area. With this separation of people and nature, national parks in Kenya were created without any consideration for the local communities (Cheeseman, 2). Today, these problems have escalated as more and more parks and reserves are being created by the government without the participation or consent of the indigenous people. The indigenous people consider development, whether it is through tourism or other government projects, to only benefit others and not their own situations (Kipuri, 2). Over the course of their existence, Maasai land has been taken away from them repeatedly, and after many broken promises of compensation and participation, the Maasai have started to fight for their land rights. Says Edward ole Mbarnoti, a Maasai leader
Country Overview 22 percent of the national population), luhya (14 percent the population, while nonAfricanpeoples make up Catholic, 26 percent follow indigenous beliefs, and http://www.ijnet.org/News/Africa/Kenya/profile.html
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Extractions: ABOUT KENYA K enya is situated right along the equator, on the eastern coast of the African continent. Its coastal region is on the southeast, and to the east lies Somalia. Ethiopia is to the north, the Sudan to the northwest, and Uganda directly to the west. The southwestern border of the country is marked by Lake Victoria, and southward lies Tanzania. Kenya's geography is marvelously varied. While much of northeastern Kenya is a flat, bush-covered plain, the remainder of the country encompasses pristine beaches, scenic highlands and lake regions, the Great Rift Valley, and the magnificent Mount Kenya. K enya is still the primary focus of all adventure travel in Africa. It is one of the finest and undoubtedly the most famous safari destination in the world. Safari, however, is by no means the only reason to visit Kenya, for the attractions of its rich culture and diverse environments are considerable. K enya has known the presence of humankind since the very earliest development of our species. Moreover, the region has long been a migratory path, passed through by wave upon wave of peoples from all over Africa and, later, from the Middle East as well. K enya's population is overwhelmingly (97%) comprised of people of African descent, though that group is composed of over 70 different tribal groups. Among the most significant are the Kikuyu, Kamba, Gusii, Luhya, and Luo. Kenya's primary languages are English and Swahili, though regional tribal languages abound.
Traditional Music & Cultures Of Kenya thus be called Kenya's aboriginal or indigenous people (a of the national population),the luhya (third largest at used and managed by entire peoples for their http://bluegecko.crosswinds.net/kenya/contexts/kenyapeople.htm
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Kenya -- Ethnic Groups The five largest Kikuyu, Luo, luhya, Kamba and The principal non-indigenous ethnicminorities are the Arabs majority of the Bantu speaking peoples of Kenya. http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/NEH/k-ethn.html
Extractions: The Kikuyu, Meru, Gusii, Embu, Akamba, Luyha (or alternate spelling of Luyia), Swahili and Mijikenka (which in fact is a group of different ethnic groups) constitute the majority of the Bantu speaking peoples of Kenya. In general, the Bantu have been farmers. The Kikuyu (or Gikuyu) homeland is around Mount Kenya and it is believed they migrated into the area from East and North East Africa around the 16th century. They were neighbors of the Maasai and although there were raids for cattle between them, there was also a lot of trade and intermarriage. The Kikuyu god, Ngai, resides on Mt. Kenya which they call Kirinyaga . As with other ethnic groups, the traditional healer was held in high esteem. For the Kikuyu, land ownership is the most important social, political, religious, and economic factor. They have a complex system of land ownership that revolves around close kin, The importance of land brought them into conflict with the colonial government when white settlers and farmers occupied their traditional lands. Today, Kikuyu farmers produce most of the fresh produce that is consumed in Nairobi as well as coffee and tea for export. Many Kikuyu have also been successful in economic and commercial endeavors. Traditionally, the Kikuyu were governed by a council of elders based on clans. The Akamba The Luyha's traditional homeland is around Kakamega in western Kenya. They are Kenya's third largest ethnic group after the Kikuyu and the Luo. The Luyha suffer from high population density which effects their farming economy as cultivation occurs on plots that get smaller with each generation. They are important producers of sugar-cane.
Adherents.com: By Location src Weeks, R. (ed.), Muslim peoples A World 260. luhya Location Western Kenya;Population 3 million Protestantism); Islam; some indigenous beliefs ; At http://www.adherents.com/adhloc/Wh_175.html
Extractions: Notes Hinduism Kenya *LINK* "Publisher's Desk: Hinduism Today in Africa " in Hinduism Today International (Oct. 1993, Vol. 15, No. 10) on the continent there are major Hindu populations in South Africa (1.2 million), Tanzania (60,000), Kenya (60,000), Nigeria (30,000) and Zambia (20,000) with significant communities in Zimbabwe, Somalia and Botswana. Hinduism Kenya Dostert, Pierre Etienne. Africa 1997 (The World Today Series). Harpers Ferry, West Virginia: Stryker-Post Publications (1997), pg. 174. Hinduism Kenya *LINK* Nazarene web site: Nazarene World Mission Society; (major source: Johnstone's Operation World Table "Religions " Islam Kenya Welch, Alford T. "Islam " in Hinnells, John R. (ed).
Adherents.com The overwhelming majority of luhya people now consider communities drawing on beliefsfrom indigenous practices and are the home of several tribal peoples http://www.adherents.com/Na_413.html
Extractions: Notes Local Church USA The Cult Experience: Responding to the New Religious Pluralism . New York: The Pilgrim Press (1984 [3rd printing; 1st printing 1982]); pg. 148. "The Local Church has congregations in most cities across North America, but they have kept a low profile. " Local Church world *LINK* Living Stream Ministry, A Table of the Churches in the Lord's Recovery (LSM: 1985) 6. This publication lists the individual Local Church fellowships worldwide as of April, 1985. Today Witness Lee leads this movement of approximately 130,000 Local Church world *LINK* web site: New Religious Movements (University of Virginia) (1998) Membership is estimated at 150,000. Lodge of Ur Europe *LINK* web site: "Lodge of Ur "; web page: "The Lodge of Ur " (viewed 2 April 1999). "The Lodge of UR is a body of initiates in the Ancient Tradition of European Magic and Sorcery. We hold our rights to a knowledge rooted in the Ancestral soul of the Romans. We claim to be the last heirs of an EXISTING and UNBROKEN chain of magicians and sorcerers which has been present in Italy at least since the meeting between the Roman Legions and the invading tribes of the Kelts... The Lodge of UR is currenty active in Italy and several European countries. With the last developments of communication, comparison and parallels arose with other traditions... "
New Page 2 Translate this page subordinated the rights and interests of the indigenous peoples. their lost lands,the African peoples had no The luhya, too, lost considerable tracts of http://africadebate.iscte.pt/zimbabwe terras.htm
Extractions: Frank Kachina Matanga and Isaac Kipsang Tarus A questão das terras, veteranos de guerra e a política de transição no Zimbabwe e no Quénia: uma análise comparativa The land question, war veterans and the politics of transition in Zimbabwe and Kenya: A comparative analysis La question des terres, veterans de guerre et la politique de transition dans le Zimbabwe e le Quénia: une analyse comparative Frank Khachina Matanga, Estatuto académico / Academic Status / Statut académique: Doutorando em Ciências Políticas / PhD student in Political Science / Doctorant en Sciences Politiques Isaac Kipsang Tarus Estatuto académico / Academic Status / Statut académique: Doutorando em História / PhD student in History / Doctorant en Histoire Instituição / Institution: Rhodes University E Mail Frank Matanga: g99m4375@campus.ru.ac.za E Mail Isaac Tarus: istarus@yahoo.com Resumo Este artigo é uma análise comparativa de três questões interligadas: a crise da terra, os veteranos de guerra e as políticas de transição no Zimbabwe e no Quénia. Embora os dois países africanos tenham emergido do colonialismo em diferentes momentos históricos (O Quénia em 1963 e o Zimbabwe em 1980), eles partilham experiências coloniais similares. Foram colonizados pelos britânicos, e o Estado colonial instituiu políticas que subordinaram os direitos e interesses dos povos indígenas aos seus. Edificando uma sociedade racista, o Estado colonial apoiou a alienação de quase toda a terra arável em detrimento dos africanos, conduzindo à criação de uma Economia colonial. Os camponeses e os sem
USIU :: Admissions :: International Applicants a number of ethnical diverse peoples who are Languages Swahili (National), English(official ), indigenous. Victoria basin they include the luhya and kisii. http://www.usiu.ac.ke/Admissions/international.htm
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Guide To The Collections Of The Human Studies Film Archives materials 3,5,6 Outtakes from the edited film document the problems of developmentamong the luhya people (and the indigenous peoples depicted include http://www.nmnh.si.edu/naa/guide/hsfa_africa.htm
Modernising Indigenous Crops - Cropping Images Of Indigenous People: of the lived experiences of peoples there mention Third World) rural people, theirindigenous knowledge, and of household adaptation in one luhya community , WP http://www.asa2000.anthropology.ac.uk/bird/bird.html
Extractions: Modernizing indigenous crops - cropping images of indigenous people: an interdisciplinary evaluation study in late 20 th -century Machakos (East Kenya) Nurit Bird-David (anthropologist, University of Haifa, Israel) and Winifred Karugu (agricultural economist, Jomo Kenyatta University, Kenya A draft: please do not cite without authors permission Introduction We present a study conducted within an international program that promotes research for and with African countries, combining theoretical and practical contributions, and establishing academic networks. Our particular project addressed a problematic attempt to re-introduce indigenous food-crops in the drought-prone semi-arid and arid areas of Machakos (East Kenya). Specifically, we sought to understand why the Sorghum and Millet Improvement Program (SMIP) that had tried to promote the cultivation of indigenous sorghum failed, and local people continue to grow maize although it keeps failing in their harsh environment and brings them recurrently to the brink of famine. We approached this question by casting our theoretical and empirical net as wide as possible, using time and other resources that policy makers and implementers rarely have at their disposal. We questioned received assumptions underlying SMIP, including the informing images of Third World rural women , subsistence farmers , and indigenous crops and people, and not least the gap between such stereotyped representations and the realities of late 20 th -century rural Machakos. We argue in this paper that sweeping generalizations about rural African people, their indigenous knowledge, and their gendered labor and households, misled the program, deflecting it from directions in which it could and can in the future be effective. We illustrate the advantages of paying attention to cultural differences, not least between donors and recipients , and the fruit of inter-disciplinary and cross-cultural dialogue.
About Kenya There are numerous indigenous languages in Kenya, although two is made up of Kikuyu(22%), luhya (14%), Luo 11%), Kisii (6%), and Meru (6%) peoples, with other http://www.mnh.si.edu/anthro/humanorigins/aop/Olorgesailie/kenya/home.htm
Extractions: Kenya is a nation of 28,337,000 people located on the eastern coast of the continent of Africa bordering the Indian Ocean between Somalia and Tanzania. Kenya has a total land area of 582,650 km (or almost 227,600 mi ), which is slightly smaller than the states of Arizona and New Mexico together. Kenya's land is only 7% arable, or capable of supporting agriculture, with only 1% devoted to permanent crop production. However, nearly 37% of Kenya's land is used for pasture land. Cattle production remains one of the more important economic products of Kenya. Kenya's climate is highly variable over its territory, from a lush tropical environment in the south near the coast, to arid regions in the north and west, to the glacier-capped peaks of Mount Kenya. Kenya still has one of Africa's more promising agricultural potentials despite recurring drought and famine in the more remote areas of the north. Kenya was a disputed territory between the various European naval powers who explored the area in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In the 1880's the territorial claims of Britain were established in the region, and in 1895 the United Kingdom established the British East Africa Protectorate. Kenya was declared a colony of Britain in 1920. After years of turmoil and a revolution, independence from Britain was finally gained on December 12, 1963 (which is celebrated as the Kenyan Independence Day). The first independent President of Kenya was Jomo Kenyatta, who ruled from 1964 to his death in 1978. Vice President Daniel Arap Moi succeeded him and is President to this day. The first multiparty elections were held in Kenya in 1992.
Kenya Fact Files tribes dominated by the Kikuyu, luhya and Luo. the concession and declared the EastAfrica Protectorate of subjugating the local indigenous peoples to colonial http://www.iss.co.za/AF/profiles/Kenya/kenya1.html
Extractions: East African Wild Life Society - Kenya's forests are disappearing: So What? Originally printed in Swara magazine, April - September, 1999 Kenya is a semi-arid country. Less than two percent of the nation is covered by what is known as high or closed canopy forest. With forests occupying such an apparently insignificant area, why has preserving the few forest blocks that remain become such a major environmental and political issue? Peter Wass explains. The ongoing fuss over Nairobi's Karura Forest is both bad news and good news. Not good news is the attempt to allocate state forest reserve land for private development as political patronage. Karura has both an intrinsic and symbolic value. Given its high profile location in the capital city â it houses the headquarters of the Forestry Department and is situated on the doorstep of the United Nations Environment Programme â Karura has become a symbolic flagship for the forests of Kenya nationally. From that perspective, the attempt to remove part of it without either social or environmental justification sends a very gloomy signal nationally and internationally that forests reserves can be used as a free land reservoir to be handed out when political considerations demand. To make matters worse, much of the area in question is not man-made plantation but natural forest unique to the Nairobi region. It consists of indigenous trees and plants â some of them increasingly rare, such as the high quality hardwood Brachylaena â and provides habitat for a variety of wildlife: birds, butterflies, small antelopes and other mammals. And, the thousand hectares (2,500 acres) of Karura represent one of only two major greenbelt reserves within the current limits of a rapidly growing and polluted capital city where most of the urban population lives in congested settlements dismally devoid of trees or green parks.
Kenya official), Swahili (official), numerous indigenous languages. ETHNIC GROUPS Kikyu,Kmaba, luhya, Kisii. with an incredible diverse peoples, religions, cultures http://www.angelfire.com/punk3/wisdom000/kenya.html
Extractions: POPULATION: 20 million LITERACY RATE: SELF DEFENSE FORCES: EDF LANGUAGES: English (official), Swahili (official), numerous indigenous languages ETHNIC GROUPS: Kikyu, Kmaba, Luhya, Kisii BORDERING COUNTRIES: Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda KENYA - With the possible exception of the Congo, Kenya is the best and most widely known representative of Africa, with an incredible diverse peoples, religions, cultures, and history. It is the Africa of the safari books. It has also come a long way since the last century. Aids, Aids II, and the wasting plague decimated the population by almost half. Tribal wars and political conflict took its toll as well. (Written by Deric "D" Bernier)
Uganda The Country And The People - Face Music - English might thus be called aboriginal or indigenous people (a with previous Bantu immigrants,Cushitic peoples (from whom The Gusii, Kuria and luhya of Lake Victoria http://www.music.ch/face/ugandapeople.html
Extractions: - The country The economy is overwhelmingly agricultural, with cassava, sweet potatoes, plantains, millet, and sorghum as the chief subsistence crops, and coffee (which provides over 90% of export revenues), cotton, tea, and tobacco are the principal cash crops. Stockraising, fishing, and hardwood production are also significant. Its natural resources include cobalt, copper, salt, and limestone. Of Uganda's 21 million people, an estimated 66 percent are Christian, 18 percent practice traditional beliefs, and 16 percent are Muslim. The Anglican and Catholic churches as well as the United Methodist Church are among the many Christian churches found in Uganda. Uganda, most of whom worship in Jinja and Busia near the border with Kenya. English is Uganda's official language. see map sketch of Uganda Archeology tells that prehistoric man walked the earth in what is now Uganda and many sites have been excavated that show habitation over the centuries. One of the more recent excavations is in Kiboro, near Lake Albert, where there are traces of village life going back thousands of years. Around A.D. 1100. Bantu-speaking people migrated into the area that is now Uganda, and by the 14th century they were organized into several independent kingdoms. The most powerful of these were Bunyoro (16th-17th cent.) and later Buganda (18th-19th cent.). In 1962 Uganda gained independence under a federal constitution that gave Buganda a large measure of autonomy. There are four ethnic groups thriving in Uganda: Bantu "Bushmen" (the most numerous), Nilotic "Negroes", Nilo-Hamitic "Hamites" and Sudanic "Cushites". The majority of population is dependent on agricultural harvests in the fertile area South of Lake Kyoga. The contrasts between the various peoples of Uganda reflect the multiplicity of its culture, traditions, and lifestyles. Uganda has been created by the union of many people, ancient people with their own traditional lands, their own customs and a way of life inherited from their ancestors. This has made it acquire a cultural diversity especially in Music and Dance.
Chieni, S N v) indigenous peoples participation in the Harambee. KikuyuNgwatio; Luo - Konyir;luhya - Obwasio; Kamba indigenous Peoples participation in Harambee. http://boleswa97.tripod.com/chieni.htm
Extractions: DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIONS, MOI UNIVERSITY, KENYA INTRODUCTION The kind of life that people in different parts of the world lead is dependent upon the economic and social development of the country that they are living in. The economic and social development of a nation especially in the developing countries is determined to a large extent by the quality and quantity of formal education available. In may instances, educational accessibility has been a problem. In Kenya for example, the demand for education exceeded supply before independence up to today. As a result, a solution was urgently needed; thus the *Harambee movement. In this paper therefore, I aim to discuss the harambee movement in Kenya in relation to its provision of education and other very crucial social services. The argument will be that despite the many problems that have been associated with harambee, it has been quite a success. In relation to this, the following sub-topics will be tackled: i) Meaning of the term Harambee ii) Background of the Harambee Movement - In traditional African Societies (Kenya)
Extractions: African American Black Blood Donor Emergency COUNTRY RACIAL and/or ETHNIC ANALYSIS of PEOPLE GROUPS Afghanistan Pashtun 38%, Tajik 25%, Uzbek 6%, Hazara 19%, minor ethnic groups (Chahar Aimaks, Turkmen, Baloch, and others) Albania Albanian 95%, Greeks 3%, other 2%: Vlachs, Gypsies, Serbs, and Bulgarians Algeria Arab-Berber 99%, European less than 1% Andorra Spanish 61%, Andorran 30%, French 6%, other 3% Angola Ovimbundu 37%, Kimbundu 25%, Bakongo 13%, Mestico (mixed European and Native African) 2%, European 1%, other 22% Antigua black, British, Portuguese, Lebanese, Syrian (see Barbuda) Argentina European 97% (mostly of Spanish and Italian descent), 3% other (mostly Indian or Mestizo) Armenia Armenian 93%, Azeri 3%, Russian 2%, other (mostly Yezidi Kurds) 2% (1989) Note: as of the end of 1993, virtually all Azeris had emigrated from Armenia
