Ethnic Groups Sometimes the generic term ganda is used for source of information about the peoplesof africa concerning Native, Aboriginal, and indigenous internet resources http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/cm/africana/ethnicit.htm
Extractions: African Ethnicities Please note that I have a separate page available on African languages A number of Web pages have been produced by members of indigenous minority and majority ethnic groups world-wide. Rather than primarily serving as academic, encyclopedic, or anthropological resources, they are often self-promotional, but several provide excellent information and rigorous documentation. This is a small collection of such pages produced primarily by Africans, along with some material produced by others. Most often, these African ethnic group home pages are a direct expression of individual members of the group, but in several cases represent an academic, official, or institutional point of view. If you are looking for an "objective" presentation, these links may not be the best sources for your work. Nevertheless, most have very good cultural, historical, and other background information, and many provide links to related sites that you may also find useful. Below the list, there is a collection of Other sites with information on African ethnic groups with different kinds of resources, for example, with a national, cultural anthropological, or linguistic focus. Finally, because this is an area that is not well represented on the web, a
Campaign Archive the most tragic histories of any of the world's peoples. ore than 80 indigenous cultureshave been wiped out But other than family support, ganda could provide http://www.earthaction.org/en/archive/archive.html
Extractions: Deutsch EarthAction Campaign Directory Below is a comprehensive list of EarthAction's past campaigns, along with links to the complete Action Kits. Each Action Kit contains campaign materials which include an Action Alert, which is a description of the issue, and Background Information on that issue, as well as other helpful materials as well such as Sample Letter's to Policy Makers, Press Releases, Parliamentary Alerts, Graphics, Cartoons, Maps and directions/links to other resources. Since 1945, more than one UN Secretary-General and a number of governments have proposed creating a permanent international force to help prevent war, genocide and major human rights violations. Had such a force been dispatched to Rwanda or Bosnia early on, much of the killing might have been prevented and more of those responsible for genocide arrested. Despite this, the UN still has to borrow forces from national armies for peacekeeping. By the time such forces are assembled, hundreds of thousands may have died. You can help us call for a UN force to keep the peace. END THE ARMS BAZAAR
African Studies - History And Cultures and continuing development of Uganda's indigenous art forms Dxeriku, Hambukushu, Wayeyi,and Xanekwe peoples. Paradise Visualizing Islam in West africa and the 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
Se512_2001 East africa Gibbs, JL (ed.), peoples of africa, chapter on ganda, Rwanda. Indigenousconcepts of landtenure and their modification with the growth of a http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/Courses/SE512/Preceeding_Years/se5122001.html
Extractions: Assessment Procedure : You will be assessed by a combination of two essays, a bibliography on one of the topics covered and contributions to the course email list. At the end, a three hour examination is held. Essays etc contribute 20% of all marks, the examination 80%. By the end of the Lent term you must make at least four contributions to the email list which include at least two article summaries (but not including essays and the bibliography which should not be sent to the list).
Orthodoxy In Zimbabwe Orthodoxy in Zimbabwe by Raphael ganda. typical of the situation in the whole of SouthernAfrica. As for mission work among the indigenous peoples, allow me to http://www.ocmc.org/news/1999/_1999-03-24.htm
Extractions: by Raphael Ganda The country of Zimbabwe is situated in central Southern Africa. It is a landlocked country with Zambia in the north, Mozambique in the east, South Africa in the south and Botswana in the west. Before independence in 1980, the country used to be known as Rhodesia. It is a multiracial community of about 12 million people, with the Shona and the Nelebele being the two major ethnic groups. It is a Christian country with predominance by the Roman Catholic and the Anglican churches. The spiritual jurisdiction of the Holy Orthodox Archbishopric of Zimbabwe includes the faithful of Malawi, Mozambique, Botswana, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. The headquarters is in Harare, and the Metropolitan is His Eminence Makarios, who was enthroned earlier this year. The realities of the Orthodox Church in Zimbabwe are typical of the situation in the whole of Southern Africa. Orthodoxy was brought primarily by the Greeks and Cypriots of the Diaspora. We have a very strong Greek community and those who are here now are of the third generation. Thus, it was inevitable that the early clergy who came here were to serve the liturgical and the spiritual needs of the Greek community, a community which is very well organized, strongly spiritual and active. We have catechetical classes, Sunday School classes, Syndesmos of the Orthodox youth, associations for young couples, for the elderly, group meetings for the youth, works of charity, libraries for Orthodox books or videos, to name but just a few.
Africana.com: Gateway To The Black World.Screen Name Service one of the two most common indigenous languages of are spoken by the Khoikhoi andSan peoples of southern Sukuma in Tanzania; Kikuyu in Kenya; ganda in Uganda http://www.africana.com/Articles/tt_162.htm
D. East Africa. 2001. The Encyclopedia Of World History and grain cultivators, while Bantu peoples practiced forest communities such as theGanda, Soga, Nkore loanwords into the developing indigenous language, Swahili http://www.bartleby.com/67/347.html
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SA7: Transmission In the poetry of the Muslim peoples hymns to God and His Prophet 13; ganda or Luganda AfricanInstitute, 1952) bemoaned the lack of indigenous African literature http://www.hf.uib.no/smi/sa/7Knappert.html
Extractions: A Note on the Islamic Literatures of Africa The following pages contain a summary of data collected during many years of research on Islam in Africa. The material is already amply sufficient for a book, but so far no publisher has been found. Eight books and a dozen collections of songs may give an idea of the Swahili material. While collecting texts for my Islamic Poetry of Africa and for my article 'The use of Arabic Script for the Languages of Africa', it became clear that there are many lacunae in our knowledge since no systematic research had been conducted and/or published, whereas all the while new material is coming to light in the form of manuscripts in languages which were hitherto believed to possess no literature at all, let alone Islamic literature in Arabic script. What is an Islamic literature? Literatures written in Arabic script are normally Islamic literatures, but not all Islamic literatures are so written. In Amharic and in Zulu there is Islamic literature but not in Arabic script. Islamic literature is normally the work of an Islamic people, but not all Islamic peoples have created Islamic literatures. For instance, the epic poetry in Mandinka is recited by bards who are Muslims, but their epic songs are not Islamic. The explanation is that these epics continue to be recited by and for people who have become Islamicised in a period of history subsequent to the creation of the epic. The reverence for this national poetry has survived the Islamisation process. A similar situation seems to exist in Iran where the epic of the heathen kings, the
Profile Of The Mukogodo People Of Kenya we know of following the indigenous San (Bushmen Turkana), later Bantu (LogoliKuria-ganda,etc.) and Nilotes (Luo and related Uganda peoples still stretching http://endor.hsutx.edu/~obiwan/profiles/mukogodo.html
Extractions: Status Location : The Mukogodo live in the Mukogodo Forest of west central Kenya. They were originally an Eastern Cushite group, predating the Nilotes and Bantu in this area. There are no remaining speakers of the original language, called Yaaku. History : The Mukogodo represent a second wave of Cushite immigration into the Rift Valley area of East Africa. The earlier Southern Cushites were the first settlers we know of following the indigenous San (Bushmen). The San were here first before the time of Christ. Then came the Southern Cushites in the first millennium AD, then Eastern Cushites, followed by the Highland Nilotes (Kalenjin Cluster), then the early Bantu. Later came intermingled waves of Plains Nilotes (Maasai-Teso-Karamojong-Turkana), later Bantu (Logoli-Kuria-Ganda, etc.) and River-Lake Nilotes (Luo and related Uganda peoples still stretching up into the Waa River marshes in Sudan). Identity : Various old Cushite groups in the Rift Valley of Kenya and Tanzania have become affiliated with various Nilotic tribes as clients, mostly as a self-defense for their own preservation under the various waves of Nilotic migration into their ancestral area.
3 British Colonial Policies the Uganda Agreement with Buganda gave the ganda a good more for the rights of Africansand colonial peoples. would come and go, but indigenous officials would http://husky1.stmarys.ca/~wmills/course317/3brit_policies.html
Tribal/Ethnic/Language Groups a Muganda (a person of the ganda tribe); if using a shorthand for saying the indigenousterm which to more universally accepted terms like peoples and ethnic http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/~africa/threads/tribal.html
Extractions: H-AFRICA@MSU.EDU H-AFRICA@MSU.EDU PAGEM@ETSUARTS.EAST-TENN-ST.EDU RLOBBAN@grog.ric.edu Yes, Ethnic or cultural group is vastly better. Tribe refers to a subordinated population..i.e., a tributary...who appears before a tribunal to pay his tribute or contribution (under duress). Before colonial subjugation peoples were termed nations, after conquest they became "tribes" and in the modern American context, some native Americans seek tribal status to make some advance in getting special rights, like gambling, but as long, only as long as they accept their own subordination. About 15-20 years ago a couple of us published a piece in Ufahamu at UCLA/African studies on the concept tribe and why it should be trashed. Bye, Have a great day, H-AFRICA@MSU.EDU H-AFRICA@MSU.EDU PAGEM@ETSUARTS.EAST-TENN-ST.EDU ST403323@BROWNVM.brown.edu In response to the dialogue on "tribe"yes, perhaps it is best to "trash" the concept/term/meaning behind "tribe. Yet, what (post-)post-modern fieldworker hasn't been challenged by informants/friends/research assistants in Africa to adopt the term "tribe." Yes, it's a post-colonial translation thing. "We are *not* an 'ethnic group.' We are a 'tribe.' Call us a 'tribe.'" Most of the people I worked with in East Africa cringed when I translated "kabila" into anything other than "tribe." So, the question is: who do I be true to in my work? Academics who trash the term? Or, the people(s) who themselves embrace the term in translation without the baggage that others load it down with? I'm not saying I have the answer. But, I *am* aware that it's not as easy a question/issue to settle as some might think. Perhaps we should continue to approach the question/issue from different case studiesto the people themselves.
Ethnography Website Results :: Linkspider UK ganda A ethnography on a group that lives the Somali Democratic Republic in northeasternAfrica. worldwide provided by the indigenous peoples Specialty Group http://www.linkspider.co.uk/Science/SocialSciences/Anthropology/CulturalAnthropo
Extractions: See Also: Science: Social Sciences: Area Studies Science: Social Sciences: Ethnic Studies Science: Social Sciences: Geography: Human Geography Society: Ethnicity: Indigenous People ... Okavango Delta Peoples of Botswana - The Okavango Delta Peoples: their history and culture, and the challenges they face due to rapid economic development and social change. Silicon Valley Cultures Project - The Silicon Valley Cultures Project is a ten year anthropological study of the identities and cultures of the people living and working in the Silicon Valley region. Pacific Encounters - Ethnographic descriptions and photography of village life in Western Samoa. Social Organisation, Economy Development - A doctoral student's ethnographic research in a Pakistani village, with weekly updates from the field. Ethnographic Studies Internet Resource Page - A collection of ethnographic resources provided by the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress.
Africanfront.com (AUF) in black skin, but are indigenous Africans who State , by definition consisting ofdifferent peoples and numerous Benin, Oyo, Ife, Kongo, ganda, Tswana, Ndebele http://www.africanfront.com/research/research1.php
Extractions: Africa's most violent large scale conflicts manifest a virulent misinterpretation of group consciousness constructed along lines of colonial classification of African ethnicity. The classification divides Africans into three groups, Hamite, Bantu, and Nilote. This is a devastating racial coding based on erroneous assumptions advanced by racial supremacists and misguided scholars. A tribe in cultural anthropology, is a theoretical type of human social organization based on small groups defined by traditions of common descent and having temporary or permanent political integration above the family level and a shared language, culture, and ideology. In the ideal model of a tribe, members typically share a tribal name and a contiguous territory; they work together in such joint endeavours as trade, agriculture, house construction, warfare, and ceremonial activities. Tribes are usually composed of a number of smaller local communities (e.g., bands, villages, or neighborhoods) and may be aggregated into higher-order clusters, called nations. As an ideal type, the tribe is regarded by cultural evolutionists as the form of social organization that developed into a stratified society and, eventually, into the type of social organization known as the primitive state. As an ideal type, the tribe derives its unity not from a territorial identity but from a sense of extended kinship.
Report On The Implementation Of The Plan Of with those groups (women, indigenous peoples, children, migrants AS OF DECEMBER 1998Africa Adja Afrikaans Kituba Kpelewo Lingala Lozi Luganda/ganda Lunda/Chokwe http://www.unhchr.ch/huridocda/huridoca.nsf/(Symbol)/E.CN.4.1999.87.En?OpenDocum
An A-Z Of African Studies On The Internet Bg1 Oostendorp, Measuring the Productivity from indigenous Soil and Dxeriku, Hambukushu,Wayeyi, and Xanekwe peoples http//www Debates in Luganda (ganda) language. http://www.lib.msu.edu/limb/a-z/az_bg1.html
Extractions: More about Uganda, the Pearl of Africa... INTRODUCTION LAND AND RESOURCES PEOPLE AND SOCIETY Ethnicity and Language Religion Education Social Structure ... HISTORY III. PEOPLE AND SOCIETY The 1991 Uganda census counted 16,671,705 people. By 1998 the population had grown to an estimated 22.2 million Ugandans, giving the country a population density of 92 per sq km (238 per sq mi). The estimated growth rate of the population in 1998 was 2.8 percent. The birth rate was 49 per 1,000 people and the death rate 19 per 1,000. Life expectancy at birth was 42.6 years. The fertility rate, the number of births per woman, was 7.1. Almost all Ugandans are black Africans. Foreign residents make up less than 4 percent of the population and come mostly from neighboring states. The population is concentrated in the south, particularly in the crescent at the edge of Lake Victoria and in the southwest. Uganda is predominantly rural with only 13 percent of the population living in urban areas. Kampala, near Lake Victoria, is Uganda's intellectual and business center and its only city. Jinja, the most important industrial center, is located on the Nile at Lake Victoria. The next largest towns are Mbale, Masaka, Mpigi, and Mbarara. A. Ethnicity and Language (
Islamic World.Net: Countries 33%, Protestant 33%, Muslim 16%, indigenous beliefs 18 newspapers and some radio broadcasts),ganda or Luganda peoples and Culture; History and Culture; The Bantu http://islamic-world.net/countries/uganda.htm
Extractions: note: estimates for this country explicitly take into account the effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lower population and growth rates, and changes in the distribution of population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July 2000 est.) Ethnic groups: Baganda 17%, Karamojong 12%, Basogo 8%, Iteso 8%, Langi 6%, Rwanda 6%, Bagisu 5%, Acholi 4%, Lugbara 4%, Bunyoro 3%, Batobo 3%, non-African (European, Asian, Arab) 1%, other 23% Religions: Roman Catholic 33%, Protestant 33%, Muslim 16%, indigenous beliefs 18% Languages: English (official national language, taught in grade schools, used in courts of law and by most newspapers and some radio broadcasts), Ganda or Luganda (most widely used of the Niger-Congo languages, preferred for native language publications in the capital and may be taught in school), other Niger-Congo languages, Nilo-Saharan languages, Swahili, Arabic Area: total: 236,040 sq km
UK Uganda Network - Profile Of Uganda The Bantuspeaking ganda alone constitute nearly 20 peoples speaking Nilotic and Nilo-Hamiticlanguages most Ugandans have retained indigenous religious beliefs http://www.ugandanetwork.org.uk/network/profile.htm
Extractions: United Kingdom Uganda Network The Republic of Uganda is a landlocked East African country lying on the Equator - roughly two thirds of the country is north of the equator and a third south. On the banks of Lake Victoria, Uganda is bordered by Tanzania and Rwanda to the south west, The Congo to the west, The Sudan to the north, and Kenya to the east. Demographics: Location Population Capital Kampala, It is built around seven hills 35Km north of Lake Victoria. Across the lake you can get to Tanzania and Kenya though it is understood that at present the ferry is not running. (June 2000).
REL 100 Chapter Nine: African Worldviews Among peoples of Zaire, witches and witchcraft cannot be easily expunged. gandaWorldview. The ganda enjoy a rich indigenous tradition of history and http://www.albany.edu/faculty/lr618/1rchap9.html
Extractions: Resources for Stuy The High God is a common theme in the primary myth of small societies of relatively simple technologies. It is a common theme that the High God withdraws from contact with men, either because they have offended him or simply because their daily concerns are too unimportant. There is a Mende myth that the first man and woman used to ask God frequently for things, which he generously provided. But when they began to pester him he moved to heaven to get away. Before he left, however, he made an agreement, leaving them a fowl as a sign of the pact; they on their part were to refrain from having an evil disposition toward each other. If, however, they did do evil, they were to call God and he would come and reclaim the fowl. In brief, God was available for the expiation of evil. In East Africa a common name for the supreme being is Mulungu , a word of unknown origin but indicating the almighty and ever present creator. The thunder is said to be his voice and the lightning his power. He rewards the good and punishes the evil. The Luguru of East Africa claim that the earth was made by the High God Mulungu , but he is not normally concerned with human affairs. He is given no prayers or sacrifices. Prayers and sacrifices are made to the mitsimu, or ancestral spirits.
