tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-45001999983543863512024-03-13T19:37:51.243+00:00SAHARAN VIBEAFRICAN LIZhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05876270785127257460noreply@blogger.comBlogger178125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4500199998354386351.post-24233590808381765982011-09-18T21:31:00.013+01:002011-09-18T22:56:52.213+01:00LUO NYATITI MUSIC FROM KENYA<div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FOeQN0zoFqM/TnZa2NT4XyI/AAAAAAAALJ8/Krb8lNcfAcs/s1600/luo%2Bnyatiti.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 382px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FOeQN0zoFqM/TnZa2NT4XyI/AAAAAAAALJ8/Krb8lNcfAcs/s400/luo%2Bnyatiti.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5653806269542719266" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:arial;">Nyatiti</span><span style="font-family:arial;"> is an eight-stringed plucked lyre from Kenya. It is a classical instrument used by the Luo people located in the Nyanza western region in Kenya. It is about three feet long. The player of Nyatiti holds it to his chest, seated on a low stool, with the base firmly to the ground. Usually it is played together with the oporo, a curved horn.</span><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify; font-family: arial;"><br />Goyo Otenga is the dance for Nyatiti music. Otenga is the Luo word for eagle. Dancers move their shoulders, arms, fingers, legs and feet like an Eagle.</div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/6Gx-KI9QzBs" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="355" width="480"></iframe><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/kr5RKz8HoUc" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="355" width="480"></iframe><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-family:arial;" >The performer has three tasks when playing the Nyatiti: percussion, strings, and vocal. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; font-family:arial;" >The Nyatiti is played sitting low to the ground, while keeping a small distance from your body. You also put iron bells called "gara" on your right ankle and a metal ring called "oduongo" on the big toe of your right foot. Then, you sing and play keeping the beat by tapping the ring on the edge of the Nyatiti. The Nyatiti is also called Kanbanane. "Kanba" means string and "nane" means eight, so it literally means "eight strings". </span><br /><span style="font-style: italic; font-family:arial;" >The body is made of a hollowed fig tree and is like a hemisphere. Cow skin is put on the surface of the hemisphere. Nylon fishing lines are used for the eight strings, which have three thicknesses. In the past, female cow's Achilles' tendons were used for the strings instead of the fishing lines. Two thin bamboos like sticks and wood chips are bonded together by bee wax, which creates a deep echoing sound. There are reasons why the Nyatiti has eight strings, why only men are allowed to play it and why it is called "Nyatiti". The first four days after a male’s birth and after his death are said to be very special in Luo culture. In Nyatiti, the lower four strings represent the first four days of his birth and the upper four strings represent the four days after his death. </span><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://anyango.com/e/nyatiti/">Source Anyango Website http://anyango.com/e/nyatiti/</a><br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Gi5ipM8E3Lw/TnZa2dqasyI/AAAAAAAALKE/0gzzsog0hks/s1600/ayub%2Bogada.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Gi5ipM8E3Lw/TnZa2dqasyI/AAAAAAAALKE/0gzzsog0hks/s400/ayub%2Bogada.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5653806273932210978" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/FRFbCRcp484" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="355" width="480"></iframe><br /><br /></div><span style="font-family:arial;">Ayub Ogada is one of the few Luo music artists who have made it both on the national and international music scene. Here he plays the nyatiti to one of his famed songs </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; font-family:arial;" >Obiero</span><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">And this lady from Japan could not resist---</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/N_ZB5jqpxKg" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="355" width="480"></iframe><br /></div><br /></div><span style="font-weight: bold;">More Information and Sources:</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">PittRivers Museum http://photos.prm.ox.ac.uk/luo/page/exhibition-recreation/</span>AFRICAN LIZhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05876270785127257460noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4500199998354386351.post-24802109346340196692011-09-10T11:20:00.004+01:002011-09-10T11:20:01.159+01:00HERERO LADIES OF NAMIBIA - AFRICA'S VICTORIAN STYLE FASHIONISTAS!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/TBA-OH4IkbI/AAAAAAAAKyE/j_N9pcuFP8s/s1600/Mr.Bafana.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 263px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/TBA-OH4IkbI/AAAAAAAAKyE/j_N9pcuFP8s/s400/Mr.Bafana.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5480949158863475122" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/TBA78TzbbeI/AAAAAAAAKxk/61zENMzfayk/s1600/1.jpg"><br /></a><div style="text-align: justify;">The Herero or Ovaherero - were nomadic herdsman who at the time of European contact, lived in Namibia and Botswana. They comprised several subgroups, which include the Himba, Ovatjimba, Mbanderu or Ovambanderu and the Kwandu. Related groups living in Angola include the Kuvale, Zemba, Hakawona, Tjavikwa, Tjimba and Himba. The Herero are thought to have migrated from East Africa into present day Namibia during from the seventeenth century. At some point they came into contact and conflict with another pastoral people known as Nama - Hottentot or Khoi Khoi.<br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/TBAzb5IU04I/AAAAAAAAKwc/X_H-pj1tOQk/s1600/4.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 283px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/TBAzb5IU04I/AAAAAAAAKwc/X_H-pj1tOQk/s400/4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5480937300795118466" border="0" /></a><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/TBAzbGgWXXI/AAAAAAAAKwM/yo4i_2hEfGY/s1600/2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/TBAzbGgWXXI/AAAAAAAAKwM/yo4i_2hEfGY/s400/2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5480937287205674354" border="0" /></a><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/TBAzwfA1_1I/AAAAAAAAKw0/oDIDD_INluo/s1600/10-us.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 164px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/TBAzwfA1_1I/AAAAAAAAKw0/oDIDD_INluo/s400/10-us.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5480937654561668946" border="0" /></a><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/TBAzciKXbcI/AAAAAAAAKws/91guEoe_v_Y/s1600/1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/TBAzciKXbcI/AAAAAAAAKws/91guEoe_v_Y/s400/1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5480937311809531330" border="0" /></a><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/TBAzcNo5sxI/AAAAAAAAKwk/rb1VnNW_Ozk/s1600/5.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/TBAzcNo5sxI/AAAAAAAAKwk/rb1VnNW_Ozk/s400/5.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5480937306300461842" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">In Namibia Herero's are mostly found in the central and eastern parts of the country. The Herero can be divided into several sub-groups the biggest of which includes the Tjimba and Ndamuranda groups who live Kaokoland, the Mahereo who are found around Okahandja and the Zeraua who are found in the area around Omaruru. A group called the Mbandero occupy an area in eastern Namibia, around the town of Gobabis, which was formerly known as Hereroland. Until the colonial period the Herero prospered in the central grassland areas, where there was ample grazing for their cattle, but a succession of battles with the northward migrating Nama, and more severely the German colonial troops led to about 75% of the Herero population been exterminated. Estimates are that of the 80 000 Herero in Namibia in 1900 only about 16 000 remained by 1905. During this period large numbers of Herero fled to the safety of Botswana, but since independence some of the early migrants have begun to return to Namibia. The Herero are proud cattle farmers who measure their wealth in cattle, the importance of cattle to these people is even evident in the Herero womens' dresses.<br /></div><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/TBA7sH3XK0I/AAAAAAAAKxc/fuwZ4tU3zAs/s1600/3.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/TBA7sH3XK0I/AAAAAAAAKxc/fuwZ4tU3zAs/s400/3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5480946375721429826" border="0" /></a><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/TBA-NYTEgsI/AAAAAAAAKx0/ki2d5AW7-jM/s1600/1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 270px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/TBA-NYTEgsI/AAAAAAAAKx0/ki2d5AW7-jM/s400/1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5480949146091553474" border="0" /></a><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/TBA78mjHFmI/AAAAAAAAKxs/xm0D1BD7R1c/s1600/LEROYannie27.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 288px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/TBA78mjHFmI/AAAAAAAAKxs/xm0D1BD7R1c/s400/LEROYannie27.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5480946658835895906" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/TBA7roFbT7I/AAAAAAAAKxU/SSznQXa5tS4/s1600/overlandingafrica.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/TBA7roFbT7I/AAAAAAAAKxU/SSznQXa5tS4/s400/overlandingafrica.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5480946367190486962" border="0" /></a><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/TBA7rT3XCmI/AAAAAAAAKxM/kA4mTtaEsx4/s1600/stela+23.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/TBA7rT3XCmI/AAAAAAAAKxM/kA4mTtaEsx4/s400/stela+23.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5480946361762777698" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The traditional dress is derived from a Victorian woman's dress, and consists of an enormous crinoline worn over a several petticoats, a horn shaped hat (said to represent the horns of a cow) made from rolled cloth is also worn. Many Herero women dorn the outfits every year on during the traditional Herero festival is held in Okahandja- Maherero day.<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">According to My Beautiful Namibia Herero women regard the outfits as 'proper dress' for traditional married women. <span style="font-style: italic;">By wearing the long dress, a newly married woman shows her in laws that she is willing to take up the responsibilities of a Herero home and will raise her children to respect their heritage and their father’s family. The long dress is heavy, hard to keep clean and laborious and expensive to make. The outfit has changed over the years to reflect the style of new generations, and sewing it allows women to show their personal skill and creativity. The Herero women’s long dress has become a symbol of Herero tradition for Herero, tourists, scholars and other Namibians. Women are selling dolls wearing exact replicas of the long dress to tourists and crafts organizations. This suggests that they continue to find new ways to express their individual and traditional identities.</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"></span></div><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.my-beautiful-namibia.com/herero-culture.html">Source http://www.my-beautiful-namibia.com/herero-culture.html</a><span style="font-style: italic;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><p> </p><p> </p><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"><br /></span><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/TBA7qR6ZcqI/AAAAAAAAKw8/z_xPc4MAYl8/s1600/1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 286px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/TBA7qR6ZcqI/AAAAAAAAKw8/z_xPc4MAYl8/s400/1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5480946344058778274" border="0" /></a><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/TBA7qrPAHEI/AAAAAAAAKxE/tTJssnaoSuo/s1600/2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 310px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/TBA7qrPAHEI/AAAAAAAAKxE/tTJssnaoSuo/s400/2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5480946350856084546" border="0" /></a><br /><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/86Y81f_pi9A" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="390" width="480"></iframe><br /><br />More Information: http://www.namibian.org/travel/namibia/population/herero.htm<br /></div>AFRICAN LIZhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05876270785127257460noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4500199998354386351.post-86698131689132110572011-09-09T01:07:00.000+01:002011-09-09T01:07:00.431+01:00Herero and Namaqua Genocide - 20th Century First Genocide<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/TRoiWJQ47mI/AAAAAAAAK0I/-hNCs6sMYq8/s1600/Surviving_Herero.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 262px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/TRoiWJQ47mI/AAAAAAAAK0I/-hNCs6sMYq8/s400/Surviving_Herero.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5555790854154153570" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The Herero and Namaqua Genocide is considered the first genocide of the 20th century that took place from 1904 until 1907 in Namibia known then as German South-West Africa.<br /><br />On January 12, 1904, the Herero people, led by Samuel Maharero, rebelled against German colonial rule. In August, German general Lothar von Trotha defeated the Herero in the Battle of Waterberg and drove them into the desert of Omaheke, where most of them died of thirst. In October, the Nama people also rebelled against the Germans only to suffer a similar fate.<br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />In total, between 24,000 up to 100,000 Herero perished along with 10,000 Nama. The genocide was characterized by widespread death by starvation and thirst by preventing the fled Herero from returning from the Namib Desert.<br /><br />Some sources also claim the German colonial army to have systematically poisoned desert wells. In 1985, the United Nations' Whitaker Report classified the aftermath as an attempt to exterminate the Herero and Nama peoples of South-West Africa, and therefore one of the earliest attempts of genocide in the 20th century. The German government recognized and apologized for the events in 2004.<br /><br />Today, Maherero day is the traditional Herero festival held annually in Okahandja in memory of those who died in the German massacre in 1904.<br /></div><span style="font-size:78%;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">CONCENTRATION CAMPS AND HERERO PEOPLE USED AS TEST SUBJECTS FOR MEDICAL EXPERIMENTS BY GERMAN SCIENTIST</span><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-n4ncmw7z7QU/TmU1qeAhQcI/AAAAAAAALI8/ow1RpJRBzPM/s1600/2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 298px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-n4ncmw7z7QU/TmU1qeAhQcI/AAAAAAAALI8/ow1RpJRBzPM/s400/2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5648980311332176322" border="0" /></a><br />German scientist Eugen Fischer came to the concentration camps to conduct medical experiments on race, using children of Herero people and mulatto children of Herero women and German men as test subjects. Together with Theodor Mollison he also experimented upon Herero prisoners. Those experiments included sterilization, injection of smallpox, typhus as well as tuberculosis. The numerous cases of mixed offspring upset the German colonial administration and the obsession with racial purity.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/--TYjQomHvZE/TmU6RYqeL-I/AAAAAAAALJk/huoD0yS2OlE/s1600/1.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 296px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/--TYjQomHvZE/TmU6RYqeL-I/AAAAAAAALJk/huoD0yS2OlE/s400/1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5648985377958932450" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;color:#FFFFFF;"></span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Geneticist Eugen Fischer came to German South West Africa on behalf of German universities as soon as the death camps opened. Fischer's 'race science' theories led to the idea of a 'supreme race' which not only severely influenced the Second Reich, but also the Third. He studied and made tests with the heads of 778 Herero and Nama dead prisoners of war. Severed heads were preserved - numbered and labeled as Hottentotte - the German colonial name for the Nama. He used 'research' to prove the black race is inferior to the Germanic - Aryan race. By measuring skulls - facial features and eye colors - Fischer and his protégés sought to prove the native races were inferior - and as he put it - animals.</span><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;color:#FFFFFF;"></span></div><br />Eugen Fischer studied 310 mixed-race children, calling them "Rehoboth bastards"of "lesser racial quality".Fischer also subjected them to numerous racial tests such as head and body measurements, eye and hair examinations. In conclusion of his studies he advocated genocide of alleged "inferior races" claiming that "whoever thinks thoroughly the notion of race, can not arrive at a different conclusion". Fischer later became chancellor of the University of Berlin, where he taught medicine to Nazi physicians. One of his prominent students was Josef Mengele, the doctor who made genetic experiments on Jewish children at Auschwitz.<br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-mAAwRP2Hsvs/TmU4HJGslMI/AAAAAAAALJc/HdNqjD3Gk3M/s1600/1.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 373px; height: 220px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-mAAwRP2Hsvs/TmU4HJGslMI/AAAAAAAALJc/HdNqjD3Gk3M/s400/1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5648983002960401602" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Concentration Camp in South West Africa aka Namibia</span><br /><br /><br /></div>The German colonial authorities never conducted a census before 1904. A census performed in 1905 revealed that 25,000 Herero remained in German South-West Africa. According to the 1985 United Nations' Whitaker Report, the population of 80,000 Herero was reduced to 15,000 "starving refugees" between 1904 and 1907<a href="source:%20http://viswiki.com/en/Herero_and_Namaqua_Genocide"> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Source: Wiki</span></a><br /></div><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ghIyCuFA9D8/TmU3AJ4bG0I/AAAAAAAALJE/XX9CUPJUFIc/s1600/1.jpg"><br /></a><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-mUFixVuwB-Q/TmU3ASAyyRI/AAAAAAAALJM/ls_YiXtsKsQ/s1600/2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 270px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-mUFixVuwB-Q/TmU3ASAyyRI/AAAAAAAALJM/ls_YiXtsKsQ/s400/2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5648981785580849426" border="0" /></a><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ghIyCuFA9D8/TmU3AJ4bG0I/AAAAAAAALJE/XX9CUPJUFIc/s1600/1.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 318px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ghIyCuFA9D8/TmU3AJ4bG0I/AAAAAAAALJE/XX9CUPJUFIc/s400/1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5648981783398259522" border="0" /></a><div style="text-align: justify;">Soldiers began to trade in the skulls of dead Herero and Nama people. They sold them to scientists, museums and universities back in Germany who advertized for them. The practice was so widespread that this postcard was made showing soldiers packing skulls. Part of the postcard was reproduced in book form. The text above more or less reads; Herero skulls were packed into boxes by German South-West-Africa troops, to be sent to the pathologic institute in Berlin, so that they might be used for scientific measurements. Herero women removed meat, skin and hair form the skulls using pieces of broken glass. The skulls were from Herero's killed in action or of those hung.<br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/--grCCFLuPvo/TmU3ssrYLoI/AAAAAAAALJU/U21kEntr3w8/s1600/1.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 283px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/--grCCFLuPvo/TmU3ssrYLoI/AAAAAAAALJU/U21kEntr3w8/s400/1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5648982548653026946" border="0" /></a><br /><br /> Felix von Luschan, director of the Ethnology Museum in Berlin, was an ethnologist obsessed with collecting human skulls and skeletons. He drew up guidelines for travelers to German colonies, instructing them how to pack skulls, skeletons and human brains for shipment. This 'currently respected director' boasted, you could get a human skeleton for a piece of soap....One year after the extermination war began, Felix Luschan asked a notorious racist by the name of Lieutenant Ralf Zürn 'commander of Okahandja', if he was aware of any way in which the Museum might collect a larger number Herero skulls? The Lieutenant had already supplied him with a skull, wrote back saying this would be possible 'since in the concentration camps taking and preserving the skulls of Herero prisoners of war will be more readily possible than in the country, where there is always a danger of offending the ritual feelings of the natives'. </div><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" ><span>Source</span> </span><a href="http://www.ezakwantu.com/Gallery%20Herero%20and%20Namaqua%20Genocide.htm"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" >http://www.ezakwantu.com</span><br /></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify; font-family:georgia;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">HERERO SEEKING REPARATIONS FROM GERMANY</span></span><br /></div><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />...</span></span> <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Namibia's Herero community is seeking reparations from Germany for the suffering experienced during colonial rule. The Herero say that German policy at the time amounted to genocide. Many Herero who rebelled, became prisoners of war. Starvation and torture were widespread. Of an estimated 65,000 Herero, only 15,000 survived.</span> <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"> Today, the pain is still felt acutely. "Our fathers and mothers were killed like animals. It's a sad story, all the atrocities, the way the Germans killed people, starved them to death, and took them into concentration camps," says 65-year-old Ujama Karuhumba who lives in Okahandja. </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-size:85%;"><span>....</span></span><p><span style="font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;">Germany has offered an apology for the massacres that occurred, and proposed a multi-million dollar development deal for Namibia.<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p></span><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-GNwbsEMv9gs/TmU1ojLFiqI/AAAAAAAALI0/b35CDVlVW20/s1600/1.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 256px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-GNwbsEMv9gs/TmU1ojLFiqI/AAAAAAAALI0/b35CDVlVW20/s400/1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5648980278358936226" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" ><p><span style="font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;"> However, the Herero Genocide Committee is seeking millions of dollars in compensation from the German government, based on the atrocities committed. Esther Utjiua who chairs the committee, says Germany wants no mention of the word "genocide". </span></p><p><span style="font-size:85%;"> </span></p></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; text-align: justify; font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;">She describes the relationship with Germany as "hostile", and says further dialogue is needed. "They are too vague. We don't know where we stand with them. We want to be involved. We don't want them to decide on our behalf what it is we want. </span><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;"> "For two years, we've been asking the German government to talk about the issue of genocide, and come to an agreement on reparations that can be acceptable to both sides." After a state visit to Germany at the end of last year by Namibia's President Hifikepunye Pohamba, talks between the two countries on bilateral development co-operation were postponed. </span> </div><div style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; text-align: justify; font-family: georgia;">...<br />At a recent fund-raising dinner in the capital, Windhoek, influential members of the Herero community outlined ambitious plans to raise money and write more books about the events of 1904. A young student made an impassioned plea to the assembled guests: "It is against the background of the German atrocities that the Herero community is seeking compensation from the German government. I'm saying 'Push on' until the long overdue victory has been attained". Phil Ya Nangoloh of Namibia's National Society for Human Rights says he fully supports the Herero claim for reparations. "There is enough documentation to prove that genocide has taken place, as defined in the Genocide Convention. A token sign of reparation must be given to the people who suffered this genocide".</div><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4623516.stm"><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Source BBC http://news.bbc.co.uk</span></a><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"> </span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Genocide and the Second Reich </span></span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Ghost of the Namibian Genocide have reawakened returning to haunt modern Germany to wake up to a very uncomfortable fact that the dark racial theories that helped inspire the Nazis run much deeper into German and European history than most people wants to acknowledge</span><span style="font-style: italic;">.</span><br /></div><br /><br /><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/iXgIhSjWGhE" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="390" width="480"></iframe><br /><br /><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/6pfzfxZw3YY" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="390" width="480"></iframe><br /><br /><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/TJgO0IdllAI" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="390" width="480"></iframe><br /><br /><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/VMxkW3Uu3zo" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="390" width="480"></iframe><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">MORE SOURCES</span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.ezakwantu.com/Gallery%20Herero%20and%20Namaqua%20Genocide.htm"><span style="font-weight: bold;">http://www.ezakwantu.com</span></a><br /><br />THE HERERO HOLOCAUST? The Disputed History Of The 1904 Genocide http://www.namibweb.com/hererohol.htmAFRICAN LIZhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05876270785127257460noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4500199998354386351.post-36901512642825858942011-09-07T01:03:00.000+01:002011-09-08T00:10:27.980+01:00DOWN MEMORY LANE: AFRICA'S FIRST COUPLES...<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Seretse and Ruth Khama - Botswana</span> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Married 1948</span><br /></div><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-UJHT_2v4eeA/TmUS68Tt0jI/AAAAAAAALHE/TpI7KVMQlao/s1600/1.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-UJHT_2v4eeA/TmUS68Tt0jI/AAAAAAAALHE/TpI7KVMQlao/s400/1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5648942111436689970" border="0" /></a><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-v9Bo2TzVRVg/TmUS7cuCy0I/AAAAAAAALHc/B2NiAkLWNfc/s1600/4.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 279px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-v9Bo2TzVRVg/TmUS7cuCy0I/AAAAAAAALHc/B2NiAkLWNfc/s400/4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5648942120137050946" border="0" /></a><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cLHWpU4KArM/TmUS7DCODKI/AAAAAAAALHU/didD6fF-B8s/s1600/3.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 293px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cLHWpU4KArM/TmUS7DCODKI/AAAAAAAALHU/didD6fF-B8s/s400/3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5648942113242352802" border="0" /></a><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-11e7Wq9Ku9Q/TmUS60O3YoI/AAAAAAAALHM/WLgKTQisuBw/s1600/2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 295px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-11e7Wq9Ku9Q/TmUS60O3YoI/AAAAAAAALHM/WLgKTQisuBw/s400/2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5648942109268861570" border="0" /></a><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZtAwwU81Fa0/TmUS7U3Yq5I/AAAAAAAALHk/Lg9WjWghv1M/s1600/5.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 355px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZtAwwU81Fa0/TmUS7U3Yq5I/AAAAAAAALHk/Lg9WjWghv1M/s400/5.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5648942118028749714" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sam and Kovambo Theopoldine Katjimune Nujoma - Namibia</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />Married 6th May, 1956</span><br /></div><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bzDV55R1G4k/TmUPmP-h_sI/AAAAAAAALG8/RXP5fj-MGeQ/s1600/2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 372px; height: 302px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bzDV55R1G4k/TmUPmP-h_sI/AAAAAAAALG8/RXP5fj-MGeQ/s400/2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5648938457404407490" border="0" /></a><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-LncMg16JDlk/TmUPl3O7p1I/AAAAAAAALG0/IJYJoJ8bQ3M/s1600/1.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 289px; height: 360px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-LncMg16JDlk/TmUPl3O7p1I/AAAAAAAALG0/IJYJoJ8bQ3M/s400/1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5648938450762311506" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-sKURJfIMYGs/TmUHWcJCL3I/AAAAAAAALF0/5VveMH2jnVo/s1600/7.jpg"><br /></a><div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">Kwame and Fathia Nkrumah - Ghana<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-weight: bold;">Married 1957</b><br /><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-qB8St-ZI7Dw/TmUHPDtYbuI/AAAAAAAALFk/P30Wt339KMA/s1600/4.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 277px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-qB8St-ZI7Dw/TmUHPDtYbuI/AAAAAAAALFk/P30Wt339KMA/s400/4.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5648929262881238754" border="0" /></a><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-sKURJfIMYGs/TmUHWcJCL3I/AAAAAAAALF0/5VveMH2jnVo/s1600/7.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 311px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-sKURJfIMYGs/TmUHWcJCL3I/AAAAAAAALF0/5VveMH2jnVo/s400/7.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5648929389698756466" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-WRD3RmDvJdU/TmUHO-z_oDI/AAAAAAAALFc/QfDx1m_YYjU/s1600/3.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 339px; height: 227px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-WRD3RmDvJdU/TmUHO-z_oDI/AAAAAAAALFc/QfDx1m_YYjU/s400/3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5648929261566795826" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-dhW0q_MJi5c/TmUHOiekG0I/AAAAAAAALFU/Wd2MLpOwys0/s1600/2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 319px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-dhW0q_MJi5c/TmUHOiekG0I/AAAAAAAALFU/Wd2MLpOwys0/s400/2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5648929253960719170" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-4IIsPW3qL4w/TmUHOhMWwII/AAAAAAAALFM/wTLjXe0BH0E/s1600/1.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 303px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-4IIsPW3qL4w/TmUHOhMWwII/AAAAAAAALFM/wTLjXe0BH0E/s400/1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5648929253615911042" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kWArEu3nZhg/TmUHPUjQIYI/AAAAAAAALFs/WOFxTMSEAA8/s1600/5.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 218px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kWArEu3nZhg/TmUHPUjQIYI/AAAAAAAALFs/WOFxTMSEAA8/s400/5.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5648929267402154370" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><b></b><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Léopold Sédar and Colette Hubert Senghor - Senegal</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />Married 1957</span><br /></div><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-aoYM6NXVMIM/TmUL6BMH7PI/AAAAAAAALGU/WyD0iCRLyWU/s1600/4.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 315px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-aoYM6NXVMIM/TmUL6BMH7PI/AAAAAAAALGU/WyD0iCRLyWU/s400/4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5648934398985759986" border="0" /></a><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-VdPnZ-3Mrdg/TmUL510HOcI/AAAAAAAALF8/xwuenj5hasA/s1600/1.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 377px; height: 230px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-VdPnZ-3Mrdg/TmUL510HOcI/AAAAAAAALF8/xwuenj5hasA/s400/1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5648934395932260802" border="0" /></a><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Iw0iox1Ohl0/TmUMI0BrNnI/AAAAAAAALGk/-y8u5Hqoa7U/s1600/1.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 312px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Iw0iox1Ohl0/TmUMI0BrNnI/AAAAAAAALGk/-y8u5Hqoa7U/s400/1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5648934653150312050" border="0" /></a><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Q2p8muzHWiU/TmUL53MFrqI/AAAAAAAALGE/oVlO27EgScg/s1600/2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 282px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Q2p8muzHWiU/TmUL53MFrqI/AAAAAAAALGE/oVlO27EgScg/s400/2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5648934396301258402" border="0" /></a><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-vSl2GRFv4Vk/TmUL6QZ31mI/AAAAAAAALGc/ImPZRh_KR8Q/s1600/5.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 309px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-vSl2GRFv4Vk/TmUL6QZ31mI/AAAAAAAALGc/ImPZRh_KR8Q/s400/5.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5648934403069957730" border="0" /></a><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hF0QgKVqTJM/TmUMI2Tay_I/AAAAAAAALGs/xYqco3UU1jY/s1600/2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 180px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hF0QgKVqTJM/TmUMI2Tay_I/AAAAAAAALGs/xYqco3UU1jY/s400/2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5648934653761604594" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Jomo and Ngina Kenyatta - Kenya</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Married in 1951</span><br /></div><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-feE9XAhPIos/TYgZwsQuMjI/AAAAAAAAK6k/wBUBBtg1Mkk/s1600/jomo%2Band%2Bngina%2B2.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 283px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-feE9XAhPIos/TYgZwsQuMjI/AAAAAAAAK6k/wBUBBtg1Mkk/s400/jomo%2Band%2Bngina%2B2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5586743662058811954" border="0" /></a><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-KcV6Iqs9ilA/TYgZwawYo7I/AAAAAAAAK6c/s4ho8KydAec/s1600/jomo%2Band%2Bngina.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 272px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-KcV6Iqs9ilA/TYgZwawYo7I/AAAAAAAAK6c/s4ho8KydAec/s400/jomo%2Band%2Bngina.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5586743657359778738" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ceV8prS8Wbg/TYgbMF1KBVI/AAAAAAAAK7E/O-lA_wW2Gj0/s1600/jomo%2Band%2Bngina%2B6.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 227px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ceV8prS8Wbg/TYgbMF1KBVI/AAAAAAAAK7E/O-lA_wW2Gj0/s400/jomo%2Band%2Bngina%2B6.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5586745232290612562" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EmWBciyaYuE/TYgbMJnePsI/AAAAAAAAK68/xbJ4lZOclbU/s1600/jomo%2Band%2Bngina%2B5.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 335px; height: 281px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EmWBciyaYuE/TYgbMJnePsI/AAAAAAAAK68/xbJ4lZOclbU/s400/jomo%2Band%2Bngina%2B5.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5586745233306959554" border="0" /></a><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-gJ_p2drMEBo/TYgZwzcqoDI/AAAAAAAAK6s/Wbh6ukx-M6o/s1600/jomo%2Band%2Bngina3.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 311px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-gJ_p2drMEBo/TYgZwzcqoDI/AAAAAAAAK6s/Wbh6ukx-M6o/s400/jomo%2Band%2Bngina3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5586743663987957810" border="0" /></a><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Dw-QiYfXKak/TmUDQZqmhGI/AAAAAAAALFE/BIQSjv0Y7hM/s1600/1.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 307px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Dw-QiYfXKak/TmUDQZqmhGI/AAAAAAAALFE/BIQSjv0Y7hM/s400/1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5648924887908516962" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Julius and Maria Nyerere - Tanzania</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />Married 24 January 1952 </span><br /><br /><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-qJkVzEnrCmI/TYgWH8WsPzI/AAAAAAAAK6M/8tcG_3MUrhw/s1600/1961-Nyerere-and-Family-after-independency.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 284px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-qJkVzEnrCmI/TYgWH8WsPzI/AAAAAAAAK6M/8tcG_3MUrhw/s400/1961-Nyerere-and-Family-after-independency.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5586739663469297458" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-p-lXYG5cuUI/TYgV92xOVhI/AAAAAAAAK6E/YhnJnlCAAT0/s1600/nyerere_with_wife_maria_1961.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 284px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-p-lXYG5cuUI/TYgV92xOVhI/AAAAAAAAK6E/YhnJnlCAAT0/s400/nyerere_with_wife_maria_1961.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5586739490171278866" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zIzQUbT3Z3w/TYgV9pyYr1I/AAAAAAAAK58/5U45FnwqCf0/s1600/nyerere_with_mama_maria.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 293px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zIzQUbT3Z3w/TYgV9pyYr1I/AAAAAAAAK58/5U45FnwqCf0/s400/nyerere_with_mama_maria.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5586739486686490450" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />Samora and Graca Machel -Mozambique</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Married: 11 November 1975</span><br /><br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-d7L22L4XLAw/TYgV9jE70mI/AAAAAAAAK50/42-2caoo47I/s1600/nyerere_maria_samora_greca_jumbe_salim.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 270px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-d7L22L4XLAw/TYgV9jE70mI/AAAAAAAAK50/42-2caoo47I/s400/nyerere_maria_samora_greca_jumbe_salim.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5586739484885242466" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Vghzm3kC-Ww/TYgR8rMBkyI/AAAAAAAAK5s/W-UM2lqynBQ/s1600/machel%2B3.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 346px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Vghzm3kC-Ww/TYgR8rMBkyI/AAAAAAAAK5s/W-UM2lqynBQ/s400/machel%2B3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5586735071836082978" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-PWXbpW9lrmQ/TYgR8SjK8NI/AAAAAAAAK5k/lPuuSZbL1Ko/s1600/machel%2B2.png"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-PWXbpW9lrmQ/TYgR8SjK8NI/AAAAAAAAK5k/lPuuSZbL1Ko/s400/machel%2B2.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5586735065222279378" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-iLTte8NnqCw/TYgR8CfKocI/AAAAAAAAK5c/coI8q9De5mU/s1600/machel.png"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 315px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-iLTte8NnqCw/TYgR8CfKocI/AAAAAAAAK5c/coI8q9De5mU/s400/machel.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5586735060910514626" border="0" /></a><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VJzES3ERdps/TYgWeZfMOdI/AAAAAAAAK6U/wBxMecwydDU/s1600/samora.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 309px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VJzES3ERdps/TYgWeZfMOdI/AAAAAAAAK6U/wBxMecwydDU/s400/samora.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5586740049246697938" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Nelson and Winnie Mandela - South Africa</span><br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Married 1957-1996</span><br /></div><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Y2D-lBG4l-k/TmUcoZpNuQI/AAAAAAAALIc/YgVHPYYWldM/s1600/7.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 318px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Y2D-lBG4l-k/TmUcoZpNuQI/AAAAAAAALIc/YgVHPYYWldM/s400/7.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5648952788010252546" border="0" /></a><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-z4e8oVLNn0g/TmUc4vUzpWI/AAAAAAAALIs/MsoTIrIPlPI/s1600/1.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 305px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-z4e8oVLNn0g/TmUc4vUzpWI/AAAAAAAALIs/MsoTIrIPlPI/s400/1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5648953068708144482" border="0" /></a><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-b3dxc5iF0GQ/TmUcnwNE1NI/AAAAAAAALIU/dDk9P1B0bwg/s1600/6.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 305px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-b3dxc5iF0GQ/TmUcnwNE1NI/AAAAAAAALIU/dDk9P1B0bwg/s400/6.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5648952776886375634" border="0" /></a><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-DMG52eIA4dk/TmUcomCNENI/AAAAAAAALIk/tduPk7xAsc0/s1600/8.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-DMG52eIA4dk/TmUcomCNENI/AAAAAAAALIk/tduPk7xAsc0/s400/8.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5648952791336292562" border="0" /></a><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-pG1o9yWCWD0/TmUceOWH-aI/AAAAAAAALIE/Ynb0kre_-xk/s1600/4.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 315px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-pG1o9yWCWD0/TmUceOWH-aI/AAAAAAAALIE/Ynb0kre_-xk/s400/4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5648952613178702242" border="0" /></a><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CJRPwD5rDHM/TmUceLolBTI/AAAAAAAALH8/chRYhzS2IGc/s1600/3.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 208px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CJRPwD5rDHM/TmUceLolBTI/AAAAAAAALH8/chRYhzS2IGc/s400/3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5648952612450796850" border="0" /></a><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-zaml2HgJrWY/TmUcd9cHgGI/AAAAAAAALH0/gflrX0fJs4w/s1600/2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 273px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-zaml2HgJrWY/TmUcd9cHgGI/AAAAAAAALH0/gflrX0fJs4w/s400/2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5648952608640434274" border="0" /></a><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-NdkrGzszp04/TmUcd6M4GTI/AAAAAAAALHs/1HNL20FQXYY/s1600/1.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-NdkrGzszp04/TmUcd6M4GTI/AAAAAAAALHs/1HNL20FQXYY/s400/1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5648952607771203890" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">This were the days...</span>AFRICAN LIZhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05876270785127257460noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4500199998354386351.post-79597305617222551462010-12-29T14:35:00.005+00:002010-12-30T05:33:02.982+00:00GRIOTS<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/ST3157pok6I/AAAAAAAAI6o/_HnV-KQlNIA/s1600-h/1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 321px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/ST3157pok6I/AAAAAAAAI6o/_HnV-KQlNIA/s400/1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5277644713961755554" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Fanta a griot singing at an engagement party</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><i>The griots are above all professionals who represent as a group, a well-defined social caste. Their role is multifaceted: as historians and genealogists, they are the chief repositories of the history of a region, its designated chroniclers. As musicians, their presence was traditionally required at all celebrations and rituals. Although the griot caste is among the lowest in the social hierarchy...griots are nevertheless much admired for their talent, and they can make a great deal of money. Among them, one find the most virtuosic of singers and instrumentalists. Their education and training, exclusively oral, necessitates a lenghty apprenticeship under the direction of a teacher-most often the father, or an uncle. It is necessary to study for many years in order to master the technique of an instrument or to learn all the songs and histories, and master the ensemble work indispensable to the activities of the professional. Some griots are more or less sedentary, and their renown is confined to the limits of their village or territory. (In this case, the griot will also work at another job: fisherman, farmer, etc.) Other griots are itinerants, and their reputation and income can vary considerably.</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/ST33RDlbF4I/AAAAAAAAI7A/VywjQ4Olv-M/s1600-h/4.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/ST33RDlbF4I/AAAAAAAAI7A/VywjQ4Olv-M/s400/4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5277646210740197250" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/ST33RcjYKzI/AAAAAAAAI7I/BvafmObDPy4/s1600-h/5.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 398px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/ST33RcjYKzI/AAAAAAAAI7I/BvafmObDPy4/s400/5.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5277646217442503474" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">The husband-to-be brings cola beans to the family of the wife-to-be, and then goes off somewhere else. This is apparently always the procedure: the couple to be wedded are never present at the festivities. So also here. The men are somewhere else, and all the women are gathered to distribute the cola nuts. The griots sing pretty words about different people at the party, who then stick money in their hands.</span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://flickr.com/photos/modern_nomad/291632763/in/set-72157594363654452/">Photo by arriving at the horizon</a><br /></div><br /><p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ></span></div><div style="text-align: justify; font-style: italic;">Griots hail from West African countries - Mali, the Gambia, Guinea, Western Sahara and Senegal, and are present among the Mande peoples (Mandinka, Malinké, Bambara, etc.), Fulɓe (Fula), Hausa, Songhai, Tukulóor, Wolof, Serer, Mossi, Dagomba, Mauritanian Arabs and many other smaller groups.<br /><br />Griot term is said to derive from the French translation of "guiriot" of the Portuguese word "criado," which means "servant." In the local African languages, griots are referred to by a number of names: jeli in northern Mande areas, jali in southern Mande areas, guewel in Wolof, gawlo in Pulaar (Fula), and igiiw (or igawen) in Hassaniyya Arabic. Griots form an endogamous caste, meaning that most of them only marry fellow griots and that those who are not griots do not normally perform the same functions that they perform.<br /><br />Griots either sing or speak<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/ST33Qx-pIVI/AAAAAAAAI6w/k_saPpeQXBg/s1600-h/2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 330px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/ST33Qx-pIVI/AAAAAAAAI6w/k_saPpeQXBg/s400/2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5277646206014136658" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SUHJdGgi1II/AAAAAAAAI8Y/EqhH1JDC4YM/s1600-h/B.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 281px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SUHJdGgi1II/AAAAAAAAI8Y/EqhH1JDC4YM/s400/B.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5278721740055434370" border="0" /></a><br /><br />West African aristocrats patronized griots, a group that belongs to an endogamous caste of historians, musicians, praise-singers, and mediators. Their accomplishments include a body of epics, legends, and lyrical songs; sophisticated and virtuosic instrumental and vocal traditions; and detailed oral histories sometimes going back a thousand years. West Africans today know the names of such kings and warriors as Sunjata Keïta, Kelefa Sané, Albouri Ndiaye, and Omar Tall because all of these figures had griots who composed laudatory songs and histories about them that subsequent griots have passed down to us today. As modern political and economic systems replaced the aristocratic systems of pre-colonial days, griots found patronage in the general public and their art became popularized. Thus, whereas the most famous pre-colonial griots were royal heralds, court entertainers, and praise-singers, the most famous griots today are recording artists, television announcers, and stage actors.<br /><br />Traditionally, griots' most important functions centered on the arts of speaking. Griots' supernatural facility with words makes them indispensable at all important social functions. Their nearly unlimited verbal license gives griots not only a unique power to influence and exploit, but also a deep-rooted stigma.<br /><br />Many Senegalese find the places, values, and personalities of griotism foreign and irrelevant. Griots who have preserved their vocation as performers and artists have consequently adapted their art, emphasizing the art of entertainment above the traditional art of the word. This is not to say that griots have by any means abandoned their verbal function; however, other functions less salient to the traditional identity of griots have begun to rival and often to surpass the importance of words. Griots' principal occupation now is the art of song, and perhaps the most commonly recognized mark of a griot today is an obsession with money.<br /></div><br />Source: <a href="http://cosaan.keemtaan.net/thesis.html">cosaan.keemtaan</a><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SUHJdHajnEI/AAAAAAAAI8Q/LEbc6CBOaT0/s1600-h/a.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SUHJdHajnEI/AAAAAAAAI8Q/LEbc6CBOaT0/s400/a.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5278721740298755138" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">CONTEMPORARY GRIOTS<br /><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/TRopDqMFETI/AAAAAAAAK0Y/9V6l93WjfSE/s1600/Toumani_Diabat%25C3%25A9%2B2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/TRopDqMFETI/AAAAAAAAK0Y/9V6l93WjfSE/s400/Toumani_Diabat%25C3%25A9%2B2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5555798233156227378" border="0" /></a><b>Toumani Diabaté</b><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S29ui14ReyI/AAAAAAAAKik/Ehm_deEmR1E/s1600-h/baaba+maal.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S29ui14ReyI/AAAAAAAAKik/Ehm_deEmR1E/s400/baaba+maal.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5435684820117191458" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">BAABA MAAL</span><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S29vmztkyDI/AAAAAAAAKi0/Z9rlFXO3RN4/s1600-h/SalifKeita5.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 399px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S29vmztkyDI/AAAAAAAAKi0/Z9rlFXO3RN4/s400/SalifKeita5.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5435685987766552626" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">SALIF KEITA<br /><br /><br /><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SjPKpe9gpAI/AAAAAAAAKEg/5tVSc4fP0lQ/s1600-h/Oumou+Sangare.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SjPKpe9gpAI/AAAAAAAAKEg/5tVSc4fP0lQ/s400/Oumou+Sangare.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5346839996653413378" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">OUMOU SANGARE</span><br /></div><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SjPKpFBQuYI/AAAAAAAAKEY/bd-dSRBg3Z4/s1600-h/youssou.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 262px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SjPKpFBQuYI/AAAAAAAAKEY/bd-dSRBg3Z4/s400/youssou.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5346839989689825666" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">YOUSSOU NDOUR</span><br /><br /><br /></div><br />GRIOT MUSIC VIDEOS<br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivPlIxgizVs"><br />A Griot, Her Mother, and Tiken Jah</a><h1></h1><div style="text-align: center;"><object height="385" width="480"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ivPlIxgizVs?fs=1&hl=en_US"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ivPlIxgizVs?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="385" width="480"></embed></object><br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/UfRUH2fKUgA?fs=1&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/UfRUH2fKUgA?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86lv-uYPORc"><span style="font-size:100%;">Griot Lamin Saho</span></a><h1></h1><br /><br /><br />TEXT SOURCES AND MORE INFORMATION<br /><a href="http://www.geocities.com/ritmi2002/griots_west_africa.htm">Griots of West Africa</a><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.lclark.edu/%7Enicole/SENEGAL/MUSICAL.HTM">http://www.lclark.edu/~nicole/SENEGAL/MUSICAL.HTM</a></span>AFRICAN LIZhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05876270785127257460noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4500199998354386351.post-16495996286167073442010-12-29T00:40:00.006+00:002011-02-15T17:32:16.504+00:00MILLEN MAGESE-AFRICAN ELEGANCE<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/TAw7dq0GadI/AAAAAAAAKvM/2wr_lphelGE/s1600/1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 273px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/TAw7dq0GadI/AAAAAAAAKvM/2wr_lphelGE/s400/1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5479820227498109394" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center; font-family: georgia;">An equal force to reckon with in the competitive international fashion modeling industry.<br />Millen Magese hails from Tanzania and is signed to Ford Models in New York and Ice Model Management South Africa.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;" >THE ANATOMY OF AN AFRICA FASHION CAT WALK MODEL</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/TAw7eCEjkNI/AAAAAAAAKvc/8KXqLLvO0no/s1600/3.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/TAw7eCEjkNI/AAAAAAAAKvc/8KXqLLvO0no/s400/3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5479820233741144274" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;" >Real Name: Happiness Millen Magese</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;" >Break through: Became Miss Tanzania 2001</span><br /><br /><b style="font-family: georgia;">Height: </b><b style="font-family: georgia;">1.79</b><br /><br /><b style="font-family: georgia;">Bust: </b><b style="font-family: georgia;">32B </b><br /><br /><b style="font-family: georgia;">Waist </b><b style="font-family: georgia;">61 </b><br /><br /><b style="font-family: georgia;">Hips </b><b style="font-family: georgia;">90 </b><br /><br /><b style="font-family: georgia;">Shoe: </b><b style="font-family: georgia;">7 </b><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: georgia;">Hair: </b><b style="font-family: georgia;">Dark Brown </b><br /><br /><b style="font-family: georgia;">Eye: </b><b style="font-family: georgia;">Brown </b><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;" >Setting the stage: First African woman as the 'face' of the Ralph Lauren Campaign</span><br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;" > Millen Magese is one of the stunning and elegant fashion models Africa has produced.</span><br /></div><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/TAw8Bdb2xYI/AAAAAAAAKvk/zMfjXQIdRRU/s1600/1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 331px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/TAw8Bdb2xYI/AAAAAAAAKvk/zMfjXQIdRRU/s400/1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5479820842382050690" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/TAw6feb23qI/AAAAAAAAKus/ODEZAjhTyWQ/s1600/2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 318px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/TAw6feb23qI/AAAAAAAAKus/ODEZAjhTyWQ/s400/2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5479819159023312546" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/TAw6ezZefYI/AAAAAAAAKuk/9Y4YbPcpkLk/s1600/1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 311px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/TAw6ezZefYI/AAAAAAAAKuk/9Y4YbPcpkLk/s400/1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5479819147470601602" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/TAw7d3LpO9I/AAAAAAAAKvU/4dyj98jxi04/s1600/2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/TAw7d3LpO9I/AAAAAAAAKvU/4dyj98jxi04/s400/2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5479820230818085842" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/TAw4_hB3RuI/AAAAAAAAKuU/DPYATx4grsA/s1600/3.png"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/TAw4_hB3RuI/AAAAAAAAKuU/DPYATx4grsA/s400/3.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5479817510452152034" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/TAw4_JyI7KI/AAAAAAAAKuM/y7CTM02URrY/s1600/2.png"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/TAw4_JyI7KI/AAAAAAAAKuM/y7CTM02URrY/s400/2.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5479817504212184226" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/TAw23owDf0I/AAAAAAAAKt8/Pj3Ru3YtFCc/s1600/5.png"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/TAw23owDf0I/AAAAAAAAKt8/Pj3Ru3YtFCc/s400/5.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5479815176062730050" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/TAw23UnuXSI/AAAAAAAAKt0/rPR989ahXcg/s1600/4.png"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/TAw23UnuXSI/AAAAAAAAKt0/rPR989ahXcg/s400/4.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5479815170659081506" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/TAw228VYHfI/AAAAAAAAKts/VVJW7Bmau1A/s1600/3.png"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/TAw228VYHfI/AAAAAAAAKts/VVJW7Bmau1A/s400/3.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5479815164139675122" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/TAw22f-rx-I/AAAAAAAAKtk/8ljjp631MQ8/s1600/2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/TAw22f-rx-I/AAAAAAAAKtk/8ljjp631MQ8/s400/2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5479815156528302050" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center; font-family: georgia;">If you shop at Macy's you may have seen this photo below under the Ralph Lauren women clothing category.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/TAwyO_ZVoFI/AAAAAAAAKtM/qhTXnIU4TsQ/s1600/1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 323px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/TAwyO_ZVoFI/AAAAAAAAKtM/qhTXnIU4TsQ/s400/1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5479810079720317010" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;" >VIDEO</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/dMOCyx2BPuo&hl=en_US&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/dMOCyx2BPuo&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object></div>AFRICAN LIZhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05876270785127257460noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4500199998354386351.post-71508285679662401022010-05-12T01:00:00.007+01:002010-05-12T03:13:55.989+01:00MICHAEL POLIZA'S AFRICA<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S-X0U4LLFsI/AAAAAAAAKrM/0ht4e6yCwkM/s1600/b.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 279px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S-X0U4LLFsI/AAAAAAAAKrM/0ht4e6yCwkM/s400/b.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5469045962025146050" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Passion, patience, and perfection</span> are the three things that come to mind when viewing the breath taking and stunning photos by Michael Poliza. I am a great fan of Michael's picturesque work. He possesses the unique ability to capture stunning images with such skill and grace. Michael Poliza's work serves as constant reminder of the true beauty that is Africa, ever so rich and diverse.<br /></span></div><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: justify;font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:100%;">For the lovers of beautiful photography on Africa, and Michael Poliza's work his publishers Teneues are giving away some goodies! Here is your chance to enter and win a FREE Michael Poliza book:<a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.blogger.com/www.teneues.com/poliza/contest">www.teneues.com/poliza/contest</a> There you can enter his Twitter contest to win one of his books. Just capture what one of his photos means to you in a tweet, and win your very own Poliza book.<br /></span></div><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br /></span><div style="text-align: justify;font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:100%;">You also have the chance to interact with this multi-faceted photographer on his new microsite. <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.teneues.com/poliza">http://www.teneues.com/poliza</a></span></div><div style="text-align: justify; font-family: georgia;"> </div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S-oNekziIvI/AAAAAAAAKtE/JtzoNS-cvFA/s1600/1.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 197px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S-oNekziIvI/AAAAAAAAKtE/JtzoNS-cvFA/s400/1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5470199516321948402" border="0" /></a></div> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S-X0Vs4JXHI/AAAAAAAAKrc/I0SKtVt-vLs/s1600/d.jpg"><br /></a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">MICHAEL POLIZA'S BIOGRAPHY</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S-X0VCviKFI/AAAAAAAAKrU/AoonaBoscuw/s1600/c.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S-X0VCviKFI/AAAAAAAAKrU/AoonaBoscuw/s400/c.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5469045964862007378" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;" >Michael Poliza has been around the world providing us with breath taking aerial views above multiple fascinating continents. From Africa to Antarctica he has never escaped a chance to share his view of the world with all of us.</span></div><p style="font-family: georgia;" class="MsoNormal"></p><div style="text-align: center; font-family: georgia;"><span><span></span></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;font-family:georgia;"><span><span><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></span></span><span><span>When the New York Times reviewed Michael Poliza’s first book on Africa, the writer said, “it might change the way you think about photography.” Poliza is a man accustomed to raising the bar: from actor to entrepreneur, expedition leader, tourism consultant and professional photographer, he has lived a varied and adventurous life, excelling in all of these wildly diverse environments. Poliza has lived multiple lives forming his lens on the world. His ambition led him around the globe more than once, photographing several of these expeditions. Michael Poliza’s first coffee table book focused on the journeys and discoveries of the Starship Millennium Voyage. Quickly becoming a bestseller, it sold more than 50,000 copies. Michael was one of the pioneering photographers to embrace digital photography, and his Starship book was the very first coffee table book to carry more than 50% digital content.</span></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify; font-family: georgia;"><br /><span><span>That expedition over, he returned to the continent that had stolen his heart: Africa. His book by that name was released to massive acclaim around the world in July 2006. Published by art photography specialists teNeues (<a href="http://www.blogger.com/www.teneues.com">www.teneues.com</a>), this was one of the most talked-about photography titles of the time and was voted one of “The Best Coffee-Table Books of 2006” by ABC-TV’s Good Morning America.</span></span><br /></div><span style="font-family:georgia;"><span><br /></span></span><div style="text-align: justify; font-family: georgia;"><span><span>Following his stunning photo-safari in Africa and an unprecedented helicopter voyage from Europe to Africa in Eyes over Africa, the award-winning photographer ventured to the Polar Regions. There he captured photos of the frozen paradise for his book Antarctic, a tribute to life in the Polar Regions. After his time in Antarctica he returned to Hamberg opening his own gallery and the Michael Poliza Photography enterprise.</span></span><br /></div><span style="font-family:georgia;"><span><br /></span></span><div style="text-align: justify; font-family: georgia;"><span><span>In December 2009 he was named as an ambassador of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). Unable to stay away from Africa for too long, Poliza returned to capture first hand the opportunity to celebrate the first ever World Cup on African soil. So a new plan was quickly hatched: head back to South Africa for just a few months. Leading to a new coffee table book for 2010:<a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.teneues.com/search-us/?no_cache=1&item=110770&tx_t3nav_displaymode=&cHash=797304022c"> SOUTH AFRICA.</a></span></span><br /></div><span><span><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S-X0UX0jr8I/AAAAAAAAKrE/cipJ-fa7Mf4/s1600/a.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 357px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S-X0UX0jr8I/AAAAAAAAKrE/cipJ-fa7Mf4/s400/a.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5469045953340354498" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;" > SNEAK PEEK INSIDE</span><br /></div><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S-YFNg11k3I/AAAAAAAAKs0/65OMnUx-hHs/s1600/4.jpg"><img style="display: block; 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margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 275px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S-YFMmGZ7OI/AAAAAAAAKsc/T37RIKpW2tA/s400/1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5469064511432027362" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S-YCmKDOaEI/AAAAAAAAKsU/FfZTiPPeV4Q/s1600/5.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S-YCmKDOaEI/AAAAAAAAKsU/FfZTiPPeV4Q/s400/5.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5469061652044212290" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S-YClmTUgKI/AAAAAAAAKsM/Dv_SWLtoeeQ/s1600/4.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 263px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S-YClmTUgKI/AAAAAAAAKsM/Dv_SWLtoeeQ/s400/4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5469061642448044194" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S-YClBazkwI/AAAAAAAAKsE/AJ2fQPAV6_I/s1600/3.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 260px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S-YClBazkwI/AAAAAAAAKsE/AJ2fQPAV6_I/s400/3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5469061632547328770" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S-YCkyn2XqI/AAAAAAAAKr8/ZTTmO77gCfI/s1600/2.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 265px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S-YCkyn2XqI/AAAAAAAAKr8/ZTTmO77gCfI/s400/2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5469061628575506082" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S-YCkWKYFoI/AAAAAAAAKr0/fgFkKzuNvK4/s1600/1.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S-YCkWKYFoI/AAAAAAAAKr0/fgFkKzuNvK4/s400/1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5469061620935693954" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">TEXT SOURCES AND FOR MORE INFORMATION:</span><br /><p style="font-family: arial; text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.teneues.com/poliza">http://www.teneues.com/poliza</a></div>AFRICAN LIZhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05876270785127257460noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4500199998354386351.post-14021392869818425852010-04-10T15:01:00.004+01:002010-04-12T01:19:11.043+01:00YVONNE CHAKA CHAKA - THANK YOU MR DJ FOR PLAYING MY SONGS<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S3Il8H7U-3I/AAAAAAAAKn8/kWVUNFMhLFI/s1600-h/A.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 389px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S3Il8H7U-3I/AAAAAAAAKn8/kWVUNFMhLFI/s400/A.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5436449415039875954" border="0" /></a><span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Yvonne Chaka Chaka-Africa's music diva</span></span></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Yvonne Machaka aka Yvonne Chaka Chaka is an internationally recognized and highly respected Princess of Africa, performing diva, entrepreneur, and humanitarian.<br /><br />Yvonne Chaka Chaka was born in 1965 Dobsonville in Soweto. Yvonne Chaka Chaka grew up in a humble family. Her father passed away when she was 11. Her Mother became the sole provider and struggled to bring three daughters with the little income she made as a domestic worker.<br />When asked who she admired most, Chaka Chaka said "<span style="font-style: italic;">My mother because she has always been there for me. My mother raised three daughters single-handedly on a domestic worker's salary. That took great courage and strength. She is my mentor and hero. When I was born in 1965 in Soweto, it was during apartheid, and those were extremely difficult times. My dad was a great musician who could never realize his dream. He died when I was 11 years old. I inherited my talent from both parents, so music has always been in my blood. When I was little I would strum an empty tin and blow into a broom stick pretending it was a microphone. I sang in church choirs. I loved singing. I am blessed that I achieved my destiny, and been able to accomplish what my father could not."</span><br /><br />Yvonne became the first Black child to appear on South African television when in 1981 "Sugar Shack", a talent show, introduced her to the South African public.</div><div> </div><p style="text-align: justify;">Dubbed the "Princess of Africa", Yvonne Chaka Chaka has been at the forefront of South African popular music for 20 years. Some of her most famous songs include "I'm Burning Up", "I'm in Love With a DJ", "I Cry for Freedom", "Makoti", "Motherland" and the ever-popular "Umqombothi" ("African Beer"). Yvonne has won numerous awards and accolades and graced various magazines. She has shared the stage with megastars such as Bono, Youssou N'Dour , the classic rock band Queen, and South Africans Johnny Clegg, Miriam Makeba, and Hugh Masekela, to name a few. Yvonne has performed for HRM Queen Elizabeth, US President Bill Clinton, South African President Thabo Mbeki, and a host of other world leaders. As a young performer Yvonne was the first Black child to appear on South African television in 1981.</p><p><br /></p><p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S3Il01TrPQI/AAAAAAAAKnk/emq9d_2Y-G4/s1600-h/3.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S3Il01TrPQI/AAAAAAAAKnk/emq9d_2Y-G4/s400/3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5436449289782639874" border="0" /></a></p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S3IqSZb3ikI/AAAAAAAAKoU/Ppy8UbA20jQ/s1600-h/A.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 274px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S3IqSZb3ikI/AAAAAAAAKoU/Ppy8UbA20jQ/s400/A.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5436454195743394370" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S3Imi7z9YdI/AAAAAAAAKoE/792kPzNkirY/s1600-h/A.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S3Imi7z9YdI/AAAAAAAAKoE/792kPzNkirY/s400/A.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5436450081802641874" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S3ItUsU_GrI/AAAAAAAAKo8/os6_A3pTwPo/s1600-h/C.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S3ItUsU_GrI/AAAAAAAAKo8/os6_A3pTwPo/s400/C.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5436457533709425330" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S3Il1V2XSNI/AAAAAAAAKn0/Lq-s2XoQ4RI/s1600-h/5.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 275px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S3Il1V2XSNI/AAAAAAAAKn0/Lq-s2XoQ4RI/s400/5.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5436449298518067410" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S3IqS4E-DVI/AAAAAAAAKok/xajBCf90LNY/s1600-h/C.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 329px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S3IqS4E-DVI/AAAAAAAAKok/xajBCf90LNY/s400/C.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5436454203968851282" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">In 1989 she created her own company, Chaka Chaka Promotions. In 1995 she created her own music label, Chaka Chaka Music. Since then every album Yvonne has released has been on her own label. She has two diplomas from the University of South Africa, one in adult education, another in local government, management and administration. Her business ventures include companies in the Information Technology sector; Energy and Minerals sectors; Human Resource Development focused on adult training; and Sandown Motors, a luxury motor vehicle retailer . Yvonne's energy and enthusiasm is boundless. She has become a hero and mentor to others, a willing warrior and agent for change in enormous proportions. Considered a role model throughout the African continent, she has demonstrated compassion for others throughout her career.<br /></div><p style="text-align: justify;">Yvonne actively promotes the rights of women, and the protection of Children. She is a Trustee of Tomorrow Trust, which educated orphans and vulnerable children. Yvonne Chaka Chaka is also UNICEF's Goodwill Ambassador against malaria, and also Ambassador for Roll-Back Malaria (sponsored by the World Bank, United Nations, World Health Organization, and other institutions). She also founded and runs her own charity the Princess of Africa Foundation.<br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;">One of her favourite male mentor and father figure is Nelson Mandela. Mandela who fondly refers to Yvonne as his dear daughter once stated, “<span style="font-style: italic;">It is what we make of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another. Yvonne, you are a testament to my belief. You have made all of South Africa proud to claim you as a national icon. You have motivated millions of women and men on our continent. Your generosity has benefited untold numbers of families and orphans facing the challenges of AIDS, terminal illness, abuse, poverty, and illiteracy. I know you will always make your indelible mark wherever you go, and with what ever you do. There is no stopping you! You will always be my Princess of Africa.”</span></p><p align="justify"><br /></p><p align="justify"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 340px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S3Il1BzTSgI/AAAAAAAAKns/_YTtxQ0J9xE/s400/4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5436449293136513538" border="0" /></p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S3Il1BzTSgI/AAAAAAAAKns/_YTtxQ0J9xE/s1600-h/4.jpg"></a><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Yvonne Chaka Chaka with husband and family</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S3ItURUbTQI/AAAAAAAAKo0/E6SyRoc2-iE/s1600-h/B.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 290px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S3ItURUbTQI/AAAAAAAAKo0/E6SyRoc2-iE/s400/B.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5436457526459321602" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">The men in her life</span><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S3ItUBe1fAI/AAAAAAAAKos/Y7U89UsDnpA/s1600-h/A.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 296px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S3ItUBe1fAI/AAAAAAAAKos/Y7U89UsDnpA/s400/A.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5436457522208013314" border="0" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">Yvonne Chaka Chaka with hubby Dr Mandlalele Mhinga</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S3IqS1hxfnI/AAAAAAAAKoc/li3s4DcqRXE/s1600-h/B.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 223px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S3IqS1hxfnI/AAAAAAAAKoc/li3s4DcqRXE/s400/B.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5436454203284356722" border="0" /></a></p><p align="justify"></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Her philosophy is, “When we are born we come with nothing. And when we die, we die with nothing. So every day I wake up and say, ‘God thank you for the life that you have given me. I take nothing for granted. I love living, I love life, and I live it to the fullest.'”</span></span></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S3Il0oIYmFI/AAAAAAAAKnc/zhLAUYcaXsA/s1600-h/2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S3Il0oIYmFI/AAAAAAAAKnc/zhLAUYcaXsA/s400/2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5436449286245619794" border="0" /></a> <p style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; text-align: center;font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:100%;">In Greek legend the goddess Clytemnestra said, “We are the instruments of Heaven. Our work is not design, but destiny.” African icon Yvonne Chaka Chaka is living her destiny, and those who understand her message are enriched by it. </span></p><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">YVONNE CHAKA CHAKA MUSIC VIDEOS</span><br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/6xw2xIDFoLw&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x006699&color2=0x54abd6"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/6xw2xIDFoLw&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x006699&color2=0x54abd6" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/h58Mm7cxxi4&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x006699&color2=0x54abd6"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/h58Mm7cxxi4&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x006699&color2=0x54abd6" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/6_TzkF4ubGc&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x006699&color2=0x54abd6"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/6_TzkF4ubGc&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x006699&color2=0x54abd6" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/q0YBuPpA5fs&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x006699&color2=0x54abd6"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/q0YBuPpA5fs&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x006699&color2=0x54abd6" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /></div><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">TEXT SOURCES AND MORE INFORMATION</span><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.princessofafrica.co.za/">OFFICIAL YVONNE CHAKA CHAKA WEBSITE </a>AFRICAN LIZhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05876270785127257460noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4500199998354386351.post-1228788143547657402010-03-09T02:35:00.000+00:002010-03-09T02:35:00.433+00:00AMSALE ABERRA<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S4s3tkz4ICI/AAAAAAAAKqY/JjDwEMFfQCE/s1600-h/5.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S4s3tkz4ICI/AAAAAAAAKqY/JjDwEMFfQCE/s400/5.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5443505830722281506" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="just"><strong>Amsale Aberra's</strong> career as a couture bridal and eveningwear designer happened by necessity. While planning her 1985 nuptials to film executive Neil Brown, Amsale scoured the stores to find a simple, refined wedding dress. She found little in the way of clean, sophisticated gowns, and discovered an untapped niche in the bridal market—elegant and understated dresses.</p><p style="text-align: justify;" class="just">"Everything was so overdone and with too much ornamentation," says Amsale, who was sure that her taste in gowns was shared by many other brides-to-be. Amsale placed a classified advertisement for custom-made gowns for other brides-to-be who shared her taste in sophisticated, understated designs. And so, with a few responses, a sketchpad full of designs, and a small team of couture sewers, Amsale started her business out of her New York City loft apartment.</p> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <p style="text-align: justify;" class="just">Since then, the name AMSALE (pronounced Ahm-sah'-leh) has become synonymous with the "forever modern" wedding dress. Her collections are designed for brides who desire a fashionable, sophisticated and timeless look. Amsale believes: "Twenty years after the wedding, I want a bride to be able to look at her pictures and be as happy with the way she looked as she was on her wedding day."</p> <p style="text-align: justify;" class="just"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;" class="just"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S4s6DuWpIUI/AAAAAAAAKqo/IHKa2uoN-Mk/s1600-h/2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 308px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S4s6DuWpIUI/AAAAAAAAKqo/IHKa2uoN-Mk/s400/2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5443508410264396098" border="0" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="just"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">“In Ethiopia there were no fashion designers. I never knew that designing beautiful clothes was a profession to which one could aspire.”</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Amsale Aberra<br /><br /></span></div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="just">Amsale’s love of fashion began as a young girl growing up in Ethiopia. However, Amsale never considered becoming a designer: “In Ethiopia there were no fashion designers. I never knew that designing beautiful clothes was a profession to which one could aspire.”</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Amsale convinced her parents to allow her to leave Ethiopia in order to study commercial art in New England. While in school a revolution broke out in her native country, which forced Amsale to stay in the United States to support herself and complete her undergraduate education at University of Massachusetts – Boston through a number of odd-jobs. With limited financial resources, Amsale admits “I would design and sew my own clothes because I couldn’t afford to buy new things. That’s when I first thought of becoming a fashion designer.” </p> Amsale left Boston, enrolled in New York’s Fashion Institute of Technology and began her career as a design assistant for Harve Bernard upon graduation. Two years later, Amsale launched her custom bridal-gown business.<br /><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><br /><p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S4s6Dc6zN_I/AAAAAAAAKqg/lEyH3OzdR5Q/s1600-h/1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S4s6Dc6zN_I/AAAAAAAAKqg/lEyH3OzdR5Q/s400/1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5443508405584214002" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S4s6EImosAI/AAAAAAAAKq4/X25J8g2Z4L0/s1600-h/4.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S4s6EImosAI/AAAAAAAAKq4/X25J8g2Z4L0/s400/4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5443508417310797826" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S4s3tHy7yJI/AAAAAAAAKqI/2ajMoo-Mws8/s1600-h/3.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S4s3tHy7yJI/AAAAAAAAKqI/2ajMoo-Mws8/s400/3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5443505822933698706" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S4s3s_vxIGI/AAAAAAAAKqA/ZXVZ8U1naFM/s1600-h/2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S4s3s_vxIGI/AAAAAAAAKqA/ZXVZ8U1naFM/s400/2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5443505820772933730" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S4s3shMsFpI/AAAAAAAAKp4/CrRf6GHBKv0/s1600-h/1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S4s3shMsFpI/AAAAAAAAKp4/CrRf6GHBKv0/s400/1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5443505812572739218" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S4s2dFWxdlI/AAAAAAAAKpo/4w2w8veN2AY/s1600-h/2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S4s2dFWxdlI/AAAAAAAAKpo/4w2w8veN2AY/s400/2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5443504447889176146" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S4s2cwhVl6I/AAAAAAAAKpg/tAbr7i9hauo/s1600-h/1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S4s2cwhVl6I/AAAAAAAAKpg/tAbr7i9hauo/s400/1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5443504442296342434" border="0" /></a></p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;" class="just">Amsale's love of fashion began as a young girl growing up in Ethiopia. However, Amsale never considered becoming a designer: "In Ethiopia there were no fashion designers. I never knew that designing beautiful clothes was a profession to which one could aspire."</p> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <p style="text-align: justify;" class="just">Amsale convinced her parents to allow her to leave Ethiopia in order to study commercial art in New England. While in school a revolution broke out in her native country, which forced Amsale to stay in the United States to support herself and complete her undergraduate education at University of Massachusetts - Boston through a number of odd-jobs. With limited financial resources, Amsale admits "I would design and sew my own clothes because I couldn't afford to buy new things. That's when I first thought of becoming a fashion designer." </p> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <p style="text-align: justify;" class="just">Amsale left Boston, enrolled in New York's Fashion Institute of Technology and began her career as a design assistant for Harve Bernard upon graduation. Two years later, Amsale launched her custom bridal-gown business with her "forever modern" approach to sophisticated design.</p> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <p style="text-align: justify;" class="just">Amsale's design philosophy has redefined the perception of the timeless wedding gown. Her innovative twists to time honored hallmarks of the traditional wedding gown—reintroducing "illusion design," modern updates of the traditional bustle, and tasteful color accents including the now-famous "blue sash" gown—have become so popular among prospective brides that they have been recognized as modern classics.</p> <p><br /></p><p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S4s6D0oruHI/AAAAAAAAKqw/I2JfngVjitk/s1600-h/3.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 138px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S4s6D0oruHI/AAAAAAAAKqw/I2JfngVjitk/s400/3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5443508411950676082" border="0" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Amsale Aberra</strong></p><p style="text-align: center;"><strong><br /></strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;" class="just">She extends that viewpoint of individuality to her collection of chic and refined gowns for the bridal party, and in the Amsale Evening collection of couture evening wear—both lines a natural progression from the sophisticated and modern styles of her bridal collection. Amsale's ball gowns, cocktail dresses and evening suits have been featured on the fashion and party pages of all the top fashion magazines, and worn by celebrities and socialites including Halle Berry, Julia Roberts, Selma Blair, Salma Hayek, Lucy Liu, Heather Graham, Kim Basinger, Deborah Norville, Vivica A. Fox, Vanessa Williams, Lisa Kudrow, Heidi Klum, Katherine Heigl and many others. Producers turn to Amsale when they need beautiful designs for films and television programs; her gowns have been featured on "The Oprah Winfrey Show", "Grey's Anatomy" and "27 Dresses."</p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="just">Amsale's Madison Avenue boutique, which opened in September 2001, has fulfilled Amsale's desire to present her designs in a setting that reflected her "forever modern" vision. The 5,000 square foot boutique is an urban space with a gallery-like atmosphere that provides a sleek, sophisticated canvas and the perfect backdrop for Amsale's elegant designs. The boutique offers a full range of designs from all of the brands within the Amsale Design Group, including Amsale, Amsale Bridesmaids, Christos and Kenneth Pool. The Kenneth Pool line is designed by Project Runway alum, Austin Scarlett, while Amsale Aberra is the Creative Director for the Amsale and Christos lines.</p><br /><p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S4s3te0-W3I/AAAAAAAAKqQ/VE0RhtPZZ8Y/s1600-h/4.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S4s3te0-W3I/AAAAAAAAKqQ/VE0RhtPZZ8Y/s400/4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5443505829116271474" border="0" /></a></p><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>Amsale Aberra</strong></div><p><br /><br /></p><span style="font-weight: bold;">TEXT SOURCES AND MORE INFORMATION</span><br /><p><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.amsale.com/">AMSALE OFFICIAL WEBSITE</a><br /></p>AFRICAN LIZhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05876270785127257460noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4500199998354386351.post-42614242213294727082010-03-02T04:12:00.002+00:002010-03-02T04:12:00.405+00:00CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S15r6tJeckI/AAAAAAAAKho/XjypvAYINzA/s1600-h/4.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 325px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S15r6tJeckI/AAAAAAAAKho/XjypvAYINzA/s400/4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5430896856951321154" border="0" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie</b><br /></div><br /><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong></strong>Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was born in Nigeria in 1977. She is from Abba, in Anambra State, but grew up in the university town of Nsukka where she attended primary and secondary schools and briefly studied Medicine and Pharmacy. She then moved to the United States to attend college, graduating summa cum laude from Eastern Connecticut State with a major in Communication and a minor in Political Science. She holds a Masters degree in Creative Writing from Johns Hopkins and a Masters degree in African Studies from Yale.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">She is the author of the novels Purple Hibiscus and Half of a Yellow Sun (2006), and she has recently published a collection of short stories titled The Thing around Your Neck (2009). She has received numerous awards and distinctions, including the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction (2007) and a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship (2008).</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S15tg6AuSDI/AAAAAAAAKiA/-lIIva7C_M4/s1600-h/1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 263px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S15tg6AuSDI/AAAAAAAAKiA/-lIIva7C_M4/s400/1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5430898612750927922" border="0" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie</p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;"><br /></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><em></em></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Purple Hibiscus won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. It was also short-listed for the Orange Prize and the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and long-listed for the Booker Prize. Her short fiction has appeared in Granta, Prospect, and The Iowa Review among other literary journals, and she received an O. Henry Prize in 2003. She was a 2005-2006 Hodder Fellow at Princeton, where she taught Introductory Fiction. She divides her time between the United States and Nigeria.<br /><br /><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S15sml6hX0I/AAAAAAAAKh4/ZOKJe8pn97g/s1600-h/2.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S15sml6hX0I/AAAAAAAAKh4/ZOKJe8pn97g/s400/2.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5430897610923794242" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S15smOdnXdI/AAAAAAAAKhw/7-jkRafWvhk/s1600-h/1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 260px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S15smOdnXdI/AAAAAAAAKhw/7-jkRafWvhk/s400/1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5430897604628536786" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie<br /><br /></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimamanda_Ngozi_Adichie" title="Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie"></a><div style="text-align: justify;">Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's novel Half of a Yellow Sun takes place in Nigeria during the Nigerian-Biafran War in 1967-1970. The effect of the war is shown through the dynamic relationships of five people’s lives ranging from high ranking political figures, a professor, a British citizen, and a houseboy. After the British left Nigeria and stopped ruling, conflicts arose over what government would rule over the land. The land split and the Nigeria-Biafra war started. The lives of the main characters (two sisters Olanna and Kainene) drastically changed and were torn apart by the war and decisions in their personal life.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S15r5w3qmkI/AAAAAAAAKhQ/jaJGUN4606g/s1600-h/1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 187px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S15r5w3qmkI/AAAAAAAAKhQ/jaJGUN4606g/s400/1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5430896840770492994" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Chimamanda Adichie: The danger of a single story at TED Talks</span><br /></span></div><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div>Our lives, our cultures, are composed of many overlapping stories. Novelist Chimamanda Adichie tells the story of how she found her authentic cultural voice -- and warns that if we hear only a single story about another person or country, we risk a critical misunderstanding.<br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><br /><br /><!--copy and paste--><object width="446" height="326"><param name="movie" value="http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><param name="bgColor" value="#ffffff"> <param name="flashvars" value="vu=http://video.ted.com/talks/dynamic/ChimamandaAdichie_2009G-medium.flv&su=http://images.ted.com/images/ted/tedindex/embed-posters/ChimamandaAdichie-2009G.embed_thumbnail.jpg&vw=432&vh=240&ap=0&ti=652&introDuration=16500&adDuration=4000&postAdDuration=2000&adKeys=talk=chimamanda_adichie_the_danger_of_a_single_story;year=2009;theme=the_creative_spark;theme=speaking_at_tedglobal2009;theme=master_storytellers;theme=new_on_ted_com;theme=words_about_words;event=TEDGlobal+2009;&preAdTag=tconf.ted/embed;tile=1;sz=512x288;"><embed src="http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf" pluginspace="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" bgcolor="#ffffff" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="vu=http://video.ted.com/talks/dynamic/ChimamandaAdichie_2009G-medium.flv&su=http://images.ted.com/images/ted/tedindex/embed-posters/ChimamandaAdichie-2009G.embed_thumbnail.jpg&vw=432&vh=240&ap=0&ti=652&introDuration=16500&adDuration=4000&postAdDuration=2000&adKeys=talk=chimamanda_adichie_the_danger_of_a_single_story;year=2009;theme=the_creative_spark;theme=speaking_at_tedglobal2009;theme=master_storytellers;theme=new_on_ted_com;theme=words_about_words;event=TEDGlobal+2009;" width="446" height="326"></embed></object><br /><br /><br /><br /></div><br /><a style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;" href="http://www.ted.com/talks/chimamanda_adichie_the_danger_of_a_single_story.html#" class="transcriptLink" onclick="seekVideo(782000); return false;"></a><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">"And the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story."</span> <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">"The consequence of the single story is this: It robs people of dignity. It makes our recognition of our equal humanity difficult. It emphasizes how we are different rather than how we are similar."</span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><br /><br />"Of course, Africa is a continent full of catastrophes. There are immense ones, such as the horrific rapes in Congo. And depressing ones, such as the fact that 5,000 people apply for one job vacancy in Nigeria. But there are other stories that are not about catastrophe. And it is very important, it is just as important, to talk about them."</span><a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/chimamanda_adichie_the_danger_of_a_single_story.html#" class="transcriptLink" onclick="seekVideo(809000); return false;"></a><p><br /></p><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S15r6M6AYoI/AAAAAAAAKhY/a96viMFUiYk/s1600-h/2.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S15r6M6AYoI/AAAAAAAAKhY/a96viMFUiYk/s400/2.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5430896848296501890" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">TEXT SOURCES AND FOR MORE INFORMATION</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="http://www.halfofayellowsun.com/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">http://www.halfofayellowsun.com/</span></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.l3.ulg.ac.be/adichie/index.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">http://www.l3.ulg.ac.be/adichie/index.html</span></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/chimamanda_adichie_the_danger_of_a_single_story.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">http://www.ted.com chimamanda_adichie_the_danger_of_a_single_story.html</span></a></span>AFRICAN LIZhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05876270785127257460noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4500199998354386351.post-50648477216138580182010-02-10T00:28:00.000+00:002010-02-10T03:11:33.753+00:00FORT JESUS<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S3IPm-kfEyI/AAAAAAAAKk0/MduLFDg8ijw/s1600-h/C.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S3IPm-kfEyI/AAAAAAAAKk0/MduLFDg8ijw/s400/C.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5436424862495085346" border="0" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">FORT JESUS, MOMBASA, KENYA</span><br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The Fort Jesus is located in Mombasa Island which is in the Coast province of Kenya. It lies a distance of about 490-km from Nairobi city.<br /><br />The Portuguese built Fort Jesus in 1593. The site chosen was a coral ridge at the entrance to the harbor. The Fort was designed by an Italian Architect and Engineer, Joao, Batista Cairato. The earliest known plan of the Fort is in a manuscript Atlas by Manuel Godinho de Heredia - dated 1610 which shows the original layout of the buildings inside the Fort.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S3IabNwKQAI/AAAAAAAAKmk/eODwS8TRPLQ/s1600-h/A.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S3IabNwKQAI/AAAAAAAAKmk/eODwS8TRPLQ/s400/A.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5436436755040059394" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S3IPnA4bKrI/AAAAAAAAKk8/ZfsIkHDYm6U/s1600-h/D.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S3IPnA4bKrI/AAAAAAAAKk8/ZfsIkHDYm6U/s400/D.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5436424863115586226" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S3IQmHA2hwI/AAAAAAAAKlM/zAJ31uvYvGY/s1600-h/A.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S3IQmHA2hwI/AAAAAAAAKlM/zAJ31uvYvGY/s400/A.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5436425947093305090" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S3IYkSoSxHI/AAAAAAAAKls/n6fLikqj_To/s1600-h/B.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 322px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S3IYkSoSxHI/AAAAAAAAKls/n6fLikqj_To/s400/B.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5436434711944807538" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S3IPmUo5l0I/AAAAAAAAKkk/LG_atTXFPy0/s1600-h/A.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S3IPmUo5l0I/AAAAAAAAKkk/LG_atTXFPy0/s400/A.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5436424851239311170" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S3IQmXgvOYI/AAAAAAAAKlU/4gmMjLlbSW0/s1600-h/B.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S3IQmXgvOYI/AAAAAAAAKlU/4gmMjLlbSW0/s400/B.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5436425951522011522" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S3IPmUo5l0I/AAAAAAAAKkk/LG_atTXFPy0/s1600-h/A.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S3IPmUo5l0I/AAAAAAAAKkk/LG_atTXFPy0/s400/A.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5436424851239311170" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S3IFkg2QAWI/AAAAAAAAKkc/8i2_0H4bR_8/s1600-h/A.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 265px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S3IFkg2QAWI/AAAAAAAAKkc/8i2_0H4bR_8/s400/A.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5436413825040515426" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S3IDNnqoSYI/AAAAAAAAKkU/vBcGTTXi_Ug/s1600-h/A.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S3IDNnqoSYI/AAAAAAAAKkU/vBcGTTXi_Ug/s400/A.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5436411232710576514" border="0" /></a>Portuguese drawings Fort Jesus, Mombasa<br /><br /><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S3IYljPzONI/AAAAAAAAKmE/lOxbX2DgBYY/s1600-h/E.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S3IYljPzONI/AAAAAAAAKmE/lOxbX2DgBYY/s400/E.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5436434733585348818" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S3IZ-qAfBRI/AAAAAAAAKmU/5OhzreqTM-Q/s1600-h/A.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S3IZ-qAfBRI/AAAAAAAAKmU/5OhzreqTM-Q/s400/A.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5436436264408515858" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S3IYlX8RUnI/AAAAAAAAKl8/epUHOYFrUzI/s1600-h/D.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S3IYlX8RUnI/AAAAAAAAKl8/epUHOYFrUzI/s400/D.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5436434730550645362" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S3IYkxehI_I/AAAAAAAAKl0/SPCaK6bON5k/s1600-h/C.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S3IYkxehI_I/AAAAAAAAKl0/SPCaK6bON5k/s400/C.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5436434720225305586" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S3IPnVkT-KI/AAAAAAAAKlE/q-rD2GP8C8o/s1600-h/E.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S3IPnVkT-KI/AAAAAAAAKlE/q-rD2GP8C8o/s400/E.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5436424868668373154" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Fort Jesus was built to secure the safety of Portuguese living on the East Coast of Africa. It has had a long history of hostilities of the interested parties that used to live in Mombasa. Perhaps no Fort in Africa has experienced such turbulence as Fort Jesus. Omani Arabs attacked the Fort from 1696 to 1698. The state of the Fort can be understood from the plan of Rezende of 1636 and other plans by Don Alvaro? Marquis of Cienfuegas and Jose? Lopes de Sa - made during the brief reoccupation by the Portuguese in 1728 - 1729. In the Cienfuegas plan, the names of the bastions are changed.<br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S3IAasjcuVI/AAAAAAAAKjM/Yqu0VfZwnDw/s1600-h/C.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S3IAasjcuVI/AAAAAAAAKjM/Yqu0VfZwnDw/s400/C.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5436408158826051922" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S3IByKOBkZI/AAAAAAAAKj0/KjhHnq4GWtI/s1600-h/A.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S3IByKOBkZI/AAAAAAAAKj0/KjhHnq4GWtI/s400/A.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5436409661437874578" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S3IYj7NnQKI/AAAAAAAAKlk/43cMUE5Jb4E/s1600-h/A.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 225px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S3IYj7NnQKI/AAAAAAAAKlk/43cMUE5Jb4E/s400/A.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5436434705658888354" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S3IZ_NvKjkI/AAAAAAAAKmc/-SIA6o80x1U/s1600-h/B.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S3IZ_NvKjkI/AAAAAAAAKmc/-SIA6o80x1U/s400/B.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5436436273999547970" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S3IAxdItQfI/AAAAAAAAKjs/9P4a4614dSI/s1600-h/B.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S3IAxdItQfI/AAAAAAAAKjs/9P4a4614dSI/s400/B.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5436408549824348658" border="0" /></a>Fort Jesus Barracks, Mombasa<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><br /></div>Between 1837 and 1895, the Fort was used as barracks for the soldiers. When the British protectorate was proclaimed on the 1st of July 1895, the Fort was converted into a prison. The huts were removed and cells were built. On the 24th October 1958, Fort Jesus was declared a National Park in the custody of the Trustees of the Kenya National Parks. Excavation was carried out and the Fort became a Museum in 1962. The Fort is now an important historical landmark in the East African region.<br /><br />Fort Jesus MuseumThe Fort Jesus museum was built with a grant from the Gulbenkian Foundation. The exhibits consist of finds from archaeological excavations at Fort Jesus, Gede, Manda, Ungwana and other sites. Other objects on display were donated by individuals notably Mrs. J.C. White, Mr. C.E. Whitton and Mrs. W.S. Marchant. The Fort has lived through the years of hostilities and a hush climate and is structurally well - maintained.<br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.museums.or.ke/content/blogcategory/48/76/">Source: National Museums of Kenya</a></span><br /><br /><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S3IQmjFS0gI/AAAAAAAAKlc/n4Dz2BoFR6Y/s1600-h/C.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S3IQmjFS0gI/AAAAAAAAKlc/n4Dz2BoFR6Y/s400/C.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5436425954628129282" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S3IBy0NVPtI/AAAAAAAAKkM/e5icZ5EZvSc/s1600-h/D.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S3IBy0NVPtI/AAAAAAAAKkM/e5icZ5EZvSc/s400/D.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5436409672709258962" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S3IByvOI59I/AAAAAAAAKkE/sLySPnXMiGc/s1600-h/C.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S3IByvOI59I/AAAAAAAAKkE/sLySPnXMiGc/s400/C.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5436409671370467282" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S3IByX5bB0I/AAAAAAAAKj8/WH-gN2ePHnQ/s1600-h/B.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S3IByX5bB0I/AAAAAAAAKj8/WH-gN2ePHnQ/s400/B.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5436409665109559106" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S3IAbWxcIjI/AAAAAAAAKjc/U4ox8xe4fGo/s1600-h/E.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S3IAbWxcIjI/AAAAAAAAKjc/U4ox8xe4fGo/s400/E.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5436408170159022642" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S3IAxH14DsI/AAAAAAAAKjk/-3Dbfg0MEuk/s1600-h/A.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S3IAxH14DsI/AAAAAAAAKjk/-3Dbfg0MEuk/s400/A.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5436408544108220098" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S3IAa7-2CGI/AAAAAAAAKjU/PN7N-MEafz0/s1600-h/D.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S3IAa7-2CGI/AAAAAAAAKjU/PN7N-MEafz0/s400/D.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5436408162967488610" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S3IAZ9uN6dI/AAAAAAAAKi8/aHcvi4K3rSc/s1600-h/A.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S3IAZ9uN6dI/AAAAAAAAKi8/aHcvi4K3rSc/s400/A.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5436408146254752210" border="0" /></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/lauren_pressley/284658813/">Photos by Lauren</a><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">INTERESTING FORT JESUS HISTORY FROM WIKIPEDIA<br /></div><br />Fort Jesus is a Portuguese fort built in 1593 by order of King Philip II of Spain ( King Philip I of Portugal ), then ruler of the joint Portuguese and Spanish Kingdoms, located on Mombasa Island to guard the Old Port of Mombasa, Kenya. It was built in the shape of a man (viewed from the air), and was given the name of Jesus, after Shaikh Isa Bin Tarif Al Bin Ali Al Utbi conquered the fort in 1837 after being asked for assistance by Sayyid Said Bin Sultan , Sultan of Oman . The name Jesus in Arabic means Isa, therefore it means the Fort of Isa ( Isa Bin Tarif ). Isa Bin Tarif , Chief of the Al Bin Ali Al Utbi Tribe , is a descendant of the original uttoobee conquerors of Bahrain . The Al Bin Ali were a politically important group that moved backwards and forwards between Qatar and Bahrain, they were the original dominant group of Zubara area , they were also known for their courage, persistence, and abundant wealth.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S3IZcFIRaGI/AAAAAAAAKmM/hGI9kRMf6ww/s1600-h/A.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/S3IZcFIRaGI/AAAAAAAAKmM/hGI9kRMf6ww/s400/A.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5436435670393514082" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">MORE INFORMATION</span><br /><a href="http://www.magicalkenya.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=230&Itemid=263">Magical Kenya</a><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">VIDEO</span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6JWTycK5sw"><span style="font-size:100%;"> The Fort Jesus Experience in Mombasa Kenya</span></a>AFRICAN LIZhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05876270785127257460noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4500199998354386351.post-62317408731242245592009-10-27T18:50:00.002+00:002010-01-26T04:05:28.675+00:00GRACA MACHEL-AN AFRICAN FIRST LADY<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/Sombd8Up3hI/AAAAAAAAKNM/KqGvt_azN5c/s1600-h/graca+3.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 289px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/Sombd8Up3hI/AAAAAAAAKNM/KqGvt_azN5c/s400/graca+3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5370994969327296018" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Graca Machel</span><br /></div><br /><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Graca Simbine Machel</span> was born on October 17, 1945 in Incadine, Gaza, Mozambique. She was sent to a Methodist mission school at age 6 and later went to university in Portugal on a mission scholarship. There she mingled with students from other Portuguese colonies and developed her liberation politics. Upon returning to Mozambique in 1973, Graca joined FRELIMO. Though she received military training, she worked with women and children and taught school. In 1974, she was appointed Deputy Director of the FRELIMO Secondary School at Bagamoyo. Following independence in 1975, Graca became Minister of Education and Culture and a member of FRELIMO's Central Committee. During her tenure (she resigned in 1989), the percentage of children enrolled in primary and secondary schools doubled. Primary school enrolment increased from 40% of children in 1975 to over 90% of boys and 75% of girls by 1989. She married <b>Samora Machel</b>, the first President of Mozambique, in 1975.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SomYvVbpymI/AAAAAAAAKMk/R851naiO9_Y/s1600-h/graca+4.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 315px; height: 213px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SomYvVbpymI/AAAAAAAAKMk/R851naiO9_Y/s400/graca+4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5370991969590430306" border="0" /></a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SsYVRa79dZI/AAAAAAAAKgQ/EUDVlE8Po_w/s1600-h/1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 346px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SsYVRa79dZI/AAAAAAAAKgQ/EUDVlE8Po_w/s400/1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5388017393228150162" border="0" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Graca Machel and Samora Machel</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SomZDG2gATI/AAAAAAAAKMs/Wa3QGujg9UQ/s1600-h/Graca+1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 319px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SomZDG2gATI/AAAAAAAAKMs/Wa3QGujg9UQ/s400/Graca+1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5370992309273887026" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SomYt77GsOI/AAAAAAAAKMM/vlCWHumkh_Q/s1600-h/Graca+1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 257px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SomYt77GsOI/AAAAAAAAKMM/vlCWHumkh_Q/s400/Graca+1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5370991945563156706" border="0" /></a> </p><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SomYu46r-eI/AAAAAAAAKMc/di1RReQI-tM/s1600-h/graca+3.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 309px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SomYu46r-eI/AAAAAAAAKMc/di1RReQI-tM/s400/graca+3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5370991961935968738" border="0" /></a><i> </i><span style="font-weight: bold;">Graca Machel is the widow of Mozambique first President, Samora Machel, killed in an airplane crash in 1986. They were blessed with two children and is step-mother to Samora Machels five children.<br /><br /><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SomYueAVrqI/AAAAAAAAKMU/XCiM823yHYc/s1600-h/graca+2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 250px; height: 161px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SomYueAVrqI/AAAAAAAAKMU/XCiM823yHYc/s400/graca+2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5370991954711916194" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Graca Machel was devastated. Pictures of the Machel funeral show her bowed over her husband's casket, prostrate with pain. "His death was so unexpected, and it was in such a violent way," she recalled for Ebony. In the company of many other sympathizers, jailed South African activist Nelson Mandela and his then-wife, Winnie, sent warm condolences for the loss of Samora Machel. Machel replied as soon as she felt able to do so. The newspaper Scotland on Sunday quoted her reply, "Those who have locked up your husband have killed mine," she wrote to Winnie Mandela, "They think that by cutting down the tallest trees they can destroy the forest," she added.</span><p style="font-style: italic;"></p><p style="font-style: italic;">The "forest" continued to grow, but Graca Machel felt she had given whatever she could to her government post. She was now a widow with the solitary responsibility of bringing up her family alone, and she felt it was time for a change of scene. Soon after her husband's death she resigned her post as Minister of Education, leaving behind a sterling record--1.5 million children in school, as against 400,000 when she had arrived. <a href="http://www.answers.com/topic/gra-a-machel">source: Answers</a><br /></p><br /></div><p style="text-align: justify;">President Machel was killed in a plane crash in 1986. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa is now inquiring into the plane crash, in which many believe the South African apartheid government to have been involved. Graca re-entered the global spotlight as a result of her July 1998 marriage to South African President <b>Nelson Mandela</b>. The couple commute between South Africa and Mozambique, and Graca continues her work with multiple organizations in Mozambique and at the U.N.</p><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SomqDBFr64I/AAAAAAAAKPE/PTpCyEjolfc/s1600-h/graca+2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 264px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SomqDBFr64I/AAAAAAAAKPE/PTpCyEjolfc/s400/graca+2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371010999424641922" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SomqDSqKSBI/AAAAAAAAKPM/Vh-Afs5E2xc/s1600-h/graca+3.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SomqDSqKSBI/AAAAAAAAKPM/Vh-Afs5E2xc/s400/graca+3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371011004141029394" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Josina Machel, Nelson Mandela, Malenga Machel and Graca Machel at Malenga’s graduation ceremony at </span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> University of Cape Town</span>. <span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Source:</span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.oryxmedia.co.za/people/nelson-mandela-with-malenga-at-his-graduation-from-uct-13-dec-2002">Oryxmedia</a> </span><br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SomqCiH4keI/AAAAAAAAKO8/xaXZxEhTEWY/s1600-h/graca.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 302px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SomqCiH4keI/AAAAAAAAKO8/xaXZxEhTEWY/s400/graca.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371010991112360418" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Mama Graca with son Malenga</span>. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Graca Machel also serves as a chairperson of the </span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.whatana.com/">Whatana Group</a><span style="font-weight: bold;"> and investment company managed by her son Malenga in Mozambique.</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SsYUovmw0dI/AAAAAAAAKgI/c93azSHS3xU/s1600-h/1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 314px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SsYUovmw0dI/AAAAAAAAKgI/c93azSHS3xU/s400/1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5388016694401749458" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SsYTDeUNjBI/AAAAAAAAKgA/b2RxKHD4rBs/s1600-h/1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SsYTDeUNjBI/AAAAAAAAKgA/b2RxKHD4rBs/s400/1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5388014954593750034" border="0" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">The friendship between the two deepened in 1991, when African National Congress head Oliver Tambo died, passing his position as Machel's children's </span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.answers.com/topic/godfather" class="alnk" target="_top" name="&lid=ALINK" onclick="assignParam('navinfo','method|4'+getLinkTextForCookie(this));"></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">godfather on to Mandela.</span><br /></div><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/Somd_-HUlTI/AAAAAAAAKN8/Hvgv4On8Lbg/s1600-h/Graca+1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/Somd_-HUlTI/AAAAAAAAKN8/Hvgv4On8Lbg/s400/Graca+1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5370997752947053874" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Nelson and Graça were married on July 18, 1998, his eightieth birthday, in the presence of family, sixteen friends, and one photographer.</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;"> <span style="font-style: italic;">"They were married in the new house [in Houghton], Mandela in a gold-patterned open shirt, Graca wearing a long white dress with wide puffed sleeves, Elizabethan-style. They were blessed beforehand by the Chief Rabbi, and also by the Muslim Sheikh Nazim Mohammed and the Hindu Mrs. Nanachene. They were married by a methodist Bishop, Myume Dandala -- since they had both been brought up as Methodists -- assisted by Desmond Tutu ..."</span></span> <span style="font-weight: bold;"> Source: Anthony Sampson. Mandela: The Authorized Biography. 2000. </span><br /></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SomeAgPlHSI/AAAAAAAAKOM/nvzmn1azmhU/s1600-h/graca+3.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SomeAgPlHSI/AAAAAAAAKOM/nvzmn1azmhU/s400/graca+3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5370997762108497186" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SomeAG8uHmI/AAAAAAAAKOE/anbE83pgTlU/s1600-h/graca+2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SomeAG8uHmI/AAAAAAAAKOE/anbE83pgTlU/s400/graca+2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5370997755318509154" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">South African Former President Nelson Mandela (R), his wife Graca Machel (C), and Mandela's grandson Ziyanda Manaway celebrate Mandela's 91st birthday on July 18, 2009 in Houghton, Johannesburg. Mandela, South Africa's first black president, celebrated his birthday surrounded by family and anti apartheid stalwarts at his Johannesburg home.</span></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SomcxcR9XTI/AAAAAAAAKNk/bRbiI2w9OXI/s1600-h/graca+2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 353px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SomcxcR9XTI/AAAAAAAAKNk/bRbiI2w9OXI/s400/graca+2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5370996403835067698" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SomcxDJY7pI/AAAAAAAAKNc/6uAwjGamRGw/s1600-h/Graca+1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SomcxDJY7pI/AAAAAAAAKNc/6uAwjGamRGw/s400/Graca+1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5370996397088239250" border="0" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">Graca Machel laughs with Nelson Mandelas ex-wife, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, at an event put on by South Africa's ruling African National Congress to mark his 90th birthday.</p><p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><b>Graca Machel</b> has been very active internationally and is world-renowned for her commitment to children's and women's rights, education, and development. She served as President of the National Commission of UNESCO in Mozambique, as a delegate to the 1988 UNICEF Conference, and on the steering committee of the 1990 World Conference on Education for All. In 1994 UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali appointed Graca the independent expert in charge of producing the <b>U.N. Report on the Impact of Armed Conflict on Children</b>, and Graca spent 1994-96 traveling to investigate the plight of children in countries beset by war. The subject had never before been studied in depth and Graca's report was ground-breaking. As a result of her report, the General Assembly authorized the Secretary-General to appoint a Special Representative on the impact of armed conflict on children.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"> Over the years, Graça Machel has gained international recognition for her achievements. Her many awards include the Laureate of Africa Prize for Leadership for the Sustainable End of Hunger from the Hunger Project in 1992 and the Nansen Medal in recognition of her contribution to the welfare of refugee children in 1995. She has received the Inter Press Service’s International Achievement Award for her work on behalf of children internationally, the Africare Distinguished Humanitarian Service Award and the North-South Prize of the Council of Europe, among others.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SomhIzFDzRI/AAAAAAAAKOU/RQLqiic-5Yk/s1600-h/Graca+1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 303px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SomhIzFDzRI/AAAAAAAAKOU/RQLqiic-5Yk/s400/Graca+1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371001203138481426" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SomcyKHHMrI/AAAAAAAAKN0/ZRKLclEnQcM/s1600-h/graca+4.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 284px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SomcyKHHMrI/AAAAAAAAKN0/ZRKLclEnQcM/s400/graca+4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5370996416137605810" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/Somcx2SCiTI/AAAAAAAAKNs/5y2QfDXWSJo/s1600-h/graca+3.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 373px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/Somcx2SCiTI/AAAAAAAAKNs/5y2QfDXWSJo/s400/graca+3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5370996410814728498" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SombeAzVlCI/AAAAAAAAKNU/mdlGeCEUmT4/s1600-h/graca+4.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 271px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SombeAzVlCI/AAAAAAAAKNU/mdlGeCEUmT4/s400/graca+4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5370994970529731618" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SombdZ8X-eI/AAAAAAAAKNE/Z4bCZ6EAcME/s1600-h/graca+2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 255px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SombdZ8X-eI/AAAAAAAAKNE/Z4bCZ6EAcME/s400/graca+2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5370994960098654690" border="0" /></a></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Graça Machel has served on the boards of numerous international organisations, including the UN Foundation, the Forum of African Women Educationalists, the African Leadership Forum, and the International Crisis Group. Among many other commitments, she is Chair of the Fund Board for the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation (GAVI), Chancellor of the University of Cape Town, and Peer of the African Peer Review Mechanism.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SombdHFdapI/AAAAAAAAKM8/uSWvzS21qBU/s1600-h/Graca+1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 271px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SombdHFdapI/AAAAAAAAKM8/uSWvzS21qBU/s400/Graca+1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5370994955036486290" border="0" /></a><br /></p><br /><i> </i><span style="font-weight: bold;">MORE INFORMATION AND TEXT SOURCES</span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.theelders.org/elders/graca-machel">The Elders</a><br /><br />Brandeis UniversityAFRICAN LIZhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05876270785127257460noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4500199998354386351.post-7708305890711566512009-09-22T22:30:00.033+01:002009-09-22T22:30:00.471+01:00AFRICA ON LENS- MICHAEL POLIZA<div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SpB0GLFgJyI/AAAAAAAAKTU/5mzgB8DcjoM/s1600-h/poliza+3.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SpB0GLFgJyI/AAAAAAAAKTU/5mzgB8DcjoM/s400/poliza+3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372922004856907554" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SpB0FZFXEEI/AAAAAAAAKTE/RCNIHDo7FIc/s1600-h/poliza.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SpB0FZFXEEI/AAAAAAAAKTE/RCNIHDo7FIc/s400/poliza.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372921991434539074" border="0" /></a><br />Michael Poliza is a wildly successful German IT entrepreneur who sold his companies in 1997 and set off to capture the world on film.<br /><br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div id="description_div110781981" class="photoDescription"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SpBq8x2DHGI/AAAAAAAAKR8/l1aXpFqXsHE/s1600-h/poliza.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 273px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SpBq8x2DHGI/AAAAAAAAKR8/l1aXpFqXsHE/s400/poliza.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372911947857730658" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">MICHAEL POLIZA-THE MAN BEHIND THE CAMERA<br /><br /><br /></span></span></div></div></div></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div>As a teenager, he was as well known as any actor could possibly be in the Germany of that time, and appeared in well over 100 television shows and films. Poliza went on to make his fortune in the IT world, but in 1997, sold his companies with a view to buying a boat and setting sail for some exotic and relaxing locale. However this is not a man to do things by half measure, and in record time the Starship Millennium Voyage was underway. This three-year multimedia expedition around the world on a 75 ft expedition yacht was sponsored by SONY, Microsoft, Deutsche Telekom, Olympus and the WWF, and was broadcast daily on the Internet and followed by millions of people around the world.<br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SpBsOO-n_bI/AAAAAAAAKSU/iEda1j1kW1g/s1600-h/poliza+3.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 274px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SpBsOO-n_bI/AAAAAAAAKSU/iEda1j1kW1g/s400/poliza+3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372913347247734194" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SpBsN6vbEJI/AAAAAAAAKSM/ZVg5QbGenZ4/s1600-h/poliza+2.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SpBsN6vbEJI/AAAAAAAAKSM/ZVg5QbGenZ4/s400/poliza+2.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372913341815263378" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SpBsNleigsI/AAAAAAAAKSE/A2oGAW3KmZQ/s1600-h/poliza.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 251px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SpBsNleigsI/AAAAAAAAKSE/A2oGAW3KmZQ/s400/poliza.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372913336107303618" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SpB0GYG2ecI/AAAAAAAAKTc/qwTD5OwQXuk/s1600-h/poliza+4.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SpB0GYG2ecI/AAAAAAAAKTc/qwTD5OwQXuk/s400/poliza+4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372922008352225730" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Poliza’s first coffee table book was published in Germany and focused on the journeys and discoveries of the Starship Millennium Voyage. Quickly becoming a bestseller, it sold more than 50 000 copies. True to his IT roots and passions, Poliza was one of the pioneering photographers to embrace digital photography, and his Starship book was the very first coffee table book to carry more than 50% digital content.<br /><br />That expedition over, Poliza returned to the continent that had stolen his heart: Africa. His book by that name was released to massive acclaim around the world in July 2006. Published by art photography specialists, teNeues (www.teneues.com), this is without a doubt the most talked-about photography title of recent years, showcasing Poliza’s keen eye for the beautiful simplicity of Nature’s graphics. The 10 000-copy first print run sold out in three months – quite an achievement for a title that costs in excess of ₤70. A more concise version was published in March 2007. The Essential AFRICA showcases the best of the bestselling AFRICA in a more portable format.<br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SpBqfusMKRI/AAAAAAAAKRs/4U-1-Z_GL-s/s1600-h/poliza+3.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SpBqfusMKRI/AAAAAAAAKRs/4U-1-Z_GL-s/s400/poliza+3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372911448794867986" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SpBqgPoXDKI/AAAAAAAAKR0/x5uQctHhaRE/s1600-h/poliza+4.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SpBqgPoXDKI/AAAAAAAAKR0/x5uQctHhaRE/s400/poliza+4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372911457637174434" border="0" /></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/poliza/"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" >"No child is born a racist"</span></a><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" > Photo</span><br /></div><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SpBqfcD8RFI/AAAAAAAAKRk/CXuYCWIyx9I/s1600-h/poliza+2.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 264px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SpBqfcD8RFI/AAAAAAAAKRk/CXuYCWIyx9I/s400/poliza+2.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372911443794216018" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SpBqfPJSmfI/AAAAAAAAKRc/KsyXywFE-zo/s1600-h/poliza.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SpBqfPJSmfI/AAAAAAAAKRc/KsyXywFE-zo/s400/poliza.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372911440326990322" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SpBo9FHBZCI/AAAAAAAAKRM/a8f34EFGyHY/s1600-h/poliza+4.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SpBo9FHBZCI/AAAAAAAAKRM/a8f34EFGyHY/s400/poliza+4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372909754005939234" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SpBo81X7j3I/AAAAAAAAKRE/xR7W8SwDe2Q/s1600-h/poliza+3.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SpBo81X7j3I/AAAAAAAAKRE/xR7W8SwDe2Q/s400/poliza+3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372909749781892978" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SpBo8UB2GdI/AAAAAAAAKQ8/J3VXQp4klvo/s1600-h/poliza+2.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SpBo8UB2GdI/AAAAAAAAKQ8/J3VXQp4klvo/s400/poliza+2.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372909740830890450" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SpBo8Mz_TmI/AAAAAAAAKQ0/zv5kZMjdJik/s1600-h/poliza.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SpBo8Mz_TmI/AAAAAAAAKQ0/zv5kZMjdJik/s400/poliza.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372909738893725282" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SpBo9d1GlpI/AAAAAAAAKRU/qx3ViIPoNV8/s1600-h/poliza+5.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 371px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SpBo9d1GlpI/AAAAAAAAKRU/qx3ViIPoNV8/s400/poliza+5.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372909760641668754" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SpBnPcfQXnI/AAAAAAAAKQk/CTPLyrn19Nw/s1600-h/poliza+3.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 243px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SpBnPcfQXnI/AAAAAAAAKQk/CTPLyrn19Nw/s400/poliza+3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372907870495989362" border="0" /></a><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SpB0Gmu-UxI/AAAAAAAAKTk/BgaxnJkebsQ/s1600-h/poliza+5.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SpB0Gmu-UxI/AAAAAAAAKTk/BgaxnJkebsQ/s400/poliza+5.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372922012278608658" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Stunning Himba women</span><br /><br /></div><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SpB0F1mUAfI/AAAAAAAAKTM/Z1jShEmClOE/s1600-h/poliza+2.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SpB0F1mUAfI/AAAAAAAAKTM/Z1jShEmClOE/s400/poliza+2.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372921999088943602" border="0" /></a><div id="description_div110781981" class="photoDescription"> <div style="text-align: center;"> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SpBnP_6wDxI/AAAAAAAAKQs/pGy9g4DEDiM/s1600-h/poliza+4.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SpBnP_6wDxI/AAAAAAAAKQs/pGy9g4DEDiM/s400/poliza+4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372907880006553362" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-style: italic;">I was about 10-12ft away in a vehicle, flat on the ground. She is looking through the ribcage of a buffalo that her pride killed a few hours before. Shot near Duba Plains,Okavango Delta, Botswana one of the worlds best place to see lion/buffalo interactions...<br /><br /></span></span><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><br /></span> <div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SpBsOaRm8nI/AAAAAAAAKSc/yOqrGKMJx5A/s1600-h/poliza+4.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SpBsOaRm8nI/AAAAAAAAKSc/yOqrGKMJx5A/s400/poliza+4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372913350280147570" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" >Nature photography provides you with many moments that can easily be described with cute, sweet, lovely, wonderful etc. But it is also very very much, the survival of the fittest. Eat and be eaten. Life and death. Happens every day, every hour, every minute. It is part of life....</span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" ><br /></span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" > </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" ><br /></span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" > This young Impala Antelope lamb was actually killed by a young female leopard. She was just on the way to a tree to eat it when about 8 Hyena came out of the bush and chased her off. She lost her kill and just barely made it to the tree. If they would have gotten her, they most definitely would have killed her. Eliminate competition. All the cats do that as well. The leopard was lucky, the Impala was not.</span><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Michael Poliza</span></div></div><br /></div> </div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SpBnPH39-6I/AAAAAAAAKQc/C3i5PWaJmsY/s1600-h/poliza+2.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SpBnPH39-6I/AAAAAAAAKQc/C3i5PWaJmsY/s400/poliza+2.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372907864962497442" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SpBnOzCyVCI/AAAAAAAAKQU/SdEOgT9PCm0/s1600-h/poliza.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SpBnOzCyVCI/AAAAAAAAKQU/SdEOgT9PCm0/s400/poliza.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372907859370726434" border="0" /></a>Michael Poliza teamed up with his friend Stefan Breuer on an 8-week helicopter expedition across Africa. Their long-held dream of flying from Hamburg to Cape Town is taking them across both Europe and Africa at low-level so that they can capture the beauty of both continents and share these birds-eye-view images with the world. This expedition was covered extensively by media in Europe and Africa. The book on the expedition, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Eyes on Africa</span>, was published in 2007.<br /><br /><br /><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SpB3qnO0MJI/AAAAAAAAKUU/_WCZzTqI0iA/s1600-h/poliza.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 274px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SpB3qnO0MJI/AAAAAAAAKUU/_WCZzTqI0iA/s400/poliza.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372925929422336146" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SpB3Ajyr2AI/AAAAAAAAKUM/EhcwXgZEXRE/s1600-h/poliza+5.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SpB3Ajyr2AI/AAAAAAAAKUM/EhcwXgZEXRE/s400/poliza+5.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372925206944536578" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SpB3AdSw9PI/AAAAAAAAKUE/Yzu-166_1l8/s1600-h/poliza+4.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 272px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SpB3AdSw9PI/AAAAAAAAKUE/Yzu-166_1l8/s400/poliza+4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372925205200041202" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SpB2_7hDi2I/AAAAAAAAKT8/jv5SzC6EQQc/s1600-h/poliza+3.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SpB2_7hDi2I/AAAAAAAAKT8/jv5SzC6EQQc/s400/poliza+3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372925196133174114" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SpB2_rjw2yI/AAAAAAAAKT0/zTzDtmkmRAk/s1600-h/poliza+2.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SpB2_rjw2yI/AAAAAAAAKT0/zTzDtmkmRAk/s400/poliza+2.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372925191849564962" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SpB2_DJnnMI/AAAAAAAAKTs/g1B_pXLQJUY/s1600-h/poliza.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SpB2_DJnnMI/AAAAAAAAKTs/g1B_pXLQJUY/s400/poliza.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372925181002489026" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">BOOKS</span></span><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SpBv3SgBZdI/AAAAAAAAKS8/Tt8EPFVCcXI/s1600-h/poliza.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 250px; height: 296px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SpBv3SgBZdI/AAAAAAAAKS8/Tt8EPFVCcXI/s400/poliza.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372917351102637522" border="0" /></a><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/3832792090/ref=pd_lpo_k2_dp_sr_1?pf_rd_p=486539851&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=3832791272&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=1P2TG4V3T2MM72390X33"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Eyes Over Africa</span></a><br /></div>In 2006, to fulfill a long-held dream, widely acclaimed photographer Michael Poliza and friend Stefan Breuer undertook a helicopter journey across Africa. Skimming close to the ground, they flew over 19 countries. Poliza's alluring and often surprising photographs share this exceptional journey with the world. With a birds-eye view, we witness the astounding beauty, scale and diversity of this imposing continent. The accompanying texts give a behind-the-scenes look at the making of the photographs, and brief background to some of the most fascinating subject matters.<br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SpBvt9EBelI/AAAAAAAAKS0/5Ku5cpZtSr8/s1600-h/poliza.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 250px; height: 297px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SpBvt9EBelI/AAAAAAAAKS0/5Ku5cpZtSr8/s400/poliza.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372917190729235026" border="0" /></a><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/3832791973/ref=pd_lpo_k2_dp_sr_3?pf_rd_p=486539851&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=3832791272&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=1P2TG4V3T2MM72390X33">THE ESSENTIAL AFRICA</a><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><br /><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SpBvfcknExI/AAAAAAAAKSs/-Ey0J0Ui1Qg/s1600-h/poliza+2.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 250px; height: 292px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SpBvfcknExI/AAAAAAAAKSs/-Ey0J0Ui1Qg/s400/poliza+2.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372916941489378066" border="0" /></a><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.amazon.com/Africa-Michael-Poliza/dp/3832791272">AFRICA</a><br /></div><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">TEXT SOURCES AND MORE INFORMATION</span><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.poliza.de/index_old.php">Michael Poliza Official Website</a> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.poliza.de/index_old.php"></a><br /><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/poliza/">Michael Poliza Photo Stream</a>AFRICAN LIZhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05876270785127257460noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4500199998354386351.post-8232328662213316302009-09-10T19:06:00.013+01:002010-03-28T18:53:48.683+01:00ALI BEN BONGO ONDIMBA- A SUCCESSION STORY<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SqAJB3docUI/AAAAAAAAKXQ/1SLDSq2ILFw/s1600-h/ali+ben.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SqAJB3docUI/AAAAAAAAKXQ/1SLDSq2ILFw/s400/ali+ben.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5377307882753126722" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;" >Alain Bernard Bongo aka Ali-Ben Bongo Ondimba</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:georgia;"> </span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;" >President of Gabon as of September 2009</span><em></em></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Son of the late President Omar Bongo and Patience Dabany, Alain Bernard Bongo was born in Brazzaville February 9, 1959.<br /><br /><span id="Zoom"> After obtaining a law degree in France, Ali Bongo made debut in the political circle by joining PDG in 1981. He was elected to PDG's Central Committee in 1983 and entered PDG's Political Bureauin 1984. Two years later, he was elected to the Political Bureau </span></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Ali Bongo took the post of minister of foreign affairs and cooperation in the Gabonese government in 1989. He resigned from the post in 1991 when the country's new constitution stipulated that any minister serving in the government must be at least at the age of 35. In 1996, Ali Bongo made a comeback to the Gabonese government becoming the president of the Higher Council of Islamic Affairs of Gabon. In the parliamentary election in December 1996, he was again elected as a PDG candidate in Haut-Ogooue Province.<br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SqHPDE06CUI/AAAAAAAAKaA/kYpfAhZymb0/s1600-h/ali+ben.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 278px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SqHPDE06CUI/AAAAAAAAKaA/kYpfAhZymb0/s400/ali+ben.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5377807081799289154" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;" >Like father like son<br />Ali Bongo Ondimba with his father the late President Omar Bongo Ondimba</span><br /></div><br /><br />Ali Bongo was named as minister of national defense on Jan. 25,1999. He was promoted to the rank of minister of state in January 2006 while still keeping the job of defense chief. In September 2008, Ali Bongo was reelected as a vice president of PDG. On July 19, 2009, the ruling PDG chief Faustin Boukoubi officially nominated Ali Bongo the party's presidential candidate. Ali Bongo was dismissed as minister of national defense by interim president Rose Francine Rogombe so as to contest in the presidential election on an equal footing with other candidates. He focused the campaign on his platform of peace, development and equality. </div><span><span></span></span><p><br /></p><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SqAXEB_R0FI/AAAAAAAAKZo/urKuWVyl260/s1600-h/ali+ben.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 294px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SqAXEB_R0FI/AAAAAAAAKZo/urKuWVyl260/s400/ali+ben.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5377323313101131858" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;" id="Zoom"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:georgia;">Ali Bongo Ondimba, the son of late president Omar Bongo Ondimba and the former defense minister of Gabon, garnered 141,952 votes, accounting for 41.93 percent of the total votes in August 2009 presidential election, followed by independent candidate Andre Mba Obame with 25.88 percent of the votes. The opposition candidate Pierre Mamboundou was placed as the third with 25.22 percent of the votes.</span></span><br /><br /></span><div class="blkcol2" style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >ALI BEN BONGO ONDIMBA PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS CAMPAIGN</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SqAL0vbo15I/AAAAAAAAKYw/1Jh7vsGu0YQ/s1600-h/ali+ben.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SqAL0vbo15I/AAAAAAAAKYw/1Jh7vsGu0YQ/s400/ali+ben.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5377310955793864594" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SqALGykMu9I/AAAAAAAAKYo/E9WEBxikDH4/s1600-h/ali+ben+4.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SqALGykMu9I/AAAAAAAAKYo/E9WEBxikDH4/s400/ali+ben+4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5377310166361095122" border="0" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SqALGUF63yI/AAAAAAAAKYg/rSjaX2_bSzI/s1600-h/ali+ben+3.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SqALGUF63yI/AAAAAAAAKYg/rSjaX2_bSzI/s400/ali+ben+3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5377310158181031714" border="0" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SqALFmuWQvI/AAAAAAAAKYQ/6BkK329F_No/s1600-h/ali+ben.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SqALFmuWQvI/AAAAAAAAKYQ/6BkK329F_No/s400/ali+ben.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5377310146002567922" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SqAJ1HN2orI/AAAAAAAAKYI/PJCLn5VL2bw/s1600-h/ali+ben+4.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SqAJ1HN2orI/AAAAAAAAKYI/PJCLn5VL2bw/s400/ali+ben+4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5377308763155243698" border="0" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SqAJz4NjoAI/AAAAAAAAKXw/Htxc9I6NWxk/s1600-h/ali+ben.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SqAJz4NjoAI/AAAAAAAAKXw/Htxc9I6NWxk/s400/ali+ben.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5377308741947596802" border="0" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SqAJCycKBZI/AAAAAAAAKXo/gqJRbiOXL0I/s1600-h/ali+ben+4.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SqAJCycKBZI/AAAAAAAAKXo/gqJRbiOXL0I/s400/ali+ben+4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5377307898584630674" border="0" /></a></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SqAJCjnxSmI/AAAAAAAAKXg/HA9aN0wGjuc/s1600-h/ali+ben+3.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SqAJCjnxSmI/AAAAAAAAKXg/HA9aN0wGjuc/s400/ali+ben+3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5377307894606809698" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;" id="Zoom" >"If the Gabonese place the trust in me and elect me to the head of state, I certainly will not stay 40 years, rest assured."</span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;" > </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;" id="Zoom" ><span style="font-size:130%;">Ali Ben quoted by local media saying he would not seek to remain in power forever.</span><br /><br /></span></div><p style="text-align: justify;">"We are going to jealously guard the peace which was left behind by the late president Omar Bongo Ondimba while stressing on durable development and the equitable distribution of resources toall the people," he said to the local population in the western province of Estuaire during his campaign. <span id="Zoom"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span id="Zoom"> Ali Bongo also announced to reform the education system and improve the professional training while taking into account the state potential and the market needs if he is elected. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span id="Zoom">"Our duty will be to create jobs all over," he said while promising to never interfere with the work of the two parliamentary chambers, the senate and the national assembly, in which his party has the majority representation.<br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span id="Zoom"><br /></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;" >ALI BONGO ONDIMBA HOBBIES</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;" >Ali Bongo Ondimba rapping and dancing (I must admit he is pretty good;-)</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><object width="500" height="405"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/AnLYtg7Hjug&hl=en&fs=1&border=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/AnLYtg7Hjug&hl=en&fs=1&border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="500" height="405"></embed></object><br /><br /><p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-style: italic;">While he owes his political career to his father, who he says he has to thank for "giving him the genes of responsibility, dignity and honour", his mother gave him his passion for music. She is the Gabonese singer and musician Patience Dabany, who unofficially oversees his relations with the media. According to the French newspaper Le Monde, Ali Bongo's career looked likely to take a musical bent until he joined the cabinet in 1989 and shed his image as a party-goer. He says he plays the piano and drums - has composed jazz, some Brazilian bossa novas and did the soundtrack for a Gabonese film released 10 years ago</span>.<span style="font-size:78%;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8238860.stm">Source BBC</a></span><br />In February 1992, he organized a visit by American pop singer Michael Jackson to Gabon.<br /></div><p></p><br /></div></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;" >A FOOTBALL FAN AT HEART</span><br /><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SqAJ0KZFoWI/AAAAAAAAKX4/ejJsW8lTrIs/s1600-h/ali+ben+2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SqAJ0KZFoWI/AAAAAAAAKX4/ejJsW8lTrIs/s400/ali+ben+2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5377308746827800930" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SqAJ0phYvXI/AAAAAAAAKYA/Nb_5-bkK09o/s1600-h/ali+ben+3.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SqAJ0phYvXI/AAAAAAAAKYA/Nb_5-bkK09o/s400/ali+ben+3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5377308755184106866" border="0" /></a>Ali Bongo is football fan and a passionate fan of the Spanish club Real Madrid. Ali Bongo practices almost every Sunday at his home with his military security guards and family. Ali longs to see the Gabon national football team win the Africa Cup of Nations.<br /></div><span style="" onmouseover="_tipon(this)" onmouseout="_tipoff()"><strong><br /></strong></span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;" >ALI BEN'S FAMILY</span><br /><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SqAJCakrdwI/AAAAAAAAKXY/xJ46JZ_JdNQ/s1600-h/ali+ben+2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SqAJCakrdwI/AAAAAAAAKXY/xJ46JZ_JdNQ/s400/ali+ben+2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5377307892177925890" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SqALGMAGiuI/AAAAAAAAKYY/hd7cPxMAYzY/s1600-h/ali+ben+2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SqALGMAGiuI/AAAAAAAAKYY/hd7cPxMAYzY/s400/ali+ben+2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5377310156009147106" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SqAHjzvZ5cI/AAAAAAAAKWY/-gd1eMQB8Lo/s1600-h/ali+ben+5.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SqAHjzvZ5cI/AAAAAAAAKWY/-gd1eMQB8Lo/s400/ali+ben+5.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5377306266846225858" border="0" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;" >Sylvia Bongo Ondimba, Gabons new First Lady was born in 1963 in Paris, France and spent most of her childhood growing up in Africa.</span><br /><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SqAIOm3sKrI/AAAAAAAAKWw/8aNyj4ShLXk/s1600-h/ali+ben+8.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SqAIOm3sKrI/AAAAAAAAKWw/8aNyj4ShLXk/s400/ali+ben+8.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5377307002125691570" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;" >Ali Bongo is married to Sylvia Ajma Valentin, his second wife. They have four children: a daughter, Malika Bongo Ondimba and three sons Noureddin Bongo Ondimba, Jalil Bongo Ondimba and Bilal Bongo Ondimba who was adopted by the couple in 2002.</span><br /><br /></div><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SqAG4dQs_zI/AAAAAAAAKWA/jRSY79-Oc08/s1600-h/ali+ben+2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SqAG4dQs_zI/AAAAAAAAKWA/jRSY79-Oc08/s400/ali+ben+2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5377305522077499186" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SqAHkiWhGCI/AAAAAAAAKWo/D-97vtMbo3A/s1600-h/ali+ben+7.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SqAHkiWhGCI/AAAAAAAAKWo/D-97vtMbo3A/s400/ali+ben+7.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5377306279358306338" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SqAG4EWv76I/AAAAAAAAKV4/dOPtIcDBUks/s1600-h/ali+ben.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SqAG4EWv76I/AAAAAAAAKV4/dOPtIcDBUks/s400/ali+ben.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5377305515391971234" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SqAIPrVl3GI/AAAAAAAAKXI/m0OqWQOa4QI/s1600-h/ali+ben+2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SqAIPrVl3GI/AAAAAAAAKXI/m0OqWQOa4QI/s400/ali+ben+2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5377307020504718434" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SqAIPaS2dUI/AAAAAAAAKXA/zJk_WK2yffQ/s1600-h/ali+ben.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SqAIPaS2dUI/AAAAAAAAKXA/zJk_WK2yffQ/s400/ali+ben.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5377307015929820482" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SqAG42JHCBI/AAAAAAAAKWI/oTwnFdtpOMw/s1600-h/ali+ben+3.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SqAG42JHCBI/AAAAAAAAKWI/oTwnFdtpOMw/s400/ali+ben+3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5377305528756537362" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><strong></strong> <div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;" >INGE BONGO</span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;" >, ALI BEN BONGO'S FIRST WIFE</span><br /><br /><span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SqHCbD157xI/AAAAAAAAKZ4/xasmXZqtPR4/s1600-h/ali+ben.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 303px; height: 394px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SqHCbD157xI/AAAAAAAAKZ4/xasmXZqtPR4/s400/ali+ben.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5377793200200740626" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SqHCa29v_AI/AAAAAAAAKZw/Z787ljUUhTg/s1600-h/ali+ben+2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 195px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SqHCa29v_AI/AAAAAAAAKZw/Z787ljUUhTg/s400/ali+ben+2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5377793196743982082" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;" >Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba and Inge Bongo wedding day</span><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Ali Bongo first wife <strong style="font-weight: bold;"></strong>Inge Bongo a native of the United States of America currently resides in California. Inge is still legally married to Ali Bongo.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" >Source:<a href="http://www.bvblackspin.com/2009/08/28/ali-bongo-american-family-on-welfare/3">bvblackspin.com</a></span><br /></div><br /><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">MEET THE PARENTS</span></span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;" >FATHER, THE LATE PRESIDENT OMAR BONGO ODIMBA</span><br /><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SqATyezEaPI/AAAAAAAAKZg/0zRcbsheZ2w/s1600-h/ali+ben.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 342px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SqATyezEaPI/AAAAAAAAKZg/0zRcbsheZ2w/s400/ali+ben.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5377319713062021362" border="0" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SqATPrm_bRI/AAAAAAAAKZY/bLk1wDwPF5E/s1600-h/ali+ben+3.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 374px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SqATPrm_bRI/AAAAAAAAKZY/bLk1wDwPF5E/s400/ali+ben+3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5377319115205602578" border="0" /></a><a style="font-family: georgia;" href="http://saharanvibe.blogspot.com/2007/04/gabons-omar-bongo-president-for-life.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Omar Bongo Ondimba was President of Gabon for 42 years from 1967 until his death in office in 2009.</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">For more see previous post <span style="font-style: italic;">Gabon's Omar Bongo- President for Life</span></span></a><br /></div><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:180%;" > </span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">MOTHER DEAREST</span></span><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SqAR0gHEqVI/AAAAAAAAKY4/FTgl0-6nb3Y/s1600-h/ali+ben.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SqAR0gHEqVI/AAAAAAAAKY4/FTgl0-6nb3Y/s400/ali+ben.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5377317548750842194" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;" >Patience Dabany aka Marie Joséphine Kama</span><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Patience Dabany (born 22 January 1944, Brazzaville, Congo) is a Gabonese singer and musician. She was previously married to Omar Bongo Ondimba, President of Gabon, from 1959 to 1986.<br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In 1958, she met Albert-Bernard Bongo, a young Gabonese student. At just 15 years of age, she married Albert on 31 October 1959. They had two children: a son Alain Bernard Bongo (9 February 1959) and a daughter, the late Albertine Amissa Bongo (1964–1993). Marie Josephine Kama, later known as Josephine Bongo, was the first lady of Gabon. She and her then-husband founded the Gabonese Democratic Party. She became involved in many social projects, including the promotion of women's rights, charities for children, etc. Working with culture he created the musical group dedicated to the Gabonese Democratic Party, Kounabeli (Superstars), where she performed as lead singer.<br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SqATPIPVKVI/AAAAAAAAKZQ/Q5cpXtN9-kY/s1600-h/ali+ben+2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 318px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SqATPIPVKVI/AAAAAAAAKZQ/Q5cpXtN9-kY/s400/ali+ben+2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5377319105711122770" border="0" /></a><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />In 1986 Joséphine and Albert Bongo divorced. Marie embarked on a career as a professional artist, under her new name, Patience Dabany. Her first album, Levekisha, was a great success in Gabon and in many African countries. <span style="font-size:78%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Source:wikipedia</span></span></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br /></span> </div><object width="500" height="405"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/pWWx5-tke6E&hl=en&fs=1&border=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/pWWx5-tke6E&hl=en&fs=1&border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="500" height="405"></embed></object><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br /></span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SqAHjv8CPpI/AAAAAAAAKWQ/sMmW_BhmZFI/s1600-h/ali+ben+4.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 283px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SqAHjv8CPpI/AAAAAAAAKWQ/sMmW_BhmZFI/s400/ali+ben+4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5377306265825459858" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;" >Good luck in the new job!</span><br /><br /><br /></span></div><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;" >FOR MORE INFORMATION AND TEXT SOURCES</span><br /><a style="font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;" href="http://www.ali9.org/">http://www.ali9.org</a><br /><a style="font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;" href="http://www.bvblackspin.com/2009/08/28/ali-bongo-american-family-on-welfare/3">bvblackspin.com</a>AFRICAN LIZhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05876270785127257460noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4500199998354386351.post-80603649066735226192009-08-23T11:21:00.001+01:002009-08-23T04:52:59.085+01:00BAKISIMBA<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SpCpnuC93CI/AAAAAAAAKUc/YMLDXoJjphM/s1600-h/bakisimba2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 370px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SpCpnuC93CI/AAAAAAAAKUc/YMLDXoJjphM/s400/bakisimba2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372980855293467682" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">BAKISIMBA</span>-<span style="font-weight: bold;">BUGANDAN GROOVE</span><br /><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The Bakisimba dance is the oldest and most common among the Buganda community in Uganda. It is danced by both men and women for entertainment on almost any occasion when a celebration is not contrary to the purpose. Musical accompaniment for Bakisimba includes the <i style="">nseege</i> (gourd rattles), <i style="">engombe</i> (trumpets made of cow horns), and four drums: <i style="">Mbuutu</i>, <i style="">Nankasa</i>, <i style="">Mpuunyi</i> and the <i style="">Ngalabi.</i> The Bakisimba dance <!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="_x0000_s1040" type="#_x0000_t75" style="'position:absolute;left:0;text-align:left;margin-left:0;margin-top:0;" wrapcoords="-150 0 -150 21484 21600 21484 21600 0 -150 0"> <v:imagedata src="education_files/image004.jpg" title="nankasa"> <w:wrap type="square"> </v:shape><![endif]--><!--[if !vml]--><!--[endif]--><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="_x0000_s1039" type="#_x0000_t75" style="'position:absolute;left:0;" wrapcoords="-150 0 -150 21484 0 21600 9150 21600 21450 21600 21600 21484 21600 0 -150 0"> <v:imagedata src="education_files/image006.jpg" title="mpuunyi"> <w:wrap type="square"> </v:shape><![endif]--><!--[if !vml]--><!--[endif]-->emphasizes waist movements and intricate footwork.<br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Dancers wear animal skins around their waists to exaggerate these movements, while ankle bells are attached to emphasize the foot work. The choreography is divided in to two parts. The first part is slow and graceful, while the second part, referred to as Muwogola, is fast and builds to a climax. Nankasa is the cousin to Bakisimba and is purely used for entertainment as well. The attire and musical are the same as Bakisimba. The only difference is the speed and form, Nankasa is done at a very fast speed from beginning to end and is either played before Bakisimba or after Muwogola. <span style="font-size:85%;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.dambe.org/education.html">Source: Dambe</a></span><br /></div><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SpCr961rU5I/AAAAAAAAKUs/n3wR3xmXIec/s1600-h/bakisimba.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SpCr961rU5I/AAAAAAAAKUs/n3wR3xmXIec/s400/bakisimba.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372983435707765650" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;">http://www.empowerafricanchildren.org<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">ORIGIN OF THE BAKISIMBA DANCE<br /><br /></span></span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">A former Bugandan king (kabaka) greatly enjoyed the local beer, tonto omwenge. Tonto is made from banana plants, and the name is taken from the Lugandan word tontomera, which means, "Do not knock me". At one gathering, this king drank too much of the beer and became quite happy. (In Buganda, it is taboo to say that the king is drunk; you can only say that the king is very happy.) The king then started praising the people who had made the beer, saying abaakisiimba, which means "those who planted the bananas", and bebaakiwoomya, "they made it delicious".</span> <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"> The musicians at this gathering created an abaakisiimba rhythm that imitated the words of the king, who was so happy and relaxed that he began to move and dance. While the musicians mimicked the king's words on their drums, the women imitated the king's movements, which eventually became a dance that is now performed throughout Buganda by all generations. There are three major movements in this dance: the first is Baakisiimba, the second is Nankasa, and the third is Muwogola.</span></span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SpC1rwyVRkI/AAAAAAAAKVM/OQais6dM0DA/s1600-h/bakisimba.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SpC1rwyVRkI/AAAAAAAAKVM/OQais6dM0DA/s400/bakisimba.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372994118888015426" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SpC0WQo3y1I/AAAAAAAAKU8/sEH2PtTWMt8/s1600-h/bakisimba2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SpC0WQo3y1I/AAAAAAAAKU8/sEH2PtTWMt8/s400/bakisimba2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372992649969519442" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SpC1rT5UuEI/AAAAAAAAKVE/WnUMBgBuJSM/s1600-h/bakisimba3.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SpC1rT5UuEI/AAAAAAAAKVE/WnUMBgBuJSM/s400/bakisimba3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372994111132710978" border="0" /></a></div></div><p class="MsoBodyTextIndent" style="line-height: 200%;"></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">MUSIC IN BUGANDA</span><br /></div><br />The functions of music in Buganda society are vast; they are used for initiations, funeral rites, weddings, war, hunting, manual work, worshipping, healing rituals and entertainment. Musical instruments include idiophones such as xylophones, aerophones such as trumpets and horns, membrane instruments such as drums, and chordophones such as harps and lyres. In Buganda music is an educational tool. Before classroom education was introduced to Buganda in the year 1862, teaching often consisted of people gathering around a fire in the middle of the village <span style="font-size:85%;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.dambe.org/education.html">Source: Dambe</a></span><br /></div><br /><p class="MsoBodyTextIndent" style="line-height: 200%;"></p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SpCqKz9Ew0I/AAAAAAAAKUk/3CptqPn8Cqo/s1600-h/bakisimba.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 380px; height: 390px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SpCqKz9Ew0I/AAAAAAAAKUk/3CptqPn8Cqo/s400/bakisimba.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372981458174788418" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Music is usually accompanied by songs that often contained messages. Master musician sing songs that discourage cheating, selfishness, lack of cooperation, violence and laziness. They also teach respect of elders, hard work, reliability, patience, discipline, honesty, love and cooperation. Music is also played in the palace of the Kabaka (Buganda King) and is used as a means of communication. Music is often used to relay messages from the people to the Kabaka and from the Kabaka to the people. It is very difficult for the common folk, or those who do not have royal blood or lineage in them, to reach the Kabaka and therefore it is common for someone to hire a musician to create a song for the Kabaka. The musi cian will develop a song around the message to be communicated to the Kabaka. When there is a function at the palace, the musician will go and play the song for the Kabaka.<br /></div>Music accompanies the traditional dances of the Baganda. There are four major types of dances that are danced in the palace. They are: 1) Bakisimba, 2) Nankasa, 3) Mbaga, and 4) Maggunju.<br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SpCzufhOIPI/AAAAAAAAKU0/zjwWl8Vf1qg/s1600-h/bakisimba.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SpCzufhOIPI/AAAAAAAAKU0/zjwWl8Vf1qg/s400/bakisimba.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372991966769193202" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Music in <st1:country-region><st1:place>Buganda</st1:place></st1:country-region> is derived from the local language, Luganda. It is a tonal language and melodic patterns of music are derived from the intonation of the spoken language. 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display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/Sk5DZFK828I/AAAAAAAAKKw/Ko4a7wxgW9w/s400/i.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5354291105153997762" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/Sk5DYsZFIVI/AAAAAAAAKKg/8XA4ZJXVvCI/s1600-h/g.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 265px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/Sk5DYsZFIVI/AAAAAAAAKKg/8XA4ZJXVvCI/s400/g.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5354291098502373714" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/Sk5DL65NlYI/AAAAAAAAKJw/yyQ68Vrx-HY/s1600-h/a.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 315px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/Sk5DL65NlYI/AAAAAAAAKJw/yyQ68Vrx-HY/s400/a.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5354290879056942466" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">STRIKE A POSE</span></span><br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/STizBw7Xp9I/AAAAAAAAI3o/2Jxir9PU8LQ/s1600-h/a.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 283px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/STizBw7Xp9I/AAAAAAAAI3o/2Jxir9PU8LQ/s400/a.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5276163806359693266" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/STipAitIAMI/AAAAAAAAI3A/ZvC20NCXspo/s1600-h/a.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/STipAitIAMI/AAAAAAAAI3A/ZvC20NCXspo/s400/a.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5276152790245703874" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/STipBulay0I/AAAAAAAAI3g/WUrXJihPaDQ/s1600-h/e.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 265px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/STipBulay0I/AAAAAAAAI3g/WUrXJihPaDQ/s400/e.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5276152810614475586" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/STipBZg0wgI/AAAAAAAAI3Y/gqS5jlVCXZk/s1600-h/d.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 265px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/STipBZg0wgI/AAAAAAAAI3Y/gqS5jlVCXZk/s400/d.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5276152804958061058" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/STipBEUemoI/AAAAAAAAI3Q/Gp-u6mx6CLE/s1600-h/c.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/STipBEUemoI/AAAAAAAAI3Q/Gp-u6mx6CLE/s400/c.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5276152799269132930" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/STipAvVKhLI/AAAAAAAAI3I/b3V6fl6oSP0/s1600-h/b.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/STipAvVKhLI/AAAAAAAAI3I/b3V6fl6oSP0/s400/b.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5276152793634866354" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/STioAnIfgMI/AAAAAAAAI2w/RXbvay2qdTY/s1600-h/d.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 264px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/STioAnIfgMI/AAAAAAAAI2w/RXbvay2qdTY/s400/d.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5276151691922604226" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >FOR MORE</span><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold; font-family: arial;" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/africanfuturist/">PHOTOS BY AFRICAN FUTURIST</a>AFRICAN LIZhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05876270785127257460noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4500199998354386351.post-57799700169819955982009-07-06T00:54:00.002+01:002009-07-06T00:54:01.155+01:00AL NOOR CITY<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://grand-holds.com/index.htm"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 285px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SU7mCV5jSjI/AAAAAAAAJGQ/qjo_RiPcTEw/s400/AlnoorCity.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5282412340864830002" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SU7mB_i4AtI/AAAAAAAAJGI/hx66l4l4yHM/s1600-h/2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 245px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SU7mB_i4AtI/AAAAAAAAJGI/hx66l4l4yHM/s400/2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5282412334864138962" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SU7mBrv4yTI/AAAAAAAAJGA/w1PkSYdVsYA/s1600-h/1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 245px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SU7mBrv4yTI/AAAAAAAAJGA/w1PkSYdVsYA/s400/1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5282412329550006578" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SU7lrdioVjI/AAAAAAAAJF4/IDnAmcjE8pM/s1600-h/5.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 247px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SU7lrdioVjI/AAAAAAAAJF4/IDnAmcjE8pM/s400/5.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5282411947779184178" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SU7lrCJZT_I/AAAAAAAAJFw/MOVbWXkc0JI/s1600-h/4.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 247px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SU7lrCJZT_I/AAAAAAAAJFw/MOVbWXkc0JI/s400/4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5282411940425584626" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SU7lqw_xTvI/AAAAAAAAJFo/arCPKpaAEzM/s1600-h/3.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 247px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SU7lqw_xTvI/AAAAAAAAJFo/arCPKpaAEzM/s400/3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5282411935821811442" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SU7lqexE12I/AAAAAAAAJFg/4I-xCSHrn1o/s1600-h/2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 245px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SU7lqexE12I/AAAAAAAAJFg/4I-xCSHrn1o/s400/2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5282411930928338786" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SU7lqFfD0TI/AAAAAAAAJFY/JlxLUtUDbhg/s1600-h/1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 245px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SU7lqFfD0TI/AAAAAAAAJFY/JlxLUtUDbhg/s400/1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5282411924141887794" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">AL NOOR CITY</span></span><br /></div><br />Al Noor City is located in the south-west of Sudan’s capital city Khartoum, on the west bank of the White Nile, just a few kilometers before it seamlessly blends with the Blue Nile and continues its journey north to the Mediterranean.<br /><br />The idyllic location of Al Noor City borders the Nile for 46km, promising a riverside location for virtually all residents, and offering over 137 million square meters of commercial, residential and leisure facilities. Universities, schools, shops, restaurants, sporting amenities, and a variety of health facilities ensure Al Noor City is a truly cosmopolitan environment, offering something for everyone.<br /><br />A kaleidoscope of zones have been designed, each one with a different function. Specific business areas are defined, as are residential and retail areas, hotels and entertainment venues, all promising the ultimate convenience. Residential areas are protected from traffic by noise-limiting ‘green belts’, and with landscaping representing 40% of the development, lush-green areas are abundant.<br /><br />The City is conveniently located just 10km from Khartoum international airport, and only 5km from the planned new airport on the western bank. A comprehensive road network will link the development with the local cities of Omduran, Bahri and Khartoum, and with two new bridges to the East Bank of the Nile.<br /><br />Project website:<br /><a href="http://grand-holds.com/index.htm" target="_blank">http://grand-holds.com/index.htm</a><br /></div><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >Main Contractors:</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Grand Investment Holdings<br /><a href="http://grand-holds.com/index.htm"><img src="http://grand-holds.com/logoeng.gif" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /></div><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:arial;"></span></span>Grand Investment Holdings is a leading expertise Sudanese company dealing in constructions, Residential complexes and buildings , our mission is to serve customers with quality construction services, Grand's collaborative team working as one part develop, design, and construct each project equipped with huge capabilities . The company staff of engineers, consultants is competent and high skilled cadres to ensure offering distinctive services all over Sudan , considering environment & Health as main targets. In a unique deal with the Kuwaiti Real State Greater Scheme undertakes the execution of ALNOOR City Project. This project consider to be as one of its kind in Sudan which witnesses nowadays an spectacular growth in buildings & construction arena ,for this Grand Investment Holding CO-LTD with complete agreement with the Ministry of Public Planning and Utilities - Khartoum State double the efforts to made ALNOOR scheme a real<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Grand Realstate Projects Co.<br /><img src="http://grand-holds.com/logoeng.gif" alt="" border="0" /><br /><br />Khartoum Council- ministry of Construction planning and public utilities<br /><img src="http://grand-holds.com/images/ministry12.jpg" alt="" border="0" /><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">AISO architecture<br /><img src="http://grand-holds.com/images/ASIO.jpg" alt="" border="0" /><br /><br />International Projects Consultory Co.<br /><img src="http://grand-holds.com/images/investcomp.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></div>AFRICAN LIZhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05876270785127257460noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4500199998354386351.post-24130728271343722092009-06-29T05:26:00.001+01:002009-06-29T05:26:01.426+01:00BUSUUTI THE GOMESI - BUGANDAN IDENTITY<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SZEXPrXqfPI/AAAAAAAAJ1Y/s-CfMcLZdAs/s1600-h/1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SZEXPrXqfPI/AAAAAAAAJ1Y/s-CfMcLZdAs/s400/1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5301043794499239154" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Busuuti/Gomesi</span> aka <span style="font-style: italic;">gomes</span> is the official dress for women in Buganda. The <span style="font-style: italic;">busuuti/gomesi</span> is very elaborate, with a square neck adorned with two buttons, pointy sleeves, full skirt, and a huge sash. There are many historical contradictions about the origin of the <span style="font-style: italic;">busuuti/gomesi.</span> Contemporary history indicates that the it was originally made for Gayaza schoolgirls in around 1940s and 50s. Their first school uniform was a cotton sheet, which they wrapped around their breasts and tied to the waist with a strip of cloth. But the uniform often slipped off whenever the girls bent down to dig. Their missionary tutors thought it was indecent for a woman to expose her breasts. So, they had an Indian tailor sew out the <span style="font-style: italic;">busuuti/gomesi.</span> Two decades later, the gomesi became a popular outfit at all traditional functions for the Baganda and later the Basoga, Iteso, Alur and Japadhola. </div><p style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;">But some people, especially the Baganda, dispute this version of history and say the <span style="font-style: italic;">busuuti/gomesi </span>existed long before the coming of the missionaries and that missionaries only improved the existing design made from bark cloth and changed the name to claim the discovery.</p><p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SZE4pikwtVI/AAAAAAAAJ2Y/Lbu20jhUAdg/s1600-h/1.jpg"><br /></a></p><h4><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SZE2cR-GCrI/AAAAAAAAJ1g/EOxJ-h0V4AI/s1600-h/1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 289px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SZE2cR-GCrI/AAAAAAAAJ1g/EOxJ-h0V4AI/s400/1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5301078095879867058" border="0" /></a></h4><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SZE3UDE5GYI/AAAAAAAAJ2A/_0Y75SQKEXs/s1600-h/4.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SZE3UDE5GYI/AAAAAAAAJ2A/_0Y75SQKEXs/s400/4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5301079053954521474" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SZE3UN46LRI/AAAAAAAAJ14/YO7gMeNDxp8/s1600-h/3.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SZE3UN46LRI/AAAAAAAAJ14/YO7gMeNDxp8/s400/3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5301079056857050386" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">The women of the groom's clan line up for the procession </span><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SjGr6eMiqNI/AAAAAAAAKEA/49aN51Q5tao/s1600-h/busuuti.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SjGr6eMiqNI/AAAAAAAAKEA/49aN51Q5tao/s400/busuuti.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5346243253691918546" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SjGrhurtkSI/AAAAAAAAKD4/o--5ecDRSEc/s1600-h/busuuti+2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SjGrhurtkSI/AAAAAAAAKD4/o--5ecDRSEc/s400/busuuti+2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5346242828620894498" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">The men of the groom's clan line up for the procession into the future in-law's compound. The men are wearing </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Kanzu</span><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SjGseMWngfI/AAAAAAAAKEQ/vFklIAJvt6g/s1600-h/busuuti.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SjGseMWngfI/AAAAAAAAKEQ/vFklIAJvt6g/s400/busuuti.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5346243867377631730" border="0" /></a> <span style="font-weight: bold;">She-goat given to the bride's parents</span><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SjGrhWJovdI/AAAAAAAAKDw/P7YTO9ytUIM/s1600-h/busuuti.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 308px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SjGrhWJovdI/AAAAAAAAKDw/P7YTO9ytUIM/s400/busuuti.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5346242822035520978" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SZE3TwtalPI/AAAAAAAAJ1w/U8VJGahJ00c/s1600-h/2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 330px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SZE3TwtalPI/AAAAAAAAJ1w/U8VJGahJ00c/s400/2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5301079049024214258" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sarah_mccans/225831000/in/set-72157594253016915/">Photos by Sarah</a><br /><br /><br /></span></div></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SZE3ThnMCeI/AAAAAAAAJ1o/8gfI089g_qs/s1600-h/1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SZE3ThnMCeI/AAAAAAAAJ1o/8gfI089g_qs/s400/1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5301079044971563490" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SZE4aPDGZ0I/AAAAAAAAJ2Q/W_fQEt3_44A/s1600-h/2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SZE4aPDGZ0I/AAAAAAAAJ2Q/W_fQEt3_44A/s400/2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5301080259759073090" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><p style="text-align: justify;">The <i>busuuti/gomesi</i> is usually worn during festivals and ceremonial occasions. For example during the engagement ceremony <span style="font-style: italic;">Kwanjula</span>, weddings and funerals. The bussuti/gomesi is worn more often as a day to day garment by women in rural parts of Uganda.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SZE4aDkmFgI/AAAAAAAAJ2I/DBBSPNeI0I4/s1600-h/1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SZE4aDkmFgI/AAAAAAAAJ2I/DBBSPNeI0I4/s400/1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5301080256678336002" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SZEXPrsP1UI/AAAAAAAAJ1Q/rOW0td4y3TY/s1600-h/2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SZEXPrsP1UI/AAAAAAAAJ1Q/rOW0td4y3TY/s400/2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5301043794585572674" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SZEXPhUmGrI/AAAAAAAAJ1I/JFf69Hht_Rw/s1600-h/3.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SZEXPhUmGrI/AAAAAAAAJ1I/JFf69Hht_Rw/s400/3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5301043791802014386" border="0" /></a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family:arial;">Young women prefer contemporary garments because the </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" >busuuti/gomesi </span><span style="font-family:arial;">does not enhance their feminine body curves and hips as they would prefer. To the point where it is alleged that some women stuff blankets underneath the </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" >busuuti/gomesi</span><span style="font-family:arial;"> to enhance their curves and hips.</span><br /></p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SZE4pikwtVI/AAAAAAAAJ2Y/Lbu20jhUAdg/s1600-h/1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SZE4pikwtVI/AAAAAAAAJ2Y/Lbu20jhUAdg/s400/1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5301080522698569042" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;" >ALICIA KEYS The singer, an ambassador for the HIV/AIDS organization Keep a Child Alive, which provides medication, nutrition and childcare throughout six African countries, visited the Masaka Healthcare Center in Uganda, donning a "gomesi," the country's traditional dress.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;" ></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;" ><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-weight: bold;">TEXT SOURCES AND MORE INFORMATION</span><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.ugpulse.com/articles/daily/Heritage.asp?id=544">Tracing the Origin f the Gomesi/Busuuti</a></p><p><a href="http://www.newvision.co.ug/D/9/513/532518">Should we have a national dress?</a><br /></p><p><a href="http://flickr.com/people/lukasvermeer/">Photo by Lukas Vermeer</a></p><h1 style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://www.ugpulse.com/articles/daily/heritage.asp?ID=378"><span style="font-size:100%;">Traditional Marriages in Uganda: Marriages in Buganda- Kwanjula</span></a></h1>AFRICAN LIZhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05876270785127257460noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4500199998354386351.post-59433342028748496182009-06-27T23:45:00.003+01:002009-07-03T20:01:31.561+01:00AFRICA ON LENS - HANS SILVESTER<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/ShCXORhZg5I/AAAAAAAAKBY/-ogEsQH9rDI/s1600-h/2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/ShCXORhZg5I/AAAAAAAAKBY/-ogEsQH9rDI/s400/2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5336931829911487378" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/ShCXOpDFBVI/AAAAAAAAKBo/GIVBsLWYBpQ/s1600-h/2.png"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 269px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/ShCXOpDFBVI/AAAAAAAAKBo/GIVBsLWYBpQ/s400/2.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5336931836226766162" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/ShCXOcSDZzI/AAAAAAAAKBg/40EgGCimkBI/s1600-h/3.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/ShCXOcSDZzI/AAAAAAAAKBg/40EgGCimkBI/s400/3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5336931832799913778" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/ShCX3p_GWsI/AAAAAAAAKB4/s94XZEGFV9U/s1600-h/1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/ShCX3p_GWsI/AAAAAAAAKB4/s94XZEGFV9U/s400/1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5336932540853148354" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/ShCX3kY8omI/AAAAAAAAKCA/0dUx3a7PalY/s1600-h/2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 265px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/ShCX3kY8omI/AAAAAAAAKCA/0dUx3a7PalY/s400/2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5336932539350950498" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/ShCX39VNK6I/AAAAAAAAKCI/FkABWhweQK0/s1600-h/3.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 350px; height: 389px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/ShCX39VNK6I/AAAAAAAAKCI/FkABWhweQK0/s400/3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5336932546046143394" border="0" /></a><span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Hans Silvester-This is Africa through my Lens</span></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><br /><br /></div><span style=";font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:85%;" ></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:arial;">Hans Silvester, born in 1938 in Lorrach, Germany is an acclaimed award winning photographer who has published numerous photography books, including Les Peuples de l’Omo, Abrams' Horses of the Camargue, Desert Eves: An Indian Paradise, and H2O: The Beauty & Mystery of Water.</span><span style=";font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:85%;" ></span><br /></div><span style=";font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:85%;" ><br /></span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/ShCWaOjS0YI/AAAAAAAAKA4/ynGGptxEke4/s1600-h/3.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 293px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/ShCWaOjS0YI/AAAAAAAAKA4/ynGGptxEke4/s400/3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5336930935760933250" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/ShCXOFtYnzI/AAAAAAAAKBQ/eF2G56Fypb0/s1600-h/1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 265px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/ShCXOFtYnzI/AAAAAAAAKBQ/eF2G56Fypb0/s400/1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5336931826740535090" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/ShCXOqRSgYI/AAAAAAAAKBw/qCsA1XS0YqI/s1600-h/4.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 271px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/ShCXOqRSgYI/AAAAAAAAKBw/qCsA1XS0YqI/s400/4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5336931836554805634" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/ShCV1vvn9TI/AAAAAAAAKAE/bI6rBfnoA1I/s1600-h/3.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 252px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/ShCV1vvn9TI/AAAAAAAAKAE/bI6rBfnoA1I/s400/3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5336930309015860530" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" >The people of the Surma and Mursi tribes live in the Omo Valley of Southern Ethiopia are body painters: they paint their bodies with pigments made from the earth as an immemorial and quotidian practice – mothers paint babies, children and adults paint themselves and each other in a tradition that seems unchanged for thousands of years. Their paintings range from abstract designs of circles, lines, dots and swirls, sometimes focused on specific body parts, to all-over patterns of flowers, zig-zags and fingerprints that form a dazzling array on the entire body. White, yellow, orange and ochre; the natural pigments that they use are derived from the soil and rocks of their surroundings. The tribes’ daily paintings are an essential expression of their lives – more elemental to them than music or dance. Fascinated by the Surma and Mursi tribes’ painting practices and astounded by the beauty of their ephemeral art, Silvester captures the diverse and extraordinary effects that they achieve through their ancient tradition.</span><br /></span></div><span style="font-size:85%;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.marlboroughgallery.com/artists/silvester/silvester_press_release.pdf">Source Malborough Gallery</a></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/ShCXORhZg5I/AAAAAAAAKBY/-ogEsQH9rDI/s1600-h/2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/ShCXORhZg5I/AAAAAAAAKBY/-ogEsQH9rDI/s400/2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5336931829911487378" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/ShCWaXfJZHI/AAAAAAAAKBI/2avc5KR_O1o/s1600-h/5.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/ShCWaXfJZHI/AAAAAAAAKBI/2avc5KR_O1o/s400/5.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5336930938159457394" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/ShCWaaSgm-I/AAAAAAAAKBA/Iz5vxKn1_B0/s1600-h/4.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/ShCWaaSgm-I/AAAAAAAAKBA/Iz5vxKn1_B0/s400/4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5336930938911759330" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/ShCWZwf3G1I/AAAAAAAAKAw/ZaV-eeGIZn0/s1600-h/2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 253px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/ShCWZwf3G1I/AAAAAAAAKAw/ZaV-eeGIZn0/s400/2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5336930927693470546" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/ShCWZwLLMzI/AAAAAAAAKAo/7V2set8_aBw/s1600-h/1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 276px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/ShCWZwLLMzI/AAAAAAAAKAo/7V2set8_aBw/s400/1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5336930927606706994" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/ShCV1_-thzI/AAAAAAAAKAQ/_pEvzRmNy9A/s1600-h/4.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/ShCV1_-thzI/AAAAAAAAKAQ/_pEvzRmNy9A/s400/4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5336930313374107442" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/ShCV1MwoTKI/AAAAAAAAJ_s/_9Kxzm-CIwI/s1600-h/1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/ShCV1MwoTKI/AAAAAAAAJ_s/_9Kxzm-CIwI/s400/1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5336930299624836258" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" ><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /></span></span></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >BOOKS BY HANS SILVESTER</span></span><br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/ShCb1ub0Q8I/AAAAAAAAKCQ/_uIylzXXzmI/s1600-h/1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/ShCb1ub0Q8I/AAAAAAAAKCQ/_uIylzXXzmI/s400/1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5336936905734112194" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.amazon.com/Natural-Fashion-Tribal-Decoration-Africa/dp/0500288054/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1244767348&sr=1-1">Natural Fashion: Tribal Decoration from Africa</a><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="ptBrand">by Hans Silvester</span><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="binding"> </span><br /><br /><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/ShCV2NvIMyI/AAAAAAAAKAc/fuBILML6LhA/s1600-h/5.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 299px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/ShCV2NvIMyI/AAAAAAAAKAc/fuBILML6LhA/s400/5.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5336930317066842914" border="0" /></a><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.amazon.com/Ethiopia-Peoples-Valley-Hans-Silvester/dp/0810993260/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1244767348&sr=1-3">Ethiopia: Peoples of the Omo Valley</a><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="ptBrand">by Hans Silvester</span><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="binding"> </span><br /><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center; font-style: italic;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;">In this ambitious work, Hans Silvester turns his photographic eye toward ancient Africa, the birthplace of humanity. Silvester was essentially adopted by his subjects during his travels, and his stunning color photographs present a rare, intimate view of their world.<br /><br />The first volume of this deluxe two-volume set presents the everyday lives of the Omo people, their rituals, parades, children’s games, and even their battles. In the second volume, each photograph becomes a masterpiece of abstract art, revealing close-ups of the tribes’ traditional body paintings. Silvester’s accompanying text traces his journey to the Horn of Africa, revealing the fascinating beauty of a world now in danger of extinction.<br /></span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/ShCX39VNK6I/AAAAAAAAKCI/FkABWhweQK0/s1600-h/3.jpg"><br /></a>AFRICAN LIZhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05876270785127257460noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4500199998354386351.post-35462421780264398782009-06-12T00:01:00.007+01:002009-06-12T01:30:55.299+01:00NICKY OPPENHEIMER - AN AFRICAN FOREVER<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/Si_VCnUXAXI/AAAAAAAAKCw/6n46Z4UAN9s/s1600-h/1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 385px; height: 385px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/Si_VCnUXAXI/AAAAAAAAKCw/6n46Z4UAN9s/s400/1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5345725523602899314" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;" >Nicholas Frank 'Nicky' Oppenheimer</span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;" >"I am an African. I live there and my children live there and as far as I understand they intend to go on living there."</span><br /></div><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:arial;">Nicholas Frank 'Nicky' Oppenheimer,born June 8, 1945, Johannesburg South Africa is the Chairman of the De Beers Group and as such Chairman of De Beers sa, De Beers Consolidated Mines and De Beers Centenary AG. He is also a non-executive director of Anglo American plc.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Nicky Oppenheimer was educated at Harrow School and Christ Church, Oxford, where he read Politics, Philosophy and Economics.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Nicky Oppenheimer joined the Anglo American Corporation in 1968 as the Personal Assistant to the Chairman, and worked subsequently in the Gold and Diamond Divisions of the Corporation. He spent eighteen months in the London office of De Beers before returning to Johannesburg in 1975 to join the Gold Division.</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SZuJflh_eWI/AAAAAAAAJ8k/ewN1qFlWuGg/s1600-h/1.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5303984161902524770" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 385px; cursor: pointer; height: 185px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SZuJflh_eWI/AAAAAAAAJ8k/ewN1qFlWuGg/s400/1.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;font-family:georgia;font-size:85%;" >"Mining ‐ a trade I know well ‐ is a high risk business, demanding very deep pockets, large amounts of upfront capital and very long time horizons It can take up to US$1 billion and nearly a decade to bring a diamond mine on stream. A deep shaft goldmine can take up to 20 years to reach operational maturity.</span><span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:85%;" > </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;font-family:georgia;font-size:85%;" >It is understandable, therefore, that responsible mining companies and investors require a matching long term commitment from Government to reduce the non‐mining risk. I don’t believe it is an onerous commitment, for its requirements can be summed up in three words: clarity, certainty and transparency. And these need to be the hallmarks of mining legislation 9</span><span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:85%;" > </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;font-family:georgia;font-size:85%;" >subject, not to political whim or ministerial discretion, but to the courts.</span><span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:85%;" > </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;font-family:georgia;font-size:85%;" >...</span><span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:85%;" > </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;font-family:georgia;font-size:85%;" >Once governments create and sustain a stable and predictable legislative environment and so attract the right sort of investors, those who will commit for the long term, the rewards are manifold and long lasting.</span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:georgia;font-size:85%;" >"</span><br /><span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:78%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Source: </span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.iiss.org/recent-key-addresses/nicky-oppenheimer-address/"><span class="TwoCE">Nicky Oppenheimer, Chairman of De Beers, "Africa needs a hand-up not a hand-out" at </span>The International Institute For Strategic Studies</a></span><br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SZuJf1GHnrI/AAAAAAAAJ80/vFWpbwN0bK4/s1600-h/3.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5303984166080585394" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 400px; cursor: pointer; height: 267px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SZuJf1GHnrI/AAAAAAAAJ80/vFWpbwN0bK4/s400/3.JPG" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SZuJf4pf3pI/AAAAAAAAJ8s/t27yhCbl2oc/s1600-h/2.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5303984167034281618" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 400px; cursor: pointer; height: 287px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SZuJf4pf3pI/AAAAAAAAJ8s/t27yhCbl2oc/s400/2.jpg" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SZuIbuBbksI/AAAAAAAAJ8U/ZsonHFTREAY/s1600-h/1.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5303982995950768834" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 329px; cursor: pointer; height: 400px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SZuIbuBbksI/AAAAAAAAJ8U/ZsonHFTREAY/s400/1.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><p style="font-family: arial; text-align: justify;">Nicky Oppenheimer was appointed a director of Anglo American Corporation in 1974 and a director of De Beers in 1978. In 1981 he was appointed a member of the Executive Committee of the board of Anglo American Corporation and became Deputy Chairman in 1983. He subsequently resigned as Deputy Chairman in 2001 but remains a non-executive director of the Anglo American board. </p><div style="font-family: arial; text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="font-family: arial; text-align: justify;">In 1984 Nicky Oppenheimer was appointed Deputy Chairman of the then Central Selling Organisation (now Diamond Trading Company) in London and Deputy Chairman of De Beers Consolidated Mines in 1985. He was appointed Chairman of the Diamond Trading Company in 1985. </p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="font-family: arial; text-align: justify;">In 1990 he was appointed Deputy Chairman of the newly formed Swiss based company, De Beers Centenary AG. Nicky Oppenheimer became Chairman of the De Beers Group on 1 January 1998.</p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="font-family: arial; text-align: justify;">In 2003, a Doctorate in Technology, honoris causa was bestowed upon him by the Technikon Witwatersrand in South Africa. Nicky Oppenheimer is the first recipient of such an honorary doctorate by the Technikon to a person in the public and private sector. </p><div style="font-family: arial; text-align: justify;"> In 2004 Nicky Oppenheimer received the Presidential Order of Honor from His Excellency the President of the Republic of Botswana, Mr. Festus Gontebanye Mogae.<br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Nicky Oppenheimer is married to Orcillia 'Strilli' Lasch and are blessed with one son Jonathan. His interests are reading crime novels, relaxing with his dogs and playing cricket.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;font-size:85%;" ><a href="http://www.debeersgroup.com/">Source:De Beers Group</a></span><br /><br /><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SjGfzmh8V9I/AAAAAAAAKDo/MN6QaoEaxC8/s1600-h/de+beers.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 261px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SjGfzmh8V9I/AAAAAAAAKDo/MN6QaoEaxC8/s400/de+beers.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5346229941530548178" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SjGfdriRKEI/AAAAAAAAKDg/0csmOYWNfyw/s1600-h/de+beers2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 232px; height: 155px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SjGfdriRKEI/AAAAAAAAKDg/0csmOYWNfyw/s400/de+beers2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5346229564916967490" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SjGfdT3BDTI/AAAAAAAAKDY/FrleVCZS5Ro/s1600-h/de+beers.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 133px; height: 200px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SjGfdT3BDTI/AAAAAAAAKDY/FrleVCZS5Ro/s400/de+beers.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5346229558561541426" border="0" /></a><span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Strilli Oppenheimer Nicky's Wife and a proud African</span></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">I came across this interview Strilli did ...I was impressed and humbled by some of her responses</span></span><br /></div><p><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><!--par0--></p> <p><!--par1--><!--par0--></p> <p><!--par1--><!--par0--></p> <p style="font-family: arial;"><!--par1--><span style="font-size:85%;"><b>Who do you share your house with?</b> My husband and my two dogs, Jamludi and Mpevu.</span><!--par0--></p> <p style="font-family: arial;"><!--par1--><!--par0--></p> <p style="font-family: arial;"><!--par1--><!--par0--></p> <p style="font-family: arial;"><!--par1--><span style="font-size:85%;"><b>Before dedicating all my time to the environment, I ... </b>was a Montessori teacher for 30 years. </span><!--par0--></p> <p style="font-family: arial;"><!--par1--><!--par0--></p> <p style="font-family: arial;"><!--par1--><!--par0--></p> <p style="font-family: arial;"><!--par1--><!--par0--></p> <p style="font-family: arial;"><!--par1--><!--par0--></p> <p style="font-family: arial;"><!--par1--><span style="font-size:85%;"><b>What’s the ugliest thing about your city?</b> The advertising on every street pole and corner. It creates so much “noise” because it drags your attention to it whether you like it or not.</span><!--par0--> </p> <p style="font-family: arial;"><!--par1--><!--par0--></p> <p style="font-family: arial;"><!--par1--><!--par0--></p> <p style="font-family: arial;"><!--par1--><span style="font-size:85%;"><b>Where do you eat out?</b> I eat out about three times a year. And, when I do, I usually go to Yamato in Illovo.</span><!--par0--></p> <p style="font-family: arial;"><!--par1--><!--par0--></p> <p style="font-family: arial;"><!--par1--><!--par0--></p> <p style="font-family: arial;"><!--par1--><!--par0--></p> <p style="font-family: arial;"><!--par1--><!--par0--></p> <p style="font-family: arial;"><!--par1--><span style="font-size:85%;"><b>My creature comforts are ...</b> definitely a hot bath.</span><!--par0--></p> <p style="font-family: arial;"><!--par1--><!--par0--></p> <p style="font-family: arial;"><!--par1--><!--par0--></p> <p style="font-family: arial;"><!--par1--><!--par0--></p> <p style="font-family: arial;"><!--par1--><span style="font-size:85%;"><b>How do you get around?</b> In a Toyota Prius.</span><!--par0--></p> <p style="font-family: arial;"><!--par1--><!--par0--></p> <p style="font-family: arial;"><!--par1--><!--par0--></p> <p style="font-family: arial;"><!--par1--><span style="font-size:85%;"><b>When people realise what my surname is ...</b> they ask me how it’s spelt.</span><!--par0--></p> <p style="font-family: arial;"><!--par1--><!--par0--></p> <p style="font-family: arial;"><!--par1--><!--par0--></p> <p style="font-family: arial;"><!--par1--><span style="font-size:85%;"><b>Pets are ...</b> my children. My two dogs are actually from North Congo and South Sudan. </span><!--par0--></p> <p style="font-family: arial;"><!--par1--><!--par0--></p> <p style="font-family: arial;"><!--par1--><!--par0--></p> <p style="font-family: arial;"><!--par1--><!--par0--></p> <p style="font-family: arial;"><!--par1--><span style="font-size:85%;"><b>What made you agree to open up the gardens to the public?</b> I think that one should share one’s privilege.</span><!--par0--></p> <p style="font-family: arial;"><!--par1--><!--par0--></p> <p style="font-family: arial;"><!--par1--><!--par0--></p> <p style="font-family: arial;"><!--par1--><!--par0--></p> <p style="font-family: arial;"><!--par1--><span style="font-size:85%;"><b>Why have you chosen not to leave South Africa?</b> I am an African and I love South Africa.</span><!--par0--></p> <p style="font-family: arial;"><!--par1--><!--par0--></p> <p style="font-family: arial;"><!--par1--><!--par0--></p> <p style="font-family: arial;"><!--par1--><span style="font-size:85%;"><b>What is the one luxury that you believe in?</b> Being able to read. Another is being in good health.</span><!--par0--></p> <p style="font-family: arial;"><!--par1--><!--par0--></p> <p style="font-family: arial;"><!--par1--> <!--par0--></p> <p style="font-family: arial;"><!--par1--><!--par0--></p> <p style="font-family: arial;"><!--par1--><span style="font-size:85%;"><b>I can’t go a day without ...</b> doing tai chi with my staff. We have a master who comes around five days a week. </span><!--par0--></p> <p style="font-family: arial;"><!--par1--><!--par0--></p> <p style="font-family: arial;"><!--par1--><!--par0--></p> <p style="font-family: arial;"><!--par1--><span style="font-size:85%;"><b>If you had R100-million to spend any way you saw fit, what would you do with it?</b> I would teach as many people as possible how to grow organic vegetables. When people grow their own food, not only can they feed themselves, but their self-confidence rises.</span><!--par0--> </p> <p style="font-family: arial;"><!--par1--><!--par0--></p> <p style="font-family: arial;"><!--par1--><!--par0--></p> <p style="font-family: arial;"><!--par1--><!--par0--></p> <p style="font-family: arial;"><!--par1--><span style="font-size:85%;"><b>What CDs are you playing in your car?</b> I like Sibongile Khumalo’s music. I also love choral music by Mzilikazi Khumalo.</span><!--par0--></p> <p style="font-family: arial;"><!--par1--><!--par0--></p> <p style="font-family: arial;"><!--par1--><!--par0--></p> <p style="font-family: arial;"><!--par1--><span style="font-size:85%;"><b>If your house caught fire, what would you save?</b> My two dogs. </span><!--par0--></p> <p style="font-family: arial;"><!--par1--><!--par0--></p> <p style="font-family: arial;"><!--par1--><!--par0--></p> <p style="font-family: arial;"><!--par1--><span style="font-size:85%;"><b>If you could move one of the world’s landmarks to your city, which one would it be?</b> I would either move one of the Swiss mountains to Johannesburg, even though it would look quite strange. Or I would transform the entire city into the Serengeti plain.</span><!--par0--></p> <p style="font-family: arial;"><!--par1--><!--par0--></p> <p style="font-family: arial;"><!--par1--><!--par0--></p> <p style="font-family: arial;"><!--par1--><!--par0--></p> <p style="font-family: arial;"><!--par1--><!--par0--></p> <p style="font-family: arial;"><!--par1--><!--par0--></p> <p style="font-family: arial;"><!--par1--><!--par0--></p> <p style="font-family: arial;"><!--par1--><!--par1--><span style="font-size:85%;"><b>If you could live in any other city in the world, which one would it be?</b> Mumbai. I’m so sad about t<span><span>he attacks</span></span>. It’s one of my favourite places.<b><br /></b></span></p><p style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><b>Do you think philanthropy is important?</b> Yes, privileged people have a responsibility towards those who have less.</span><!--par0--></p> <p style="font-family: arial;"><!--par1--><!--par0--></p> <p style="font-family: arial;"><!--par1--><!--par0--></p> <p style="font-family: arial;"><!--par1--><!--par0--></p> <p style="font-family: arial;"><!--par1--><!--par0--></p> <p style="font-family: arial;"><!--par1--><span style="font-size:85%;"><b>When I go out at night ...</b> it’s to the Linder Auditorium to listen to music. I go to the movies about three times a year. The last time I visited a cinema, I went to see Kung Fu Panda with all my staff. We loved the movie because we all do tai chi.</span><!--par0--> </p> <p style="font-family: arial;"><!--par1--><!--par0--></p> <p style="font-family: arial;"><!--par1--><span style="font-size:85%;"><b>I collect ...</b> less than I used to; I’m more prone to giving things away these days.</span><!--par0--></p> <p style="font-family: arial;"><!--par1--><!--par0--></p> <p style="font-family: arial;"><!--par1--><!--par0--></p> <p style="font-family: arial;"><!--par1--><span style="font-size:85%;"><b>My friends and I like ...</b> nature.</span><!--par0--></p> <p style="font-family: arial;"><!--par1--><!--par0--></p> <p style="font-family: arial;"><!--par1--><!--par0--></p> <p style="font-family: arial;"><!--par1--><!--par0--></p> <p style="font-family: arial;"><!--par1--><span style="font-size:85%;"><b>Perfect happiness is ...</b> loving God.</span><!--par0--></p> <p style="font-family: arial;"><!--par1--><!--par0--></p> <p style="font-family: arial;"><!--par1--><!--par0--></p> <p style="font-family: arial;"><!--par1--><span style="font-size:85%;"><b>Have you ever taken public transport in your city?</b> Yes, but a very long time ago. I used to take the bus to school on Oxford road and the experience was fine.</span></p><p style="font-family: arial;"><!--par1--><!--par0--></p> <p style="font-family: arial;"><!--par1--><!--par0--></p> <!--par1--><span style="font-family: arial;font-size:85%;" ><b>I met my partner ...</b> at a golf course. We’ve just had our 40th wedding anniversary.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;font-size:78%;" ><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.thetimes.co.za/PrintEdition/Lifestyle/Article.aspx?id=896197">Source: The Times South Africa December 2008</a></span><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SjGUxbFIX2I/AAAAAAAAKDI/9o6MXj8ZVow/s1600-h/de+beers2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SjGUxbFIX2I/AAAAAAAAKDI/9o6MXj8ZVow/s400/de+beers2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5346217809469267810" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;" >Jonathan Oppenheimer, Nicky's son and heir apparent to the De Beers Dynasty</span><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SjGbIs0WDCI/AAAAAAAAKDQ/RmbQlGh_mSE/s1600-h/de+beers.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SjGbIs0WDCI/AAAAAAAAKDQ/RmbQlGh_mSE/s400/de+beers.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5346224806437456930" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://benefitoffice.smugmug.com/gallery/1402906_zxD5a/5/112115565_XxjD6#112115565_XxjD6"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;" >Jonathan & Jennifer Oppenheimer greeting President Kagame at AAI awards dinner </span></a></span><br /><br /><br /><br /></div><span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span><p><strong></strong></p><p></p><span style="font-size:130%;"> </span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Below are some interesting snippets from Nicky Oppenheimer's various speeches advocating the African development agenda. </span></span><br /></div><p><br /><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2005/jul/02/southafrica.internationalnews"></a> </p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SZuIbV85ssI/AAAAAAAAJ78/P0hGpwDh9RQ/s1600-h/4.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5303982989489320642" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 400px; cursor: pointer; height: 267px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SZuIbV85ssI/AAAAAAAAJ78/P0hGpwDh9RQ/s400/4.jpg" border="0" /></a><p> </p><div style="text-align: center;font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">"we all need to celebrate today – Africa Day. This celebration is an important moment for our continent, the day of the founding of the OAU in 1963, ... The OAU has evolved in to the African Union but the day remains as important, a celebration of African unity. We must never forget that African is populated by lions that operate as a pride in comparison with the Asian tigers who</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">tend to be individual animals. Only if the lions of Africa work together will we be able to feed ourselves and our families.</span>"<br /></div><p style="font-family: georgia;"> </p><div style="text-align: justify;font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:78%;"><a href="http://www.debeersgroup.com/en/Media-centre/De-Beers-profiled/2009/Nicky-Oppenheimer-Renewing-Africas-Competitive-Spirit-Lessons-and-Opportunities-from-the-Global-Economic-Crisis/">Nicky Oppenheimer: Renewing Africa’s Competitive Spirit: Lessons and Opportunities from the Global Economic Crisis </a>Nicky Oppenheimer, Chairman at De Beers speaking at the African Day celebrations at the African Union Headquarters in Addis Ababa May 25, 2009.</span></div><p style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SZuIbqkJN_I/AAAAAAAAJ8M/gngW7mHsuME/s1600-h/2.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5303982995022624754" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 300px; cursor: pointer; height: 300px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SZuIbqkJN_I/AAAAAAAAJ8M/gngW7mHsuME/s400/2.jpg" border="0" /></a></p><p style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:85%;">First, I may not look it, but I am an African and proud to be so. Indeed a third generation African married to a fourth generation African, and with grandchildren who extend my family’s connection to the continent to the sixth generation. And, because I am an African, I claim the right to say that Africa does not exist simply to make people in this country ‐ or indeed anywhere else in the developed world ‐ feel good about themselves. It is much more than just a suitable case for charity.</span></p><p style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Africa is not a place only of appalling poverty and deprivation, of uncaring despots and wars of unimaginable cruelty, as the public perception would have us believe. The emblem of this Africa is the starving child with a belly swollen by malnutrition and huge eyes covered with flies, a child whose plight demands our attention and rightfully commands our charity. But, in a continent of nearly 700 million people, 50 very different countries and hundreds of different languages, there is also another Africa, vibrant and full of potential that also demands recognition. The countries of Africa may seek a Pan‐African voice through the African Union and sport a number of regional and sub‐regional multi‐lateral organisations, but the dreadful civil wars of the Congo, Liberia, Sierra Leone and the Great Lakes region are no more symptomatic of Africa than the troubles which plagued the Balkans in the 90s were symptomatic of Europe. Africa is much more than simply a handy metaphor for poverty and we do my continent a great injustice when we use it as such. Africa is much more than a palliative for those Western consciences pricked by sweeping generalisations of how much Africans need help.</span></p><p style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:85%;">There are countries in Africa where people are taking their future into their own hands, where success is beginning to supplant simple survival as a suitable goal in life; where innovation and the entrepreneurial spirit is alive and well and flourishing, albeit often in the most difficult conditions. There are countries whose governments acknowledge the Rule of Law, the demands of transparency and fiscal prudence, who govern in the interests of all their people, not only the elite few, and who have recognised that business, not aid, is the spur to growth. There are some whose economic management has secured double digit growth rates and there is one I know particularly well which is recognised by Transparency International as not only the least corrupt country in Africa, but one of the least corrupt in the world. And in these countries success has been achieved either without the benefit of aid, or in spite of it. Sadly and inexplicably, these success stories seldom register on the public radar screen and appear to be of little or no interest to departments of overseas development. This is insulting to those African countries that set such a good example for others to follow. Instead of being largely ignored by governments, civil society and the media, these success stories should surely be celebrated.</span></p><p style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/Si_VcLI2vkI/AAAAAAAAKC4/Vj66efjukFk/s1600-h/2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/Si_VcLI2vkI/AAAAAAAAKC4/Vj66efjukFk/s400/2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5345725962715053634" border="0" /></a><br /><span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:85%;" >The donor community, however, finds it easier to see and portray Africa as a whole, rather than to draw a proper distinction between very disparate countries. Some, certainly, are wracked by civil war, destroyed by corruption and rapacious leaders; but there are those which have thrown off the mental shackles of colonialism and decades of post‐colonial misrule, and whose people are demanding the benefits of democracy. There are some like South Africa, Botswana, Mauritius, and Ghana which have established themselves as proud countries increasingly, or completely, independent of aid and with a clear and distinctive voice in the councils of the world.</span></p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SZuIbgU6imI/AAAAAAAAJ8E/EDIcbaVIjdw/s1600-h/3.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5303982992274393698" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 400px; cursor: pointer; height: 247px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SZuIbgU6imI/AAAAAAAAJ8E/EDIcbaVIjdw/s400/3.JPG" border="0" /></a><p style="text-align: center;font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" >We have heard a great deal in recent years about donor fatigue. In this year of Tony Blair’s Commission for Africa, of Millennium Development Goals and Gordon Brown’s campaign to cancel Africa’s debt, and of international campaigns to “make poverty history”, donor fatigue appears to have been cured ‐ at least temporarily. May I suggest, however, that people in many African countries may be suffering from donation fatigue? It’s probably a surprising thought, but many are growing increasingly weary of being seen merely as recipients of Western largesse, especially largesse which expands dependence on the donor, or makes them hostage to the passions and prejudices of foreign NGOs.</span><span style="font-size:85%;"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" >They may not admit this openly. After all, no one is going to look a large Western gift horse in the mouth. But that does not mean that they do not feel resentment at being seen simply as a charity case, offering easy balm to Western consciences. And they have learned to distrust the missionary zeal with which ‐ at depressingly regular intervals ‐ new generations of Western politicians “discover” Africa as a suitable case for treatment, a means of ascending the moral high ground as their domestic political fortunes and timing demand.</span><span style="font-size:85%;"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:85%;">This zeal to “save Africa” is not new. Generations of missionaries from Europe and America have yielded to that impulse, with not always benign results. I recall Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s immortal quote:</span><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:130%;">“When white men came to Africa, they had the Bible and we had the land. They taught us how to pray. When we opened our eyes; we had the Bible and they had the land”.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SjGUxN3D9PI/AAAAAAAAKDA/TIlCxkbo4EI/s1600-h/de+beers.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SjGUxN3D9PI/AAAAAAAAKDA/TIlCxkbo4EI/s400/de+beers.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5346217805920597234" border="0" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">...</p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;font-size:85%;" >Western politicians and commentators should not be surprised, therefore, at the irritated insistence of African leaders that African problems require African ownership of the solutions if they are going to be solved at all; if once again, the developed world’s boundless charity is not to meet with boundless failure. For equally depressing is the fact that when it comes to Africa, Western Governments appear to have only one answer: aid, and aid in monstrously vast amounts. But aid is the one commodity Africa has never been short of, and it has failed dismally time and time again.</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-weight: bold; text-align: justify;font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:78%;"><a href="http://www.iiss.org/recent-key-addresses/nicky-oppenheimer-address/"><span class="TwoCE">Source:Nicky Oppenheimer, Chairman of De Beers, "Africa needs a hand-up not a hand-out" address at </span>The International Institute For Strategic Studies</a></span></p><br /><p style="font-family: georgia;"> </p><div style="text-align: center;font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">FOR MORE INFORMATION</span><br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SZuIb8GYQ9I/AAAAAAAAJ8c/jtnR5iDSmJY/s1600-h/de+beers.gif"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5303982999729619922" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 290px; cursor: pointer; height: 270px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SZuIb8GYQ9I/AAAAAAAAJ8c/jtnR5iDSmJY/s400/de+beers.gif" border="0" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;" ><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.debeersgroup.com/">De Beers Group</a></span><br /></div><p><br /></p>AFRICAN LIZhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05876270785127257460noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4500199998354386351.post-70510783141030127862009-02-16T17:06:00.034+00:002009-02-16T18:35:49.168+00:00KANGA AKA LESO<div align="center"><div><div><div><div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SZWpPBpxYAI/AAAAAAAAJ3w/tAcUVWT1d4g/s1600-h/kanga1.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5302330211905396738" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 258px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SZWpPBpxYAI/AAAAAAAAJ3w/tAcUVWT1d4g/s400/kanga1.jpg" border="0" /></a><em style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">"The kanga struts in style..." Wear it with a smile! </em></div><br /><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="font-family:arial;">Kanga/Leso is a traditional rectangualr cloth from East Africa. The Kanga/leso usually have a wide border (pindo), central motif (mji), and writing (ujumbe or jina). Kangas are usually printed in bold designs and bright colours. </span><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SZYQEArrnSI/AAAAAAAAJ5w/jp3kYzFj7JE/s1600-h/Kanga.png"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5302443272364072226" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 294px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SZYQEArrnSI/AAAAAAAAJ5w/jp3kYzFj7JE/s400/Kanga.png" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;font-family:georgia;" >Kanga illustration. (1) = </span><i style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-FAMILY: georgia">pindo</i><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;font-family:georgia;" >, (2) = </span><i style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-FAMILY: georgia">mji</i><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;font-family:georgia;" >, (3) = </span><i style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-FAMILY: georgia">jina</i></span></div></div><br /><div></div><div></div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Kangas originated on the coast of East Africa in the mid 19th century. The Kangas/Lesos were inspired by the Portuguese traders handkerchiefs "lenço". There are conflicting stories as to how the Kanga came about. One source notes that a group of ladies in Zanzibar got the idea of buying printed kerchiefs in lengths of six, from the bolt of cotton cloth from which "lenço" </span><em style="FONT-FAMILY: arial">were usually cut off and sold singly. They then cut the six into two lengths of three, and sewed these together along one side to make 3-by-2 sheet; or bought different kinds of kerchiefs and sewed them back together to form very individualistic designs. </em></div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: left"><span style="font-family:arial;">Another source states that the The Indian traders in Mombasa and Zanzibar used to cut up rolls of scarves in the size of a Kanga and it seems that they got the idea of having designs made in this size.</span><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SZWpO55uFFI/AAAAAAAAJ3o/kCvEfy3we9E/s1600-h/a.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5302330209824805970" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 207px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SZWpO55uFFI/AAAAAAAAJ3o/kCvEfy3we9E/s400/a.jpg" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SZWpO0BxzfI/AAAAAAAAJ3g/dMOEQ5rGbxo/s1600-h/b.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5302330208247991794" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 207px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SZWpO0BxzfI/AAAAAAAAJ3g/dMOEQ5rGbxo/s400/b.jpg" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SZWpYlV3-zI/AAAAAAAAJ4A/iCmbBZOU-eg/s1600-h/kanga6.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5302330211125567314" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 207px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SZWpO-v2H1I/AAAAAAAAJ3Y/1fl7LjbHYcw/s400/f.jpg" border="0" /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5302330376104442674" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 270px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SZWpYlV3-zI/AAAAAAAAJ4A/iCmbBZOU-eg/s400/kanga6.jpg" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SZWpYfmEY3I/AAAAAAAAJ34/T5DgqjRi6uQ/s1600-h/d.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5302330374561751922" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 207px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SZWpYfmEY3I/AAAAAAAAJ34/T5DgqjRi6uQ/s400/d.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /></div><br /><div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify;font-family:arial;" >This new design gained popularity and soon printed kanga/leso pieces were being sold as single unit fabrics with different designs. The original designs allegedly had dark backgrounds and white spots sprinkled across it. As a result the "lenço" was referred to as the Kanga after the the guinea fowl which has an elegant spotty plumage.<br /></div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify" face="arial">Kangas originially were designed and printed in the far east countries such as India. Today you can find Kangas printed in African countries such as Kenya & Tanzania.<br /></div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="font-family:arial;">Swahili sayings on the kangas/leso is attributed to a local famous trader in Mombasa, Kaderdina Hajee Essak aka Abdulla. </span><em><span style="font-family:arial;">His many kanga designs, formerly distinguished by the mark "K.H.E. - Mali ya Abdulla", often included a proverb. At first, the sayings, aphorisms or slogans were printed in Arabic script, later in Roman letters.other purposes such as wall hanging</span><br /></em><span style="font-family:arial;">Kangas can be worn in different styles. Amongst the coastal communities in East Africa women tend to dorn the Kanga by wearing two matching pieces aka 'Doti' . One is piece is used to wrap the head and the upper torso whereas the other piece is wraped around the waist to cover the lower torso.</span> <span style="font-family:arial;">The kanga/leso cloth is also used by designers and dressmakers to create modern garments like dresses, shirts, trouser etc.</span> <span style="font-family:arial;">Kanga/leso is also used for other purposes such as wall hanging, table clothes, bed spreads and other functional as well as decorative purposes.</span><br /><br /></div></div><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SZXqL2Xq9UI/AAAAAAAAJ5A/9N9OoF_Fu5Q/s1600-h/a.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5302401625592886594" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SZXqL2Xq9UI/AAAAAAAAJ5A/9N9OoF_Fu5Q/s400/a.jpg" border="0" /></a><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SZXqL4gRbaI/AAAAAAAAJ5I/FPXwm4ULiM4/s1600-h/b.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5302401626165833122" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; HEIGHT: 225px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SZXqL4gRbaI/AAAAAAAAJ5I/FPXwm4ULiM4/s400/b.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="font-family:arial;">Kanga/leso has aso been used as platform to send messages, and even mobilize communities be it political or for other social purposes.<br /><br /></span></div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify" face="arial"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">According to Mahfoudha Alley Hamid kanga`s versatility, colours and inscribed messages have a special meaning in Swahili culture in that the wearer can communicate to a lover or husband or even foe that she is ready to marry, divorce, go to bed or call it quits just by the mere changing of colours of the wear.<br /></span><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">...there is a tradition of sending a sanduku (suitcase) to the bride to be, containing the bride`s attire, household items and even gold ornaments. The success of the sanduku , she says, depends on the number of pairs of kangas it contains. </span><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">``Kanga, a simple piece of cotton cloth is so strong and powerful and mythical, that mesmerises the womenfolk. It represents art, beauty, culture and customs of coastal women which have now spread to many part of Africa and the world,`` she says.<br /></span><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Himid further says that it is considered a source of embarrassment to the husband if he does not buy his wife a pair of kanga every now and then. </span><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">``I would not have minded if my husband had not bought me a chicken to revamp my lost energy after a difficult child birth``, says Khadija Mohammed a recently delivered young woman, \"but I would have minded a lot if he would not have bought me a pair of kanga as a gift.`` </span><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">On concluding Ramadhan and in preparing for Eid el Fitr, many houses do not remain all calm as long as men have not bought a pair of the wear for their wives. Many wives take it as a presentation for duty of preparing iftar and daku (fast breaking and night meals) throughout the month. </span><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">In the more cultured societies, kanga colours have a special meaning. Some women would wear kangas bearing red and black colours during menstruation, writes Himid further. </span><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">``This made the husband aware that you were in the red and cannot give him any favours,`` she quotes Mtumwa, a Zanzibari woman in her 1980s as saying. Thus without words, the wife would inform her husband of her state.<br /><br /></span><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">White kangas were adorned during the full moon to symbolise the whiteness of the woman\'s heart towards her husband. Other bright coloured kangas were worn to match colourful waist beads of the woman to add to her attraction. </span><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">The messages on the kangas play a great role in the value of the wearer. The value is not only financial, but also emotional. A message in the kanga can make or break a friendship. </span><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">``The first thing I did when I received a gift of kanga from my husband was to read the message.`` says Khadija. </span><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">``I was really amused to see that the message read `Titi la mama li tamu,` meaning the mother\'s milk is the best, this made me realize that Hamisi wanted me to breastfeed our baby.`` </span><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic"><br /><br />During weddings, women from both the bride and groom`s families choose a design as an informal uniform to be worn during the celebrations, to solidify the unity of the two families. </span><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">A bride would wear a special design kanga with small crosses and rosettes called Kisutu as a symbol of her entering adulthood,... The Kisutu kanga bears four colours, white, black, blue and blood red. </span><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">According to Himid these colours are not without significance, the red colour bears witness to her virginity, the black is the pain of being deflowered and the white is the colour of the male seed which she is going to see for the first time.<br /><br /></span><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic"></span><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">In divorce, a pair of kanga is given to her by her in-laws so that she can be washed in them to mark the end of their marital relationship ...</span><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic"> a divorced woman leaves behind a pair for her ex-husband, which is an omen for another marriage. </span><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">...</span><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">They [Kanga's] are used as shawls during religious or traditional ceremonies.<span style="font-size:78%;"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Source:</span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:78%;"><a style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold" href="http://www.ippmedia.com/ipp/guardian/2007/12/25/104957.html"><span class="storyHead">The 101 wonders of `khanga` and many more to come</span></a></span> </div><br /><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SZXteE-p3pI/AAAAAAAAJ5o/oIlL-jePPJI/s1600-h/b.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5302405237287018130" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 186px; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SZXteE-p3pI/AAAAAAAAJ5o/oIlL-jePPJI/s400/b.jpg" border="0" /></a><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SZXteOX-sWI/AAAAAAAAJ5Y/k6Q9BteIKss/s1600-h/d.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5302405239809159522" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 234px; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SZXteOX-sWI/AAAAAAAAJ5Y/k6Q9BteIKss/s400/d.jpg" border="0" /></a><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SZXteNcH3OI/AAAAAAAAJ5g/PPGnfYCY2LM/s1600-h/c.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5302405239558102242" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 233px; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SZXteNcH3OI/AAAAAAAAJ5g/PPGnfYCY2LM/s400/c.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SZXtdjIC3WI/AAAAAAAAJ5Q/kj4LF0tvE9U/s1600-h/a.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5302405228199599458" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 330px; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SZXtdjIC3WI/AAAAAAAAJ5Q/kj4LF0tvE9U/s400/a.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;">Photos by simplytanzania.com</span><br /></div><br /><div style="FONT-FAMILY: arial; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><br /></div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"></div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><span style="font-family:arial;">Kanga's/leso's have also graced some famous faces in the global community.</span><em></em><br /></div><em></em></div><em></em><br /></div><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SZXpo__-ovI/AAAAAAAAJ4w/03gcvwOY5w4/s1600-h/a.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5302401026882446066" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; HEIGHT: 297px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SZXpo__-ovI/AAAAAAAAJ4w/03gcvwOY5w4/s400/a.jpg" border="0" /></a><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SZXpozwKnwI/AAAAAAAAJ44/tXLLDoAU2sk/s1600-h/b.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5302401023594897154" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; HEIGHT: 311px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SZXpozwKnwI/AAAAAAAAJ44/tXLLDoAU2sk/s400/b.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">George Bush face printed on Kanga during his visit to Tanzania in 2008</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SZWqv7uskbI/AAAAAAAAJ4Q/4ki7p6OrcmQ/s1600-h/1.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5302331876762751410" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 299px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SZWqv7uskbI/AAAAAAAAJ4Q/4ki7p6OrcmQ/s400/1.jpg" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SZWqwMGhzJI/AAAAAAAAJ4o/1Z0qMeSL2Ag/s1600-h/4.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5302331881157676178" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 267px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SZWqwMGhzJI/AAAAAAAAJ4o/1Z0qMeSL2Ag/s400/4.jpg" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SZWqwNBAfbI/AAAAAAAAJ4g/6e38VhssCeg/s1600-h/3.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5302331881402957234" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 276px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SZWqwNBAfbI/AAAAAAAAJ4g/6e38VhssCeg/s400/3.jpg" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SZWqv7VVvtI/AAAAAAAAJ4Y/KK23KLhA6rM/s1600-h/2.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5302331876656398034" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 270px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SZWqv7VVvtI/AAAAAAAAJ4Y/KK23KLhA6rM/s400/2.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Barack Obama face printed on Kangas following his historic win during the 2008 USA presidential elections </span><br /></div><br /><br /><br /><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><br /><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">VIDEO </span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xw4FI-9rlYA">How to wear a kanga</a><br /></div><br /><div></div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><strong>TEXT SOURCES AND MORE INFORMATION</strong></div><br /><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><a href="http://www.glcom.com/hassan/kanga_history.html">Swahili Language and Culture</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.ippmedia.com/ipp/guardian/2007/12/25/104957.html"><span class="storyHead">The 101 wonders of `khanga` and many more to come</span></a><br /></div><div></div></div></div></div><br /></div>AFRICAN LIZhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05876270785127257460noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4500199998354386351.post-2998536171761405042009-02-14T19:46:00.022+00:002009-02-15T02:08:35.459+00:00NIAMEY- A CITY IN THE SAHEL<div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SYvHUlwrFfI/AAAAAAAAJuk/6NaD_on1JNs/s1600-h/1.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299548543079093746" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 400px; cursor: pointer; height: 300px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SYvHUlwrFfI/AAAAAAAAJuk/6NaD_on1JNs/s400/1.jpg" border="0" /></a><form id="fave_form" style="visibility: hidden;" method="post"><input value="ccaed9f4644460484130a6dc54e14f30" name="magic_cookie" type="hidden"><input value="0" name="faveadd" type="hidden"><input value="0" name="faveremove" type="hidden"></form><form id="blog_form" style="visibility: hidden;" action="/blog.gne" method="post"><input value="ccaed9f4644460484130a6dc54e14f30" name="magic_cookie" type="hidden"><input value="102665464" name="photo" type="hidden"><input value="0" name="blog" type="hidden"></form><div><div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">Welcome to Niamey Niger's capital city<br /><br /><br /></div><script type="text/javascript">decorate(_ge('photo_notes'), F._photo_notes).notes_go_go_go(102665464, 'http://farm1.static.flickr.com/24/102665464_145919c69d_t.jpg', '3.1444')</script> <div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" >Niamey city, capital of Niger and Tillabéry dept., SW Niger, a port on the Niger River. Niamey is Niger's largest city and its administrative and economic center. </span><span style="font-family:arial;">The city sits on the bank of the famous Niger river. Niger river is the third longest river in Africa.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" >Much of its importance stems from its location on the Niger River at the crossroads of the country's two main highways. The city is the trade center for an agricultural region that specializes in growing peanuts. Manufactures include bricks, food products, beverages, ceramic goods, cement, and shoes. Niamey was a small town when the French colonized the area in the late 19th cent., but it grew after it became the capital of Niger in 1926</span><span style="font-family:arial;">.</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:78%;" ><br /></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >Originally an agricultural village of Maouri, Zerma, and Fulani peoples, it became the capital of Niger colony in 1926 and grew rapidly after World War II. At the intersection of trade routes, it has residents from other parts of Niger, as well as Yoruba and Hausa traders, merchants, officials, and craftsmen from Nigeria, Benin, and Togo</span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" >.</span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:78%;" ><span style="font-style: italic;"> </span>Source:</span><a href="http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-Niamey.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:78%;" >Encyclopedia.com</span></a><br /></div></div><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SYu6YYP2uJI/AAAAAAAAJmU/5RXMY9jgBQI/s1600-h/5.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299534314520098962" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 400px; cursor: pointer; height: 268px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SYu6YYP2uJI/AAAAAAAAJmU/5RXMY9jgBQI/s400/5.jpg" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SYu5xhUp95I/AAAAAAAAJls/_UyWxKpshNc/s1600-h/5.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299533646941255570" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; 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display: block; width: 400px; cursor: pointer; height: 268px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SYvBkXEQqFI/AAAAAAAAJqs/SydxPLD-LD0/s400/1.jpg" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SYvAZY0Yf-I/AAAAAAAAJqk/mYxRg7Ah9SI/s1600-h/5.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299540928922943458" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 400px; cursor: pointer; height: 268px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SYvAZY0Yf-I/AAAAAAAAJqk/mYxRg7Ah9SI/s400/5.jpg" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SYvAZZpxqjI/AAAAAAAAJqc/MlpPn6DLzBw/s1600-h/4.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299540929146890802" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 400px; cursor: pointer; height: 268px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SYvAZZpxqjI/AAAAAAAAJqc/MlpPn6DLzBw/s400/4.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >Palais de Justice, Niamey</span><br /></div><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SYvAZDYmwoI/AAAAAAAAJqU/pmVTqFYqog0/s1600-h/3.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299540923169292930" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 400px; cursor: pointer; height: 268px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SYvAZDYmwoI/AAAAAAAAJqU/pmVTqFYqog0/s400/3.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >Sahel Com un souffle de liberté</span><br /></div><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SYvAZFtkifI/AAAAAAAAJqM/L4BjBkRFtbs/s1600-h/2.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299540923794098674" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 400px; cursor: pointer; height: 268px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SYvAZFtkifI/AAAAAAAAJqM/L4BjBkRFtbs/s400/2.jpg" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SYvAZJAnO5I/AAAAAAAAJqE/ZVNj1LATU1w/s1600-h/1.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299540924679273362" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 400px; cursor: pointer; height: 268px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SYvAZJAnO5I/AAAAAAAAJqE/ZVNj1LATU1w/s400/1.jpg" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SYu9ns5WxkI/AAAAAAAAJpU/LHamFfrQwVM/s1600-h/5.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299539087507926802" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 400px; cursor: pointer; height: 268px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SYu-uNA1LxI/AAAAAAAAJp8/Y7zu86iLpqY/s400/5.jpg" border="0" /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299537876295796290" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 400px; cursor: pointer; height: 268px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SYu9ns5WxkI/AAAAAAAAJpU/LHamFfrQwVM/s400/5.jpg" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SYu9neecD4I/AAAAAAAAJo8/hndUXA4SKUA/s1600-h/2.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299537875115916354" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 400px; cursor: pointer; height: 268px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SYu9nogDPEI/AAAAAAAAJpE/HZyvSofS9JE/s400/3.jpg" border="0" /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299537872424800130" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 400px; cursor: pointer; height: 268px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SYu9neecD4I/AAAAAAAAJo8/hndUXA4SKUA/s400/2.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" >Banque Centrale des Etats de l'Afrique de l'Ouest aka </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" >Central Bank of West African States Tower</span></div> <span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:78%;" >Photos by Brian McMorrow</span><br /></div><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SYu68qvg9AI/AAAAAAAAJmk/Hu2AFXnwTJk/s1600-h/2.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299534937960018946" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 400px; cursor: pointer; height: 266px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SYu68qvg9AI/AAAAAAAAJmk/Hu2AFXnwTJk/s400/2.jpg" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SYu6X8brLsI/AAAAAAAAJmE/3kgbVKqZ1yc/s1600-h/3.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299534307053481666" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 400px; cursor: pointer; height: 268px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SYu6X8brLsI/AAAAAAAAJmE/3kgbVKqZ1yc/s400/3.jpg" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SY8OUrb-qVI/AAAAAAAAJxs/34mUaLdc9Zo/s1600-h/2.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5300471034858613074" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 400px; cursor: pointer; height: 300px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SY8OUrb-qVI/AAAAAAAAJxs/34mUaLdc9Zo/s400/2.jpg" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SY8ZfDaVQnI/AAAAAAAAJyw/2sPdhQ56Y8E/s1600-h/1.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5300483307720753778" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 400px; cursor: pointer; height: 300px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SY8ZfDaVQnI/AAAAAAAAJyw/2sPdhQ56Y8E/s400/1.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;" >HISTORY</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify; font-style: italic;font-family:arial;">Niger used to be occupied by the Songhai Empire in the west, Hausa kingdoms in central parts and the empire of Kanem-Bornu around Lake Chad to the east. These kingdoms traded in slaves, gold, and salt. Although their fortunes diminished during the French colonial years, trans-Saharan trade still continues, to some extent. Under French control, Niamey became the capital of colonial Niger in 1926.<br /><br />Niamey grew rapidly after World War II - ...it has most of the amenities of a modern capital city, but at the same time maintains a distinct Sahel character. It has an international airport and has road links with Benin and Nigeria.<br /><br />Most people in the city work in the service sector. Important buildings and institutions in the city includes the University of Niamey, National School of Administration, national museum, research institutes for geology, human sciences, oral tradition, tropical forestry and agriculture, veterinary studies.<span style=";font-family:Arial,Helvetica;font-size:78%;" >Source:<a href="http://library.thinkquest.org/16645/the_people/cw_niamey.shtml"> http://library.thinkquest.org/</a></span></div><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SY8OUi8ZBNI/AAAAAAAAJx0/bE4kwXoZZsU/s1600-h/1.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5300471032578639058" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 400px; cursor: pointer; height: 266px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SY8OUi8ZBNI/AAAAAAAAJx0/bE4kwXoZZsU/s400/1.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SY8KFsEBluI/AAAAAAAAJv0/aN2p4V7He5c/s1600-h/4.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SY8KFsEBluI/AAAAAAAAJv0/aN2p4V7He5c/s400/4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5300466379282028258" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SY8KFngDehI/AAAAAAAAJvs/Bo6f9K4-MGQ/s1600-h/3.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SY8KFngDehI/AAAAAAAAJvs/Bo6f9K4-MGQ/s400/3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5300466378057415186" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SY8KFRtI2YI/AAAAAAAAJvk/NYqa8BtofHY/s1600-h/2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SY8KFRtI2YI/AAAAAAAAJvk/NYqa8BtofHY/s400/2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5300466372206713218" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SY8KmpGM8XI/AAAAAAAAJwM/l2qWAieWY8Y/s1600-h/2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SY8KmpGM8XI/AAAAAAAAJwM/l2qWAieWY8Y/s400/2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5300466945421537650" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SY8KFbngtBI/AAAAAAAAJvc/e6YMRkeTW3s/s1600-h/1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SY8KFbngtBI/AAAAAAAAJvc/e6YMRkeTW3s/s400/1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5300466374867465234" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SY8JT9YK0CI/AAAAAAAAJvU/Xvc7M76_2q8/s1600-h/5.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SY8JT9YK0CI/AAAAAAAAJvU/Xvc7M76_2q8/s400/5.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5300465524936462370" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SY8JTp_j0SI/AAAAAAAAJvM/9Fdy_aILtmA/s1600-h/4.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SY8JTp_j0SI/AAAAAAAAJvM/9Fdy_aILtmA/s400/4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5300465519732969762" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SY8JTtUJq4I/AAAAAAAAJvE/KJLwtQsJshU/s1600-h/3.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SY8JTtUJq4I/AAAAAAAAJvE/KJLwtQsJshU/s400/3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5300465520624642946" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SY8JTfANRSI/AAAAAAAAJu8/Mc0ZSUXAl3s/s1600-h/2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SY8JTfANRSI/AAAAAAAAJu8/Mc0ZSUXAl3s/s400/2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5300465516782896418" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SY8JTey3U1I/AAAAAAAAJu0/hMjBXw0HGJc/s1600-h/1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SY8JTey3U1I/AAAAAAAAJu0/hMjBXw0HGJc/s400/1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5300465516726932306" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/pmoriau/232504422/in/set-72157594266154496/">Photos by Pascal Moriau </a></span><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/pmoriau/232504422/in/set-72157594266154496/"> </a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SY80R0AO_eI/AAAAAAAAJzY/u-jvTN3jkYA/s1600-h/4.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5300512767060409826" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 400px; cursor: pointer; height: 300px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SY80R0AO_eI/AAAAAAAAJzY/u-jvTN3jkYA/s400/4.jpg" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SY801uZOgdI/AAAAAAAAJ0I/KL9RWspNGAY/s1600-h/5.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5300513384029913554" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 400px; cursor: pointer; height: 300px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SY801uZOgdI/AAAAAAAAJ0I/KL9RWspNGAY/s400/5.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">A teenage girl fills up water pots in Kan-Karen-Kacha, central Niger</span><br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SY801jocUAI/AAAAAAAAJ0A/wh8USvIIVB4/s1600-h/4.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5300513381140942850" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 400px; cursor: pointer; height: 300px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SY801jocUAI/AAAAAAAAJ0A/wh8USvIIVB4/s400/4.jpg" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SY80Pmzf8hI/AAAAAAAAJzA/RFxXQHWEIcQ/s1600-h/1.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5300512729157595666" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 400px; cursor: pointer; height: 225px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SY80Pmzf8hI/AAAAAAAAJzA/RFxXQHWEIcQ/s400/1.jpg" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SY801mAFOzI/AAAAAAAAJz4/d3deeAm89Ws/s1600-h/3.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5300513381776964402" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 400px; cursor: pointer; height: 300px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SY801mAFOzI/AAAAAAAAJz4/d3deeAm89Ws/s400/3.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Rush hour, central Niamey</span><br /></div><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SY801SGF9uI/AAAAAAAAJzw/wBF0YwLHkf0/s1600-h/2.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5300513376433469154" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 400px; cursor: pointer; height: 300px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SY801SGF9uI/AAAAAAAAJzw/wBF0YwLHkf0/s400/2.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Traditional guards gather in the village of Kournaka, southern Niger</span><br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SY801SbDyVI/AAAAAAAAJzo/-lHOwe9pV8Y/s1600-h/1.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5300513376521406802" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 400px; cursor: pointer; height: 225px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SY801SbDyVI/AAAAAAAAJzo/-lHOwe9pV8Y/s400/1.jpg" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SY80SYhxKpI/AAAAAAAAJzg/1wseq-MJqWc/s1600-h/5.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5300512776864737938" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 400px; cursor: pointer; height: 300px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SY80SYhxKpI/AAAAAAAAJzg/1wseq-MJqWc/s400/5.jpg" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SY80R8lgwPI/AAAAAAAAJzQ/qEZ5Yw_F9Do/s1600-h/3.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5300512769364246770" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 400px; cursor: pointer; height: 225px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SY80R8lgwPI/AAAAAAAAJzQ/qEZ5Yw_F9Do/s400/3.jpg" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SY80PiVmbsI/AAAAAAAAJzI/-I8tlW020OE/s1600-h/2.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5300512727958449858" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 400px; cursor: pointer; height: 300px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SY80PiVmbsI/AAAAAAAAJzI/-I8tlW020OE/s400/2.jpg" border="0" /></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/morealtitude/72755767/in/set-72157594299981164/">Photos by Tris</a><br /></div><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" ><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >LIFE IN NIAMEY</span><br /></div><br /><br /><span style="font-size:78%;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.mapsofworld.com/niger/tourism/niamey-attractions.html"></a></span></div>Niamey offers a wide array of adventure for those visiting the city in the Sahel. Cruise the Niger river on a traditional river boat aka Pirogues and enjoy the cool and fresh breeze.<br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >SUNSET OVER THE NIGER RIVER IN NIAMEY</span><br /></div><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SYvCEHFEhJI/AAAAAAAAJr0/25S_i3iyzZo/s1600-h/5.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299542762407101586" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 400px; cursor: pointer; height: 275px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SYvCEHFEhJI/AAAAAAAAJr0/25S_i3iyzZo/s400/5.jpg" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SYvCEMngsWI/AAAAAAAAJrs/5HopDy7JM-A/s1600-h/4.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299542763893731682" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 400px; cursor: pointer; height: 268px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SYvCEMngsWI/AAAAAAAAJrs/5HopDy7JM-A/s400/4.jpg" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SYvCEKE7igI/AAAAAAAAJrk/SH2sfqzgo1Q/s1600-h/3.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299542763211819522" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 400px; cursor: pointer; height: 268px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SYvCEKE7igI/AAAAAAAAJrk/SH2sfqzgo1Q/s400/3.jpg" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SYvCEMTXpGI/AAAAAAAAJrc/fg8ZZwkFZC8/s1600-h/2.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299542763809252450" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 400px; cursor: pointer; height: 268px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SYvCEMTXpGI/AAAAAAAAJrc/fg8ZZwkFZC8/s400/2.jpg" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SYvCD0PhMaI/AAAAAAAAJrU/4pnvcxCZDn8/s1600-h/1.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299542757350650274" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 400px; cursor: pointer; height: 268px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SYvCD0PhMaI/AAAAAAAAJrU/4pnvcxCZDn8/s400/1.jpg" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SZD_1JSRmUI/AAAAAAAAJ1A/EIW7XqFj_Lc/s1600-h/1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SZD_1JSRmUI/AAAAAAAAJ1A/EIW7XqFj_Lc/s400/1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5301018049905793346" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span><span><span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 128);"></span></span></span></span></span></span><div></div><div></div><div style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Some places to visit in Niamey include the Niger National Museum, zoo, craft center, Grand Marche, which is a famous market area in the place. There are traditional artifacts, fantastic jewelry, carvings, furniture, fabrics, local music. </span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br /></span></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >There are different modes of transportation available in Niamey such as buses, taxis, camel, boats, and bicycles.</span> <span style="font-family:arial;">Niger is reported to have one of lowest literacy rates in the world. Hence the goods stores and shops have pictures showing paintings of types services or goods provided.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">And when you are hungry, Niamey has an array of</span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" > restaurants and eateries that serve both local and international cuisines<span style="font-weight: bold;">. </span></span><span style="font-style: italic;">One of the popular recipes of Niger is grilled meat, which is famous for the spices it is marinated with. The baking of the meat on the coal oven along with the spices are just too much to resist. The salads made in the country of Niger look colorful and taste exquisite. A preparation made with seasonal veggies and various sauces, the salads along with the other food items gifts one a sumptuous banquet to the tourists to Niger</span>.<span style="font-size:78%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Source: </span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.mapsofworld.com/niger/tourism/niamey-attractions.html">http://www.mapsofworld.com</a></span><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >Hobo Traveller website has interesting pictures of food in Niger. Below are some of my favourite. <span style="font-size:78%;">http://www.hobotraveler.com</span></span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SZJOJcsfMsI/AAAAAAAAJ3I/saE6Zkcqtes/s1600-h/2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SZJOJcsfMsI/AAAAAAAAJ3I/saE6Zkcqtes/s400/2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5301385635597071042" border="0" /></a>Beignets<br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SZJNlfFLACI/AAAAAAAAJ3A/0kyCBlAdnUU/s1600-h/5.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SZJNlfFLACI/AAAAAAAAJ3A/0kyCBlAdnUU/s400/5.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5301385017762185250" border="0" /></a>Baguette sales man<br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SZJNlRB7w3I/AAAAAAAAJ24/gddqFkxBe-Q/s1600-h/4.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SZJNlRB7w3I/AAAAAAAAJ24/gddqFkxBe-Q/s400/4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5301385013990507378" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SZJOJdYuujI/AAAAAAAAJ3Q/0Fc7UJ_2Fw4/s1600-h/1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SZJOJdYuujI/AAAAAAAAJ3Q/0Fc7UJ_2Fw4/s400/1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5301385635782638130" border="0" /></a>Beef Brochettes<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SZJNlYOGmvI/AAAAAAAAJ2o/YshF4D_cDw4/s1600-h/2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SZJNlYOGmvI/AAAAAAAAJ2o/YshF4D_cDw4/s400/2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5301385015920597746" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SZJNlf9Ge4I/AAAAAAAAJ2w/6HzRjIMZxXU/s1600-h/3.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SZJNlf9Ge4I/AAAAAAAAJ2w/6HzRjIMZxXU/s400/3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5301385017996770178" border="0" /></a>Beef and goat jerky<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SZJNlJ2doMI/AAAAAAAAJ2g/4cW1hH6Koao/s1600-h/1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SZJNlJ2doMI/AAAAAAAAJ2g/4cW1hH6Koao/s400/1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5301385012063346882" border="0" /></a>Millet<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><b>Musée Nationale(Niger National Museum) and Zoo</b></span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SYvEJzE2NCI/AAAAAAAAJtM/2eLqldA2OPE/s1600-h/1.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299545059139925026" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 268px; cursor: pointer; height: 400px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SYvEJzE2NCI/AAAAAAAAJtM/2eLqldA2OPE/s400/1.jpg" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SYvEgLpm_TI/AAAAAAAAJuU/ZyiJ59iSWVs/s1600-h/5.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299545443693690162" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 268px; cursor: pointer; height: 400px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SYvEgLpm_TI/AAAAAAAAJuU/ZyiJ59iSWVs/s400/5.jpg" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SYvEf9kmPxI/AAAAAAAAJuM/Y2b8Ib-useM/s1600-h/4.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299545439551660914" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 268px; cursor: pointer; height: 400px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SYvEf8OEo3I/AAAAAAAAJuE/ZdIkSfV6nMA/s400/3.jpg" border="0" /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299545439914573586" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 400px; cursor: pointer; height: 268px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SYvEf9kmPxI/AAAAAAAAJuM/Y2b8Ib-useM/s400/4.jpg" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SYvFcx-GwhI/AAAAAAAAJuc/VyKthgJb4us/s1600-h/1.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299546484772356626" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 400px; cursor: pointer; height: 268px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SYvFcx-GwhI/AAAAAAAAJuc/VyKthgJb4us/s400/1.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >Sarcosuchus imperator - 100 million year old giant crocodile, Niger National Museum</span><br /></div></div><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SYvEf0HprUI/AAAAAAAAJt8/6t6O8F2zVqU/s1600-h/2.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299545437377244482" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 268px; cursor: pointer; height: 400px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SYvEf0HprUI/AAAAAAAAJt8/6t6O8F2zVqU/s400/2.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SYvEfjkwTUI/AAAAAAAAJt0/Nd_EU-kjGZQ/s1600-h/1.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299545432935910722" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 400px; cursor: pointer; height: 268px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SYvEfjkwTUI/AAAAAAAAJt0/Nd_EU-kjGZQ/s400/1.jpg" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SYvEKD5vEQI/AAAAAAAAJts/hdi6lKVWbq4/s1600-h/5.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299545063656722690" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 400px; cursor: pointer; height: 268px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SYvEKD5vEQI/AAAAAAAAJts/hdi6lKVWbq4/s400/5.jpg" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SYvEKAOXR6I/AAAAAAAAJtk/7_7h8j4rmvI/s1600-h/4.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299545062669502370" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 400px; cursor: pointer; height: 268px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SYvEKAOXR6I/AAAAAAAAJtk/7_7h8j4rmvI/s400/4.jpg" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SYvEKLsDokI/AAAAAAAAJtc/4XzFwYyFnYY/s1600-h/3.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299545065746833986" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 400px; cursor: pointer; height: 268px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SYvEKLsDokI/AAAAAAAAJtc/4XzFwYyFnYY/s400/3.jpg" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SYvEJwejegI/AAAAAAAAJtU/P4mTwZZjj2s/s1600-h/2.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299545058442443266" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 400px; cursor: pointer; height: 268px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SYvEJwejegI/AAAAAAAAJtU/P4mTwZZjj2s/s400/2.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:78%;" >Photos by Brian McMorrow</span><br /></div><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >ROAD SIGNS IN NIAMEY</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SYu9niB_UrI/AAAAAAAAJpM/a36PLQfrYj0/s1600-h/4.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299537873379218098" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 400px; cursor: pointer; height: 268px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SYu9niB_UrI/AAAAAAAAJpM/a36PLQfrYj0/s400/4.jpg" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SYu-t5nZ6xI/AAAAAAAAJpk/V_T26QxEvYY/s1600-h/1.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299539082301008658" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 400px; cursor: pointer; height: 268px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SYu-t5nZ6xI/AAAAAAAAJpk/V_T26QxEvYY/s400/1.jpg" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SYu-tku94kI/AAAAAAAAJpc/gKJWXpjeUms/s1600-h/2.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299539076695581250" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 400px; cursor: pointer; height: 268px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SYu-tku94kI/AAAAAAAAJpc/gKJWXpjeUms/s400/2.jpg" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SYu69B8ij-I/AAAAAAAAJm8/AH0PRUEe0R4/s1600-h/5.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299534944188665826" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 400px; cursor: pointer; height: 266px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SYu69B8ij-I/AAAAAAAAJm8/AH0PRUEe0R4/s400/5.jpg" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SYu68VgNZRI/AAAAAAAAJmc/-pJ5wQgfWAs/s1600-h/1.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299534932258678034" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 400px; cursor: pointer; height: 307px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SYu68VgNZRI/AAAAAAAAJmc/-pJ5wQgfWAs/s400/1.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:78%;" >Photos by Brian McMorrow</span><br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">MARKET SCENE IN NIAMEY</span></span><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SYvCu3ICruI/AAAAAAAAJsU/oalZB3i2-Ns/s1600-h/4.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299543496858971874" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 266px; cursor: pointer; height: 400px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SYvCu3ICruI/AAAAAAAAJsU/oalZB3i2-Ns/s400/4.jpg" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SYvCu-Y18uI/AAAAAAAAJsM/xihiDs4Sdu8/s1600-h/3.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299543498808488674" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 268px; cursor: pointer; height: 400px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SYvCu-Y18uI/AAAAAAAAJsM/xihiDs4Sdu8/s400/3.jpg" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SYvDmIYFX8I/AAAAAAAAJs8/Lhr8CFsitZ0/s1600-h/4.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299544446382464962" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 311px; cursor: pointer; height: 400px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SYvDmIYFX8I/AAAAAAAAJs8/Lhr8CFsitZ0/s400/4.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SYvDmAEfKII/AAAAAAAAJtE/fBP5EoL9mu8/s1600-h/5.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299544444152785026" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 400px; cursor: pointer; height: 291px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SYvDmAEfKII/AAAAAAAAJtE/fBP5EoL9mu8/s400/5.jpg" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SYvDmDnN1BI/AAAAAAAAJs0/EQDNenJ4M2I/s1600-h/3.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299544445103756306" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 400px; cursor: pointer; height: 268px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SYvDmDnN1BI/AAAAAAAAJs0/EQDNenJ4M2I/s400/3.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:78%;" >Photos by Brian McMorrow<br /><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SYvDl8wuQpI/AAAAAAAAJsk/P1ZfivIsG9M/s1600-h/1.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299544443264582290" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 400px; cursor: pointer; height: 268px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SYvDl8wuQpI/AAAAAAAAJsk/P1ZfivIsG9M/s400/1.jpg" border="0" /></a><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299543497940614258" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 400px; cursor: pointer; height: 276px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SYvCu7J7PHI/AAAAAAAAJsc/7uVnDGFWUhE/s400/5.jpg" border="0" /></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SYvCutMkxCI/AAAAAAAAJsE/nraetReR3HQ/s1600-h/2.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299543494193628194" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 400px; cursor: pointer; height: 268px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SYvCutMkxCI/AAAAAAAAJsE/nraetReR3HQ/s400/2.jpg" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SYvCuio_mpI/AAAAAAAAJr8/jffzaAf-6rM/s1600-h/1.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299543491360037522" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 400px; cursor: pointer; height: 268px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SYvCuio_mpI/AAAAAAAAJr8/jffzaAf-6rM/s400/1.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Petit Marché</span> </div><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:78%;" >Photos by Brian McMorrow</span><br /></span></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SY8Y43MJ03I/AAAAAAAAJyo/IdjuFuzVsT8/s1600-h/3.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5300482651605029746" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 400px; cursor: pointer; height: 300px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SY8Y43MJ03I/AAAAAAAAJyo/IdjuFuzVsT8/s400/3.jpg" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SY8ZfEXMJoI/AAAAAAAAJy4/T1UAolu_vhw/s1600-h/2.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5300483307976009346" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 400px; cursor: pointer; height: 300px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SY8ZfEXMJoI/AAAAAAAAJy4/T1UAolu_vhw/s400/2.jpg" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SY8Y4-HEhLI/AAAAAAAAJyg/Onem_ONy46k/s1600-h/2.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5300482653462758578" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 400px; cursor: pointer; height: 342px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SY8Y4-HEhLI/AAAAAAAAJyg/Onem_ONy46k/s400/2.jpg" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SY8Y4lZ8xEI/AAAAAAAAJyY/IiPY-AMXPrI/s1600-h/1.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5300482646831055938" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 400px; cursor: pointer; height: 300px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SY8Y4lZ8xEI/AAAAAAAAJyY/IiPY-AMXPrI/s400/1.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><p><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >SAND STORM IN NIAMEY</span><br /></p><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SY8OUQ-YYEI/AAAAAAAAJxk/5KvDV8g04lg/s1600-h/3.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5300471027755147330" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 400px; cursor: pointer; height: 300px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SY8OUQ-YYEI/AAAAAAAAJxk/5KvDV8g04lg/s400/3.jpg" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SY8OToMa8nI/AAAAAAAAJxc/U8BzH5RsKP0/s1600-h/4.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5300471016808182386" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 400px; cursor: pointer; height: 300px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SY8OToMa8nI/AAAAAAAAJxc/U8BzH5RsKP0/s400/4.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /></div><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><b>Grande Mosquée Niamey Niger</b></span><br /></div><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SYu8aQ49sHI/AAAAAAAAJn8/LrNPSay5Phk/s1600-h/3.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299536545928032370" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 266px; cursor: pointer; height: 400px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SYu8aQ49sHI/AAAAAAAAJn8/LrNPSay5Phk/s400/3.jpg" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SYu88VDxKeI/AAAAAAAAJos/pAna46yzDfc/s1600-h/1.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299537131162642914" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 266px; cursor: pointer; height: 400px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SYu88VDxKeI/AAAAAAAAJos/pAna46yzDfc/s400/1.jpg" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SYu8azzGkjI/AAAAAAAAJoM/uJyZSbJMVcQ/s1600-h/5.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299536555298689586" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 266px; cursor: pointer; height: 400px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SYu8azzGkjI/AAAAAAAAJoM/uJyZSbJMVcQ/s400/5.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SYu8aUZdiYI/AAAAAAAAJn0/XsaJXIw2ou0/s1600-h/2.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299536546869643650" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 400px; cursor: pointer; height: 266px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SYu8aUZdiYI/AAAAAAAAJn0/XsaJXIw2ou0/s400/2.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SYu8aKBQW3I/AAAAAAAAJns/dYjRrKknoZM/s1600-h/1.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299536544083762034" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 400px; cursor: pointer; height: 266px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SYu8aKBQW3I/AAAAAAAAJns/dYjRrKknoZM/s400/1.jpg" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SYu76ZAtErI/AAAAAAAAJnk/lDU60k-7Zm8/s1600-h/5.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299535998352167602" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 400px; cursor: pointer; height: 266px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SYu76ZAtErI/AAAAAAAAJnk/lDU60k-7Zm8/s400/5.jpg" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SYu76aog9HI/AAAAAAAAJnc/ExD78kq3tVE/s1600-h/4.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299535998787581042" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 400px; cursor: pointer; height: 266px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SYu76aog9HI/AAAAAAAAJnc/ExD78kq3tVE/s400/4.jpg" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SYu76RSXkGI/AAAAAAAAJnU/5SV6cF3RzKo/s1600-h/3.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299535996278771810" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 400px; cursor: pointer; height: 266px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SYu76RSXkGI/AAAAAAAAJnU/5SV6cF3RzKo/s400/3.jpg" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SYu76PEMZjI/AAAAAAAAJnM/P7QL3Mw7utI/s1600-h/2.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299535995682448946" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 400px; cursor: pointer; height: 266px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SYu76PEMZjI/AAAAAAAAJnM/P7QL3Mw7utI/s400/2.jpg" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SYu758q-hdI/AAAAAAAAJnE/Icr2lH47hhw/s1600-h/1.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299535990744843730" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 400px; cursor: pointer; height: 266px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SYu758q-hdI/AAAAAAAAJnE/Icr2lH47hhw/s400/1.jpg" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SYu8arPFURI/AAAAAAAAJoE/Twl-ikmkI6Y/s1600-h/4.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299536553000128786" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 400px; cursor: pointer; height: 266px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SYu8arPFURI/AAAAAAAAJoE/Twl-ikmkI6Y/s400/4.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >Niamey's Grand Mosque was financed by Libya (CFA 500 million)</span> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:78%;" >Photos by Brian McMorrow</span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">GIRAFFES IN NIAMEY NIGER </span></span><br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SY9Rxlkb_eI/AAAAAAAAJ04/wBC1DzAg88o/s1600-h/1.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5300545198778744290" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 400px; cursor: pointer; height: 268px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SY9Rxlkb_eI/AAAAAAAAJ04/wBC1DzAg88o/s400/1.jpg" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SY9RdVZRxyI/AAAAAAAAJ0w/FBynBO3WJd8/s1600-h/1.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5300544850839586594" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 400px; cursor: pointer; height: 267px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SY9RdVZRxyI/AAAAAAAAJ0w/FBynBO3WJd8/s400/1.jpg" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SY9RdQ4tWOI/AAAAAAAAJ0o/hvlQp1_Bg7I/s1600-h/2.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5300544849629239522" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 400px; cursor: pointer; height: 343px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SY9RdQ4tWOI/AAAAAAAAJ0o/hvlQp1_Bg7I/s400/2.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" >Peralta giraffes (Giraffa camelopardalis peralta) are ... ENDANGERED and the population of Peralta giraffes in Niger are the last giraffes in West Africa. They live in an unprotected area of southwest Niger in direct contact with the people and their cattle. The destiny of the last giraffes of West Africa is thus closely dependent on that of the human populations.100 years ago thousands of giraffes lived throughout Mauritania, Senegal, Gambia, Mali, Niger and Nigeria.</span><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><br /><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SY9RdFcls1I/AAAAAAAAJ0g/weVqzAhh1Xk/s1600-h/3.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5300544846558507858" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 278px; cursor: pointer; height: 400px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SY9RdFcls1I/AAAAAAAAJ0g/weVqzAhh1Xk/s400/3.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;"><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">In 1996 there were just 50 left all gathered in the south west of Niger. Why? The causes of such a massive drop in numbers are numerous: poaching, increasing human demography, destruction of the vegetation, excessive cultures, desertification –(turning into a desert). The giraffes concentrate on the plates of Kouré during the rain season and, during the dry season, in the area of Harikanassou</span></span> <span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;font-size:78%;" >source:http://www.wildlifeprotection.info/giraffes.htm</span><br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SYu6X6jjZQI/AAAAAAAAJl8/yWN6tAv7lZk/s1600-h/2.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299534306549654786" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 400px; cursor: pointer; height: 268px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SYu6X6jjZQI/AAAAAAAAJl8/yWN6tAv7lZk/s400/2.jpg" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SYu6X2Bt2II/AAAAAAAAJl0/QqHXM2tDLU4/s1600-h/1.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299534305333991554" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 400px; cursor: pointer; height: 268px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SYu6X2Bt2II/AAAAAAAAJl0/QqHXM2tDLU4/s400/1.jpg" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SYu6YJKegKI/AAAAAAAAJmM/9-_6LVj9cdA/s1600-h/4.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299534310471008418" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 400px; cursor: pointer; height: 268px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SYu6YJKegKI/AAAAAAAAJmM/9-_6LVj9cdA/s400/4.jpg" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SYu88BDpUlI/AAAAAAAAJok/Wj3qXpKz8B0/s1600-h/2.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299537125793419858" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 400px; cursor: pointer; height: 266px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SYu88BDpUlI/AAAAAAAAJok/Wj3qXpKz8B0/s400/2.jpg" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SYu5xMTXFZI/AAAAAAAAJlM/5Ae2g2Oy4es/s1600-h/1.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299533641298679186" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 400px; cursor: pointer; height: 268px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SYu5xMTXFZI/AAAAAAAAJlM/5Ae2g2Oy4es/s400/1.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Photos by Brian McMorrow</span></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br />VIDEO</span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYUdY-Rm6AQ&feature=related"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Streets of Niamey</span></a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: arial;font-size:85%;" >TEXT SOURCE AND FOR MORE INFORMATION</span><span style="font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" ><br /><a href="http://lifeinniger.blogspot.com/">http://lifeinniger.blogspot.com</a><br /><a href="http://wikitravel.org/en/Niamey">wikitravel</a><br /><a href="http://www.niamey.biz/">Niamey.biz</a><br /><a href="http://www.wildlifeprotection.info/giraffes.htm">wildlifeprotection</a><br /></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" class="TIPTITLE" > <a href="http://members.virtualtourist.com/m/da11c/20d800/4/#1641207">Things To Do: Experience the Niger River </a></span><br /></div></div>AFRICAN LIZhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05876270785127257460noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4500199998354386351.post-53611014893205724392009-01-27T23:24:00.034+00:002010-04-22T22:03:33.733+01:00CESARIA EVORA -THE ISLAND SONG BIRD<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SXJvWaf-BsI/AAAAAAAAJb0/v0I1n9DeeXw/s1600-h/1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SXJvWaf-BsI/AAAAAAAAJb0/v0I1n9DeeXw/s400/1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5292414942974969538" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">CESARIA EVORA<br /><br /><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;"></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">Cesária Evora a.k.a. Cize, is an internationally renowned singer from Cape Verde. Cesária was born on August 27th, 1941 in Mindelo, São Vicente Island, Cape Verde.</span></span> <span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">Cesária's love affair with music began at early age. Her late father, Justino da Cruz Evora, played cavaquinho (a small four-stringed guitar), guitar and violin. Among her fathers friends was B. Leza, Cape Verde's favourite composer. </span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">Cesária</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;"> was seven when her father passed away.</span></span> <span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">Cesária used to sing from the bandstand on the main square accompanied by her borther Lela on the saxophone. </span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">At a young age Cesária went to stay with her grandmother. She was educated by nuns an experience she has no fond memories of as she claims that it made her 'despise all moral structures.'</span></span> </div><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span></span><div style="text-align: justify; font-family: arial;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >Cesária later met a Cape Verdean musician Eduardo who is claimed to have helped her sing on Radio Mindelo. </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >Her reputation soon spread through out the neighbouring islands. </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-family:arial;">She sang traditional Cape Verdean music style referred to as </span></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><i>Coladeira</i></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-family:arial;"></span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" > and Mornas</span><span style="font-family:arial;"> which</span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" > </span><span style="font-family:arial;">are songs of sadness, sorrow and yearning.</span><br /></span><br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SXJvlnmm_pI/AAAAAAAAJcE/nh4fsW_tK2Y/s1600-h/3.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 317px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SXJvlnmm_pI/AAAAAAAAJcE/nh4fsW_tK2Y/s400/3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5292415204190518930" border="0" /></a> <div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SXJ3lrAiIKI/AAAAAAAAJcc/6nrlaWQQXA8/s1600-h/2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 299px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SXJ3lrAiIKI/AAAAAAAAJcc/6nrlaWQQXA8/s400/2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5292424001197580450" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;" >Cesária the “barefoot diva” prefers to perform without shoes</span></span></div><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><span>In 1975, Cape Verde attained Independence and </span></span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >Cesária</span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" > <span>stopped performing in public, sinking into a prolonged bout of depression made worse</span> <span>by excessive drinking. This silence lasted about ten years. They say that she wandered</span> <span>naked and wild through the streets of Mindelo in the grip of a "feitiço" (an evil spell).</span> <span>Cape Verdean musicians despised her because of her extremely low social standing</span><span>.</span></span><br /></div><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br /><br /></span></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SXJxQcqxeNI/AAAAAAAAJcU/ul6APKThD-o/s1600-h/5.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 355px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SXJxQcqxeNI/AAAAAAAAJcU/ul6APKThD-o/s400/5.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5292417039501195474" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ></span></span></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-family:arial;">While she was singing at a restaurant i</span><span>n Lisbon Portugal to make money for her return ticket home,</span></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><span> she met José da Silva who become her mentor and </span><span>official producer. José fell in love with </span></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >Cesária</span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><span>’s magnificent </span><span>voice, and he invited to come and make a record in Paris. </span></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >Cesária was</span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><span> 47 then and had nothing to </span><span>lose and, never having been to Paris, she agreed. </span><span>In Paris she </span><span>recorded the album <span style="font-style: italic;">La diva aux pieds nus</span> (The barefoot diva) which was released in 1988.<br /></span></span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >Cesária</span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><span> was again hopping from bar to bar, making a little money here and</span> <span>there. Being responsible for her two children and her mother whose sight was failing,</span> <span>she had to earn a living for family which at the time lived in a dilapidated house in Mindelo</span><span>.</span></span><br /></div><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><br /><br /></span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></span><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SXJv3y1IjcI/AAAAAAAAJcM/jjbdZod9E8E/s1600-h/4.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 318px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SXJv3y1IjcI/AAAAAAAAJcM/jjbdZod9E8E/s400/4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5292415516441873858" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;" >"... in all those years when I sang in bars and in front of strangers I sometimes had an idea I might someday be successful outside my country. The thought never stayed with me for very long, but here I am."</span><span style="font-size:78%;"><br /><a href="http://africanmusic.org/artists/evora.html">Source: Africanmusic.org</a></span><br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span></span><span> </span></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >Cesária</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span> </span><span>returned again to France in 1991 to record a new album</span> <span><span style="font-style: italic;">Mar Azul</span>, which was </span><span>immediately play-listed on the FIP and France Inter radio stations. </span></span></div><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-style: italic;">Miss Perfumado</span> album was released in 1992. With more than 300,000 copies sold to date in France, many see it as Cesá</span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >ria’s masterpiece. The album was released in the USA in 1999 and was nominated for the coveted Grammy Awards. Her music has</span><span style="font-family:arial;"> garnered a total of six Grammy nominations. </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >Cesária's </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >won a Grammy award for her album <span style="font-style: italic;">Voz d'Amor</span> in 2004 for Best Contemporary World Music Album.</span><br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SXJvZkKgY7I/AAAAAAAAJb8/xbAYDVFnGo8/s1600-h/2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 363px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SXJvZkKgY7I/AAAAAAAAJb8/xbAYDVFnGo8/s400/2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5292414997108908978" border="0" /></a> <span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;" >“So I began singing again for good […] I don't believe in dreams or fate […] What delights me today is the happiness of having got through all the years of suffering to better enjoy the life I live now. At home, we say it's better to drink the venom first and the honey later. Now, I'm drinking the honey.”</span></span><br /></div><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;" >MUSIC VIDEOS</span></span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SXJ7iL9pDlI/AAAAAAAAJc0/P1AvrH4Y4OQ/s1600-h/1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SXJ7iL9pDlI/AAAAAAAAJc0/P1AvrH4Y4OQ/s400/1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5292428339370856018" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/78li5r-aO7E&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/78li5r-aO7E&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /></div><span style="font-size:100%;"><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78li5r-aO7E"></a><br /><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/NbY7DBLw010&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/NbY7DBLw010&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object></span><br /></div><span style="font-size:100%;"><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbY7DBLw010&feature=related"><span style="font-family:arial;"></span></a></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/QFTw0c9ew3k&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/QFTw0c9ew3k&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object></span><br /></div><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br /><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJKF21vy6lY&feature=related">Cabo Verde</a><br /><br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnO28gOD50A&feature=related">Angola </a><br /><br /></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SXJ7iNP886I/AAAAAAAAJc8/xpK8TC5HZ98/s1600-h/2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SXJ7iNP886I/AAAAAAAAJc8/xpK8TC5HZ98/s400/2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5292428339716092834" border="0" /></a> <div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family:georgia;">Jacek Jaglowski has an awesome series of </span><span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;" >Cesária</span><span style="font-family:georgia;"> photos</span> <a href="http://www.pbase.com/jacekjaglowski/profile">click here for more</a><br /><br /><br /></div><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;" >TEXT SOURCES AND MORE INFORMATION</span><br /></span><br /></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><a href="http://www.cesaria-evora.com/"><span style="font-family:arial;">Cesária</span></a></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><a href="http://www.cesaria-evora.com/"> Evora Official Website </a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.myspace.com/cesariaevora"><span style="font-family:arial;">Cesária Evora on Myspace</span></a></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></span>AFRICAN LIZhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05876270785127257460noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4500199998354386351.post-26897250782349344892008-12-29T03:21:00.008+00:002008-12-29T16:37:28.789+00:00YINKA SHONIBARE - THE AFRICAN TEXTILE ARTIST<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SUxlcQMR-wI/AAAAAAAAJAg/nOigt6NgIS8/s1600-h/1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SUxlcQMR-wI/AAAAAAAAJAg/nOigt6NgIS8/s400/1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5281707999055969026" border="0" /></a><span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Yinka Shonibare MBE</span></span><br /><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;" >"my art mainly basically explores issues around identity and its about my bi-culcutural background in a way."</span> </div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><br />British-born Nigerian textile Artist, Yinka Sonibare is an internationally recognized contemporary artist.</span> <span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >Yinka Shonibare was born in London in 1962, and moved to Lagos, Nigeria when he was three years old. He moved back to England when he was 17 years old. In the 1980s he studied in London at the Byam Shaw School of Art and graduated from Goldsmiths College in 1991. Whilst in art school, he began with life drawing and later his art work became politicized focusing on global issues. One of his teachers once asked him why he made art work that addressed Western society and events and not authentic African art. </span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >As a joke, Shonibare began to ask himself what is authentic African art. What does it constitute? What does it mean? He grew up in Lagos and felt that he had no special key into ethnic or authentic art as he sees himself as a cosmopolitan citizen. </span><br /><br /></div><span style="font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"></span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SUxk94kY55I/AAAAAAAAI_w/AS4k4DJ1KZs/s1600-h/5.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 388px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SUxk94kY55I/AAAAAAAAI_w/AS4k4DJ1KZs/s400/5.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5281707477318559634" border="0" /></a><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><br />Shonibare then visited a batik material store in Brixton market in London. He discovered that the 'dutch wax' fabrics he chose to use in his art pieces was originally manufactured in Holland by the Dutch as they were trying to copy Indonesian Batik designs. The Dutch industrially had produced the fabrics for sale in the Indonesian market. The mass produced fabrics failed to appeal to the Indonesians as they did not like the industrially produced versions and so the Dutch merchants began selling the fabrics in West Africa. The English also started to manufacture the fabric in Manchester. Many people think this are authentic 'African fabrics' and he likes the 'fakeness' of that. Today in West Africa, and in many parts of the African continent, the patterned fabric is now an important and distinctive element of the African culture and symbolic of African identity.</span><br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >At the Victoria and Albert museum in London, in the costume section, Shonibare questioned the issue of class in relation to the colonial history. He was amazed at the scale of the paintings and decided to transform the paintings on canvas into the fabrics.</span> (<a href="http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/crossingborders/interview/yinka_interview.html">for more watch video interview here)</a><br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">A </span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">professional theater costumer makes the dresses used in his art pieces</span></span>. <span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;"> Shonibare has enjoyed increasing international renown with his western historical figures dressed in the Dutch wax African print. </span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">Yinka Shonibare has taken part in numerous international art exhibitions. In 2004 he was nominated for the Turner Prize. Yinka Shonibare is represented by Stephen Friedman Gallery, London; and James Cohan Gallery, New York.</span></span><br /><br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">He has a son Kayode Shonibare-Lewis who hopes to become a computer games artist.</span></span><br /><br /></div><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SU2HnzL9hvI/AAAAAAAAJEo/3mVEAfp1LCA/s1600-h/1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 316px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SU2HnzL9hvI/AAAAAAAAJEo/3mVEAfp1LCA/s400/1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5282027055800485618" border="0" /></a><span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;" ><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;" class="fullpost">"the idea for me using Victoriana as a metaphor came from Margaret Thatcher in the 80's was talking about returning to Victorian values."<br /><br /></span></span><span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;" class="fullpost" ><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">"I was thinking: Okay, so where do I stand? I live in England. I'm from Nigeria. Nigeria was colonised by the British. The Victorian era was the height of colonialism in Africa. How do I relate to the repressive Victorian regime?</span> <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">So Victorian for me actually means conquest and imperialism. And so, in a sense, it is actually my fear. So what I then decided to do was actually confront my fear and face my fear. And the way to confront my fear, to actually parody that fear. A lot of the work that came out of my desire to face my fear and to turn it into parody.</span> <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">The irony of all of this is that -- since my work has actually been about what imperialism means and how that relates to my own identity -- it's quite ironic that I was then made a member of the order of the British Empire</span>." </span><span style="font-size:78%;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://chrisboyd.blogspot.com/2008/09/yinka-shonibare-1-mad-world.html">Yinka on Chris Boyds Blog click here for more </a><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><div style="text-align: left;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SUxoL1m0j8I/AAAAAAAAJCI/gjmTLYyvf-U/s1600-h/1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 308px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SUxoL1m0j8I/AAAAAAAAJCI/gjmTLYyvf-U/s400/1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5281711015576506306" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SUxoMTFQNQI/AAAAAAAAJCQ/mX0Iecl7gQ0/s1600-h/2.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 269px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SUxoMTFQNQI/AAAAAAAAJCQ/mX0Iecl7gQ0/s400/2.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5281711023488775426" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SUxnWKNPKdI/AAAAAAAAJB4/AqYmetC9oK8/s1600-h/1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SUxnWKNPKdI/AAAAAAAAJB4/AqYmetC9oK8/s400/1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5281710093393406418" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SUxm05ENV4I/AAAAAAAAJBw/JK2x5ByFi1M/s1600-h/2.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SUxm05ENV4I/AAAAAAAAJBw/JK2x5ByFi1M/s400/2.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5281709521856452482" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SU7ftlnUM5I/AAAAAAAAJFQ/yIz6Y659PAg/s1600-h/2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 380px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SU7ftlnUM5I/AAAAAAAAJFQ/yIz6Y659PAg/s400/2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5282405387236291474" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SU7ftK4WCfI/AAAAAAAAJFI/_HK4-TyuOf8/s1600-h/1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 380px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SU7ftK4WCfI/AAAAAAAAJFI/_HK4-TyuOf8/s400/1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5282405380059957746" border="0" /></a> </div><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;" >This work was inspired by a painting called</span><em style="font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Portrait of The Reverend Robert Walker Skating</em><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;" >, 1784 by Sir Henry Raeburn</span><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SUxmlmI9MLI/AAAAAAAAJBg/5NZdMHUhr1o/s1600-h/6.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SUxmlmI9MLI/AAAAAAAAJBg/5NZdMHUhr1o/s400/6.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5281709259078054066" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SUxk9n87WFI/AAAAAAAAI_Y/BLrGS4dSzjs/s1600-h/2.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SUxk9n87WFI/AAAAAAAAI_Y/BLrGS4dSzjs/s400/2.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5281707472858077266" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SUxs1KXYpcI/AAAAAAAAJDY/A_JmThm9F1M/s1600-h/2.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 316px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SUxs1KXYpcI/AAAAAAAAJDY/A_JmThm9F1M/s400/2.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5281716123570054594" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SUxs1AGBzdI/AAAAAAAAJDQ/_WdQE3Yfxqs/s1600-h/1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 316px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SUxs1AGBzdI/AAAAAAAAJDQ/_WdQE3Yfxqs/s400/1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5281716120812899794" border="0" /></a><br /></div></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SUxlG8M3OaI/AAAAAAAAJAI/pNbc94gHft0/s1600-h/7.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 208px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SUxlG8M3OaI/AAAAAAAAJAI/pNbc94gHft0/s400/7.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5281707632912447906" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SUxk9_eFs4I/AAAAAAAAI_o/4mXrogqFPns/s1600-h/4.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SUxk9_eFs4I/AAAAAAAAI_o/4mXrogqFPns/s400/4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5281707479171183490" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SUxr22SDJFI/AAAAAAAAJDA/z4MvXlh6XiQ/s1600-h/1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SUxr22SDJFI/AAAAAAAAJDA/z4MvXlh6XiQ/s400/1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5281715053027075154" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SUxm0ShButI/AAAAAAAAJBo/7Qo-FrQJR6M/s1600-h/1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 255px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SUxm0ShButI/AAAAAAAAJBo/7Qo-FrQJR6M/s400/1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5281709511508343506" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SUxroUs-rDI/AAAAAAAAJC4/pYjn4RHa0dw/s1600-h/5.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 290px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SUxroUs-rDI/AAAAAAAAJC4/pYjn4RHa0dw/s400/5.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5281714803495054386" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SUxroTQVgCI/AAAAAAAAJCw/0_caSMDHPRI/s1600-h/4.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 290px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SUxroTQVgCI/AAAAAAAAJCw/0_caSMDHPRI/s400/4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5281714803106480162" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SUxroMa0RXI/AAAAAAAAJCo/do0HxfFEXJI/s1600-h/3.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 290px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SUxroMa0RXI/AAAAAAAAJCo/do0HxfFEXJI/s400/3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5281714801271391602" border="0" /></a><span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;" ><i style="font-weight: bold;">The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters</i><span style="font-weight: bold;">, 2008</span></span><br /><br /><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SUxrn1vrE-I/AAAAAAAAJCg/SjzmpuhGaTs/s1600-h/2.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 316px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SUxrn1vrE-I/AAAAAAAAJCg/SjzmpuhGaTs/s400/2.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5281714795184853986" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SUxrn68oX7I/AAAAAAAAJCY/2kgehxJii1M/s1600-h/1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 316px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SUxrn68oX7I/AAAAAAAAJCY/2kgehxJii1M/s400/1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5281714796581380018" border="0" /></a><i style="font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">La Méduse</i><br /></div><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SUxshWUOTqI/AAAAAAAAJDI/feUDx5Rv5Bw/s1600-h/1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 304px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SUxshWUOTqI/AAAAAAAAJDI/feUDx5Rv5Bw/s400/1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5281715783180635810" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SUxviRhAwAI/AAAAAAAAJDo/ov7Szozd5EM/s1600-h/shonibare06_body.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SUxviRhAwAI/AAAAAAAAJDo/ov7Szozd5EM/s400/shonibare06_body.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5281719097606848514" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SUxviF0zISI/AAAAAAAAJDg/RPIrWUq321A/s1600-h/shonibare01_body.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 271px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SUxviF0zISI/AAAAAAAAJDg/RPIrWUq321A/s400/shonibare01_body.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5281719094468616482" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"> </span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;" class="fullpost"><span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;" >"Swan Lake. It's my version. The film is called Odile and Odette. Odile being the bad character and Odette being the good swan. So what I've done... I've made two characters, one black, one white. And they dance opposite each another with a hollow frame in between them, so you get the illusion that one is a reflection of the other.</span>"</span></span><span style="font-size:78%;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://chrisboyd.blogspot.com/2008/09/yinka-shonibare-1-mad-world.html">Yinka on Chris Boyds Blog</a></span><br /></div><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SUxmVZz58rI/AAAAAAAAJBQ/ydUl8VNmz2s/s1600-h/5.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 270px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SUxmVZz58rI/AAAAAAAAJBQ/ydUl8VNmz2s/s400/5.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5281708980890628786" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SUxmUlUOmKI/AAAAAAAAJA4/OAzAitDV2Mo/s1600-h/2.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SUxmUlUOmKI/AAAAAAAAJA4/OAzAitDV2Mo/s400/2.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5281708966799120546" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SUxnWcxIKcI/AAAAAAAAJCA/VCr-AlUc4Qk/s1600-h/2.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 263px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SUxnWcxIKcI/AAAAAAAAJCA/VCr-AlUc4Qk/s400/2.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5281710098375780802" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SU2DTHq5Y7I/AAAAAAAAJD4/6yZWmdmBpq0/s1600-h/shonibare06_body.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SU2DTHq5Y7I/AAAAAAAAJD4/6yZWmdmBpq0/s400/shonibare06_body.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5282022302475183026" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SU2DTIiLq2I/AAAAAAAAJDw/DuQSPWKLOn8/s1600-h/shonibare01_body.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SU2DTIiLq2I/AAAAAAAAJDw/DuQSPWKLOn8/s400/shonibare01_body.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5282022302707067746" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SUxk9X2FD6I/AAAAAAAAI_Q/WMbfLL0n-uE/s1600-h/1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 306px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SUxk9X2FD6I/AAAAAAAAI_Q/WMbfLL0n-uE/s400/1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5281707468534386594" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;" class="caption" ><em>Scramble for Africa</em>, 2003, 14 figures, 14 chairs and table</span></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-style: italic;" class="fullpost"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;" >" a recreation of the Berlin conference in the 19th century...It was when Africa was being divided up. It was in Europe. They had this conference in Berlin. And the conference was called Scramble for Africa. So on the table there's a map of Africa drawn. So it's merely capturing a moment when all these brainless people got around the table -- headless, brainless -- to actually divide up the spoils amongst themselves. See if they have original entitlements to it."</span> </span><span style="font-size:78%;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://chrisboyd.blogspot.com/2008/09/yinka-shonibare-1-mad-world.html">Yinka on Chris Boyds Blog</a></span><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SU2EvKI3vLI/AAAAAAAAJEg/DzphkMJsnJQ/s1600-h/5.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 310px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SU2EvKI3vLI/AAAAAAAAJEg/DzphkMJsnJQ/s400/5.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5282023883685739698" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SU2Euyz5X2I/AAAAAAAAJEY/U8KtlPbi2hI/s1600-h/4.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 307px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SU2Euyz5X2I/AAAAAAAAJEY/U8KtlPbi2hI/s400/4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5282023877423751010" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SU2Euuoax5I/AAAAAAAAJEQ/vU-aWQ0fSkw/s1600-h/3.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 304px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SU2Euuoax5I/AAAAAAAAJEQ/vU-aWQ0fSkw/s400/3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5282023876301866898" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SU2EuUAXi0I/AAAAAAAAJEI/Es_TbL_BONc/s1600-h/2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 314px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SU2EuUAXi0I/AAAAAAAAJEI/Es_TbL_BONc/s400/2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5282023869154560834" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SU2EuBwKCqI/AAAAAAAAJEA/cqoiPnymoUw/s1600-h/1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 317px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SU2EuBwKCqI/AAAAAAAAJEA/cqoiPnymoUw/s400/1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5282023864254728866" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;" >"Diary of a Victorian Dandy," commissioned by the Institute of International Visual Arts (inIVA) in London as a public art project for the Underground. </span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />Shonibare </span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">makes reference to a dandy ( an outsider in the 18th century who pretended through imitation to be part of the upper class in society and was happily rewarded with the benefits of that position).</span> </span><span style="font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">In this photographic works he produces, Shonibare also plays with role reversals between classes and castes, between black and white. In the series Diary of a Victorian dandy, for instance, a black dandy is featured surrounded by white servants. In a humorous way, Shonibare shows us how European prosperity is connected to the imperialistic exploitation of the overseas territories.</span></span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.absolutearts.com/artsnews/2004/02/23/31826.html">Source: Absolute Arts</a></span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:78%;" ><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/robotar/421977866/in/set-72157600000936563/">Photos by Arobotar</a></span><br /><br /><br /><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SUxlcgT_FhI/AAAAAAAAJAo/g3dyO3tF0yQ/s1600-h/10.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 258px; height: 360px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/SUxlcgT_FhI/AAAAAAAAJAo/g3dyO3tF0yQ/s400/10.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5281708003383252498" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: arial;">I had the pleasure to attend his art exhibition at the </span><a style="font-weight: bold; font-family: arial;" href="http://www.jamescohan.com/artists/yinka-shonibare-mbe/">James Cohan gallery</a><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: arial;"> "</span><i style="font-weight: bold; font-family: arial;">Prospero's Monsters</i><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: arial;">" in New York. AMAZING!!!</span><br /><br /><br /></div><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;" >TEXT SOURCES AND MORE INFORMATION</span><br /><a style="font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;" href="http://www.yinka-shonibare.co.uk/">Yinka Shonibare Official Site</a><br /><a style="font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;" href="http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/crossingborders/interview/yinka_interview.html">Video Interview of Yinka Shonibar</a><a style="font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;" href="http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/crossingborders/interview/yinka_interview.html">e</a><br /><a style="font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;" href="http://www.vlisco.com/home">Vlisco website to purchase the fabrics used in the art</a>AFRICAN LIZhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05876270785127257460noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4500199998354386351.post-36179930214904678502008-12-20T23:03:00.002+00:002008-12-20T23:32:43.757+00:00THE SAN BUSHMEN OF SOUTHERN AFRICA<b><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/amelie_et_arnaud/" title="Link to amelie_et_arnaud's photostream"></a></b><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/R_5_Xk_VwiI/AAAAAAAAFf0/IEI0iON5ChE/s1600-h/L.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/R_5_Xk_VwiI/AAAAAAAAFf0/IEI0iON5ChE/s400/L.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5187723863820452386" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;" >The term, 'bushman', came from the Dutch term, 'bossiesman', which meant 'bandit' or 'outlaw'. The 'bushman' term was first applied by white explorers & settlers over 200 years ago.</span><br /></span><span style="font-size:78%;">Photo by Charles Fred</span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">The term San refers to a diverse group of hunter-gatherers living in Southern Africa who share historical and linguistic connections. The San were also referred to as Bushmen, but this term has since been abandoned as it is considered derogatory.</span> <span style="font-family:arial;">Today, San communities can be found in Botswana, Namibia, South Africa and Angola. The San bushmen are also said to be related to the Hadzabe group found in Tanzania. </span><span style="font-size:85%;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://saharanvibe.blogspot.com/2007/06/vanishing-hadzabe-culture.html">More on Hadzabe click here</a></span><br /><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/R_5-YE_VwYI/AAAAAAAAFek/7hV3PnwmX7Q/s1600-h/b.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/R_5-YE_VwYI/AAAAAAAAFek/7hV3PnwmX7Q/s400/b.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5187722772898759042" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/R_5-YU_VwZI/AAAAAAAAFes/x5Bil2ar39Q/s1600-h/c.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/R_5-YU_VwZI/AAAAAAAAFes/x5Bil2ar39Q/s400/c.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5187722777193726354" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/R_5-Yk_VwaI/AAAAAAAAFe0/Oude-82g9Ws/s1600-h/d.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/R_5-Yk_VwaI/AAAAAAAAFe0/Oude-82g9Ws/s400/d.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5187722781488693666" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;">Photos by Charles Fred</span><br /><br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">The San bushmen people are one of the oldest ethnic groups in Southern Africa and in the world. For years the Bushmen a hunter and gatherer ethnic group spread throughout the South of Africa from the Zambezi river to the Cape of Good Hope in search of food, with their few possessions.</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"> ORIGIN</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/STH0r1YuryI/AAAAAAAAIzY/2ZSYeqokRno/s1600-h/B.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/STH0r1YuryI/AAAAAAAAIzY/2ZSYeqokRno/s400/B.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5274265672529915682" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/STH0rjukJ4I/AAAAAAAAIzQ/jvM7qjP355k/s1600-h/a.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/STH0rjukJ4I/AAAAAAAAIzQ/jvM7qjP355k/s400/a.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5274265667789662082" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/STH0QfRZufI/AAAAAAAAIzI/bkfV797M_W8/s1600-h/e.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/STH0QfRZufI/AAAAAAAAIzI/bkfV797M_W8/s400/e.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5274265202737134066" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:100%;" >The San Bushmen did not farm or keep livestock, for they had no concept of ownership of land or animal</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:georgia;">s</span></span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:78%;" ><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/clobrda/2834374457/in/set-72157607150406332/"></a></span><span style="font-size:78%;">Photos by Petr Kosina </span><br /></div><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">The San bushmen have lived in Southern Africa for tens of thousands of years. The San are said to be descendants of Early Stone Age ancestors. They are nomadic group living in temporary shelters, caves or under rocky overhangs. With the arrival of the first Europeans settlers in 1652 in Southern Africa sparked clashes as they sought new territory they exterminated the Sans whom they deemed to be inferior like wild animals. They called them "Bushmen" and proceeded to wipe out 200,000 of them in 200 years. They also sold them in slave markets and to traveling circuses.</span><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/R_5-uE_VwcI/AAAAAAAAFfE/yas7EgLMz0s/s1600-h/f.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/R_5-uE_VwcI/AAAAAAAAFfE/yas7EgLMz0s/s400/f.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5187723150855881154" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;">Photo by Charles Fred</span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:78%;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div></div><br /><p class="content"> </p><div style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">SAN BUSHMEN TRIBES<br /><br /></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >The San bushmen living in Southern Africa are mainly to be found within the Kalahari region and on its borders. </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >San bushmen speak numerous dialects of a group of languages known for the characteristic 'clicks' that can be heard in their pronunciation, represented in writing by symbols such as ! or /.</span><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">The San bushmen major language groups include !Kung, Khomani, Vasekela, Mbarakwena, /Auni, Auen, /Gwi, //Ganaa, Kua, /Tannekwe, /Geinin, /Xoma, //Obanen Ganin, /Xam-ka!ke and !Xo.</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;">(still to confirm)</span><br /></div><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />LEADERSHIP<br /><br /><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/STHo7ffsLZI/AAAAAAAAIvY/blYGhNjjpCw/s1600-h/a.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/STHo7ffsLZI/AAAAAAAAIvY/blYGhNjjpCw/s400/a.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5274252747391905170" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;">Photo by Charles Fred</span><span style="font-size:78%;"><br /><br /><br /></span></div><span style="font-family:arial;">There is no formal leadership structure among the San bushmen community. Decisions are arrived at a consensus and issues are deliberated upon and discussed communally. Certain roles may require leadership from individuals with expertise such as hunting. No single group member holds positions of general influence over the rest of the community. This set up proved to be problematic to white colonialists when they wanted to enter into agreements with the San communities.</span><span style="font-family:arial;"> The San bushmen are therefore free to do and go as they please within the constraints of their customs. If there is a disagreement within a group, the group may split and go their own separate ways with little or no coercion. </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" >They have no taxes, no Government, except that imposed upon them by outsiders.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">WHICH GROUP DO A SAN BELONG TO?<br /><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/STHmJOtOtlI/AAAAAAAAIuw/SDFQlBPKPA4/s1600-h/a.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/STHmJOtOtlI/AAAAAAAAIuw/SDFQlBPKPA4/s400/a.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5274249684868576850" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/STY7d6MK7nI/AAAAAAAAI2Q/H1IFhudqgUk/s1600-h/bushman+family+2+sa+tourism.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/STY7d6MK7nI/AAAAAAAAI2Q/H1IFhudqgUk/s400/bushman+family+2+sa+tourism.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5275469398533664370" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/STY7J0dO3EI/AAAAAAAAI2I/lwhNvwYco78/s1600-h/bushman+family+sa+tourism.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/STY7J0dO3EI/AAAAAAAAI2I/lwhNvwYco78/s400/bushman+family+sa+tourism.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5275469053397228610" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Copyright South Africa Tourism</span></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">The Sans are nomadic and move around in small groups with about about 20 clan members. </span></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >Kinship bonds are said to provide the basic framework for political models. Membership in a group is determined by residency. As long as a person lives on the land of his group he maintains his membership. It is possible to hunt on land not owned by the group, but permission must be obtained from the owners. </span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">The small groups meet occasionally during the year to exchange news and gifts, for marriage arrangements and for social occasions.</span></span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">FOOD<br /><br /><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/STnBdj7OMZI/AAAAAAAAI5g/8gmC7Z1ocz8/s1600-h/a.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/STnBdj7OMZI/AAAAAAAAI5g/8gmC7Z1ocz8/s400/a.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5276461152045248914" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">The San will eat anything available, both animal and vegetable. Their selection of food ranges from antelope, Zebra, porcupine, wild hare, Lion, Giraffe, fish, insects, tortoise, flying ants, snakes (venomous and non-venomous), Hyena, eggs and wild honey.</span> <span style="font-family:arial;">The meat is boiled or roasted on a fire. The San are not wasteful and every part of the animal is used. The hides are tanned for blankets and the bones are cracked for the marrow.</span><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/STnAjQdA1QI/AAAAAAAAI5Q/luQ9yXyaAK8/s1600-h/c.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/STnAjQdA1QI/AAAAAAAAI5Q/luQ9yXyaAK8/s400/c.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5276460150385857794" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/STnAYm9_6rI/AAAAAAAAI5I/PHxYwx9v9fQ/s1600-h/b.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/STnAYm9_6rI/AAAAAAAAI5I/PHxYwx9v9fQ/s400/b.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5276459967451228850" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;" >Elands</span><br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:arial;">Water is hard to come by, as the San are constantly on the move. Usually during the dry season, these migrants collect their moisture by scraping and squeezing roots.<br /><br /></span></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/STnD3J36kJI/AAAAAAAAI5o/cx-MDJHimpY/s1600-h/a.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/STnD3J36kJI/AAAAAAAAI5o/cx-MDJHimpY/s400/a.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5276463790751912082" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/STnD3AtdvhI/AAAAAAAAI5w/X3askJUjkVU/s1600-h/b.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/STnD3AtdvhI/AAAAAAAAI5w/X3askJUjkVU/s400/b.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5276463788292161042" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;" >Scrapped roots are squeezed to provide drinking water</span><br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/STnD3aMk4mI/AAAAAAAAI54/wQEfny7huQw/s1600-h/c.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/STnD3aMk4mI/AAAAAAAAI54/wQEfny7huQw/s400/c.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5276463795133538914" border="0" /></a><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/amelie_et_arnaud/2021712674/in/set-72157603190747593/"></a><span style="font-size:78%;">Photos by amelie_et_arnaud</span><span style="font-size:78%;"><br /><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/STJS8CX2VoI/AAAAAAAAI0o/Z1NGiH9ifxw/s1600-h/a.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/STJS8CX2VoI/AAAAAAAAI0o/Z1NGiH9ifxw/s400/a.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5274369304986801794" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/pfaelzerbub/1858201422/"></a>Photo by pfaelzerbub</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;" >Root water is also used for bathing and cleaning oneself</span><br /></div><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />If they are out hunting or traveling, they would dig holes in the sand to find water. They also carry water in an ostrich eggshell.</span><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/STJIly9DXdI/AAAAAAAAI0I/8PRNSiAqFCk/s1600-h/c.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/STJIly9DXdI/AAAAAAAAI0I/8PRNSiAqFCk/s400/c.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5274357927774477778" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/STJIl0MPe2I/AAAAAAAAI0A/jOnYe1mexyY/s1600-h/B.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/STJIl0MPe2I/AAAAAAAAI0A/jOnYe1mexyY/s400/B.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5274357928106621794" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/STJIlhM102I/AAAAAAAAIz4/_KdMqdTQRkw/s1600-h/a.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/STJIlhM102I/AAAAAAAAIz4/_KdMqdTQRkw/s400/a.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5274357923008861026" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/23677993@N08/2286849992/in/photostream/"></a>Photo by Ruisj</span><br /></div><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:georgia;">SAN BUSHMEN HUNTING</span></span><br /></span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/STTFq_PDWfI/AAAAAAAAI04/Fdvinj0zfcI/s1600-h/a.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/STTFq_PDWfI/AAAAAAAAI04/Fdvinj0zfcI/s400/a.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5275058405877438962" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/STHpZCaQvaI/AAAAAAAAIvg/ptU4WEWzpgU/s1600-h/a.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/STHpZCaQvaI/AAAAAAAAIvg/ptU4WEWzpgU/s400/a.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5274253254980582818" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/14500709@N07/1476804925/"></a>Photos by Flouf</span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">The Sans are skillful hunters and can read the tracks in the Kalahari desert like a notebook. Hunting is usually done by men. They use traps or poisoned arrows and bow to catch their prey.</span><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/R_5-YE_VwXI/AAAAAAAAFec/O2WVNTxe5ZY/s1600-h/a.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/R_5-YE_VwXI/AAAAAAAAFec/O2WVNTxe5ZY/s400/a.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5187722772898759026" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/R_5-Yk_VwbI/AAAAAAAAFe8/gz8SE4Rn7Sg/s1600-h/e.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/R_5-Yk_VwbI/AAAAAAAAFe8/gz8SE4Rn7Sg/s400/e.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5187722781488693682" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/R_5_XU_VwhI/AAAAAAAAFfs/nSxZ0qbZbxc/s1600-h/K.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/R_5_XU_VwhI/AAAAAAAAFfs/nSxZ0qbZbxc/s400/K.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5187723859525485074" border="0" /></a><span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Hunters carry a skin bag slung around one shoulder, containing personal belongings, poison, medicine, fly whisks and additional arrows. They may also carry a club to throw at and stun small game, a long probing stick to extract hares from their burrows or a stick to dig out Aardvark or Warthog. </span></span><span style="font-size:78%;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=4500199998354386351&postID=4379547817751353843"></a>Photos by CharlesFred</span><span style="font-size:78%;"><br /><br /></span></div><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">It takes a couple of hours before the prey dies when struck with the poisoned arrows. In cases of large game such a giraffe it can take up to 3 days. The poison used for hunting is made from various materials such as the larvae of a small beetle, poison from plants, such as the euphorbia, and snake venom. A caterpillar called ka or ngwa is also used to make toxic poison hence handled with extreme care so as to avoid fatal accidents.</span><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/STJG_6ekldI/AAAAAAAAIzw/AlQyXX3nEjg/s1600-h/c.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/STJG_6ekldI/AAAAAAAAIzw/AlQyXX3nEjg/s400/c.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5274356177447458258" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/STJG_hQrg9I/AAAAAAAAIzo/WbDLTga-aYY/s1600-h/B.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/STJG_hQrg9I/AAAAAAAAIzo/WbDLTga-aYY/s400/B.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5274356170678305746" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:78%;" ><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mielamundi/2867059225/in/photostream/"></a></span><span style="font-size:78%;">Photos by Mielamundi</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/STw1x7YqtrI/AAAAAAAAI6A/l7JgYCiUWcY/s1600-h/a.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/STw1x7YqtrI/AAAAAAAAI6A/l7JgYCiUWcY/s400/a.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5277151995242395314" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;">Photo by bonnafejp's </span><br /><br /><br /></div><span style="font-family:arial;">The poison used for hunting is said to be neuro toxic and does not contaminate the whole animal. The spot where the arrow strikes is cut out and thrown away, whereas the rest of the game is fit for consumption.</span> <span style="font-family:arial;">Hunting is a team effort and every game hunted is shared amongst the tribe members. Whilst the men are hunting the women forage for edible wild vegetables and fruits. Though the men can equally assist the women in gathering wild vegetables and fruits.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">SAN BUSHMEN ROCK ART</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/STHs3JNHQ0I/AAAAAAAAIxo/kHNdrRLwrPs/s1600-h/B.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/STHs3JNHQ0I/AAAAAAAAIxo/kHNdrRLwrPs/s400/B.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5274257070735442754" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/STHs2xA-TmI/AAAAAAAAIxg/Xbr54RI-wME/s1600-h/a.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 281px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/STHs2xA-TmI/AAAAAAAAIxg/Xbr54RI-wME/s400/a.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5274257064242073186" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/STHsFp8GdtI/AAAAAAAAIxQ/1sPiJFZmPh8/s1600-h/d.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/STHsFp8GdtI/AAAAAAAAIxQ/1sPiJFZmPh8/s400/d.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5274256220528998098" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/STHsFwBL4wI/AAAAAAAAIxY/pdJawoglE-g/s1600-h/e.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 259px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/STHsFwBL4wI/AAAAAAAAIxY/pdJawoglE-g/s400/e.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5274256222160937730" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/STHsFAnrevI/AAAAAAAAIxA/5CbAhQSglHE/s1600-h/B.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/STHsFAnrevI/AAAAAAAAIxA/5CbAhQSglHE/s400/B.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5274256209437489906" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/STHsFVVLZlI/AAAAAAAAIxI/0fPp1HwVMLo/s1600-h/c.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/STHsFVVLZlI/AAAAAAAAIxI/0fPp1HwVMLo/s400/c.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5274256214997034578" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;" >Manganese oxide and charcoal, bird droppings or kaolin and the blood of an Eland are some of the items used to make paint for the Rock Art.<br /><br /><br /></span></div><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" >The Sans rock art is one of the greatest in the world. The San/bushmen paintings are one of Southern Africa's greatest cultural treasures.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" >Subjects of the bushmen/san paintings range from animals (mainly eland) to humans, therianthropes to ox-wagons and mounted men with rifles.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br /></span><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" >When Europeans first encountered rock art of the San people, or Bushmen, in southern Africa some 350 years ago, they considered it primitive and crude. They were just “Bushman paintings,” two-dimensional accounts of hunting and fighting and daily life. Twentieth-century scholars had much more respect for the aesthetics of the paintings—often finely detailed and exquisitely colored—but many also viewed them largely as narrative accounts of hunter-gatherer life. A closer look in recent years has yielded another picture altogether. For the San, rock paintings weren’t just representations of life; they were also repositories of it. When shamans painted an eland, they didn’t just pay homage to a sacred animal; they also harnessed its essence. They put paint to rock and opened portals to the spirit world. </span> <span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" >When entering a trance, shamans often bleed from their nose and experience excruciating physical pain. The shamans’ arms stretch behind them as the transformation into the spirit world takes place. Scholars believe that the trance dance serves as the foundation for rock art, and clear corollaries between cave images and trance ceremonies appear in the ...cave paintings. These ancient images offer a record into ages past.</span><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style="font-size:100%;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.drakensberg-tourism.com/bushman-rock-art.html">Source Drakensberg Tourism</a></span><br /><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">CHILD BIRTH AND DEATH</span><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/R_5-uU_VwdI/AAAAAAAAFfM/06W3GArfm3o/s1600-h/g.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/R_5-uU_VwdI/AAAAAAAAFfM/06W3GArfm3o/s400/g.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5187723155150848466" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/R_5-uk_VwfI/AAAAAAAAFfc/ttGELEzo3q8/s1600-h/i.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/R_5-uk_VwfI/AAAAAAAAFfc/ttGELEzo3q8/s400/i.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5187723159445815794" border="0" /></a> <span style="font-size:78%;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=4500199998354386351&postID=4379547817751353843"></a>Photos by CharlesFred</span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:arial;">Amongst the San Bushmen there are no formal ceremonies or elaborate preparation for child birth. The expectant mother will simply go behind a bush and give birth to the baby. She may take a female relative for support and comfort. Once she a has given birth she gets back to her daily routine. </span><br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/STHm-s6CoKI/AAAAAAAAIu4/7743b7b21zs/s1600-h/a.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 270px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/STHm-s6CoKI/AAAAAAAAIu4/7743b7b21zs/s400/a.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5274250603508441250" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-style: italic;">If a child is born under very severe drought conditions, when the fertility of the Bushman women are in any case low, perhaps to prevent such an occurrence. The mother will quietly relieve the just born baby of severe and certain future suffering by ending its life. This is most likely to happen in lean years, if she is still suckling another child and will obviously not be able to feed both of the children. This is accepted behaviour, and born out of necessity and not malice or any other consideration. It stems from the simple reality of live in a harsh climate, and the realisation that the life of the child that a lot has already been invested in, and that might be put at risk by tender feelings for a new-born that are in any case likely to die soon, are not likely to have a good outcome. </span><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/R_5-uk_VwgI/AAAAAAAAFfk/MoO5HmCycpg/s1600-h/J.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/R_5-uk_VwgI/AAAAAAAAFfk/MoO5HmCycpg/s400/J.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5187723159445815810" border="0" /></a> <span style="font-size:78%;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=4500199998354386351&postID=4379547817751353843">Photo by CharlesFred</a></span></div><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"> Death is a very natural thing to the Bushmen as shown by the following lines from a Bushman song, quoted by Coral Fourie in her book "Living Legends of a dying culture". </span> <blockquote style="font-style: italic;">"The day we die a soft breeze will wipe out our footprints in the sand. When the wind dies down, who will tell the timelessness that once we walked this way in the dawn of time?"</blockquote> <span style="font-style: italic;">If some-ones dies at a specific camp, the clan will move away and never camp at that spot again. Bushmen will never knowingly cross the place where some-one has been buried. If they have to pass near such a place, they will throw a pebble on the grave and mutter under their breath, to the spirits to ensure good luck. They never step on a grave and believe that the spirit remains active on that spot above ground, and they don't want to offend it.</span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://abbott-infotech.co.za/tribes%20in%20the%20kalahari.html">Source Kalahari Kgalagadi</a></div><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">RELIGION AND BELIEFS</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br />The San bushmen believe that there is a supreme god and lesser gods. There are other supernatural beings as well, and the spirits of the dead. According the San bushmen of the Kalahari they believe that the supreme god is associated with life and the rising sun, and the lesser god with illness and death. The shamans, have access to the lesser gods who cased illness during the ritual dance trance.<br /><br />The San bushmen also pay homage to the spirits of the deceased. Most San believed that upon death, the soul went back to the great god’s house in the sky. The dead influenced the lives of the living. For example when a medicine man died, the Sans would be concerned as to whether his spirit may return to haunt and endanger the living.<br /><br />Birth, death, gender, rain and weather were all believed to have supernatural significance, for example, people acquired good or bad rain-bringing abilities at birth and this ability was reactivated when the person died.<br /><br />San Bushmen do not have initiation ceremonies as witnessed in other neighboring communities. However, they do have rituals that may be percieved to be similar to initiation rites for women and men. </span> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/STJTv8x9c_I/AAAAAAAAI0w/yFCl0OuzkwM/s1600-h/a.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/STJTv8x9c_I/AAAAAAAAI0w/yFCl0OuzkwM/s400/a.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5274370196838904818" border="0" /></a><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:78%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Photo by Flouf<br /><br /><br /></span></span></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;">In one of their rituals young boys are told how to track an Eland and how the Eland will fall once shot with an arrow. The boys graduate to adulthood once they have killed their first large antelope, preferably an Eland. Once caught, the Eland is skinned and the fat from the animal’s throat and collarbone is made into a broth.<br /><br />In the girls' puberty rituals, a young girl is isolated in her hut at her first menstruation. The women of the tribe perform the Eland Bull Dance where they imitate the mating behavior of the Eland cows. A man will play the part of the Eland bull, usually with horns on his head. This ritual is said will keep the girl beautiful, free from hunger and thirst and peaceful.<br /><br />Marriage amongst the San Bushmen is a private low key event. Just an agreement between two couples. Guests are said to be invited only in exceptional cases. As part of the marriage ritual, the man gives the fat from the Elands' heart to the girls' parents. At a later stage, the girl is anointed with Eland fat.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;"></span></div><br /><h2 style="text-align: left;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;"></span></h2><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">SAN BUSHMEN MUSIC & DANCE </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">The great 'medicine or healing dance' and the rain dance were rituals as well as a social function in which everyone in the San bushman group participated. The women sit around a central fire singing and clap their hands whereas the men wearing rattles on their legs made from dried seed pods dance around the women.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:arial;"><br /><br /></span> <div style="text-align: center;"> <div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/STHziAlbXaI/AAAAAAAAIyQ/EQzpndqsBvE/s1600-h/c.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/STHziAlbXaI/AAAAAAAAIyQ/EQzpndqsBvE/s400/c.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5274264404225645986" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/STH0P1L2_-I/AAAAAAAAIy4/iH6UgGFieuY/s1600-h/c.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/STH0P1L2_-I/AAAAAAAAIy4/iH6UgGFieuY/s400/c.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5274265191439597538" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/STHzhdu-lnI/AAAAAAAAIyA/GtQvg_YpbC8/s1600-h/a.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/STHzhdu-lnI/AAAAAAAAIyA/GtQvg_YpbC8/s400/a.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5274264394870462066" border="0" /></a><span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;" >The ritual dance serves to heal the group</span><br /></div> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/clobrda/2834374457/in/set-72157607150406332/"></a><span style="font-size:78%;">Photos by Petr Kosina</span><span style="font-size:78%;"><br /><br /></span> </div> <span style="font-family:arial;"> </span> <span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;">The first few hours of a trance dance are relaxed and sociable. Singing and clapping becomes more intense as the dancing enter into a trance. The men sweat profusely as they begin to breath heavily and have glossy stares. Whilst in a trance the men are transported to the spirit world where they would plead for the souls of the sick and ask for them to be healed. When entering a trance, shamans often bleed from their nose and experience excruciating physical pain. A ritual dance can last from half to full day.</span><br /><br /><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/STH0PrtLG-I/AAAAAAAAIyw/wiJh_N2HWIs/s1600-h/B.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/STH0PrtLG-I/AAAAAAAAIyw/wiJh_N2HWIs/s400/B.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5274265188894972898" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/STJG_s9ge4I/AAAAAAAAIzg/PiWiWUm-bKA/s1600-h/a.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/STJG_s9ge4I/AAAAAAAAIzg/PiWiWUm-bKA/s400/a.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5274356173819116418" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/STH0PqIQtUI/AAAAAAAAIyo/a8d94mo-5U4/s1600-h/a.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/STH0PqIQtUI/AAAAAAAAIyo/a8d94mo-5U4/s400/a.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5274265188471715138" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/STHzi-krcKI/AAAAAAAAIyg/fF-ra8qwIYQ/s1600-h/e.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/STHzi-krcKI/AAAAAAAAIyg/fF-ra8qwIYQ/s400/e.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5274264420865503394" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/STHziv86VbI/AAAAAAAAIyY/NHPXjyblzN8/s1600-h/d.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/STHziv86VbI/AAAAAAAAIyY/NHPXjyblzN8/s400/d.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5274264416940610994" border="0" /></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/clobrda/2834374457/in/set-72157607150406332/"><span style="font-size:78%;"></span></a><span style="font-size:78%;">Photos by Petr Kosina</span><br /><br /></div><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/clobrda/2834374457/in/set-72157607150406332/"> </a> <span class="content_body"></span> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Following the healing dance the shaman narrates their experiences in the spiritual world. It is from these experiences that the San Bushmen painted the rock art and more recently on canvas.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">Men in their late teens may serve as an apprentice to an experienced shaman for years. The men who seek to become shamans normally do it not for personal gain but to be able to serve the members within their communities in that capacity</span><br /></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div></div><br /><span style="font-size:78%;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:78%;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;">LIFE IN THE 21ST CENTURY</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/STHm_rhk0zI/AAAAAAAAIvQ/c_UANh1ie18/s1600-h/d.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/STHm_rhk0zI/AAAAAAAAIvQ/c_UANh1ie18/s400/d.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5274250620317258546" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:78%;" ><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/dragonwoman/31473292/in/photostream/">Photo by Dragonwoman</a></span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >The San bushmen traditional lifestyle is perceived by some as being primitive and outdated. They currently encounter various problems depending where they reside within southern africa as there are efforts to assimilate their groups with the rest of the modern societies they live in. In South Africa, for example, the !Khomani are said to have most of their land rights recognized, whereas the Sans in Botswana </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >were forcibly evicted from the Central Kalahari Game Reserve by the Botswana government to make way for diamond mines in 2002. </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >Recently, the Botswana court held in favour of the bushmen ruling that they were illegally removed from their land. The court further ruled that the bushmen have the right to decide when and how they want to join the modern world.</span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >The San Bushmen have been able to survive their changed fortunes and the harsh conditions of the Kalahari Desert in which they are now mostly concentrated. There are organizations that seek to help them address the numerous challenges they currently face such as health problems, land rights, language preservation, environmental challenges, job creation and education.</span><br /></div></div><div style="font-family: arial; text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="font-family: arial; text-align: justify;" class="content"> </p><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;" >SAN BUSHMEN VIDEOS<br /><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;" >The Gods Must Be Crazy </span><span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;" class="smallbody" ><span class="brownbody"> A Coke bottle dropped from an airplane disrupts the quiet life of a family of a San family living in the deep isolation of the Kalahari desert. Xi, the head of the family, takes the evil thing and embarks on a journey to the end of the world to return it to the gods.</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></div><span class="smallbody"><span class="brownbody"><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/STHwYEB0koI/AAAAAAAAIx4/-DE18xRMnQM/s1600-h/B.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 207px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/STHwYEB0koI/AAAAAAAAIx4/-DE18xRMnQM/s400/B.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5274260934816469634" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/STHwXrg2_sI/AAAAAAAAIxw/I79P_RUdrwI/s1600-h/a.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 274px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JF8UtJK3aog/STHwXrg2_sI/AAAAAAAAIxw/I79P_RUdrwI/s400/a.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5274260928235765442" border="0" /></a> <span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" >Clips from The God Must Be Crazy 1</span> <ul style="font-family:georgia;"><li><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66pTPWg_wUw">Clip 1</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t127UCrtvLw&feature=related">Clip 2</a></span></li><li style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-MR6omTN6Q&feature=related">Clip 3</a></span></li></ul><span style="font-family:arial;">San Bushmen Documentary </span><a style="font-family: georgia;" href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7331321954590932140"><span id="details-title">Iindawo Zikathixo (In God's Places)</span><br /></a><a style="font-family: georgia;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-twT5P54Agg&feature=related">Bushmen</a><a style="font-family: georgia;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztzDHDiOSUY&feature=related"><br />The Kalahari Bushmen - Botswana</a><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">TEXT SOURCES AND MORE INFORMATION</span><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify; font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.cs.williams.edu/%7Elindsey/myths/myths_14.html">African Bushmen Creation Myth</a><br /><a href="http://www.kalahari-san.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/">Mike Elliot Bushmen </a><br /><a href="http://www.krugerpark.co.za/africa_bushmen_p1.html">San By KrugerPark</a><br /><a href="http://www.theartofafrica.co.za/">Art of Africa Specialists in San Bushmen Arts and Crafts</a></div><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.survival-international.org/news/3867"><span style="font-size:100%;">B</span></a><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span><a href="http://www.survival-international.org/news/3867">ushmen and Survival force De Beers withdrawal from Kalahari reserve</a><br /><a href="http://www.cs.williams.edu/%7Elindsey/myths/myths_14.html">African Bushmen Creation Myth</a></span></span><h1></h1>AFRICAN LIZhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05876270785127257460noreply@blogger.com12