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Africa: Peoples & Cultures

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Lenses Point-Counterpoint on Nigeria In The News Angola 1/19/99 Hausa-Yoruba violence in Lagos 11/29/99 Kabila killed in Zaire 1/17/01 "Sarah" repatriated 9 Aug 2002 Cannibalism in the Congo Oct 2003 Music Fela Kuti Djembe drumming videos Maps Geology The African plate Gondwanaland breakup The Jos Plateau Rivers Relief (110k) Major physical features Culture & Geography List of countries & capitals you need to know Countries and another interactive program for learning countries and another one and one with a quiz Cities and W African close-up another overall African map Population cartogram Population density Detailed language map Simplified language map "Tribes" discussed in class "The real Africa" ethnic map Climate & Land Cover ITCZ movement (834K animation!) Precipitation The harmattan, central Nigeria, January gorgeous African land cover map History & Economics North Africa & Mediterranean Colonial holdings before WWI "AFRICAN POLITICAL ENTITIES BEFORE THE SCRAMBLE" Selected resources Maps of Liberia at the Library of Congress (Includes examples from the American Colonization Society, organized in 1817 to resettle free black Americans in West Africa. These maps show early settlements in Liberia, indigenous political subdivisions, and some of the building lots that were assigned to settlers. Language Greenberg's classification African Cultures/Peoples Kalahari peoples Image Archive (Documentary Educational Resources) with images by the Marshalls Does Africa really have no history? Khoisan ethnic/language chart Bushman man and child Herero Kagga-Kamma reserve (or backup) Hottentot venus & bustle Kalahari Peoples Fund Ituri Peoples Biologist with Ituri pygmies, 1927 Turnbull map Ituri Forest People's Fund (with multimedia gallery) Lese village with swidden plot Lese man and Efe partner Pygmy Ethnic/Linguistic/Economic Relationships Bangi Hausa-Fulani Hausa slave village Fulani images Tiv Diagram of adaptive system at Asamu Map of tar Mbaaliko, by Bohannan Tiv land in fallow at Asamu	Agriculture Ancient Egyptian shaduf Medicine Artemisinin resistance! (12/2005) Malaria medicines Shortening of African lives (NYT 1 Jan 00) UN Meeting on AIDS, 1/00, w/chart Finally admitting AIDS deaths (needs formatting) Intensifying Action (1999 World Bank study of AIDS in Africa) AIDS slashing African population 17th Cent. view of STD is Africa Worldwide HIV comparisons: Africa vs. elsewhere W.H.O. - UNAIDS fact sheets on countries Ethics & vaccine trials Study Says Combating Malaria Would Cost Little Images Day in the Life of Africa Pre-slave-trade depiction of Africans Sketch of savanna-woodland continuum St. Louis World's Fair and Display with Aerials S. Leone amputation Bathing Charts Nuer: layers of social affiliation Sahara & rainfall Developing World population densities Nigerian Peoples Polo playing in Nigeria Swiss Charge Dictator's Ally in Plundering of Nigeria International Oil, Military Rule, and the Ogoni Problem Shell Oil's explanation of their oil extraction methods in Nigeria and of the Ogoni Issue There are dozens of web sites covering political and environmental aspects of the Ogoni situation. One example is by Friends of the Earth Kofyar children Afrocentrism Designing curricula to raise esteem Slavery Schoolkids Liberate Sudanese Slaves African Conflicts Africa's Diamond Wars Diamonds and the Sierra Leone rebels Congo Strife and Discussions of Redrawing Africa Congo Mai-Mai movement Culture & Religion Islam Meets Africa and Islam Bows Demography Fertility trends Desertification Desert retreating Sahelian droughts caused by the West?