Articles related to "African Indigenous"
African Ancient History Denied
Colonists once claimed ancient Shona ruins as belonging to a "lost white civilisation". This myth was used to justify European occupation in Southern Africa.
• zimbabwe
• african indigenous
• african ancient history
• shona history
• african ruins
Berbers, Tuareg, or Imazighen?
Assimilation of indigenous Imazighen in places like Algeria has disastrous results. But outsider definitions and labels can be equally damaging.
• berber people
• tuareg people
• tuareg culture
• imazighen culture
• berber culture
Conflict Diamonds and Bushmen
The forcible and illegal removal of Bushmen from their homelands is conflict in anybody's language. But under the Kimberly Process, these diamonds are clean.
• conflict diamonds
• kalahari bushmen
• tsila bushmen
• gope diamond mine
• de beers diamonds
Indigenous Ethiopia
Ethiopian indigenous peoples are threatened as much by colonial constructs of their identity as they are by bullets, drought and famine.
• ethiopian indigenous
• african native
• african colonialism
• north african indigenous
• indigenous identity
Nuba Genocide in Sudan
The Nuba, having remained aloof from colonial culture and trade since ancient Egyptian times, are now succumbing to the ravages of war, mining and business interests.
• nuban
• nubian
• nuba
• nuba people
• nuba culture
Indigenous Mathematic Systems
Our right to maintain ancient and sophisticated mathematical systems has been extinguished by Western assumptions about "primitive logic".
• indigenous mathematics
• indigenous logic systems
• indigenous scholars
• ptolemy
• ptolemy african