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Fela Anikulapo Kuti (born Olufela Olusegun Oludotun Ransome-Kuti, October 15, 1938 - August 2, 1997), or simply Fela, was a poular nigerian musician and composer, pioneer of Afrobeat music, human rights activist, and political maverick.

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Information hubs including mini exhibitions and workshops on available opportunities for the youth will be among the activities lined up for this year’s Youth Month… Read the rest of this entry »

There are many different people groups and tribes across the continent of Africa - with their culture varying from tribe to tribe. We have included only a few on this page and will be adding to the list regularly. Click the title for detailed sections…

Afar
The Afar people live primarily in Ethiopia and the areas of Eritrea, Djibouti, and Somalia in the Horn of Africa.

Anlo-Ewe
The Anlo-Ewe people are today in the southeastern corner of the Republic of Ghana. They settled here around 1474 after escaping from their past home of Notsie.

Amhara
The Amhara are the politically and culturally dominant ethnic group of Ethiopia. They are located primarily in the central highland plateau of Ethiopia and comprise the major population element in the provinces of Begemder and Gojjam and in parts of Shoa and Wallo.

Ashanti

The Ashanti live in central Ghana in western Africa approximately 300km. away from the coast. The Ashanti are a major ethnic group of the Akans in Ghana, a fairly new nation, barely more than 50 years old.

Bakongo
The Bakongo people (aka. the Kongo) dwell along the Atlantic coast of Africa from Pointe-Noire, Congo (Brazzaville) to Luanda, Angola.

Bambara

The Bambara are a large Mande racial group located mostly in the country of Mali. They are the largest and most dominant group in that country.

Bemba
The Bemba are located in the northeastern part of Zambia and are the largest ethnic group in the Northern Province of Zambia.

Berber
Berbers have lived in Africa since the earliest recorded time. References date back to 3000 BC. There are many scattered tribes of Berber across Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, and Egypt.

Bobo
The Bobo peple have lived in western Burkina Faso and Mali for centuries. They are known for their masks which are worn with elaborate outfits for celebrations. Primarily agricultral people they also cultivate cotton which they use to trade with others.

Bushmen/San
The ‘Bushmen’ are the oldest inhabitants of southern Africa, where they have lived for at least 20,000 years. Their home is in the vast expanse of the Kalahari desert.

Chewa
The Chewa, also known as the Cewa or Chichewa is an African culture that has existed since the beginning of the first millennium, A.D. They are primarily located in Zambia, Zimbabwe, with the bulk of the population in Malawi.

Dogon
The Dogon are a cliff-dwelling people who live in Southeastern Mali and Burkina Faso. Among the people groups in Africa they are unique in that they have kept and continued to develop their own culture even in the midst of Islamic invasions which have conquered and adapted many of the current people groups

Fang
The Fang are especially known for their guardian figures which they attached to wooden boxes containing bones of the ancestors. The bones, by tradition, are said to contain the power of the dead person, in fact, the same amount of power that the person had while still alive.

Fon
The Fon of Benin, originally called Dahomey until 1975, are from West Africa. The Fon are said to have originated in the area of Tado, a town in Tago, at approximately the same latitude as Abomey, Benin.

Fulani
The Fulani people of West Africa are the largest nomadic group in the world, primarily nomadic herders and traders. Through their nomadic lifestyle, they established numerous trade routes in West Africa.

Ibos
from Nigerian the Ibos live in villages that have anywhere from a few hundred to a few thousand people comprised of numerous extended families.

Kikuyu (Gikuyu)
Having migrated to their current location about four centuries ago, the Kikuyu now make up Kenya’s largest ethnic group.

Maasai
The Maasai, famous as herders and warriors, once dominated the plains of East Africa. Now however they are confined to a fraction of their former range.

Mandinka
The Mandinka are an ethnic group that live in West Africa, primarily Senegal, Gambia, and Guinea-Bissau, but some also live in Burkina Faso, Mali, and Cote d’Ivoire.

Pygmies
There are many different ‘Pygmy’ peoples – for example, the Bambuti, the Batwa, the Bayaka and the Bagyeli (’Ba -’ means ‘people’) – who live scattered over a huge area in central and western Africa, in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Congo (Brazzaville), Cameroon, Gabon, Central African Republic, Rwanda, Burundi and Uganda.

Samburu
The Samburu are related to the Masai although they live just above the equator where the foothills of Mount Kenya merge into the northern desert and slightly south of Lake Turkana in the Rift Valley Province of Kenya.

Senufo
The Senufo are a group of people living in northern Cote d’Ivoire and Mali. They are known as excellent farmers and are made up of a number of different groups who moved south to Mali and Cote d’Ivoire in the 15 and 16th centuries.

Tuareg
The Tuareg people are predominently nomadic people of the sahara desert, mostly in the Northern reaches of Mali near Timbuktu and Kidal.

Wolof
The Wolof are one of the largest people groups that inhabit modern-day Senegal. They live anywhere from the desert area of the Sahara to the rain forests. Traditionally many Wolof lived in small villages governed by an extended family unit but now most Wolof move to cities where they are able to get jobs.

Yoruba
The Yoruba people live in Southwest Nigeria and Benin. They have developed a variety of different artistic forms including pottery, weaving, beadwork, metalwork, and mask making.

Zulu
The Zulu are the largest ethnic group in South Africa. They are well known for their beautiful brightly colored beads and baskets as well as other small carvings.

Reserve Bank Governor Tito Mboweni has warned that interest rates may rise by up to two percentage points at the Bank’s policy meeting next month, after news yesterday that inflation had accelerated to a new five-year peak last month.

“Two hundred basis points is possible … we need to move very strongly now,” he told Bloomberg after speaking at the Gordon Institute of Business Science late yesterday.

The Bank has not raised interest rates by two percentage points in one go since 1998.

Official data earlier in the day showed that the annual rise in the CPIX inflation gauge — which is what drives monetary policy — surged 10,4% last month, above 10,1% in March and forecasts for a dip to 10%.

That was its fastest pace since December 2002, and marked the 13th month in a row that CPIX, which excludes mortgage costs, has breached its 3%-6% official target range.

“You don’t have to be a genius to tell that interest rates have to tighten … with CPIX at 10,4%, drastic measures are required,” Mboweni said .

Mboweni’s tone appeared to be flippant, but he told the seminar he had “tested” the idea of a 200-basis-point hike with his colleagues.

• AIDS and Agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa (Martina Haslwimmer)

The paper discusses the impact of AIDS in agriculture which may result in labour shortages forcing farm households to shift from cash to subsistence crops when food security is being threatened. Cash crops which require a long investment period may not be suitable for families afflicted by AIDS that are in need of quick returns to cover immediate medical, funeral or orphan-related expenses, etc.

• Country Food Supply Indicators - 1961-1990: Africa

The country food supply indicators presented in this document are based on information extracted from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) database, it covers African countries.

• FAO/WFP Crop and Food Supply Assessment Mission: Special Reports and Alerts

Reports by the Global Information and Early Warning System on Food and Agriculture (GIEWS) covering several african countries.

• FAOSTAT Agriculture Statistics Database

FAO database contains time-series data (starting 1961) for over 210 countries and 1500 items on the production and trade of primary and derived crops and livestock products; agricultural machinery; fertiliser, pesticides and insecticides (trade only); land use and population.

• FAO: Future Energy Requirements for Africa’s Agriculture

This paper discusses the role of energy in many important inputs for production, conversion, processing and commercialization of agriculture in Africa.

• FAO Agricultural Statistics Information Links: Africa

The FAO division of statistics assembles, analyzes and disseminates statistics and related meta data on world food and agriculture and prepares annual food supply assessments in all countries. It cooperates with FAO Members in improving the coverage, consistency and quality of the data. This site provides links to statistics of African countries via an interactive map.

• Funding of Agricultural Research: Traditional Private Sector and Non-Conventional Alternatives (Melvin G. Blase)

This study discusses the role of a number of dramatic possibilities for innovative funding of public sector research which have implications for African public research institutions in agriculture.

• International Service for National Agricultural Research: Africa

The International Service for National Agricultural Research (ISNAR) assists developing countries in bringing about lasting improvements in the performance of their national agricultural research systems and organizations. This site contains an directory of organizations and universities working in agricultural research in Africa.

• Sahel Weather and Crop Situation

These reports are prepared under the responsibility of FAO/GIEWS (Global Information and Early Warning Service) with information from official and unofficial sources. The reports deals with the impact of weather on harvesting of crops.

• SPAAR Information System (SIS)

The mission of the Special Programme for African Agricultural Research (SPAAR) is to enhance agricultural production in Africa by increasing donor co-ordination in the field of agricultural research. The SPAAR Information System (SIS) complements the registration of national funded projects in database CARIS managed by FAO. At present over 5400 projects are recorded in SIS which are now also available on various CD-ROMs.

• A Strategy for Agricultural Research in Sub-Saharan Africa

This study argues that sustainable agricultural and rural development in Sub-Saharan Africa depends very much on the strength of the national research systems.

• USAID Famine Early Warning System

Famine Early Warning system in affected African countries.

• Women, Agriculture and Rural Development: Tanzania

The study assesses the role of women in Tanzanian agriculture which is the predominant sector of the Tanzanian economy. In 1992 it contributed 62% of the GDP and employed 79.8% of the labour force.