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- has also been accepted in many traditional African and Polynesian cultures ... over people does. Traditional South African marriage structures provide ...15 KB (2,204 words) - 08:44, 24 November 2022
- symbol was adopted as a symbol of modern religion called Kemetism (or Egyptian ... * Amen, Nur Ankh. The Ankh: African Origin of Electromagnetism. New ...10 KB (1,631 words) - 06:39, 28 July 2023
- tens of thousands of people, especially African Americans, migrated to industrialized ... who owned land in the Delta were African-American. Many were able ...35 KB (5,105 words) - 11:10, 10 March 2023
- to as the Zulu Empire, was a Southern African state in what is now South ... kaDinuzulu was never recognized by South African authorities as the Zulu ...18 KB (2,661 words) - 06:15, 13 June 2023
- River north of Johannesburg by South African prospector Pieter Jacob ... of the Orange Free State and the South African Republic (Transvaal Republic ...25 KB (3,503 words) - 00:35, 12 April 2023
- (such as flamingos, Senegal parrots, and African giant kingfishers), monkeys ... 1880s, during the European scramble for African colonies, that the Portuguese ...25 KB (3,595 words) - 03:07, 12 July 2023
- Thus, Guinea became the first French African colony to gain independence ... proposed by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS): Lansana ...23 KB (3,314 words) - 23:40, 25 March 2024
- and Orange (Senqu) rivers near the South African border, which at ... recognition. Member states of the Southern African Development Community (SADC ...23 KB (3,416 words) - 00:48, 7 March 2023
- President of the American Academy of Religion, while simultaneously retaining ... beliefs, irrespective of whether religion is "true" represent ...21 KB (3,067 words) - 09:56, 11 March 2023
- Henry the Navigator, probed along the West African coast. Scientific curiosity ... trading companies, entered treaties with African rulers and began to create ...29 KB (4,463 words) - 06:53, 12 September 2023
- tribe, and her studies of West Indian and African American folklore are considered ... of the Souls (1936) and Pueblo Indian Religion (1939) were the results ...11 KB (1,553 words) - 17:40, 13 February 2024
- The Federation, also called the Central African Federation, was formed on ... in Zambia. While the majority of African colonies obtained independence ...31 KB (4,520 words) - 05:42, 13 June 2023
- was forced to live off campus with other African American athletes. When ... hands with Cornelius Johnson, who was African-American, but according ...10 KB (1,557 words) - 08:12, 3 April 2024
- U. Bonomi, Under the Cope of Heaven. Religion, Society and Politics in ... of the slaves, more than 5,000 enslaved African Americans, exercised their ...33 KB (4,647 words) - 15:40, 29 November 2022
- Tocqueville also believed Americans of African descent to be inferior to ... Tocqueville observed the important role religion played in American ...22 KB (3,185 words) - 06:41, 20 July 2023
- was a member of the Organization of African Unity (O.A.U.), Mancham ... com/sc.html Elections in the Seychelles], African Elections Database. Retrieved ...16 KB (2,221 words) - 16:04, 8 February 2023
- Africa, occupies the southern tip of the African continent and borders the ... of a black, Indian, or colored South African compared favorably to many ...35 KB (4,809 words) - 15:13, 27 April 2023
- which began with the purchase from African chiefs of people to work ... rejected independence and treated its African colonies as overseas provinces ...17 KB (2,316 words) - 06:01, 28 July 2023
- a specific ethnic background, culture, or religion live in seclusion, voluntarily ... ===South African and African ghettos=== [[Image:Joburg.iss.400pix.jpg ...30 KB (4,539 words) - 23:27, 21 October 2023
- white; only about 10 percent are either African American or Hispanic. Many ... Smiley hosted a show targeted towards African Americans, but left the ...17 KB (2,587 words) - 14:58, 11 November 2022
- circa 5,000 B.C.E., when sorghum and African rice began to be cultivated ... Swahili coastal trading towns of the East African coast, whose trade network ...46 KB (6,657 words) - 06:01, 16 June 2023
- Senegal is a coastal West African nation that is slightly smaller ... century. Islam remains the dominant religion in Senegal. In the thirteenth ...33 KB (4,780 words) - 14:52, 4 April 2024
- 1862 book A Comparative Grammar of South African Languages, in which he hypothesized ... wide use as a description of black South African people. The Oxford Dictionary ...25 KB (3,899 words) - 07:30, 20 September 2023
- Studies, Energy Science, Asian and African Area Studies, Informatics ... Studies, Energy Science, Asian and African Area Studies, Informatics ...16 KB (2,170 words) - 04:41, 4 March 2023
- the valley caused by the separation of the African and Arabian Plates. Consequently ... East of the lake lies the east African port of the Great Rift Valley ...16 KB (2,502 words) - 17:32, 25 January 2023
- significant numbers in Cameroon and other African countries. It is believed ... plants. According to the traditional religion of the Igbo, there is no ...21 KB (3,253 words) - 16:00, 12 February 2024
- caused in France itself by the Wars of Religion in the later sixteenth century ... with the supply of slaves dependent on the African slave trade. Local resistance ...25 KB (3,770 words) - 17:17, 11 October 2022
- divine light is especially evident in the religion of Zoroastrianism, which ... Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 59(1) (1996): 11-28. ...25 KB (4,046 words) - 19:51, 26 March 2024
- and Eldridge publishing house when the African-American author William ... She criticized the religion of the Southern United States as being ...12 KB (1,848 words) - 20:40, 29 January 2022
- the teaching, it became popular among the African churches in the mid-third ... Category:philosophy and religion Category:religion category:history ...11 KB (1,618 words) - 20:36, 17 April 2023
- Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA ... their race's heartfelt quest for its African past. Garvey's message ...30 KB (4,654 words) - 11:11, 9 March 2023
- and brought with them strong opinions on religion and a belief in the value ... in the next generation. He believed religion and education to be interrelated ...14 KB (2,020 words) - 18:23, 17 April 2023
- that transcended barriers of race and religion. "Any music that is ... Afro-Cuban music, bringing Latin and African elements to greater prominence ...17 KB (2,671 words) - 09:19, 15 January 2023
- [[Image:ColoredDrinking.jpg|thumb|275px|An African-American man drinks ... disenfranchise, threaten, and subordinate African Americans. ...36 KB (5,283 words) - 17:19, 16 April 2023
- does not discriminate based on race or religion, and welcomes all women ... the organization adopted a rule excluding African-American artists from the ...16 KB (2,366 words) - 22:25, 25 January 2024
- Pakistan, Indonesia and many Sub-Saharan African countries. There are also ... quot;Arabized-Arabs," come from North African or Middle Eastern countries ...32 KB (4,654 words) - 20:18, 11 August 2023
- who believed the way to improve the lot of African-Americans was prosperity ... Soon after the boycott ended, Abernathy and King met with other African ...18 KB (3,027 words) - 00:27, 8 December 2022
- this region became among the first on the African continent to accept Islam ... this region became among the first on the African continent to adopt Islam. ...32 KB (4,757 words) - 16:28, 29 January 2024
- senate. In 240, Sabinianus revolted in the African province, but the situation ... He reorganized the defenses of the North African provinces and elsewhere ...15 KB (2,360 words) - 02:07, 22 December 2022
- The people in Asmara dress in a unique, yet African style. Asmara ... The city has been regarded as New Rome or Italy's African City ...18 KB (2,473 words) - 21:16, 30 January 2023
- of eighteenth-century French, Spanish, and African cultures. Before achieving ... Social changes took place as well, with African-Americans gaining ...32 KB (4,608 words) - 04:12, 4 November 2022
- would continue to plague the eastern and African churches for at least another ... category:philosophy and religion category:religion Category:Christianity ...11 KB (1,657 words) - 05:26, 5 April 2021
- contend that the human race had a single African forebear, who is symbolically ... many examples of the importance that religion played in prehistoric life ...15 KB (2,315 words) - 11:30, 26 June 2022
- chant to popular Christian hymns and African drumming. ==Jewish tradition== ... was to be the "servant" of religion. For the Church elders of ...20 KB (3,074 words) - 20:52, 3 November 2022
- and the Logic of Protracted Struggle.” African Affairs 80(319) (1981):181-319. Famine in Ethiopia and Eritrea.” Modern African Studies, 30(4) (1992):609-624. ...15 KB (2,212 words) - 19:31, 13 February 2024
- and just under the influence of the state-religion. Bahram II commissioned ... space that linked the European, North African and Near Eastern space at ...12 KB (1,906 words) - 01:04, 1 January 2022
- of Tripolitania, located on the North African coast of the Mediterranean ... society, economic life and eventually religion were so profound and fundamental ...13 KB (2,009 words) - 21:59, 25 October 2022
- a prejudiced white employer interviews an African American, for example, the ... school) for the college success of the African American job seeker. The ...22 KB (3,260 words) - 22:21, 30 November 2022
- of undersea volcanic eruptions, as the African plate drifted over the Réunion ... India, and South Africa. It is part of the African Union, the Indian Ocean ...28 KB (4,021 words) - 00:49, 9 November 2022
- In his work, he tried to bridge the gap between science and religion ... of European, Western Asian and Northern African civilizations, the tools ...12 KB (1,733 words) - 06:01, 15 June 2023
- survivors having mixed genetically with African slaves and European conquerors. ... In response, the Spanish began to import African slaves to search for gold ...32 KB (4,700 words) - 19:05, 27 April 2024
- injustices were openly committed. The African National Congress won South ... River north of Johannesburg by South African prospector Pieter Jacob ...34 KB (4,738 words) - 13:15, 6 May 2024
- choice. Many speculations as to an African location stem from the scientific ... Eden as an ideal world transcendent of religion's moral constraints. ...19 KB (3,242 words) - 04:30, 18 April 2024
- many Egyptian practices, such as their religion and the practice of building ... and Linguistic Reconstruction of African History]. Berkeley/Los Angeles ...24 KB (3,779 words) - 10:09, 11 March 2023
- in New York City. His interest in theology and religion led him to enroll in Union Theological Seminary in New York City, where he received his Th.D ...13 KB (1,965 words) - 02:18, 16 December 2022
- Roman Province of Africa, he was the first African pope. ... Category:religion Category:biography category:popes category:religious ...14 KB (2,181 words) - 04:06, 26 November 2022
- by the results, for the Catholic religion has been preserved ever ... up controversy. They also addressed the African bishops then residing in ...17 KB (2,672 words) - 00:00, 13 February 2022
- The African Union described the takeover as a military coup d'état. ... of the opposition claims, while the African Union (AU) and the United ...26 KB (3,713 words) - 03:53, 1 May 2023
- and is one of the most popular South African tourist destinations. ... from the city. One such former prisoner, African National Congress leader ...27 KB (3,877 words) - 19:33, 25 November 2023
- is one of the smallest nations on the African continent, with its total ... In 1949 the British government rejected a South African request for ...20 KB (2,991 words) - 14:18, 28 April 2023
- #039;s Maghreb and the sub-Saharan Black African countries that make up the ... on by both the Beidane and the sub-Saharan African population. ...28 KB (4,027 words) - 09:19, 10 March 2023
- nearly all of the Egyptian and northern African churches as well. Sergius was not willing to risk losing the African churches again by ordering ...20 KB (3,013 words) - 21:11, 9 November 2022
- Arkansas National Guard to prevent nine African-American students from enrolling ... to aid segregationists in preventing nine African-American students from enrolling ...27 KB (3,857 words) - 02:49, 15 August 2023
- At 2,235 km², the Comoros is the third smallest African nation by ... culture, especially architecture and religion, increasingly reflected ...32 KB (4,718 words) - 17:40, 9 March 2024
- We have no intention of favoring one religion at the expense of another ... to secede. He wanted both national and Pan-African unity. He did not waste ...11 KB (1,665 words) - 06:54, 16 June 2023
- by primitive cultures was the first religion.John Ferguson McLennan, ... that totemism was the earliest form of religion, considered totemic practices ...16 KB (2,425 words) - 21:17, 26 May 2015
- issues as poverty, healthcare, taxation, religion, enforcement of a particular ... III and the Holocaust: The Encounter of African American Liberators and ...23 KB (3,411 words) - 22:42, 7 December 2022
- the highest mortality rate among all African nations and very high incidences ... more complete voting rights for the black African majority in the country. ...23 KB (3,136 words) - 13:29, 24 January 2023
- as spreading order, morality, the true religion and civilization, and have ... spreading Christianity as the only true religion was part and parcel of the ...24 KB (3,604 words) - 15:29, 4 February 2023
- A large majority of the Bahamian population is of African descent ... The Bahamian culture is an expression of African and European influences ...26 KB (3,773 words) - 15:29, 30 April 2023
- the arts, science, literature, education, religion, or community service. Within ... bestow the awards on American icons like African-American singer Marian Anderson ...9 KB (1,283 words) - 22:24, 30 November 2022
- it offered more than rhetoric to the African National Congress (ANC) ... With this African-centred stance, Nigeria readily sent troops to the ...37 KB (5,342 words) - 16:58, 5 June 2023
- After 1700, large groups of African slaves were brought in to work ... (granting full U.S. citizenship to African-Americans), and the Fifteenth ...38 KB (5,665 words) - 15:40, 4 February 2023
- or proliferation of a particular religion. The nature of such movements ... democracy and capitalism, and the South African shack dwellers' movement ...19 KB (2,677 words) - 15:01, 27 April 2023
- a mixture between Spanish, Amerindian, and African genetic heritage. According ... has been historically the most dominant religion of the majority of Puerto ...32 KB (4,834 words) - 18:10, 14 April 2023
- Indian elephants have smaller ears than African elephants, all count as ... Category:Philosophy and religion a_priori|46822006|a_posteriori|43003103 ...11 KB (1,601 words) - 07:08, 13 June 2023
- K (Law) and parts of B (Philosophy and Religion) were well developed. It ... has been the terms used to describe African-Americans. Until the 1990s ...25 KB (3,639 words) - 22:33, 25 October 2022
- Because of her campaign against nuclear arms and South African apartheid ... *African Stories (1964) *Winter in July (1966) *The Black Madonna (1966) ...22 KB (3,145 words) - 21:11, 26 March 2024
- of subjects, such as, but not limited to, religion, mythology, art, music, ... Fortes; well-known edited volumes include African Systems of Kinship and Marriage ...26 KB (3,726 words) - 06:47, 11 January 2024
- (10.5 percent), English (9.7 percent), African American (7.8 percent). ... African-Americans, who made up one-fourth of Kentucky's population ...39 KB (5,531 words) - 22:12, 3 March 2023
- The Dutch planters relied heavily on African slaves to cultivate the ... NPK (a largely Creole, meaning ethnically African or mixed African-European ...30 KB (4,282 words) - 12:07, 17 April 2024
- be abandoned, leaving on board a cargo of African slaves, for whom there was ... Category:religion 174163492 ...8 KB (1,278 words) - 13:07, 5 September 2022
- "John G. Jackson, Introduction to African Civilizations (Citadel, ... *Jackson, John G. Introduction to African Civilizations. Citadel, ...16 KB (2,385 words) - 20:13, 14 December 2023
- Jungle, it is the narrator who describes African Americans in a highly negative ... * The Profits of Religion (1918) * Jimmie Higgins (1919) ...13 KB (1,971 words) - 13:34, 3 May 2023
- Douglass was among the most prominent African-Americans of his time, and ... deliverance from bondage in this life. Religion taught Douglass to value ...23 KB (3,597 words) - 10:27, 11 April 2024
- In African Yoruba mythology, Oshunmare was a mythic regenerating serpent ... who continued to be venerated in the folk religion of Judah and was tolerated ...23 KB (3,735 words) - 10:04, 26 January 2023
- birth from the hide he compares to a West African rainmaking charm, and claims ... Category: Philosophy and religion Category: Religion 143593352 ...11 KB (1,784 words) - 02:16, 18 November 2022
- lies on the equator and overlies the East African Rift, covering a diverse ... and all the city-states along the East African coast paid tribute to the ...29 KB (4,349 words) - 03:29, 6 October 2022
- the latter day renaissance of the religion of Islam. At the end of ... as one of the precursors to the African-American Civil Rights Movement ...36 KB (5,381 words) - 06:53, 16 June 2023
- Category: Philosophy and religion Category: Religion Category: Image wanted 152318725 ...12 KB (1,877 words) - 10:18, 2 March 2024
- held to be more similar to the other east-African colonies—Kenya, Tanganyika ... i.e., the relationship between religion and the state, power-sharing ...27 KB (3,989 words) - 21:31, 26 February 2023
- smallpox. In 1501, the colony began to import African slaves. with either the Spanish or the African descendants. The people ...37 KB (5,424 words) - 09:27, 15 January 2023
- of local autonomy, having their own militia, religion, court, and lands. This status lasted officially until the English conquest of the New Netherland ...18 KB (2,669 words) - 00:38, 27 February 2023
- based on race, ethnicity, or religion. By law, at least a third of ... September 18, 1962. It is a member of the African Development Bank, G-77, ...25 KB (3,542 words) - 17:40, 28 September 2023
- Dioscorus bring a very large delegation of African bishops loyal to himself ... Category:philosophy and religion Category:religion Category:religious ...14 KB (1,996 words) - 09:38, 24 November 2022
- Category:Philosophy and religion Category:Religion Sura|169711612|Madinan_sura|156245063|Meccan_sura ...13 KB (1,852 words) - 23:51, 26 February 2023
- in part because Jazz was associated with African-American culture, and was ... category:Philosophy and religion Category:philosophy Authenticity_ ...14 KB (2,048 words) - 19:15, 22 August 2023
- to be good husbands and wives. In some African tribes, boys take about ... In many African tribes, initiation involves circumcision of males ...23 KB (3,352 words) - 20:51, 17 June 2022
- 1994. The UN has subsequently looked to African leaders to take the initiative ... were out to convert them from their religion. This idea is thought by ...29 KB (4,403 words) - 15:11, 27 April 2023
- ways; Bedouins and Tuaregs of the North African desert use wool clothes ... Sheep are common symbols in culture and religion. In Catal Huyuk in ...15 KB (2,449 words) - 21:23, 6 October 2022
