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- famous book, Oedipus and Job in West African Religion (1959), fused his two ... *Fortes, Meyer. 1959. Oedipus and Job in West African Religion. Cambridge: ...8 KB (1,075 words) - 16:31, 9 November 2022
- African philosophy is a disputed term, used in different ways by different ... Surveys of the beliefs of hundreds of African peoples have shown that ...20 KB (3,143 words) - 06:07, 16 June 2023
- life of a culture. He also recognized that African culture was as significant ... showed enthusiasm toward the collecting of African artifacts. By young adulthood ...10 KB (1,463 words) - 07:46, 6 March 2023
- tend to generalize "traditional" African art, the continent is full ... Often, African art production has been related to ritual or tribal ...17 KB (2,544 words) - 06:05, 16 June 2023
- 26, 1892 – April 30, 1926) was a famous African American aviator. She became ... that French women were better than African-American women because French ...9 KB (1,369 words) - 17:27, 29 September 2023
- Bissau, Côte d'Ivoire, Togo, Central African Republic, Ghana, Chad, Liberia ... role in politics, economics, and religion throughout Western Africa ...12 KB (1,741 words) - 14:26, 3 December 2023
- located in the westernmost region of the African continent. It is considered ... are members of Economic Community of West African States, except for Mauritania: ...17 KB (2,568 words) - 17:17, 4 May 2023
- , is a traditional African concept. The word ubuntu comes from the ... in Zimbabwe is similar to that of other African cultures. In Kinyarwanda ...14 KB (2,195 words) - 01:24, 3 May 2023
- Southern Africa, and formerly of the Central African Federation ... regions: the eastern portion of the African continent that includes ...13 KB (1,820 words) - 17:39, 12 February 2024
- as Middle Africa, defines a portion of the African continent south of the Sahara ... *Central African Republic *Chad *Democratic Republic of the Congo ...16 KB (2,498 words) - 23:51, 3 December 2023
- fact not the Pope but an otherwise unknown African martyr. ... Category:philosophy and religion Category:religion Category:religious ...4 KB (637 words) - 11:50, 13 February 2022
- take part in the movement initiated by the African Colonization Society. He ... Liberian nation. Bridging European and African ideals was a goal on which ...15 KB (2,161 words) - 07:38, 27 February 2023
- although it sometimes sided with other African states, particularly on ... S., the greatest level of U.S. aid to any African country on a per capita ...9 KB (1,372 words) - 20:43, 13 May 2023
- #039;s foot originates in the system of African-American folk magic known ... traders and owners to describe traditional African folk practices. Hoodoo is ...12 KB (1,865 words) - 00:08, 15 April 2023
- main_interests = Democracy, Race, Philosophy of religion, Ethics| ... Cornel Ronald West (born June 2, 1953) is an African American scholar ...19 KB (2,834 words) - 03:31, 8 January 2024
- in the doctrines and sacraments of the Christian religion. ... and called for the practice of religion to be socially aware. It ...14 KB (2,040 words) - 21:44, 30 January 2023
- in spiritual matters. The third pope of African origin, Gelasius had worked ... century, lists Gelasius as natione Afer (African). Some have asserted that ...12 KB (1,830 words) - 06:35, 18 April 2024
- as the Lunda Empire was a pre-colonial African confederation of states ... chiefs enjoyed considerable autonomy, the religion honored those who cared ...16 KB (2,448 words) - 03:03, 5 November 2022
- and providing equal opportunities for African-Americans. Ovington's ... During her investigations, she met W.E.B. Du Bois, an African-American ...10 KB (1,387 words) - 16:15, 7 November 2022
- lifestyle and unwavering faith in her religion. She traveled around the ... the Amanda Smith Orphans' Home for African-American children in a suburb ...7 KB (1,128 words) - 02:38, 24 July 2023
- the year, an unusual occurrence on the African continent. ... the Greeks, who sought the riches of the African continent by forming a relationship ...12 KB (1,812 words) - 14:19, 7 February 2024
- (genus Elephas), whereas the modern African elephants (genus Loxodon ... structure was probably the same as that of African and Asian elephants, with ...14 KB (2,035 words) - 06:41, 5 November 2022
- beliefs, that over time became a unique religion in its own right. Properly ... popular among the descendants of West African slaves. In the early eighteenth ...19 KB (3,085 words) - 03:21, 23 December 2022
- he gained a master’s degree in Indian religion and philosophy from Banares ... he obtained a job building the boat named African Queen for the famous movie ...12 KB (1,900 words) - 22:31, 7 January 2024
- used by followers of the Zoroastrian religion in their rituals surrounding ... At one time, the most widely practiced religion in the world, Zoroastrianism ...11 KB (1,659 words) - 04:48, 1 May 2023
- The Oyo Empire was a large West African empire founded in approximately ... wealth gained from trade with both its African neighbors as well as European ...14 KB (2,197 words) - 16:50, 11 September 2023
- Found in the mythology, folklore, and religion of virtually all world ... Modern African American literary criticism has turned the trickster ...19 KB (2,802 words) - 16:52, 2 May 2023
- political structures, family life, and religion. His emphasis has been on ... economy. In 1960, he wrote his famous The Religion of Java, and throughout ...9 KB (1,225 words) - 22:06, 7 January 2024
- around a shared ethnic background, religion, occupation, geographical ... of the Tang Dynasty in China and among African-Americans during the post ...12 KB (1,802 words) - 06:44, 15 April 2024
- of the West Area Computers, the first African-American woman to supervise ... history Hidden Figures: The Story of the African-American Women Who Helped ...15 KB (2,076 words) - 17:29, 30 January 2024
- was the leader and founder of the Zimbabwe African People's Union from ... election, Mugabe and the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) took ...18 KB (2,733 words) - 07:40, 27 February 2023
- and a half. It represents a pre-colonial African polity that flourished before ... === Religion === The religion of the Mutapa kingdom revolved around ...16 KB (2,420 words) - 23:43, 21 October 2023
- Sub-Saharan Africa is the term used to describe the area of the African ... central to the political economy of many African countries and the region ...18 KB (2,657 words) - 21:07, 26 February 2023
- * Archibald, Chestina Mitchell. Say Amen: The African-American Family ... Category: Philosophy and religion Category: Religion 109307843 ...6 KB (852 words) - 02:50, 24 July 2023
- as an Asian person marrying a person of African descent). Views towards ... group. Whether that group is defined by religion, race, or other difference ...21 KB (3,227 words) - 12:55, 7 February 2023
- Madam C. J. Walker (December 23, 1867 - May 25, 1919), was an African ... She was instrumental as a role model for African-Americans, especially women ...18 KB (2,870 words) - 10:48, 9 March 2023
- 9, 1731 – October 9, 1806) was a free African American mathematician, ... West Africa, and Mary Banneky, of English-African descent. Mary was the second ...14 KB (2,221 words) - 09:16, 27 September 2023
- on Schism and Continuity in an African Society: A Study of Ndembu ... R. Kenan Professor of Anthropology and Religion. He also became a member ...16 KB (2,369 words) - 20:08, 3 May 2023
- many of the practices of Egyptian religion and language. Budge's ... today for his works on Egyptian religion and his hieroglyphic primers ...13 KB (1,982 words) - 22:08, 3 May 2023
- tenth century. The kingdom adopted the religion of Christianity in the fourth ... The ancient African civilization of Axum flourished for over a thousand ...13 KB (2,015 words) - 07:23, 23 August 2023
- and politically stable nations on the African continent. about 9 miles (15 kilometers) from the South African border. ...17 KB (2,344 words) - 09:18, 4 December 2023
- wealthiest and most modern cities on the African continent, with a high quality ... wealthiest and most modern cities in the African continent, with a high quality ...15 KB (2,198 words) - 07:30, 14 June 2023
- of Cape Town he founded the School of African Life and Language, and developed ... and Grahamstown in South Africa, editing African Systems of Kinship and Marriage ...15 KB (2,175 words) - 18:05, 20 July 2023
- subsequently became a trading center for African slaves. The Cape Verde islands ... partially due to the efforts of the African Party for the Independence ...19 KB (2,758 words) - 19:33, 25 November 2023
- The Central African Republic is a landlocked country in Central Africa ... The Central African Republic that is one of the poorest countries ...29 KB (4,266 words) - 23:52, 3 December 2023
- ====African religion==== discussed without an understanding of African religion and religious practice ...41 KB (6,461 words) - 06:06, 16 June 2023
- racism and the enslavement of people of African ancestry, who were believed ... the exploitation of a ready supply of African labour. This interpretation ...14 KB (2,307 words) - 02:17, 15 January 2023
- quot;Rasta" for short) is a Jamaican religion that accepts Haile Selassie ... Rastafari terms) of those descended from African slaves. It spoke of the ...26 KB (4,200 words) - 17:24, 16 April 2023
- growing congregation rented an abandoned African Methodist Episcopal Church ... view of religion had its roots in African religion" (MacRobert 1988: ...27 KB (3,961 words) - 07:23, 23 November 2022
- of Tibetan Art from the Newark Museum (African, Asian & Oceanic Art ... Category: Philosophy and religion Category: Religion Category:Art ...6 KB (950 words) - 15:07, 30 April 2023
- the most important Roman city on the African continent and the site of ... quot;) and in letters to the other North African bishops. He called a council ...14 KB (2,280 words) - 19:36, 22 December 2022
- University. After working for the pan-African movement in England, he ... either capitalism or communism into African soil, Africans ought to ...26 KB (3,734 words) - 04:40, 4 March 2023
- was to restore amicable relations with the African and Eastern churches, which ... dispute had arisen between Rome and the African and Eastern churches concerning ...11 KB (1,645 words) - 11:45, 13 February 2022
- It borders Gabon, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic ... to the west, Cameroon and the Central African Republic to the north, and ...23 KB (3,296 words) - 19:42, 16 April 2023
- |religions = Christian, African Traditional Religion |related = Bantu ... The Zulu are a South African ethnic group of an estimated 17-22 million ...23 KB (3,468 words) - 06:14, 13 June 2023
- famous for his work on the ethnology of religion and mythology, and his fieldwork ... On the one side, he tried to explain religion in Freudian terms, yet on ...11 KB (1,587 words) - 01:29, 23 November 2022
- Voodoo, derived from the language of the African slaves who were imported ... are the highest form of clergy in the religion, whose responsibility it ...10 KB (1,553 words) - 06:41, 5 November 2022
- Many people of African descent in the Americas claim a degree of Yoruba ... Empire often used the military to spread religion, a movement illustrated ...21 KB (3,192 words) - 21:30, 4 June 2023
- all discrimination based on race, color, religion, gender, or national origin ... his work. He went out to register African American voters and lobby ...13 KB (2,037 words) - 03:55, 9 November 2022
- relations. Black gospel was a synthesis of African-based musical idioms and ... The relationship between the origins of white and African-American ...16 KB (2,435 words) - 00:04, 3 January 2024
- of Oriente, combining both Spanish and African themes. Like the son, salsa ... practitioners of any Afro-Catholic religion. ==History== ...13 KB (2,004 words) - 01:54, 23 December 2022
- The Kanem–Bornu Empire was an African trading empire ruled by the ... was the early penetration of Islam. North African traders, Berbers and Arabs ...13 KB (2,008 words) - 02:36, 5 October 2022
- nation for free-born and formerly enslaved African Americans. It currently ... entity begins with the arrival of African American settlers, or the ...23 KB (3,221 words) - 11:02, 7 March 2023
- of Carthage, Cyprian assembled a synod of African bishops, which renewed the ... in the face of the opposition of many African and Asian churches led by ...11 KB (1,719 words) - 00:24, 12 April 2023
- Founded perhaps as early as the tenth century, Timbuktu is an African ... Timbuktu was the center of significant written tradition on the African ...16 KB (2,417 words) - 23:36, 30 April 2023
- present day Ethiopia, this was an ancient African civilization that traded ... the Aksumite empire, and in other ancient African civilizations, as a platform ...22 KB (3,389 words) - 07:18, 16 June 2023
- later, advocates of equal rights for African Americans—of secretly ... with so much as "one drop" of African blood must be regarded as ...21 KB (3,025 words) - 11:09, 10 March 2023
- affinity growth hormone-binding protein in African pygmies.] Retrieved August ... The Pygmies are thought to be the first inhabitants of the African ...27 KB (4,197 words) - 20:58, 14 April 2023
- culminated in the American Civil War, many African Americans, escaped slaves ... * McKivigan, John R., and Mitchell Snay. Religion and the antebellum ...9 KB (1,324 words) - 07:11, 15 April 2024
- typical of the poorer nations of the African continent. This gap has ... Indian (including Tamil), Vietnamese, African, Malagasy, Chinese and ethnic ...22 KB (3,300 words) - 00:08, 22 August 2022
- city center are populated by Tanzanians of African descent, with the exception ... and Western India have visited the East African coast since early in the ...19 KB (2,649 words) - 22:16, 25 January 2024
- In ancient African culture, the carrying of an animal's foot ... In some Asian and African cultures the Evil Eye is also associated ...13 KB (2,101 words) - 17:26, 26 July 2023
- Canary Islands, where contact with West African traders pointed her in the ... her necessary skills for surviving in the African jungles, and often went ...29 KB (4,571 words) - 16:02, 7 November 2022
- an era marked by a creative flourish among African-American artists in Harlem ... a prominent physicist who was the second African-American to receive a PhD ...12 KB (1,881 words) - 16:12, 11 November 2022
- (UMCB). He was then assistant at an African welfare center and Boarding ... In 1949, Kaunda became an interpreter and adviser on African affairs ...24 KB (3,642 words) - 16:28, 24 August 2023
- The majority of Dogon practice an animist religion, including the ... *Davis, Shawn R. “Dogon Funerals” African Art (Summer, 2002). ...14 KB (2,194 words) - 03:27, 17 September 2023
- country once independent, and used by the African nationalist factions in ... As African-majority governments were assuming control in neighboring ...26 KB (3,749 words) - 06:06, 13 June 2023
- statue of St. Maurice that shows him with African features. In choosing to ... Category:Religion ...14 KB (2,050 words) - 04:57, 5 November 2022
- and are closely related to both Northwest African Berbers and West Africans ... Middle Eastern and/or Indigenous African Tamasheq speakers qualify ...17 KB (2,554 words) - 18:38, 2 May 2023
- in 1959, emerging into Gabon, the Central African Republic, Congo, and Chad ... the north, Sudan to the east, the Central African Republic to the south, Cameroon ...18 KB (2,606 words) - 00:11, 4 December 2023
- in the Negev Valley drain towards the Syro-African Rift Valley, the lowest ... The town is home to members of the African Hebrew Israelite Nation ...13 KB (2,056 words) - 04:27, 11 March 2023
- Addis Ababa is the capital city of Ethiopia and the African Union ... whole of Africa. The headquarters of the African Union and the United Nations ...20 KB (2,986 words) - 05:49, 15 June 2023
- #039;s baptism by immersion and freedom of religion. Some historians ... committed to the principle of freedom of religion. In these circumstances ...25 KB (3,609 words) - 07:57, 20 September 2023
- and in the United States, it became the religion of many slaves. Methodism ... day who felt alienated from the formal religion of much of the Church of ...28 KB (4,180 words) - 10:35, 10 March 2023
- buried in a large dome-roofed tomb. The religion of the kingdom involved ... Sudan,” pp. 66-87, in P.L. Shinnie, The African Iron Age. Oxford, UK: Clarendon ...15 KB (2,401 words) - 23:55, 6 December 2022
- African American literature is the body of literature produced in ... As African Americans' place in American society has changed over ...45 KB (6,844 words) - 06:04, 16 June 2023
- large Asian and Hispanic populations. African immigrants have many strongholds ... in the United States and high numbers of African-Americans, Hispanics, and ...25 KB (3,928 words) - 23:24, 28 June 2022
- as a fervent believer in the monotheistic religion of Zoroaster. He was also ... ==European and North African campaigns== About 512 B.C.E. Darius undertook ...12 KB (1,863 words) - 22:19, 25 January 2024
- 7, 1931 - December 26, 2021) was a South African cleric and activist who ... of the poor educational prospects for African South Africans. He continued ...30 KB (4,335 words) - 09:58, 29 January 2024
- it to Vajrayana Buddhism and the Bön religion. Though Chöd is not ancestor ... and Tibet. (ondon: School of Oriental and African Studies, 1992. ...15 KB (2,296 words) - 22:01, 10 December 2023
- celebrations also appear in some Asian and African cultures such as Korea. ... dead, and elaborate rituals developed in African, Carribbean, and Meso-American ...19 KB (2,926 words) - 08:42, 28 January 2024
- C. L. Franklin, was a highly influential African-American Baptist preacher ... quot; and deep breathing, which in African-American church tradition ...13 KB (1,984 words) - 19:15, 24 November 2023
- Bridgetown is a blend of British and West African influences. Religion plays ... Beginning in the 1620s, an increasing number of African slaves were ...20 KB (2,790 words) - 23:06, 20 November 2023
- a network of clandestine routes by which African slaves in the nineteenth ... of freedom, and figures prominently in African-American history. It was ...21 KB (3,294 words) - 01:36, 3 May 2023
- * Center on Religion, Culture, and Conflict[http://depts.drew.edu/crcc/ ... (includes psychobiology), Pan-African Studies, Philosophy, Physics ...19 KB (2,571 words) - 17:43, 30 January 2024
- --> Religiously, they are the adherents to Samaritanism, a religion ... by the actions of the Samaritan, not the religion and ethnicity of the other ...15 KB (2,463 words) - 11:23, 11 March 2023
- (1414), the Muslim port, on the North African coast across the Straits ... Master of the Military Order of Christ, religion was very important to Henry ...10 KB (1,543 words) - 17:47, 19 December 2017
- Abuja International Conference Centre African Hall, Gurara Falls, Eagle ... the Savannah Zone vegetation of the West African sub-region. Patches of rainforest ...14 KB (2,053 words) - 07:06, 14 June 2023
- traders, mostly from Glasgow, formed the African Lakes Company to supply ... A growing European and U.S.-educated African elite became increasingly ...23 KB (3,242 words) - 10:56, 9 March 2023
- It is a principal symbol of the Christian religion, primarily used in the Catholic ... for using burning crosses to terrorize African-Americans. As a result of ...15 KB (2,416 words) - 06:30, 11 January 2024
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- [[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
- 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 (4,747 words) - 07:27, 5 April 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- "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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
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- 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
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- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- not long after European settlers and African slaves descended upon the ... the intermingling of cultures brought by African slaves, Portuguese servants ...27 KB (3,940 words) - 06:23, 31 July 2023
- Algeria, the second largest country on the African continent. The city is the ... three worlds--Mediterranean, Islamic, and African--as well as numerous sandy ...19 KB (2,767 words) - 00:36, 9 January 2023
- === Pan-African and nonaligned movements === of the Non-Aligned Movement. The All-African Peoples' Conference ...50 KB (7,266 words) - 04:29, 11 March 2023
- of a blind and almost completely paralyzed African-American slave woman, Joice ... #039;s primary attraction was Jumbo, an African elephant he purchased in ...17 KB (2,684 words) - 04:19, 24 November 2022
- Midwest. German, Scandinavian, Slavic, and African-American immigration into ... In the twentieth century, African-American migration from the Southern ...28 KB (4,092 words) - 10:57, 10 March 2023
- The South African Marine Living Resources Act is strictly enforced ... Queen's studies in the history of religion, 19. Montreal: McGill-Queen ...15 KB (2,280 words) - 00:36, 13 January 2023
- as part of a rite of passage. In terms of religion, it is most prevalent in ... was soon to become an essentially Gentile religion, in which Paul's teachings ...30 KB (4,501 words) - 22:23, 10 December 2023
- Guianese Creoles (people of primarily African heritage mixed with some ... Guianese Creoles (people of primarily African heritage mixed with ...20 KB (3,078 words) - 10:54, 11 April 2024
- == Anthropomorphism in religion == From the perspective of believers of a religion where the deity or deities ...17 KB (2,392 words) - 06:18, 31 July 2023
- About 80 percent of the population are descendants of the African ... Island culture is heavily influenced by the African roots of most ...26 KB (3,667 words) - 18:33, 31 January 2023
- Dahomey, a precolonial West African kingdom, is located in what is ... In the movement of African decolonization following World War II, ...28 KB (4,382 words) - 17:35, 27 December 2022
- assembly, political participation, religion, and non-discrimination ... the basis of race, sex, national origin, religion, and so on, and that it ...29 KB (4,520 words) - 22:29, 10 December 2023
- lives on, however, in the names of several African animal and plant species ... Nama (in older sources also called Namaqua) are an African ethnic ...14 KB (2,192 words) - 03:58, 6 October 2022
- 000 people, including nearly 20,000 free African-Americans. When he freed ... The five largest ancestries in Delaware are: African-American (19 ...25 KB (3,617 words) - 09:17, 28 January 2024
- century's best-known and respected African Americans whose artistic ... United States audience remained mostly African-American in this period ...22 KB (3,452 words) - 17:20, 12 February 2024
- 416, and was subsequently condemned by two African councils and excommunicated ... Category:religion Category:philosophy and religion 94640879 ...14 KB (2,147 words) - 17:49, 25 January 2023
- up eating sugar because of its link to African slavery. ... Category:Philosophy and religion Category:Biography 96097927 ...9 KB (1,475 words) - 16:14, 3 December 2023
- known as Miaphysites. In the eastern and African churches, however, tensions ... Category:philosophy and religion Category:religion Category:Christianity ...14 KB (2,156 words) - 18:35, 30 April 2023
- government established the Hideyo Noguchi African Prize in 2006 and the award ... Fourth Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD) in late ...17 KB (2,515 words) - 15:47, 25 January 2023
- codes of manners, dress, language, religion, rituals, norms of behavior ... the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Language, Art, and Custom ...40 KB (5,823 words) - 13:34, 4 July 2023
- They are dark African people, differing markedly from the Arabic speaking ... * William Deng Nhial (Dengdit), founder of Sudan African National ...14 KB (2,232 words) - 15:22, 29 January 2024
- Quimbanda and is sometimes seen in other African traditions such as voodoo ... Category: Philosophy and religion Category: Religion 113010298 ...13 KB (1,977 words) - 16:08, 11 November 2022
- Milwaukee, became Wisconsin's first African-American U.S. Representative. ... immigrants came to Milwaukee, followed by African Americans from 1940 on. ...35 KB (5,043 words) - 23:16, 17 May 2023
- March against these heretics and perverters of religion who call themselves ... their policy changed. In their North African holdings, they encouraged ...15 KB (2,322 words) - 08:17, 23 July 2023
- Barbershop music is a musical form originally developed by African ... of the mid-1800s. Examples of early African-American groups include ...25 KB (3,778 words) - 08:05, 20 September 2023
- The Henotikon was addressed first to the African churches, but was ... Christianity was once again the official religion of the empire. ...16 KB (2,523 words) - 18:33, 7 February 2022
- perceived as on the margin of mainstream African affairs, eagerly rejoined ... organizations and relations with its East African neighbors. It enjoys closer ...38 KB (5,416 words) - 04:52, 5 November 2022
- of the Congo to the southeast, the Central African Republic to the east, Chad ... west; Chad to the northeast; the Central African Republic to the east; and ...36 KB (5,278 words) - 18:55, 25 November 2023
- anti-apartheid radical and leader of the African National Congress, who had ... known figure in the struggle against South African apartheid. Although the ...40 KB (6,067 words) - 04:28, 11 March 2023
- Middle Eastern and North African Jewish community headdress may also ... It is considered in the Zarathushtri religion to be of vital importance ...15 KB (2,303 words) - 10:14, 22 May 2023
- and a dominant figure in High Point's African American community. Midway ... Coltrane was born and raised a Christian, and was in touch with religion ...26 KB (3,975 words) - 04:46, 3 August 2022
- the greatest majority of its people are of African descent, due to the slaves ... through the massive use of imported African slave labor. The British ...31 KB (4,663 words) - 01:31, 8 February 2023
- Muslim Arab nation situated on the North African Mediterranean Sea coast ... of rich cultural activity. Berber, Arab, African, and European influences ...35 KB (5,063 words) - 15:12, 2 August 2023
- anyone could fully experience freedom of religion. To this day, a popular ... neighborhoods formed based on ethnicity, religion, culture, and commercial reasons. ...34 KB (4,831 words) - 03:00, 24 November 2022
- quot; and gave their occupation, religion and education as their ... == African caste system == Countries in Africa that have societies ...31 KB (4,665 words) - 14:24, 29 November 2023
- the line between indentured servants and African slaves or laborers was fluid ... most of whom were descended from free African Americans who had migrated ...37 KB (5,288 words) - 10:01, 11 March 2023
- part of Arizona has many American Indians. African Americans have had a relatively small presence in Arizona, but their numbers are increasing ...21 KB (2,995 words) - 02:46, 15 August 2023
- among the oldest stone settlements on the African continent. ... * Mauny, Raymond. 1971. "The western Sudan." African Iron Age. ...17 KB (2,566 words) - 04:37, 4 March 2023
- to Virginia and help establish a school for African American children. This was the beginning of her lifelong dedication to charity work. In 1874 ...10 KB (1,566 words) - 19:42, 7 September 2022
- Often a strong critic of religion, particularly Christianity, Stanton ... Amendments to the US Constitution granting African American men the right to vote. ...33 KB (5,008 words) - 16:16, 13 February 2024
- later be called Donatism originated in the African capital of Carthage, during ... 24, 303, the Emperor banned the Christian religion and commanded both the destruction ...15 KB (2,298 words) - 17:23, 30 January 2024
- *Na'eem Jeenah - South African scholar and activist ... *Ebrahim Moosa - South African scholar on Islamic law, based at Duke ...30 KB (4,309 words) - 20:25, 1 April 2023
- and lead began to be mined in 1715 with African slaves. The town of Ste ... Upper South, they brought along enslaved African Americans and a desire to ...37 KB (5,435 words) - 11:13, 10 March 2023
- incense-cedar are often used. According to various African traditions, elaborate coffins may be built in the shapes of mundane objects, such as automobiles ...11 KB (1,709 words) - 22:26, 7 January 2024
- east coast who arrived in the era of the African slave trade. As a result ... Christianity is the main religion in Costa Rica. Some 92 percent of ...23 KB (3,329 words) - 08:16, 10 January 2024
- apart from the papal delegation and two African bishops, practically all ... Category:philosophy and religion Category:religion Category:Christianity ...15 KB (2,236 words) - 08:25, 10 January 2024
- administration, society, commerce, and religion, and a people and time that ... *Campbell-Dunn, Graham. Who were the Minoans? An African Answer. Bloomington ...15 KB (2,229 words) - 07:40, 9 March 2023
- them at Oberlin in 1841. Later, in 1862, the first African-American woman to receive a bachelor's degree (Mary Jane Patterson) also earned it from ...16 KB (2,354 words) - 22:24, 7 January 2024
- for Lilies of the Field (1963), the first African American actor and first ... sweetsearch.com/sidney-poitier-pioneering-african-american-actor/ Sidney Poitier ...42 KB (5,991 words) - 14:35, 27 January 2023
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