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With a group of BaTwa (pygmy) women potters, with whom we've worked to enhance production and sales of their wonderful pots - fantastic for cooking and serving. To see the 2 blogs on this work enter 'batwa pots' into the search engine located just above this picture. Blog entries throughout this site are about Africa, as well as about the Middle East and life in general - reflecting over 35 years of work and research in Africa and the Middle East – Come and join me!
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2013 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 42,000 times in 2013. If it were a … Continue reading
Posted in Africa-General, City States, Colonialism, Ethnicity, Food, Race, Richard Burton
Tagged Africa, Fenugreek, Hilba, stats helper monkeys, Sydney Opera House, Teeth Filing
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Collecting Data without a Theory – Colonizers in India
Last weekend I came across the following in an introduction to a Nineteenth Century ‘Ethnographic Survey’ of India. The fact that the author’s selection and organization of ‘the facts’ in itself constitutes an act of ‘theorizing ‘ is not recognized; his ‘social … Continue reading
Posted in Colonialism, Ethnicity, Ethnography, India, Race, Uncategorized
Tagged Asia, Bathinda, caste system, Government, hindu population, India, Islamabad, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Malwa, north west frontier, Punjab, Punjab India, Punjab Pakistan, science, Sikh, sir herbert risley
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Inventing Ethnicity; Imagining Agriculture: The ‘Tribes’ of Ham and the ‘Primitive’ Crops of Africa
Also see: Race from a local perspective: 19th and 14th Centuries Ethnic Psudo-histories of Central Africa – Tribes of Ham Again 2 Updating blog. One of the most bedevilling aspects of colonial and post-colonial African history and development that continues … Continue reading
“Efforts of Missionaries among Savages”
[First posted May 2010, Updated 30 October 2011] David Livingstone captured the imagination of Europeans and Americans in the 19th Century, many of whom saw missionizing as THE way to ‘civilize’ African populations. I shall content myself with showing to you that even … Continue reading
Posted in Africa-General, Agriculture, Colonialism, Crop harvests, Dark Continent, European colonizers, European explorers, Explorers & exploration, Hotel Club du Lac Tanganyika2, Humanitarian Assistance, Living here, Race, Religion, Research & Development, Technology, Third World
Tagged Africa, Africa-General, Christianity, David Livingston, Humanitarian Assistance, Middle East, mission, Nigeria, Sub-Saharan Africa, United States, White Man's Burden
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Race from a local perspective: 19th and 14th Centuries
An earlier blog discussed European concepts of race in the 19th Century and their application to Africa – Inventing Ethnicity; Imagining Agriculture: The ‘Tribes’ of Ham and the ‘Primitive’ Crops of Africa From a local perspective, here are the thoughts … Continue reading
Posted in Africa-Central, Africa-North, Colonialism, Ethnicity, Explorers & exploration, Race
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What 5% of the World’s Global GDP can Accomplish
Random thoughts about global warming, colonialism, ‘Darkest Africa‘, & Others Today I came across a wonderfully sobering piece by Nate Silver entitled: How To Destroy (Almost) Half the Planet for the Low, Low Price of Just 5% of Global GDP. … Continue reading
Posted in Africa-General, Climate Change, Colonialism, Dark Continent, Environment, European explorers, Explorers & exploration, Food Aid, Heart of Darkness, History-General, John Hanning Speke, Joseph Conrad, Race, Third World
Tagged Africa, Africa-General, Environment, Gross domestic product, Gross world product, Nate Silver
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