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Africans

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Africans: Traditional Wisdom Of the Yoruba - African Spirituality  

The tradition of Orisa worship was kept alive by Yoruba slaves. But the second generation Yoruba had lost much of the memory of the primal worldview of our Yoruba ancestors. This work was achieved through my personal experience with the Oku folk culture in Guyana, and direct contact with the people who were struggling to maintain the little know-ledge they retained of Olodumare, whom they called Olorun, and the beautiful Orisa tradition.

 

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Africans: Encyclopedia II - Contemporary views on race - Summary of contemporary views

Contemporary views on race - Do human races exist?. Racial realism Racial naturalism: races are important biological or natural kinds Racial constructionism: races are not biological kinds, but they are social constructs Racial skepticism: race does not exist Contemporary views on race - What about subspecies?. The terms 'race' and 'subspecies' are often used synonymously, some argue this is t ...

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Contemporary views on race, Contemporary views on race - Summary of contemporary views, Contemporary views on race - Do human races exist?, Contemporary views on race - What about subspecies?, Contemporary views on race - If race had a biological basis what would it be?, Contemporary views on race - The phylogeographic subspecies definition, Contemporary views on race - Background, Contemporary views on race - Total human genetic diversity, Contemporary views on race - Time frame of modern human evolution, Contemporary views on race - Distribution of genetic variation within/between populations, Contemporary views on race - Topical comparisons, Contemporary views on race - Which populations qualify as races?, Contemporary views on race - Do self-identified races have biological validity?, Contemporary views on race - Are self-identified races merely populations?, Contemporary views on race - What are the implications of the clinal view of human variation?, Contemporary views on race - What does admixture mean for the biological validity of races?, Contemporary views on race - What is the relationship between race and ethnicity?

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Africans: Encyclopedia - Pakistan

The Islamic Republic of Pakistan (Urdu: اسلامی جمہوریۂ پاکستان, islāmī jamhūriya i pākistān), or Pakistan (Urdu: پاکستان, pākistān) is a country located in South Asia that overlaps onto the Greater Middle East and Central Asia. The country borders Iran (Persia), Afghanistan, China, India and the Arabian Sea. The name of the country "Pakistan" in Urdu and Persian means Land of the Pure. With around 163 million inhabitants, it is the sixth most populous country with the secon ...

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Africans: Encyclopedia - Rastafari movement

Rasta, or the Rastafari movement, is a religious movement that accepts Haile Selassie I, the former emperor of Ethiopia, as King of Kings, Lord of Lords and the Lion of Judah as Jah (the Rastafari name for God, from a shortened form of Jehovah found in Psalm 68:4 in the King James Version of the Bible), and part of the Holy Trinity. The name Rastafari comes from Ras Täfäri, the pre-coronation name of Haile Selassie I. The movement emerged in Jamaica among working-class and peasant black people in the earl ...

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Africans: Encyclopedia - Earwax

Earwax, also known by the medical term cerumen, is a yellowish, waxy substance secreted in the ear canal of humans and many other mammals. It plays a vital role in the human ear canal, assisting in cleaning and lubrication, and also provides a degree of protection from bacteria, fungus, and insects. A comprehensive review of the physiology and pathophysiology of cerumen can be found in Roeser and Ballachanda (1997). Excess or impacted cerumen can press against the eardrum and/or occlude the external auditory canal and impair he ...

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Africans: Encyclopedia - Smallpox

Smallpox (also known by the Latin names Variola or Variola vera) is a highly contagious disease unique to humans. It is caused by two virus variants called Variola major and Variola minor. V. major is the more deadly form, with a typical mortality of 20-40 percent of those infected. The other type, V. minor, only kills 1% of its victims. Many survivors are left blind in one or both eyes from corneal ulcerations, and persistent skin scarring - pockmarks - is nearly universal. Smallpox was respo ...

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Africans: Encyclopedia - Mahatma Gandhi

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (Devanagari/Hindi: मोहनदास करमचन्द गांधी; Gujarati: મોહનદાસ કરમચંદ ગાંધી; October 2, 1869–January 30, 1948) was the spiritual and political leader of India who led the struggle for Indian independence from the British Empire, empowered by tens of millions of Indians. Throughout his life, he rejected any form of terrorism or violence. His philosophy of nonviolence, for which he coined the term satyagraha, has influenced national and inter ...

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Africans: Encyclopedia - The Holocaust

The Holocaust is the name applied to the systematic state-sponsored persecution and genocide of various ethnic, religious and political groups during World War II by Nazi Germany and collaborators. Early elements of the Holocaust include the Kristallnacht pogrom and the T-4 Euthanasia Program, progressing to the later use of killing squads and extermination camps in a massive and centrally organized effort to murder every possi ...

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Africans: Encyclopedia - Cuisine of Brazil

Brazil's population is a racial mix of native Amerindians, Portuguese, Africans, Italians, Spaniards, Germans, Syrians, Lebanese and Asians. This has created a national cooking style marked by the preservation of regional differences. Cuisine of Brazil - Brazil's five main cuisine regions. Cuisine of Brazil - North. Acre, Amazonas, Amapá, Pará, Rondônia, Roraima, and Tocantins Collectively, the region is known as Amazônia for it includes a large part of the rain fores ...

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Africans: Encyclopedia - Yoruba

The Yoruba (native name Yorùbá) are the largest single ethnic group in Nigeria. The Yoruba constitute approximately 24% percent of Nigeria's total population, and number upwards of 30 million individuals throughout the region of West Africa. They share borders with the Nupe and Borgu peoples in the northwest, the Esan and Edo to the southeast, the Igala and other related groups to the northeast, and the Egun, Fon, and other Gbe-speaking peoples in the southwest. While the majority of the Yoruba live in the south-west of Nigeria, there are also substantial Yoruba communities i ...

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Africans: Encyclopedia - Racism in Russia

In common usage in Europe, Asia and former USSR countries, "Caucasian" is a collective term which refers to anyone descended from native ethnicities of Caucasus. Confusingly, the Russian language stereotypes of Caucasian people are in the direct opposition to the common colloquial English language meaning of "Caucasian" as the "white race". Typically, Caucasian people are considered "dark" or "black", with negative connotations ...

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Africans: Encyclopedia - Bartolomé de Las Casas

Bartolomé de Las Casas, O.P. (1484 – July 17, 1566) was a 16th century Spanish priest, and the first resident Bishop of Chiapas. As a settler in the New World, he was galvanized by witnessing the brutal torture and genocide of the Native Americans by the Spanish colonists. He became famous for his advocacy of the rights of Native Americans, whose cultures especially in the Caribbean he describes with care. His first hand interpretations of Taíno cultures as feudal have been criticized 500 years later by Marx-influenced historians ...

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Africans: Encyclopedia - England

England is a nation and the largest and most populous constituent country of the United Kingdom accounting for more than 83% of the total UK population. It occupies most of the southern two-thirds of the island of Great Britain and shares land borders with fellow home nations Scotland, to the north, and Wales, to the west. Elsewhere, it is bordered by the sea. England is named after the Angles, one of a number of Germanic tribes believed to have originated in Angeln in Northern Germany, who settled in England in the 5th and 6th ...

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Africans: Encyclopedia - Human

Humans or human beings define themselves in biological, social, and spiritual terms. Biologically, humans are classified as the mammalian species Homo sapiens (Latin for "wise man" or "thinking man"): a bipedal primate of the superfamily Hominoidea, together with the other apes: chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans, and gibbons. Humans have an erect body carriage that frees their upper limbs for manipulating objects and a highly developed brain capable of abstract reasoning, speech, language, and ...

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Africans: Encyclopedia - Cachaça

Cachaça (pronounced ka SHA sa, IPA: /ˌkaˈʃasɐ/) (also called pinga, branquinha, caninha, caxaca, caxa, aguardente or chacha) is the most popular distilled alcoholic beverage in Brazil, made from sugarcane juice (also called garapa). The legal definition of cachaça says "cachaça is the product of the distillation of the fermented sugarcane juice, with alcohol strength between 38% and 51% by volume. U ...

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Africans: Encyclopedia - Anti-immigration

Anti-immigration may be used to describe individuals, groups or movements which oppose significant levels of immigration into their countries. Anti-immigrant may refer to those who are opposed to specific migrant groups, or as a pejorative for those who are anti-immigration. The terms often have negative connotations in a political context, particularly in the West, where politicians generally avoid giving explicit support to anti-immigration platforms or describing their policies as "anti-immigrant". Nevertheless, opinion poll ...

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Africans: Encyclopedia - Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges ([ˈxɔɾ.xe ˈlwis ˈbɔɾ.xɛs]) (August 24, 1899 – June 14, 1986) was an Argentine writer who is considered to be one of the foremost writers of the 20th century. Best-known in the English speaking world for his short stories and fictive essays, Borges was also a poet, critic, and man of letters. Jorge Luis Borges - Life. Jorge Luis Borges - Youth. Borges was born in Buenos Aires. His father, Jorge ...

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Africans: Encyclopedia - Anthony Burgess

Anthony Burgess (February 25, 1917 - November 22, 1993) was an English novelist and critic. He was also active as a composer, librettist, poet, playwright, screenwriter, journalist, essayist, travel writer, broadcaster, translator and educationalist. Born John Burgess Wilson in Manchester, England, he lived and worked variously in Southeast Asia, the United States and Mediterranean Europe. His fiction includes the Malayan trilogy (The Long Day Wanes) on the dying days of Britain's empire in the East, the Enderby cycle of comic ...

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Africans: Encyclopedia - Arab world

The Arab world consists of twenty-three countries stretching from Western Sahara and Mauritania in the west to Oman in the east. They have a combined population of 300 million people and their combined economies surpass one trillion U.S. dollars annually. Arab world - Language politics and religion. The Arabic language forms a unifying feature of the Arab world: though different areas use local dialects of Arabic, all share in the use of the standard classical language. This contrasts with the situation in ...

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Africans: Encyclopedia - Black nationalism

Black nationalism - Marcus Garvey. Marcus Garvey urged Africans "at home and abroad" to be proud of their race and preached "African Redemption". To this end he founded the Negro World newspaper to disseminate the UNIA's program, the Black Star Line in 1919 to provide steamship transportation, and the Negro Factories Corporation to encourage black economic independence. Garvey attracted thousands of supporters and claimed eleven million members for the UNIA. Garvey set the ...

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