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Gambia Official Guide
2016 official country guide The Gambia Tourism Board THE GAMBIA 2016 Official Country Guide www.visitthegambia.gm 1 THE GAMBIA 2016 Official Country Guide 2 www.visitthegambia.gm 2016 official country guide The Gambia Tourism Board THE GAMBIA 2016 Official Country Guide www.visitthegambia.gm 3 INSIDE 6 MESSAGE FROM HONOURABLE MINSITER 1 OF TOURISM & CULTURE MESSAGE FROM DIRECTOR GENERAL, 3 GAMBIA TOURISM BOARD COUNTRY INFORMATION 4 12 HISTORY OF THE GAMBIA 6 COME EXPLORE 8 BEAUTY & WELLBEING 12 26 SPORTS TOURISM 14 EATING OUT 16 NIGHT ENTERTAINMENT 18 FASHION 20 16 ART IN GAMBIA 22 DOING BUSINESS 23 BIRD WATCHING 26 FISHING PARADISE 28 28 NATURE LIES HERE 30 STAYING OFF THE BEATEN TRACK 34 EXCURSIONS 36 THE ‘ROOTS’ EXPERIENCE 38 34 A FEW THINGS YOU SHOULD NOT MISS 39 THE HUNTING DEVIL MASQURADE 40 UNVELING 2016 42 30 GETTING TO THE GAMBIA 46 NATIONAL CALENDAR OF EVENTS 49 SPEAK THE LANGUAGE 52 SOCIAL MEDIA AND E-PLATFORMS 53 36 TOURISM INDUSTRY ASSOCIATIONS 54 THE GAMBIA 2016 Official Country Guide 4 www.visitthegambia.gm message from Honourable Minister of Tourism & Culture Thank you for picking Project in relation to the Kunta Kinteh Roots Heritage is up the 5th Edition of our also gaining momentum and meaningful developments Official Tourist Guide, are taking place at both the Kunta Kinteh Island and the annual publication the villages of Juffureh and Albreda where signage that updates you on installation and architectural design works have developments within commenced to improve the image and aesthetic appeal the Tourism, Culture, and of this UNESCO World Heritage site. -
Okanga Royal Drum: the Dance for the Prestige and Initiates Projecting Igbo Traditional Religion Through Ovala Festival in Aguleri Cosmolgy
Global Journal of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Vol.8, No. 3, pp.19-49, March 2020 Published by ECRTD-UK Print ISSN: 2052-6350(Print), Online ISSN: 2052-6369(Online) OKANGA ROYAL DRUM: THE DANCE FOR THE PRESTIGE AND INITIATES PROJECTING IGBO TRADITIONAL RELIGION THROUGH OVALA FESTIVAL IN AGULERI COSMOLGY Madukasi Francis Chuks, PhD ChukwuemekaOdumegwuOjukwu University, Department of Religion & Society. Igbariam Campus, Anambra State, Nigeria. PMB 6059 General Post Office Awka. Anambra State, Nigeria. Phone Number: +2348035157541. Email: [email protected] ABSTRACT: No literature I have found has discussed the Okanga royal drum and its elements of an ensemble. Elaborate designs and complex compositional ritual functions of the traditional drum are much encountered in the ritual dance culture of the Aguleri people of Igbo origin of South-eastern Nigeria. This paper explores a unique type of drum with mystifying ritual dance in Omambala river basin of the Igbo—its compositional features and specialized indigenous style of dancing. Oral tradition has it that the Okanga drum and its style of dance in which it figures originated in Aguleri – “a farming/fishing Igbo community on Omambala River basin of South- Eastern Nigeria” (Nzewi, 2000:25). It was Eze Akwuba Idigo [Ogalagidi 1] who established the Okanga royal band and popularized the Ovala festival in Igbo land equally. Today, due to that syndrome and philosophy of what I can describe as ‘Igbo Enwe Eze’—Igbo does not have a King, many Igbo traditional rulers attend Aguleri Ovala festival to learn how to organize one in their various communities. The ritual festival of Ovala where the Okanga royal drum features most prominently is a commemoration of ancestor festival which symbolizes kingship and acts as a spiritual conduit that binds or compensates the communities that constitutes Eri kingdom through the mediation for the loss of their contact with their ancestral home and with the built/support in religious rituals and cultural security of their extended brotherhood. -
Igala People
Igala people The Brazilian-designed Volkswagen Brasilia was sold in Nigeria as the Igala. The name of the car was derived from the Yoruba word for antelope "ìgalà" and has no connection with the Igala ethnic group. Igala are an ethnic group of Nigeria. Igala practice a number of different religions, including animism, Christianity, and Islam. The home of the Igala people is situated east of the river Niger and Benue confluence and astride the Niger in Lokoja, Kogi state of Nigeria. The area is approximately between latitude 6°30 and 8°40 north and longitude 6°30 and 7°40 east and covers an area of about 13,665 square kilometers (Oguagha P.A 1981) The Igala population is estimated at two million, they can also be found in Delta, Anambra and Edo States of Nigeria. The Igala language is closely related to the Yoruba and Itsekiri languages. In Igala tradition, infants from some parts of the kingdom, like Ankpa receive three deep horizontal cuts on each side of the face, slightly above the corners of their mouths, as a way of identifying each other. However, this practice is becoming less common. The Igalas are ruled by a father figure called the Attah. The word Attah means 'Father' and the full title of the ruler is 'Attah Igala', meaning, the Father of Igalas (the Igala word for King is Onu). Among the most revered Attahs of the Igala kingdom are Attah Ayegba Oma Idoko and Atta Ameh Oboni. According to oral tradition, Attah Ayegba Oma Idoko offered his most beloved daughter, Inikpi to ensure that the Igalas win a war of liberation from the Jukuns' dominance. -
On the Economic Origins of Constraints on Women's Sexuality
On the Economic Origins of Constraints on Women’s Sexuality Anke Becker* November 5, 2018 Abstract This paper studies the economic origins of customs aimed at constraining female sexuality, such as a particularly invasive form of female genital cutting, restrictions on women’s mobility, and norms about female sexual behavior. The analysis tests the anthropological theory that a particular form of pre-industrial economic pro- duction – subsisting on pastoralism – favored the adoption of such customs. Pas- toralism was characterized by heightened paternity uncertainty due to frequent and often extended periods of male absence from the settlement, implying larger payoffs to imposing constraints on women’s sexuality. Using within-country vari- ation across 500,000 women in 34 countries, the paper shows that women from historically more pastoral societies (i) are significantly more likely to have under- gone infibulation, the most invasive form of female genital cutting; (ii) are more restricted in their mobility, and hold more tolerant views towards domestic vio- lence as a sanctioning device for ignoring such constraints; and (iii) adhere to more restrictive norms about virginity and promiscuity. Instrumental variable es- timations that make use of the ecological determinants of pastoralism support a causal interpretation of the results. The paper further shows that the mechanism behind these patterns is indeed male absenteeism, rather than male dominance per se. JEL classification: I15, N30, Z13 Keywords: Infibulation; female sexuality; paternity uncertainty; cultural persistence. *Harvard University, Department of Economics and Department of Human Evolutionary Biology; [email protected]. 1 Introduction Customs, norms, and attitudes regarding the appropriate behavior and role of women in soci- ety vary widely across societies and individuals. -
MOROCCO and ECOWAS: Picking Cherries and 32 Dismantling Core Principles
www.westafricaninsight.org V ol 5. No 2. 2017 ISSN 2006-1544 WestIAN fSrI iGcHaT MOROCCO’s ACCESSION TO ECOWAS Centre for Democracy and Development TABLE OF CONTENTS Editorial 2 ECOWAS Expansion Versus Integration: Dynamics and Realities 3 ISSUES AND OPTIONS In Morocco's Quest to 11 join the ECOWAS THE ACCESSION of The Kingdom of Morocco to the Economic Community 20 of West African States MOROCCO‟s APPLICATION TO JOIN ECOWAS: A SOFT-POWER ANALYSIS 27 MOROCCO AND ECOWAS: Picking Cherries and 32 Dismantling Core Principles Centre for Democracy and Development W ebsit e: www .cddw estafrica.or g 16, A7 Street, Mount Pleasant Estate, : [email protected] Jabi-Airport Road, Mbora District, : @CDDWestAfrica Abuja, FCT. P.O.Box 14385 www.facebook.com 234 7098212524 Centr efor democracy .anddev elopment Kindly send us your feed back on this edition via: [email protected] Cover picture source: Other pictures source: Internet The Centre for Democracy and Development and the Open Society Initiative for West Africa are not responsible for the views expressed in this publication Chukwuemeka Eze makes the argument that Editorial Morocco's application to join ECOWAS is moved by his December, the Economic Community of self-interest. Morocco is seeking to position itself as a West African States (ECOWAS) has to decide continental power sitting at the top of the political whether Morocco's application to join should and economic table in Africa. By joining ECOWAS T Morocco would have additional opportunities and be accepted or thrown out. Jibrin Ibrahim makes the case that ECOWAS should not allow itself to be benefits in the international community and would stampeded into accepting Morocco into its fold also benefit from the Arab League quota as well as without thinking through the implications for its core West African quota. -
Speaking from the Middle Ground: Contexts and Intertexts
1 Speaking from the middle ground: contexts and intertexts In 1954 a graduate, one year out of college, was recruited to the Talks Department of the Nigerian Broadcasting Service (NBS). By the age of twenty-eight, he was one of the most powerful media professionals in Nigeria. Before independence in 1960 he had established a second career as a fiction writer with the international publisher Heinemann – in due course, his first novel alone would sell an extraordinary ten million copies. Sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation, he celebrated his thirtieth birthday by embarking on an international tour that would help to establish him as one of the most influential voices in contemporary world literature. How should Chinua Achebe’s spectacular rise to prominence be understood? In Nigeria in the 1950s, the cultural field was undergoing profound, multidimensional change, as practices, values and assumptions previously taken for granted by producers and consumers in the media and the arts were rapidly redefined. With the systematic withdrawal of the British from public institutions, opportunities presented themselves to that first cohort of Nigerian graduates that must have seemed incred- ible to their parents’ generation. In this sense, from a historical point of view Achebe arrived on the scene at precisely the right moment. In broadcasting, the process of ‘Nigerianisation’ that preceded independence had produced an urgent demand for young, well-educated, home-grown talent, in exactly the form he exemplified. At the same time, in international publishing, decolonisation posed major challenges for big companies such Morrison_Achebe.indd 1 26/05/2014 12:03 2 Chinua Achebe as Longman and Oxford University Press. -
The Changing Roles of Traditional Institutions in Igala Land During the Colonial Period
POLAC HISTORICAL REVIEW Vol. 4 No 2 July – December 2020 Pages 121 – 135 ISSN: 2476 – 8049 Website: www.npaw-jhss.com.ng The Changing Roles of Traditional Institutions in Igala Land during the Colonial Period Abdullahi, Musa Yusuf, Ph.D Federal University Lokoja, Kogi State and Achoba Fidelis Ph.D Abstract In almost every society, people were governed through an institution adopted and acceptable to all. Such institutions gained legitimacies through royalty. Traditional institutions were and remained the only legitimate authority in most societies of Nigeria. They were revered, respected and obeyed by all. In some societies they held the power of life and death over their subjects and their courts remained the highest court in the land. In reciprocity, the traditional authorities provided the needed security and protection to the peoples. However, this old tradition of kingship faced enormous challenges arising from the growing influence of modern technology which propelled the move for contacts between the indigenous peoples in Nigeria and those branded as “super human”- the Whites. The emergence of the White Colonialist beginning from the 19th Century had ushered in a change that shook the foundation of Royal or Traditional institutions in Nigeria. This paper looks at the historical narratives of interactions between the indigenous peoples and the alien Colonialist that shook the foundation of traditional institutions among the Igala people of Central Nigeriaand sustained even by the post- colonial successive administrations in Nigeria. Introduction Traditional institutions are an aged long institution cherished, respected and carriedwith a sense of responsibilities and royal patronage. In most settlements Africa either at a micro or macro level, people findit a sense of duty to rally round someone who stands for them, be their mouthpiece and possibly defend them as the case may be. -
Początek, Zderzenie, Ghana '58
Ryszard Kapuściński HEBAN Początek, zderzenie, Ghana '58 Przede wszystkim rzuca się w oczy światło. Wszędzie - światło. Wszędzie -jasno. Wszędzie - słońce. Jeszcze wczoraj, ociekający deszczem, jesienny Londyn. Ociekający deszczem samolot. Zimny wiatr i ciemność. A tu, od rana całe lotnisko w słońcu, my wszyscy - w słońcu. Dawniej, kiedy ludzie wędrowali przez świat pieszo, jechali na wierzchowcach albo płynęli statkami, podróż przyzwyczajała ich do zmiany. Obrazy ziemi przesuwały się przed ich oczami wolno, scena świata obracała się ledwie-ledwie. Podróż trwała tygodniami, miesiącami. Człowiek miał czas, żeby zżyć się z innym otoczeniem, z nowym krajobrazem. Klimat też zmieniał się etapami, stopniowo. Nim podróżnik dotarł z chłodnej Europy do rozpalonego równika, miał już za sobą przyjemne ciepło Las Palmas, upały El-Mahary i piekło Zielonego Przylądka. Dzisiaj nic nie zostało z tych gradacji! Samolot gwałtownie wyrywa nas ze śniegu i mrozu i jeszcze tego samego dnia rzuca w rozpaloną otchłań tropiku. Nagle, ledwie przetarliśmy oczy, jesteśmy wewnątrz wilgotnego piekła. Od razu zaczynamy się pocić. Jeżeli przylecieliśmy z Europy zimą- zrzucamy palta, zdejmujemy swetry. To pierwszy gest inicjacji nas, ludzi Pomocy, po przybyciu do Afryki. Ludzie Północy. Czy pomyśleliśmy, że ludzie Północy stanowią na naszej planecie wyraźną mniejszość? Kanadyjczycy i Polacy, Litwini i Skandynawowie, część Amerykanów i Niemców, Rosjanie i Szkoci, Lapończycy i Eskimosi, Ewenkowie i Jakuci - lista nie jest tak bardzo długa. Nie wiem, czy obejmuje ona w sumie więcej niż pięćset milionów ludzi: mniej niż dziesięć procent mieszkańców globu. Natomiast ogromna większość żyje w cieple, całe życie grzeje się w słońcu. Zresztą człowiek narodził się w słońcu, jego najstarsze ślady znaleziono w ciepłych krajach. -
International Journal of Arts and Humanities(IJAH) Bahir Dar- Ethiopia
IJAH 5(3), S/NO 18, JUNE, 2016 190 International Journal of Arts and Humanities (IJAH) Bahir Dar- Ethiopia Vol. 5(3), S/No 18, June, 2016: 190-196 ISSN: 2225-8590 (Print) ISSN 2227-5452 (Online) DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/ijah.v5i3.16 A Study of the Origin of an Indigenous Community in Central Nigeria: Interrogating Akpoto-Igala Phenomenon Abdullahi, M. Yusufu Department of History & International Studies Federal University, Lokoja Kogi State, Nigeria Phone: +2348032864234; +2348050204538 E-mail: [email protected] Abstract The Igala lives in a deciduous forest belt to the south and open savannah vegetation to the north. They occupy a triangular tract of land located at the confluence of rivers Niger and Benue. The Igala, like many other ethnic groups in Nigeria, holds several myths and traditions concerning their probable place of origin. Various attempts at tracing the origin of the people have elicited as many traditions as are scholars who attempted to unravel the origin of the people. This paper is therefore, an attempt to examine the various arguments on the origin and the place of Akpoto in the traditions of the people. Introduction In virtually every society in Africa, serious consideration is given to one’s place of origin. The society views it as an abnormality if one cannot trace his place of origin. Even in traditional political title taking, the ability for any contender to trace his Copyright © IAARR 2016: www.afrrevjo.net/ijah Indexed African Journals Online (AJOL) www.ajol.info IJAH 5(3), S/NO 18, JUNE, 2016 191 genealogy to the founding father of the clan is considered one of the basic pre requisite or eligibility to such throne. -
USDA/FAS Food for Progress LIFFT-Cashew
USDA/FAS Food for Progress LIFFT-Cashew SeGaBi Cashew Value Chain Study 2 March 2018 CONTACT Katarina Kahlmann Regional Director, West Africa TechnoServe [email protected] +1 917 971 6246 +225 76 34 43 74 Melanie Kohn Chief of Party, LIFFT-Cashew Shelter For Life International 1 [email protected] +1-763-253-4082 TABLE OF CONTENTS ACRONYMS 4 DEFINITION OF TECHNICAL TERMS 8 1 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 10 2 INTRODUCTION 13 3 METHODOLOGY 15 3.1 DESK RESEARCH AND LITERATURE REVIEW 15 3.2 DATA COLLECTION 16 3.3 ANALYSIS AND REPORT WRITING 16 3.4 A NOTE ON SENEGALESE AND GAMBIAN CASHEW SECTOR INFORMATION 17 4 GENERAL CASHEW BACKGROUND INFORMATION 18 4.1 PRODUCTION 18 4.2 SEASONALITY 20 4.3 PROCESSING 22 4.4 CASHEW AND CLIMATE CHANGE 24 5 OVERVIEW AND TRENDS OF GLOBAL CASHEW SECTOR 26 5.1 GLOBAL KERNEL DEMAND 26 5.2 PRODUCTION 31 5.3 PROCESSING 36 5.4 SUMMARY AND OUTLOOK 40 6 REGIONAL OVERVIEW 44 6.1 REGIONAL RCN TRADE 46 6.2 REGIONAL POLICIES AND COLLABORATION 50 6.3 ACCESS TO FINANCE 51 6.4 MARKET INFORMATION SYSTEMS 56 7 GUINEA-BISSAU VALUE CHAIN ANALYSIS 58 7.1 VALUE CHAIN OVERVIEW 61 7.2 SECTOR ORGANIZATIONS 64 7.3 PRODUCTION 67 7.4 RCN TRADE 74 7.5 PROCESSING 76 7.6 MARKET LINKAGES 82 7.7 KERNEL MARKETS 83 8 SENEGAL VALUE CHAIN ANALYSIS 85 8.1 VALUE CHAIN OVERVIEW 86 2 8.2 SECTOR ORGANIZATIONS 89 8.3 PRODUCTION 90 8.4 RCN TRADE 100 8.5 PROCESSING 101 8.6 MARKET LINKAGES 106 8.7 KERNEL MARKETS 107 9 THE GAMBIA VALUE CHAIN ANALYSIS 109 9.1 VALUE CHAIN OVERVIEW 110 9.2 SECTOR ORGANIZATIONS 113 9.3 PRODUCTION 114 9.4 RCN TRADE 119 9.5 PROCESSING 120 -
My Quest for an Internet
1 T h e L ast Speaker of Igbo Has Died! © PHILIP EMEAGWALI My Quest for an Internet In the 11th installment of our weekly series at emeagwali.com, we walk down memory lane to March 26, 1974. The scenario: Philip Chukwurah Emeagwali “discovers” that black Americans no longer speak their native African languages. The First Africans in America Transcribed and edited from a lecture delivered by Philip Chukwurah Emeagwali. The unedited video is posted at emeagwali.com. I did not know that the first Africans arrived in Jamestown, Virginia, in 1614. I thought Nnamdi Azikiwe, my hometown hero, was one of the first (Zik nwa jelu obodo oyibo). He was in Storer College, Virginia, in the 1920s, 50 years before my arrival in the United States. Three hundred and sixty years (360) earlier, Africans arrived in the United States, via Portugal. Africans arrived in Portugal, as slaves, 170 years before their arrival in the United States. Lagos is a Portuguese word. Madam Tinubu (of Tinubu Square, Lagos) was a wealthy 19th century slave-trader. Pidgin-English was invented to trade with Portuguese. My first awareness of black America came in 1968 from reading the classic “Up From Slavery “ by Booker T. Washington. I read it as a 13-year-old refugee living in a refugee camp located at Saint Joseph’s Primary School, Awka-Etiti, Biafra. So for a period, I carried the image of Africans in the United States, who could still speak some African languages, two centuries after they were liberated from slavery. http://emeagwali.com ™ [email protected] 2 T h e L ast Speaker of Igbo Has Died! © PHILIP EMEAGWALI As I remember, the first time I saw black Americans in everyday context was in 1972 in Jet magazine in Ibuzor. -
Fundamental Linguistic Information on English, Igala and Hausa Languages
World Wide Journal of Multidisciplinary Research and Development WWJMRD 2017; 3(12): 409-419 www.wwjmrd.com International Journal Peer Reviewed Journal Fundamental Linguistic Information on English, Igala Refereed Journal Indexed Journal and Hausa Languages UGC Approved Journal Impact Factor MJIF: 4.25 e-ISSN: 2454-6615 Unubi, Sunday Abraham, Yusuf, Sadiya Unubi, Sunday Abraham Abstract Department of Igala Language This paper explores the fundamental linguistic information on English, Igala and Hausa languages. and Culture, School of As it is often said, information is power. The fundamental information on these languages as Languages, Kogi State College of Education, P. M. B. 1033 provided by the researchers here includes how their names came to be, their locations and Ankpa, Nigeria ethnographies, their genetic and typological classifications as well as their sociolinguistic profiles and dialectal issues. Of course, this typological and philological linguistic information is highly necessary Yusuf, Sadiya for linguists and language enthusiasts as it brings to their fingertips in just a single article such Department of Hausa information that is basic for any kind of study in these languages under focus here and other Language, School of languages of the world. Languages, Kogi State College of Education, P. M. B. 1033 Keywords: English, Igala and Hausa. Ankpa, Nigeria Introduction At any level of linguistic study (whether phonology, morphology, syntax, pragmatics or sociolinguistics) of any language, supplying the basic or fundamental linguistic information about such language is of utmost importance, and should be the usual practice. This is because such language did not just fall from the sky. It actually belongs to a particular branch of the tree of family of languages typologically.