Download or read book East African Contours written by Hassan Arero and published by Horniman Museum Publications. This book was released on 2005 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Contours of Community on the East African Coast written by David Patrick Bresnahan and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation maps out a new approach to studying small-scale societies and their place in global historical narratives by examining the history of coastal East Africa's immediate interior from the first millennium to the 1800s, in particular the Mijikenda-speaking societies that live adjacent to the Swahili port city of Mombasa, Kenya. Drawing insights from comparative historical linguistics, oral traditions, archaeology, and archival records, I demonstrate that while Mombasa has been a hub of Indian Ocean commercial activity for over a millennium, the communities that live only kilometers away have for just as long rejected the signifiers of Indian Ocean cosmopolitanism that pervade the urban center's social, economic, and religious life. Mijikenda speakers shrunk their settlements at the same moments that Mombasa urbanized; they were receptive to the ritual knowledge of outsiders but rejected Islam; and they pioneered long-distance inland trade routes that transformed East Africa's economy, but only participated selectively in maritime commerce. I argue that Mijikenda speakers' divergences from their Swahili neighbors helped to lay a foundation for commercial expansions across coastal East Africa and ultimately enabled the region to integrate into global networks. I conceptualize my approach to East Africa's Indian Ocean littoral as a history of what I term "global dissonance," which explores how disconnecting from certain social or economic networks is not an act of self-isolation, but generates new possibilities within other mosaics of interaction. Departing many global histories that focus primarily on integration, such as the literature on Swahili urban centers and Islamic maritime networks of the Indian Ocean world, focusing on dissonance illuminates new narratives, such as the transformations in social and economic life that occurred when global maritime networks went into decline in the mid-first and mid-second millennium CE. By foregrounding the actions of small-scale societies and places seldom visible in regional macro-narratives, this study identifies new processes through which the coast of East Africa became a part of the Indian Ocean world.
Download or read book Map Reading for East Africa written by David Newcombe McMaster and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Area Studies in East African Geography written by K. J. Hargrave and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Climate of East Africa written by John F. Griffiths and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book South America Central America and Africa written by Rolf Bohme and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 535 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Topographic mapping plays a basic and important role within the extensive field of cartography. In recent years, this type of mapping has become somewhat neglected and available literature is normally restricted to details concerning the programmes of individual countries often presented in the form of monographs. Topographic maps are essential tools for use in development projects, resource exploitation, the planning of construction, infrastructure and recreation. They also give detailed illustration of the relative degrees of development of areas within a landscape and are thus unique in demonstrating the cultural status of a country. This book is the second of three volumes and gives details and examples of topographic maps from Central and South America and Africa. The information supplied for each country consists of a text, including a brief history of the development of topographic mapping, geodetic data, map scales and series, as well as extracts of maps and index sheets illustrating the present status of map coverage within that country. There is currently no other work employing the approach adopted in assembling this inventory. This work is a comprehensive and important reference and source book for information in the field of topographic mapping.
Download or read book A Sketch Map History of East Africa written by J. C. Ssekamwa and published by Hyperion Books. This book was released on 1984 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Inventory of World Topographic Mapping South America Central America and Africa written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book East African Community written by John Bruce Howell and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Compendium of community and indigenous strategies for climate change adaptation written by Mwenge Kahinda, J., Bahal’okwibale, P. M., Budaza, N., Mavundla, S., Nohayi, N.N., Nortje, K., Boroto, R.J. and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 2021-10-27 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Climate change is a major challenge for life on Earth. It is mainly manifested through modifications of average temperature, rainfall intensity and patterns, winds and solar radiation. These modifications significantly affect basic resources, such as land and water resources. Populations at disproportionately higher risk of adverse consequences with global warming of 1.5°C and beyond include disadvantaged and vulnerable populations, some indigenous peoples, and local communities dependent on agricultural or coastal livelihoods (IPCC, 2018). Therefore, adaptation measures are recommended in order to cope with climate change. Indigenous peoples have developed practices for climate change adaptation, based on their long-term experience with adverse climatic effects. There was thus a need to identify such practices as they could be effectively mainstreamed in community-based adaptation programmes. This report makes an inventory of indigenous and community adaptation practices across the world. The inventory was mainly done through literature review, field work and meetings with selected organisations. The case studies documented are categorized in five technologies and practices themes, including: (1) Weather forecasting and early warning systems; (2) Grazing and Livestock management; (3) Soil and Water Management (including cross slope barriers); (4) Water harvesting (and storage practices); (5) Forest Management (as a coping strategy to water scarcity), and; (6) Integrated wetlands and fisheries management. These were then related to the corresponding main agro-ecological zones (AEZ), namely arid, semi-arid, sub-humid, humid, highlands and coastal and wetlands. The AEZ approach was considered as an entry-point to adopting or adapting an existing indigenous strategy to similar areas. Challenges that threaten the effectiveness of indigenous and community adaption strategies were identified. These challenges include climate change itself (which is affecting the indicators and resources used by communities), human and livestock population growth (which is increasing pressure on natural resources beyond their resilience thresholds), current institutional and political settings (which limit migrants’ movements and delimits pieces of usable land per household), cultural considerations of communities (such as taboos and spiritual beliefs), and the lack of knowledge transfer to younger communities. Indigenous knowledge provides a crucial foundation for community-based adaptation strategies that sustain the resilience of social-ecological systems at the interconnected local, regional and global scales. In spite of challenges and knowledge gaps, these strategies have the potential of being strengthened through the adoption and adaptation of introduced technology from other communities or modern science. Attention to these strategies is already being paid by several donor-funded organisations, although in an uncoordinated manner.
Download or read book Topographic Maps and Sketch Mapping written by James Kip Finch and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Limnology Climatology and Paleoclimatology of the East African Lakes written by Thomas C Johnson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-08-13 with total page 679 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The large lakes of the East African Rift Valley are among the oldest on Earth, and are vital resources for the people of their basins. They are unique among the large lakes of the world in terms of their sensitivity to climatic change, rich and diverse populations of endemic species, circulation dynamics and water-column chemistry, and long, continuous records of past climatic change. A comprehensive study of the large African lakes is long overdue. The scientific justification for such an effort is noted in the previous paragraph and is illustrated in great detail in this volume. Societal need for the sustainable utilization of these lakes offers an even more compelling reason for examination of biological food webs, water quality, and past climate variability in East Africa. The lakes provide the most important source of protein for the people of the African Rift Valley, and fish populations are shifting dramatically in response to fishing pressure, introduction of exotic species, land use impact on water quality, and perhaps climatic change. Current estimates of primary productivity, the underpinning of the food resource, are extremely crude and based on only a few spot measurements.
Download or read book East Africa written by William Thomas Wilson Morgan and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: General study of the peoples and resources of East Africa - covers history, population, ethnic groups, physical geography, geology, soil types, climate, water requirements of crops, natural resources, nature conservation, agriculture, land tenure, forestry, fishery, industry, economic development, the organization of research, land utilization, etc. Illustrations, maps, references and statistical tables.
Download or read book East African Wildlife written by Philip Briggs and published by Bradt Travel Guides. This book was released on 2008 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new visitor's guide provides a colorful overview of the region s variety of large mammals together with an insight into their habits and habitats."
Download or read book Kenya Gazette written by and published by . This book was released on 1959-09-01 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Kenya Gazette is an official publication of the government of the Republic of Kenya. It contains notices of new legislation, notices required to be published by law or policy as well as other announcements that are published for general public information. It is published every week, usually on Friday, with occasional releases of special or supplementary editions within the week.
Download or read book The Surveying and Mapping of British East Africa 1890 1946 written by Gerald McGrath and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Area Studies in East African Geography written by K. J. Hargrave and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
