Journal of African Studies
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Volume 2009, Issue 75
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  • The Practices of Making Self-Image Under Social Discrimination
    A Case Study of the Manjo in Kafa, Southwestern Ethiopia
    Sayuri Yoshida
    2009 Volume 2009 Issue 75 Pages 1-16
    Published: December 31, 2009
    Released on J-STAGE: January 18, 2013
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.11619/africa.2009.75_1
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    This article examines how a socially-discriminated minority group in Ethiopia is trying to establish a new self-image, using religious context and denying their old image which has been made by the majority, under the social, economical and political changes of Ethiopia. The Manjo who live in the Kafa Zone, of southwestern Ethiopia, has been socially discriminated by the Kafa, the majority in the Kafa Zone. The Manjo were formerly hunters, though they are farmers now. Recently, most of the Manjo have started to convert to Christianity, particularly Protestantism, while the Kafa Zone is strongly influenced by the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. The Manjo explain the change of their life style, by referring to their conversion to Protestantism. However, actually, changes of social life among the Manjo are caused by political, economical and social changes of the Ethiopian state. In this article, I provide ethnographic descriptions of the social changes among the Manjo, thereby considering the possibility of practices by socially-discriminated minorities on their own initiative for improvement in the relationship with the majority groups.
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  • Interactive Relationship between Contemporary African Art and their Society
    The Case of Malian Artists Group Bogolan Kasobane
    Miku Ito
    2009 Volume 2009 Issue 75 Pages 17-28
    Published: December 31, 2009
    Released on J-STAGE: January 18, 2013
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.11619/africa.2009.75_17
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    Groupe Bogolan Kasobane is a Malian artists group who used traditional mud-dying techniques bogolan in their art works. Traditional bogolan have faced the crisis of disappearance when Kasobane began their carrier as contemporary artists from 1978. But now, it is popular among Malians as art, fashion, and souvenir for tourists and said one of Malian national symbols. It can be said the practices of Kasobane gave great influence to this movement of “bogolan revival” from around 1990.
    The characteristics of Kasobane’s activities are summarized as follows; 1) appropriation the bogolan techniques for their art works, 2) research and study of traditional bogolan techniques, 3) practicing group work in their art production, 4) referring to the contemporary social situations in their works, and 5) positive strategy for appealing their practices. In the practices of Kasobane, we can find the influences of contemporary West African art led by Senegalese “Ecole de Dakar” artists based on concept of Negtirude of the first President Senghor. And Kasobane’s collectivism was their way of artistic responding and managing Mali’s social and economical difficulties after independence.
    Their bogolan art became one of sources of following bogolan revival movement .We can find an interactive relationship between their art and society the artists live in.
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  • Significance of Plant Nutrients and Secondary Metabolites to the Livestock Feeding Selectivity
    A Case of the Turkana Pastoralists in Northwestern Kenya
    Wataru Shoji
    2009 Volume 2009 Issue 75 Pages 29-39
    Published: December 31, 2009
    Released on J-STAGE: January 18, 2013
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.11619/africa.2009.75_29
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    In the arid regions where pastoralists live, various plants have a heterogeneous distribution that livestock selectively feed on. At the same time, humans impose control on the feeding selectivity of livestock by regulating day-trip herding areas. This paper explores the factors that affect feeding selectivity of the livestock kept by the Turkana, a pastoral people living in northwestern Kenya. The paper examines the vegetation of the rangeland, the day-trip herding routes, and the feeding behavior of goats and camels.
    Day-trip herding of goat and camel herds were observed. Goats grazed on several types of plant in a day, while camels consumed one to two plant species a day. However, both goats and camels fed on more than a few plant species through the observation period, because camels selected different plant species day after day. Looking at tannin contents of plants fed on by goats and camels, it is suggested that both goats and camels tend to avoid plants which contain tannin more than a certain value of threshold. This may indicate that goats and camels feed on more than a few plants and keep tannin ingestion low so that negative effects of plant secondary metabolites are decreased.
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