They provided a social security system which covered all their African employes ; ;

Famous ethnographies include The Nuer, by Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard, and The Dynamics of Clanship Among the Tallensi, by Meyer Fortes ; well-known edited volumes include African Systems of Kinship and Marriage and African Political Systems.

The Alps were formed over hundreds of millions of years as the African and Eurasian tectonic plates collided ; the extreme compression caused by the event resulted in marine sedimentation rising and folding into high mountain peaks such as Mont Blanc and the Matterhorn.

Agapanthus africanus ( African lily ; syn.

At the time both South African and South American plants were placed in the same genus ; subsequently they were separated into two different genera.

The more humid regions have a richer vegetation ; dense forest where the rainfall is greatest and variations of temperature least, conditions found chiefly on the tropical coasts, and in the west African equatorial basin with its extension towards the upper Nile ; and savanna interspersed with trees on the greater part of the plateaus, passing as the desert regions are approached into a scrub vegetation consisting of thorny acacias, etc.

Together with earlier arrivals to the United States ( including the indigenous American Indians, Hispanic and Latino Americans, particularly in the West, Southwest, and Texas ; African Americans who came to the United States in the Atlantic slave trade ; and early colonial migrants from Britain, France, Germany, Spain, and elsewhere ), these new waves of immigrants had a pro profound impact on national or regional cuisine.

Amr Diab also won The African Music Awards 2009, Big Apple Music Awards ; Life Achievements Awards: Best Singer of The Year in 2009, and Best Male Act in African Music Awards 2010.

These directives implied precise emphasis on: the search for political coordination with emerging and developing countries, namely India, South Africa, Russia and China ; creation of the Union of South American Nations and its derivative bodies, such as the South American Security Council ; strengthening of Mercosul ; projection at the Doha Round and WTO ; maintenance of relations with developed countries, including the United States ; undertaking and narrowing of relations with African countries ; campaign for the reform of the United Nations Security Council and for a permanent seat for Brazil ; and defense of social objectives allowing for a greater equilibrium between the States and populations.

Highlights of the African collection include the Benin Bronzes, a magnificent brass head of a Yoruba ruler from Ife, Nigeria ; Asante goldwork from Ghana and the Torday collection of Central African sculpture, textiles and weaponry.

File: England ; London-The British Museum, Facade South Front ~-Main Entrance + West Wing-Collonade + The Africa Garden. 2. JPG | African Garden-created by BBC TV programme Ground Force

Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, India, Belize, and various Caribbean and African nations have adopted English common law through reception statutes although they do not inevitably continue to copy English Common Law ; later cases can often draw on decisions in other Common Law jurisdictions.

The second noteworthy characteristic is that the country borders on very different parts of the African continent: North Africa, with its Islamic culture and economic orientation toward the Mediterranean Basin ; West Africa, with its diverse religions and cultures and its history of highly developed states and regional economies ; Northeast Africa, oriented toward the Nile Valley and Red Sea region ; and Central or Equatorial Africa, some of whose people have retained classical African religions while others have adopted Christianity, and whose economies were part of the great Congo River system.

* Sal's African Rockers-Abel Lima ( 1984 )

As for her personal background, the only things initially revealed were that she was physically disabled ( as evidenced by a limp in her gait which was aided by the use of a forearm crutch, caused by Congenital Hip Dysplasia, a Birth Defect, Revealed in S11E14 ), and that she had lived for a period in Africa, which was revealed when a former African boyfriend visited her at the hospital.

Subsequently, Berry's attacker, Karen's African American boyfriend is also brought in an ambulance, dead after a fatal fall.

The eastern branch of the East African Rift, contains much smaller lakes, many of them brackish and without outlet, the only one comparable to those of the western trough being Lake Turkana or Basso Norok.

This alphabet has influenced development of orthographies of many African languages ( serving " as the basis for the transcription " of about 60, by one count ), but not all, and discussions of harmonization of systems of transcription that led to, among other things, adoption of the African reference alphabet.

In Lake Victoria, an isolated lake which formed recently in the African rift valley, over 300 species of cichlid fish adaptively radiated from one parent species in just 15, 000 years.

Afrobeat is now one of the most recognizable music genres in the world and has influenced as many Western musicians as it has African ones with its exuberant style and polyrhythms.

This new identity was based on African ancestry and slave status rather than any one ethnic group.

John Caesar, nicknamed " Black Caesar ", was one of the first people of recent African descent to arrive in Australia.

Following independence in 1975, the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde ( PAIGC ) established a one party political system.

The Central African Republic ( CAR ) is classified as one of the world's least developed countries, with an estimated annual per capita income of $ 700 ( 2009 ).

Sudan was one of the contributors to the peacekeeping force of the he Community of Sahel-Saharan States ( CEN-SAD ) in Central African Republic in 2001-2002.

The Moroccan Muslim explorer Ibn Batutta reported that one African king advised him that nearby people were cannibals ( though this may have been a prank played on Ibn Batutta by the king to fluster his guest ).

Cairo, like many other mega-cities, suffers from high levels of pollution and traffic, but its metro – one of only two metros on the African continent ( the other one being the Algiers Metro ) – also ranks among the fifteen busiest in the world, with over 1, 000 million annual passenger rides.

Realizing that the grammatical structures of Bantu languages are quite different from those of European languages, he was one of the first African linguists of his time to abandon the Euro-centric approach to language description for a more locally grounded one.

Carl Friedrich Michael Meinhof ( July 23, 1857 – February 11, 1944 ) was a German linguist and one of the first linguists to study African languages.

The South Side hosts one of the city's largest parades, the annual African American Bud Billiken Day parade.

Kenya is the first African country to produce a completely processed census within one year after census

Magic in Medicine, which depicts African culture and holistic healing, is considered one of " America's first public scenes of Africa ".

" Romare Bearden described Alston as "... one of the most versatile artists whose enormous skill led him to a diversity of styles ..." Bearden also describes the professionalism and impact that Alston had on Harlem and the African American community: "' was a consummate artist and a voice in the development of African American art who never doubted the excellence of all people's sensitivity and creative ability.

When Catherine of Aragon travelled to London she brought a group of her African attendants with her, including one identified as the trumpeter John Blanke.

Comparative figures for Zambia ( one of the poorest African countries ) and Botswana ( one of the richest ) are 580 km and 3427 km respectively.

He achieved his vision of an all jazz format radio station along with his friend and neighbor John E. Metts, one of the first African Americans in senior radio management.

Field operations were transferred from administrative personnel primarily engaged in other tasks to specially trained teams of full-time African investigators ( three teams, each working in two provinces ).

From a geostructural perspective the Azores is located above an active triple junction between three of the world's large tectonic plates ( the North American Plate, the Eurasian Plate and the African Plate ), a condition that has translated into the existence of many faults and fractures in this region of the Atlantic.

Lula da Silva's recent visit to Africa included State visits to three Portuguese-speaking African nations ( Angola, São Tomé and Príncipe, and Mozambique ).

The three permanent galleries provide a substantial exhibition space for the Museum's African collection comprising over 200, 000 objects.

The country is shaped like a square and borders the Gulf of Guinea on the north Atlantic Ocean to the south ( 515 km of coastline ) and five other African nations on the other three sides, with a total of 3, 110 km of borders: Liberia to the southwest ( 716 km ), Guinea to the northwest ( 610 km ), Mali to the north-northwest ( 532 km ), Burkina Faso to the north-northeast, and Ghana to the east ( 668 km ).

A selection of three common dairy products made by a South African dairy company: a box of full cream, long life milk, a bottle of strawberry drinking yogurt, and a carton of passion fruit yogurt

African AIDS cases, though, have increased in the last three decades as HIV's prevalence has increased but as malnutrition percentages and poor sanitation have declined in many African regions.

The length within Egypt of the River Nile in its northwards course from three central African sources – the White Nile, the Blue Nile, and the Atbara – totals some 1, 600 km.

It came under artillery fire from the three South African brigade groups and was forced to dig in.

For three decades there are costly and continuous campaigns to suppress the local African rulers.

Map of East Africa showing some of the historically active volcano es ( red triangles ) and the Afar Triangle ( shaded, center ) — a triple junction where three plates are pulling away from one another: the Arabian Plate, and the two parts of the African Plate ( the Nubian and the Somali ) splitting along the East African Rift Zone ( USGS ).

During his career he was nominated for several awards including the BAFTA award for best foreign actor in 1952 for The African Queen and three Academy Awards.

Growing African nationalism and general dissent, particularly in Nyasaland, persuaded Britain to dissolve the Union in 1963, forming three colonies.

After his return to England in 1750, he made three further voyages as captain of the slave-trading ships Duke of Argyle ( 1750 ) and African ( 1752 – 1753 and 1753 – 1754 ).

However, the three nations did form a loose East African Community ( EAC ) in 1967, that maintained the customs union and some common services that they had shared under British rule.

It borders the north Atlantic Ocean to the southwest ( of coastline ) and three other African nations on the other three sides.

In 1938, G. E. Taylor, a South African tourist, filmed something in the loch for three minutes on 16 mm colour film, which was in the possession of Maurice Burton.

Present-day Mali was once part of three West African empires that controlled trans-Saharan trade: the Ghana Empire, the Mali Empire ( from which Mali is named ), and the Songhai Empire.

Mali was once part of three famed West African empires which controlled trans-Saharan trade in gold, salt, slaves, and other precious commodities.

Mali's early history was dominated by three famed Western African empires -- Ghana, Mali or " Manden Kurufa ", and Songhay.

Since 1985, the UMC has been exploring a possible merger with three historically African-American Methodist denominations: the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, and the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church.