And then the Amen corner took hold, re-enacting a form of group participation in worship that stemmed from years before the Greek chorus, spreading down through the African forest, overseas to the West Indies, and then here in Alabama.

Tracing the blues from its African roots among the slaves who were brought to this country and the West Indies, he stressed the close relationship between the early jazz forms and the music of the Negro churches.

They reproduce slowly either by bulb division or seeds and have gradually naturalized from plantings in urban and suburban areas throughout the lower elevations and coastal areas in much of the West Coast of the USA since these environments mimic their native South African habitat.

Most African Americans are of West and Central African descent and are descendants of enslaved Africans within the boundaries of the present United States.

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.

They were from hundreds of tribes across West Africa, and brought with them certain traits of West African music including call and response vocals and complex rhythmic music, as well as syncopated beats and shifting accents.

John C. Cavadini has challenged this notion by attempting to take the Spanish Christology in its own Spanish / North African context in his important study, The Last Christology of the West: Adoptionism in Spain and Gaul, 785 – 820.

Benin is also a member of the Economic Community of West African States ( ECOWAS ).

Listed bonds were partly issued by companies and partly by governments of the West African Monetary and Economic Union ( UEMOA ).

* West African Agricultural Market Observer / Observatoire du Marché Agricole ( RESIMAO ), a project of the West-African Market Information Network ( WAMIS-NET ), provides live market and commodity prices from fifty seven regional and local public agricultural markets across Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d ' Ivoire, Guinea, Niger, Mali, Senegal, Togo, and Nigeria.

Burkina Faso's 15, 3 million people belong to two major West African cultural groups — the Gur ( Voltaic ) and the Mandé.

The Central Bank of the West African States ( BCEAO ) reports that about 41 microfinance institutions ( MFIs ) operate in the country, serving a total of 800, 000 customers.

Burkina Faso's relations with its West African neighbors have improved in recent years.

In September 2007, Economic Community of West African States ( ECOWAS ) intervened to attempt to resolve the dispute over two villages along the Benin-Burkina Faso border that remain from a 2005 ICJ decision.

Some etymologists believe it comes from a dialectal pronunciation of the Portuguese " bandore " or from an early anglicisation of the Spanish word " bandurria ", though other research suggests that it may come from a West African term for a bamboo stick formerly used for the instrument's neck.

Journal of West African Languages, 25 ( 2 ): 3 – 39.

* Journal of West African Languages: Narrow Bantu

" Bongo " is derived from a West African native name.

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

This is significant as Africans came from a vast geographic region, the West African coastline stretching from Senegal to Angola and in some cases from the south east coast such as Mozambique.

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.

Conversely, the islands do not receive the upwellings ( cold streams ) that affect the West African coast, so the air temperature is cooler than in Senegal, but the sea is actually warmer, because the orographic relief of some islands, as Sao Miguel with steep mountains, cover it with rich woods and luxuriant vegetation where the dense moisture condense and soak the plants, rocks, soil, logs, moss etc.

Three living species of elephant are recognized: the African bush elephant, the African forest elephant and the Indian or Asian elephant ; although some group the two African species into one and some researchers also postulate the existence of a fourth species in West Africa.

The North Island Brown Kiwi ; the Okarito Brown Kiwi ( Rowi ), whose distribution is restricted to a single site on the West Coast of the South Island of New Zealand ; and a third distinct population of the North Island Brown Kiwi, the Southern Tokoeka, distributed in the lowland forest to the north of Franz Josef glacier in the South Island and on Stewart Island / Rakiura, with a small population near Haast being another possibly distinct species, the Haast Tokoeka.

The land that was to become Lansing was surveyed as " Township 4 North Range 2 West " in February 1827 in what was then dense forest.

Other members of the same genus include yellow fever virus, West Nile virus, St. Louis encephalitis virus, Japanese encephalitis virus, tick-borne encephalitis virus, Kyasanur forest disease virus, and Omsk hemorrhagic fever virus.

The subspecies is separated by over and the Dahomey Gap, a region of savanna that divides the forest regions of West Africa.

There is a program to bring American chestnut back to the Eastern forest and funded by the American Chestnut Foundation, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, USDA Forest Service, University of West Virginia, Michigan State University, and Cornell University.

Forests are also among the most significant assets of the oblast: about 20 % of the West Siberian forest resources are located in Tomsk Oblast.

Although the largest concentration of trees is now found on the West Coast of the South Island, the biggest trees tend to be in mixed podocarp forest near Taupo ( e. g., Pureora, Waihaha, and Whirinaki Forests ).

* After about 1900, public demand led the federal government to fight forest fires in the American West, and set aside land as national forests and parks to protect them from fires.

The actor Robert Bray, who portrayed forest ranger Corey Stuart in CBS's Lassie from 1964 – 1968 and Simon Kane in ABC's Stagecoach West from 1960 – 1961, retired to Bishop, where he died in 1983 at the age of sixty-five.

In 1961 the Lake County Forest Preserve District announced its plan for a new forest preserve on Kildeer property bounded by West Cuba Road, Quentin Road and Rand Road or what is now known as Pine Valley subdivision.

These would often have a religious underpinning — for example the ' evil forest ' areas of West Africa were forbidden to humans, who were threatened with spiritual attack if they went there.

Along the border of the state forest lies Martha's Vineyard Airport, which Edgartown shares with West Tisbury.

Just south of the forest lies Martha's Vineyard Airport, which the town shares with Edgartown ( although the facilities are mostly in West Tisbury ).

The town also has two portions of state forest near West Royalston.

The city was incorporated in the late 1870s and is situated along the dividing line between the former great deciduous forest of the Northwest Territories to the East, and the great plains to the West, in a region of gentle hills, where the recent geological history is dominated by the recession of the glaciers from the last great Ice Age, with numerous lakes and small rivers about.

In 1875, the best " hard " West Deer Park bricks were selling for $ 7 per 1, 000 delivered, but the plant was destroyed by a forest fire in the spring of 1893.

West of Route 42 the land is a mixture of deciduous ( hardwoods ) and coniferous ( evergreen ) forest.

The-ley in the place name is typical of this section of West Yorkshire, alluding to a forest that was around in medieval times.

In the United Kingdom, other than those run by the Agroforestry Research Trust ( ART ), there are numerous forest garden projects such as the Bangor Forest Garden in Gwynedd, North West Wales.

Within it are the forests Neldoreth or Taur-na-Neldor, the northern beech forest, Nivrim, the West March, an oak forest, Region the main forest, and Arthórien between Aros and Celon.

But this fire, among other devastating drought-year fires in the American West, helped propel new forest management laws, enacted by both the U. S. Congress and local authorities.