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  JWSR v6n1-St-Hilaire-Global Incorporation and Cultural Survival
The Saramacca, Matawai and Kwinti of south-central Suriname, and the Ndjuka, Paramacca and Aluku of the southeastern region remain distinct tribal entities whose autonomous political status finds support in eighteenth and nineteenth-century peace treaties and in historical relations between the coastal government centered in Paramaribo and the leaders of the different tribes.
The Ndjuka have 14 lo, the Saramacca 12, the Matawai 4, the Paramacca 4, the Aluku 7 and the Kwinti 2 (Hoogbergen 1990).
The destruction and pacification of the Aluku marked the end of the Maroons as a disruptive element in coastal society (Goslinga 1990).
jwsr.ucr.edu /archive/vol6/number1/sthilaire/sthilaire_print.shtml   (10683 words)

  
 Women footballers want the (shaving) cream
When Eniolla Aluku’s law exams at Brunel University in west London clashed with an important match, the 19-year-old English striker had to put her studies first and did not play.
Aluku has 16 caps and three goals at international level but says committing to football would be ‘like jumping off a cliff’.
Aluku says it would be encouraging to see a sponsor really do something with the team.
fmwf.com /newsarticle.php?id=844&cat=6   (907 words)

  
 Rift Valley Province | TSC sacks 21 workers
According to local district education officer Martin Aluku, the teachers had earlier been cautioned but had chosen to ignore the warnings.
Aluku was speaking to more than 300 teachers at Litein AIC Secondary School, who had been promoted from PI to approved teacher 4 after staying in one grade for the last 15 years.
He said some of the teachers who had been interdicted had absconded duty and their whereabouts was not known.
www.eastandard.net /archives/july/mon12072004/provincial/rift.valley/rift_valley01_copy(1).htm   (197 words)

  
 7/31: African Anglicans talk about poverty, AIDS and homosexuality
His concern was echoed by Nema Aluku, of the CAPA AIDS initiative.
Aluku spoke of the growing number of orphans who have lost parents to AIDS and talked about a new AIDS initiative in Kenya.
Panel members were quizzed on their views on the proposed election of the Rev. Canon Gene Robinson as bishop in the wake of well-publicized statements against homosexuality by a coalition of 26 African bishops earlier in the week.
www.edow.org /news/window/special/generalconvention/0731africananglicans.html   (408 words)

  
 SILEWP 1996-003
The phenomenon with which this paper is concerned is a morphophonological one, both synchronically unusual and diachronically puzzling.
Each of these is spoken by a society of escaped slaves formed during the mid to late eighteenth century (Price 1976:31), now living in eastern Suriname in close proximity to and in continual contact with the Ndyukas.
Finally, Kwinti is another creole of central Suriname, resembling Saramaccan and Matawai in some ways and Ndyuka, Paramaccan, and Aluku in some ways (Huttar 1988; but see Smith 1993 for a reappraisal).
www.sil.org /silewp/1996/003/silewp1996-003.html   (4090 words)

  
 Ethnologue: Surinam
Speakers of Aluku are along the French Guiana border and in French Guiana.
Aluku has more French influence than Paramaccan does.
Further removed from Aukaans than Aluku and Paramaccan.
www.christusrex.org /www3/ethno/Suri.html   (693 words)

  
 Episcopal News Service
CAPA HIV/AIDS Programme Co-ordinator, Nema Aluku, will be travelling to Geneva, Switzerland, next week to represent the Anglican Church in Africa, which is increasingly becoming an influential partner in the war against AIDS.
Ms Aluku told CAPA e-bulletin that with a network of over 300 hospitals, health centers and dispensaries across Africa, the Anglican Church had the potential of making a big difference in implementing treatment for people living with HIV/AIDS.
She noted that most of the health facilities ran by the Church were in rural dioceses, where governments offer inadequate health services.
www.episcopalchurch.org /3577_39884_ENG_HTM.htm   (216 words)

  
 Aluku Maroon Storytelling Tradition
To introduce students to the Aluku Maroon storytelling tradition used by community members to teach Aluku Maroon children about their history, culture, and moral and spiritual values.
"Jaguar and Anansi" is an Aluku folktale as told by Adolphe Anelli, and translated into French by Serge Anelli.
Aluku Maroon children learn Anansi stories from their family and friends.
www.folklife.si.edu /resources/maroon/educational_guide/79.htm   (1195 words)

  
 Library of Congress Information Bulletin - May 31, 1993   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Symposium participants included Mickey Hart; AFC Director Alan Jabbour; Aluku Maroon musicians Aleina Apalobi and Sephiro Mais; filmmaker Diane Kitchen, who premiered "Roots and Thorns," her new film on the Ashaninka of Peru; ethnomusicologists Kenneth Bilby, Steven Feld, James McKee and Thomas Vennum; and Jason Clay of Cultural Survival.
Cassettes and CDs were given to Aluku musicians Sephiro Mais and Aleina Apalobi on their return to French Guiana, where they will give them to friends and fellow musicians.
Radio airplay among the Aluku is also assured: one CD copy of "The Spirit Cries" has found its way to TRM, a low-wattage radio/TV station on the Lawa River in the heart of Aluku territory.
www.loc.gov /loc/lcib/93/9311/music.html   (2639 words)

  
 Statement by Gaanman Joachim-Joseph Adochini Paramount Chief of the Aluku (boni) People
But the entire Aluku people have set their sights on a person they believe should speak for them today as their leader.
I send greetings to the President of the United States, with the message that the Aluku people are still alive.
Gaanman Joachim-Joseph Adochini is the newly appointed Paramount Chief of the Aluku Maroons of French Guiana.
www.folklife.si.edu /resources/maroon/educational_guide/57.htm   (812 words)

  
 Suriname Indigenous Health Fund
We provide indigenous people in Suriname’s interior Greenstone Belt region with the materials and technical support they need to self-diagnose the effects of mercury pollution from gold-mining on their community’s and their environment’s health.
Five Amerindian groups (Wayana, Carib, Arowaks,Trio, and Akuiro) and five culturally distinct groups of Maroons (Ndyuka or Aukaner, Saramaka, Paramaka, Aluku or Boni, and Matawai) live along the main rivers in Suriname’s Greenstone Belt region.
They are now being poisoned with mercury as a gold rush draws thousands of foreigners who are mining their lands.
www.sihfund.org   (485 words)

  
 Ethnologue 14 report for language code:DJK
It has been superseded by the corresponding entry in the 15th edition (2005).
Aluku are along the French Guiana border and in French Guiana.
Kwinti is further removed from Aukan than are Aluku and Paramaccan.
www.ethnologue.com /show_language.asp?code=DJK   (124 words)

  
 Ndyuka - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It presently has somewhat less than a hundred thousand speakers.
Among the varieties of Ndyuka are Paramaccan and Aluku.
The Afaka script was devised for Ndyuka in 1908.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ndyuka   (117 words)

  
 AsianWeek.com: A&E: The First Steps -- Emerging Artists from Japan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
In a country where popular culture amongst the young is particularly inundated with Western (primarily American) influences, it is refreshing to see that there are youth today who cherish the rich historical and cultural past of Japan.
Along the same vein as Memory of Media is Sayaka Akiyama’s project, Aluku (aluku is “to walk” in Japanese).
The resulting Aluku project is spawned from Akiyama’s dilemma of conceptualizing a walk in a tangible manner, while simultaneously capturing a period of time.
www.asianweek.com /2001_04_06/ae1_firststeps.html   (1103 words)

  
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He divides them into two main groups on the basis of cultural and linguistic differences, as well as location: (1) the Eastern Tribes, consisting of the Djuka (Aucaner, Awka), the Aluku (Aluku nenge, Boni), and the Paramaka (Paramacca); and (2) the Central Tribes, consisting of the Saramaka (Saramacca), the Matawai, and the Kwinti (cf.
The Aluku, Matawai, and Paramaka are much smaller, with estimated populations of around 2,000 each.
Since the colonial government signed treaties with the Djuka, Saramaka, and Matawai [an offshoot of the Saramaka] in the mid-eighteenth century, and placed the Aluku, Paramaka, and Kwinti in "protectorate" relationships under these treaty tribes during the nineteenth century, a loose framework of indirect rule has obtained.
lucy.ukc.ac.uk /EthnoAtlas/Hmar/Cult_dir/Culture.7834   (1065 words)

  
 Daily Nation On the Web   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The students, who had boycotted classes for the second day, want the Ministry of Education to transfer the principal, Mr Kamau Njacha.
Nairobi Provincial Director of Education C. Aluku addressed the students outside the school.
Mr Aluku said the ministry would consider the students' complaints, adding that a board meeting yesterday was to discuss the issue.
www.nationaudio.com /News/DailyNation/20062000/News/News17.html   (154 words)

  
 Anglican   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Women are still underrepresented in the Church, she explained, and she is working to eliminate this “invisible wall in the Church.” A serious problem for females is the lack of equal access to education, which her ministry has focused on.
Nema Aluku, an HIV/AIDS programme coordinator with the Council of Anglican Provinces, spoke of the harrowing situation facing Africans.
Witnessing the work done by the women at the presentation, Aluku exclaimed, “We are a great army out here.” As women, she continued, “we are pregnant with ideas, but we need to put them into reality, before a child becomes a statistic.”
eny.dioceseny.org /0304/Anglican.html   (1145 words)

  
 The Witness: The Church's One Foundation
For the past two years, the Anglican Church's AIDS work in Africa has been coordinated by Nema Aluku, a tireless Kenyan organizer who worked diligently throughout the continent.
Last month, however, Aluku left her employment with the Council of Anglican Provinces in Africa (CAPA) to work with another religious NGO.
We call on CAPA to quickly fill her position in the Nairobi office, as without staffing this imperative work cannot go on.
thewitness.org /article.php?id=732   (937 words)

  
 The Witness: Keep the AIDS Candle Burning
According to Nema Aluku of the Council of Anglican Provinces in Africa (CAPA), the Candlelight Memorial, sponsored by the Global Health Council, is the world's largest annual grassroots AIDS event.
Writing from Kenya, Aluku indicates, "This event honors the memory of people who have died from AIDS and demonstrates support for people living with HIV and AIDS.
The candlelight Coalition uses the event to raise awareness and to attract volunteers.
thewitness.org /article.php?id=520   (373 words)

  
 Daily Nation on the Web
This wastage, which stands at 38 per cent, is a result of the limited number of schools in the district, the Rift Valley provincial director of education, Mr Ijait Aluku, said yesterday.
He appealed to investors to build more secondary schools to help alleviate the acute shortage of places for primary leavers.
Mr Aluku called upon headteachers to stop striving for impressive mean scores in national examination and instead shift attention to scoring top grades so that students can easily join high schools and universities.
www.nationaudio.com /News/DailyNation/06062002/News/News29.html   (279 words)

  
 Anglican Delegation to the UNCSW
CAPA HIV/AIDS Programme Co-ordinator, Nema Aluku, travelled to Geneva, Switzerland, to represent the Anglican Church in Africa, which is increasingly becoming an influential partner in the war against AIDS.
She noted that most of the health facilities run by the Church were in rural dioceses, where governments offer inadequate health services.
-- Nema Aluku was one of the 55 women who formed the Anglican Delegation to the UN Commission on the Status of Women in March 2004.
www.er-d.org /32862_49553_ENG_Print.html   (220 words)

  
 Marieke Heemskerk - Dissertation research (1998-9)
Suriname's Maroons form six culturally distinct groups that claim different territories in the rainforest: Ndyuka, Paramaka, Aluku, Saramaka, Matawai, and Kwinti (see map).
The Saramaka and Matawai speak an Afro-Portuguese language dating back to the 17th century that was developed in Central-Suriname on the Portuguese-Jewish plantations.
The languages spoken by the other four groups – Ndjuka, Paramaka Kwinti, and Aluku- are related to Sranantongo, the coastal creole language that was developed on the English plantations around the same time.
www.heemskerk.sr.org /Maroons/Maroons.html   (997 words)

  
 Participation of Anglicans
Two of the speakers were Anglican delegates: Dr Pauline Muchina and Nema Aluku.
Nema Aluku, from Kenya, HIV/AIDS Programme Coordinator, Council of Anglican Provinces in Africa (CAPA).
CAPA is a continental body that brings together all the Anglican National and Cross-National Churches (Provinces) in Africa.
www.iawn.org /UNCSW2004-CSW4D.htm   (1640 words)

  
 NANA Resources N.V. Nana, gold, goud, mining, greenbelt, greenbelt gold Surinam Suriname Naarendorp   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The mining rights of NANA are all within an area that the Aluku’s, a Maroon community, and the Wayana, an indigenous people, consider to be their territory.
In return for scheduled assistance, the community would guarantee that a certain area of the property would be free of any illegal mining activity.
Because this met with little or no success the Aluku leadership called in the assistance of the police and the army, which caused some temporarily animosity between Nana and the Aluku “porknockers”.
www.nanaresources.com /local_relations.htm   (455 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Music Of South And Central Ame [Compilation]: Music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Quite a diversity of cultures, ranging from Native Americans to the free descendants of African slaves brought over by the colonists.
Almost all the music on this CD is "traditional", or at least in the sense that the influence from western culture is minimal to no-existant, so it will please purists.
Alot of it cosists of drumming, especially with the Aluku and Maroons, who were influenced heavily by the African music of their ancestors.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000009ON   (661 words)

  
 SOCIETY | PERSEPECTIVE |Big Brother heads have gone but, hey, the rascals haven’t
And where, in any case, is the headmaster when the rascals are procuring the drugs or gasoline?
Pardon me, but I doubt that boys in my old school could have burned anything under the watch of one Mr Ejait C. Aluku, retired Nairobi Provincial Director of Education and, before that, my headmaster.
Ejait made lighting a cigarette so hard that burning a school dormitory was as good as impossible.
www.eastandard.net /archives/august/sun08082004/society/persepective/occupation.htm   (685 words)

  
 Aluku, Ghana - Location on world map, coordinates and short facts
Aluku, Ghana - Location on world map, coordinates and short facts
/ Explore / Ghana / Locations / Aluku
Maps and coordinates for Aluku, Ghana are approximative and not valid for navigation.
www.traveljournals.net /explore/ghana/map/m2869241/aluku.html   (66 words)

  
 EVERT A. ROBLES art
The two worlds co-exist but only bono or loekoe-man (ritual specialists and medium) usually see and interact with the invisible world.
According to Ndjuka and Aluku Maroons, human beings have an akaa (unchanging essential spirit), a Soul, and a body.
A person is born from the invisible world of the ancestors,
evertrobles.com /ezine2.004.html   (506 words)

  
 Study Questions
The number of nations with democratic governments has __________ in the past 40 years.
Aluku culture was formed by escaped slaves only 350 years ago.
The Clear Answers and Start Over feature requires scripting to function.
wps.prenhall.com /hss_ember_anthropoly_11/0,8853,1222791-content,00.utf8.html   (257 words)

  
 Ethnologue report for Suriname
Population includes 14,353 Aukan, 33 Aluku, 1,156 Paramaccan (1980 census).
Dialects: Further removed from Ndyuka than Aluku and Paramaccan.
Ian Hancock classifies it as Portuguese based rather than English based.
www.ethnologue.com /show_country.asp?name=Suriname   (327 words)

  
 Reference Materials
An online database version of the scholarly record of research in Greco-Roman antiquity.
A lexicon of Aluku, which is spoken by the descendants of escaped Dutch slaves in Suriname and French Guiana.
An analysis of the regional and folk varieties of American English illustrated using oral surveys, written works, and computer-generated maps.
www.neh.gov /projects/reference.html   (819 words)

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