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	Gusii language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Gusii language (also known as Ekegusii) is a Bantu language spoken in the Kisii district in western Kenya (between the Kavirondo Gulf of Lake Victoria and the border with Tanzania).
		Gusii is classified as a Central Bantu language, part of the subfamily of Kuria languages labeled E.10 in Guthrie's zonal classification of Bantu languages.
		Phonetic inventory of consonants in Gusii, IPA notation.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gusii (214 words)

	Gusii history - Traditional Music & Cultures of Kenya
		The Gusii, together with the Kuria and Luhya, are among the earliest Bantu groups in Kenya, with at least part of their ancestors having arrived in the southwest of Kenya near Lake Victoria (Nyanza) at the beginning of the first millennium AD.
		During the century that the Gusii were living in the Kano Plains, the Luo invasion of the north-eastern shores of Lake Victoria began, culminating in the total expulsion of the Gusii from the lakeshore by the eighteenth century (the year 1755 is given in some versions, and 1770 in others).
		The Gusii had forgotten that Sakawa had warned them not to oppose the white men, and when the Gusii warriors took their spears to defend their independence many were killed by the British who were fighting with guns.
	www.bluegecko.org /kenya/tribes/gusii/history.htm (3065 words)

	~ The Gusii people ~ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The ancestral Gusii population entered western Kenya from Uganda and then moved on from the foothills of Mount Elgon towards their present lands.
		The crafts of basketry and pottery are practised throughout Gusii.
		In general Gusii culture is a blend of their own ancestral Bantu-speaking one of traits contributed by Luo speakers, and of lesser influences assimilated from the Maasai and Kipsigis.
	www.cam.ac.uk /societies/kenyap/gusii.html (512 words)

	Gusii
		The traditional Gusii house (enyomba) was a round, windowless structure with a framework of thin branches, walls of dried mull, and a conical, thatched roof.
		Gusii infants are raised to understand how to behave according to the codes of shame and respect that apply to their relationships to persons in adjacent generations.
		Gusii relationships with neighboring groups varied over time but were generally peaceful and cooperative with the Luo groups and perpetually hostile with the Kipsigis.
	www.sscnet.ucla.edu /anthro/faculty/fiske/135b/gusii.htm (3548 words)

	kenya tribe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Rising to around 2000 metres, the hills and steep ravines are also one of the most densely populated areas of Kenya, with an average of 500 people per square kilometre, with a peak of 729 recorded in 1989 (probably much more now).
		Their region is one of the most densely populated areas of Kenya, and the Gusii constitute the country's sixth largest ethnic group, comprising around 6.3% of the national population.
		The fertile and abundantly-watered Kisii (or Gusii) Highlands, 50km east of Lake Victoria, Kisii District, Nyanza Province, in south-western Kenya.
	www.kenyacolors.com /kisiiing.htm (912 words)

	Gusii initiation - Traditional Music & Cultures of Kenya
		For the Gusii, the transition from childhood to adulthood is marked by group initiation ceremonies, culminating with circumcision for boys at around the age of twelve, and clitoridectomy for girls, at around the age of eight or nine.
		The Gusii have by far the highest proportion of circumcised women in any Kenyan society, with an estimated 97% of adult women having undergone the operation.
		Each girl going to be initiated would wake up her mother at dawn and ask for a hen or two shillings, as payment for the operator.
	www.bluegecko.org /kenya/tribes/gusii/initiation.htm (1563 words)

	Emotional Learning in Infants: A Cross-Cultural Examination - The Natural Child Project
		For example, Gusii mothers watching videotapes of U.S. mothers were upset by how long it took these mothers to respond to infant crying.
		Although he used this term specifically in describing the Gusii of Kenya, aspects of this model apply to other cultures as well (and perhaps particularly to cultures in which infant mortality is still high or has only recently decreased).
		These mothers engaged in the more exciting types of interactions for only very brief periods of time, and when their infants began to get too aroused and excited they were observed to avert their eyes and/or turn away.
	www.naturalchild.com /research/emotional_learning_infants.html (3011 words)

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		Gusii is an East Nyanza Bantu language (Guthrie’s classification E.42) spoken by at least one million people.
		He has widened our knowledge on the linguistic inventory and structure of the Gusii language considerably, understanding his grammatical description of Gusii as a direct continuation of Wilfred Whiteley’s pioneer work from 1956 and 1960 that, for a long time, had remained the only printed source of the language.
		From the Africanist’s point of view, there are still three major gaps in the research record of Gusii to be filled: a thorough analysis of the prosodological (tonal) system, a comprehensive dictionary and a scholarly edition of local verbal art.
	www.koeppe.de /katalogE/3-89645-026-3.html (282 words)

	Natural History: Our babies, ourselves - infant care in other regions - includes related article on Gusii survival ...
		For the first three to six months, the Gusii mothers were especially vigilant for signs of ill health or slow growth, and they were quick to nurture unusually small or sick infants by feeding and holding them more often.
		Because they were so worried about their children's survival, Gusii parents did not explicitly strive to foster cognitive, social, and emotional development.
		These needs were not neglected, however, because from birth Gusii babies entered an active and responsive interpersonal environment, first with their mothers and young caregivers, and later as part of a group of children.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1134/is_n9_v106/ai_20135599 (1459 words)

	Gusii -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The Gusii probably came to their present highlands from the Mount Elgon region some 500 years ago.
		The Gusii economy comprises a multiplicity of productive activities: they farm pyrethrum and tea as cash crops, as well as millet, corn (maize), cassava,...
		The western districts are populated primarily by the Luo, with the Gusii dominating the eastern...
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9038576?&query=kosova (281 words)

	Kenya, Africa - Amboseli National Park in Kenya (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		As the main center of the region known as the Gusii Highlands, Kisii is also home to the Gusii people.
		The Gusii are a Bantu-speaking people in the middle of a non-Bantu region: the Kipsigis, the Luo, and the Maasai all speak unrelated languages.
		The town was named after Ole Kericho, a Maasai chief killed in the 18th century by the Gusii during a land dispute.
	www.jambokenya.com /jambo/location/whighlnd.htm (294 words)

	Encyclopedia: Gusii
		Luo (also known als Dholuo) is a Western Nilotic language spoken by the Luo people, numbering about 3 million.
		The International Phonetic Alphabet is a phonetic alphabet used by linguists to accurately and uniquely represent each of the wide variety of sounds (phones or phonemes) the human vocal apparatus can produce.
		The following morphophonological alternations occur: The International Phonetic Alphabet is a phonetic alphabet used by linguists to accurately and uniquely represent each of the wide variety of sounds (phones or phonemes) the human vocal apparatus can produce.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Gusii (778 words)

	Kenya Times Newspaper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Not even the rousing welcome that the Orange team later received in Kisii town that was on their way from Gucha moments after the Vice President’s team had left could convince the Nyachae team that a section of his Abagusii people dared support the Orange No camp.
		Political analysts are therefore quick to assert that the peaceful and successful Orange rally at the Gusii stadium in Mr Nyachae’s own Nyaribari Chache Constituency did attest to the emergence of a new socio-political and economic order in Gusii land.
		According to Mr Magara during his address at the Gusii stadium, it is their aspiration as young elites and all other like -minded people in Gusii land to ensure the community sit with other Kenyans.
	www.timesnews.co.ke /08nov05/nwsstory/opinion1.html (872 words)

	Symposium Focuses on Children and Culture
		The activities reminded LeVine of the rituals of the Gusii people he had studied in Kenya, at least in some respects.
		"Among the Gusii you pay your respects with eating and drinking -- and with a minimum of words I might add," quipped LeVine, who is the Roy E. Larsen Professor of Education and Human Development at the Graduate School of Education and a professor of anthropology in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
		Explaining that the Gusii believe that people who die move to a different state of being -- one in which they can influence their children to found new lineages -- Ogembo told symposium participants: "We are not gathered here for a funeral but to commemorate a life.
	www.news.harvard.edu /gazette/1998/10.29/SymposiumFocuse.html (704 words)

	Journal of Third World Studies: roots of differential development in Western Kenya: The introduction of Arabica Coffee, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Planting began in 1934 following the approval of the colonial state the previous year.5 The Gusii highlands, or Gusiiland, were one of the three areas chosen for the initial African coffee planting in Kenya (Embu and Meru were the others).
		Yet the selection of the Gusii highlands for a government-sponsored coffee planting initiative, rather than Vihiga or other regions of western Kenya, was not primarily the result of favorable environmental factors.
		The DC was pleased when permission to plant coffee in the Gusii highlands was granted in May.11 However, when the Department of Agriculture, later in the month, set a limit of only 100 acres of coffee on an experimental basis,12 Buxton was not happy.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3821/is_200204/ai_n9019843 (1069 words)

	Incorporating Parental Goals in Parenting Programs Through Collaborative Relationships with Parents
		The Gusii, traditionally agrarian, changed their goals from wanting children to farm to wanting children to get jobs in the growing cities.
		As a result, Gusii parents began sending their children to formal schooling for longer periods of time and more often.
		The Gusii's changes in the face of problems illustrate the power of parenting goals.
	www.joe.org /joe/2005february/iw2.shtml (1485 words)

	Harvard Researchers Say Children Need Touching and Attention - The Natural Child Project
		The two gained the spotlight in February when they presented their ideas at the American Association for the Advancement of Science's annual meeting in Philadelphia.
		Gusii mothers sleep with their babies and respond rapidly when the baby cries.
		"Gusii mothers watching videotapes of U.S. mothers were upset by how long it took these mothers to respond to infant crying," Commons and Miller said in their paper on the subject.
	www.naturalchild.com /research/harvard_attention.html (847 words)

	Daily Nation On the Web
		Gusii MPs Mr Jimmy Angwenyi, Mr Henry Obwocha and Mr Enock Magara also asked opposition leaders Mr Mwai Kibaki (DP), Mr Wamalwa Kijana (Ford Kenya) and Mrs Charity Ngilu (SDP) to work together to change the destiny of the country.
		Mr Obwocha (West Mugirango) who had attended the President's harambee in Nyamira during which the Head of State criticised Mr Nyachae, said the appointment of two Gusii ministers to the Cabinet was by merit.
		The Gusii MPs said the local infrastructure and institutions had been neglected, adding that the government should complete the Kisii-Chemosit road.
	www.nationaudio.com /News/DailyNation/04082000/News/News54.html (606 words)

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		LeVine and LeVine (1963:p492)[2] noted the following verbalisation of Gusii parental conflict on boy’s heterosexual play: “I would cane him very badly; thinking, “After all, it is the natural thing to do”, but since I found them at it, I must cane severely”.
		The Gusii practice clitoridectomy and excision of the labia minora (Meschig et al., 1983)[8].
		Thus, “Female genital cutting is a traditional rite of passage performed on all Gusii girls at the age of 8-12 years old.
	www2.rz.hu-berlin.de /sexology/GESUND/ARCHIV/GUS/GUSII.HTM (702 words)

	Kenya Directory of the churches of Christ
		Tabaka Church of Christ is among the 18 churches of Christ in Gusii land.
		Gusii land has a population of about 2 million people.
		Recently we were blessed with allocation of land (2acres) by the Gusii County Council.
	church-of-christ.org /churches/Kenya/Kenya_S.htm (525 words)

	African Proverbs, Stories and Sayings - Bibliography
		Gusii is a language used in Southwestern Kenya.
		The Gusii people articulated philosophies of life that were communicated through riddles, folktales, songs, poems and proverbs that were kept a live through oral transmission from generation to generation.
		The notion of inculturation is further enhanced through the incorporation of other important social cultural aspects of the Gusii people such as the social structure of the community, religious ceremonies and rites as well as steps in marriage, all with Christian equivalent.
	www.afriprov.org /resources/bibliogr.htm (12915 words)

	Gusii riddles and proverbs - Traditional Music & Cultures of Kenya
		All but one of the following proverbs (no riddles yet, sorry) are taken from Kisii.com, an excellent and very lively resource brought together by expatriate Gusii, and were originally contributed by
		On one level the proverb warns you to choose a good place to hide your secrets in order to make sure that your secrets are safe and will later be used for the well being of others.
		This Gusii proverb teaches the bad features of pretense, hypocrisy and hiding the truth.
	www.bluegecko.org /kenya/tribes/gusii/proverbs.htm (1212 words)

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		It is \par high time radio stations too came out strongly to help educate those who \par cannot read or write.
		\par \par If some politicians and churchmen in Gusii have become condescending, \par so as to malign those who are fighting this social evil for the sake of \par popularity, then they are not worthy to be called leaders.
		I wish we could remember the two as the months we in Gusii \par discarded this act.
	www.duei.de /iak/de/content/archiv/fgm/ArchaicCulture.rtf (401 words)

	Gusii language - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Gusii language - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		This page was last modified 23:36, 2 Jun 2005.
		Gusii language, Classification, Sounds, Vowels, Consonants, Bibliography and External link.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Gusii (250 words)

	Ochieng' (1974) A pre-colonial history of the Gusii of western Kenya from c. A.D. 1500 to 1914
		Ochieng' (1974) A pre-colonial history of the Gusii of western Kenya from c.
		A pre-colonial history of the Gusii of western Kenya from c.
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	www.getcited.org /?PUB=101662859&showStat=Ratings (97 words)

	Tales from the Crib
		Gusii infants go through much less emotional stress than American babies, say Commons and Miller.
		"Gusii mothers maintain almost constant physical contact with their babies, they sleep with them and they respond immediately to their distress."
		"Compared to many other cultures, including the Gusii, North American parents engage in more stimulating face- to-face interactions with their babies, which seems to better prepare them for language development and later on for school," says Miller.
	www.todaysparent.com /toddler/sleep/article.jsp?content=418 (608 words)

	Raila and Jaramogi remain heroes in Gusii land (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		I would not believe my ears when I saw a TV footage of Mr Semion Nyachae’s speech at Gusii Stadium during a recent Yes campaign.
		He was saying that circumcision was an issue to determine Mr Raila Odinga’s leadership qualities yet this is not even an issue in the current referendum debate.
		Let me assure all that the majority of Gusii people are level-headed and are not abrasive.
	www.eastandard.net /hm_news/news_s.php?articleid=30398 (196 words)

	Child Care and Culture - Cambridge University Press (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Comparing the Gusii people of Kenya with the American white middle class, the authors show how divergent cultural priorities create differing conditions for early childhood development.
		Combining the perspectives of social anthropology, pediatrics, and developmental psychology, the authors demonstrate how child care customs can be responsive to varied socioeconomic, demographic, and cultural conditions without inflicting harm on children.
		Infant Care and Development in a Gusii Community: 6.
	www.cup.cam.ac.uk /us/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521331714 (324 words)

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