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East African Notes and Records: April 2013
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East African Notes and Records. History, ethnography, ethnobiology, linguistics. Monday, 1 April 2013. THE LATEST AND GREATEST LOLIONDO LAND GRAB. The Tanzanian Minister for Natural Resources and Tourism. Announced on 26 March 2013 that 1,500 km. Of land will be taken from the people of Loliondo. Of this corridor of dry season grazing land bordering Serengeti National Park. Will destroy the lives and livelihoods of the Maasai. And Loliondo and Sale Divisions a favour by giving them the 2,500 km. Restrict...
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East African Notes and Records: January 2012
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East African Notes and Records. History, ethnography, ethnobiology, linguistics. Monday, 23 January 2012. A PILOT WHALE IN PONGWE. Posing on the Pongwe whale. Just over a week ago (on Sunday 15th January) I went to stay at Pongwe on the east coast of Zanzibar ( Unguja island. For the second time in three months. The tide wasn't in until the late afternoon, and not long after I'd had a quick swim - or rather a float in the shallows - I was told that there was a dolphin. Would be used to caulk. As a colloq...
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East African Notes and Records: THE WRATH OF THE ANCESTRAL SPIRITS
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East African Notes and Records. History, ethnography, ethnobiology, linguistics. Saturday, 17 August 2013. THE WRATH OF THE ANCESTRAL SPIRITS. I've just finished The Wrath of Koma. Maurice Kambishera Mumba's entertaining tale about tradition and tragedy among the Kauma, published by Heinemann Kenya in 1987. The back-cover blurb of the paperback introduces the story:. Old Chembe, a Kauma man from the Am. I won't spoil the plot here. Although I bought this short novel in Mombasa. But there's much more in i...
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East African Notes and Records: THE SHAMELESS AND FEISTY WOMEN OF CHANGAMWE
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East African Notes and Records. History, ethnography, ethnobiology, linguistics. Thursday, 29 August 2013. THE SHAMELESS AND FEISTY WOMEN OF CHANGAMWE. The relevant passage in W. E. Taylor's African Aphorisms. In an earlier note on A click in Swahili. I drew attention to the Reverend W. E. Taylor's description of an interjection/ideophone in the Mvita ( Mombasa. Island (Walsh 2006). Last night, however, leafing through the edited verses of Mombasa. S most illustrious bard, Muyaka bin Haji al-Ghassaniy (c...
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East African Notes and Records: October 2012
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East African Notes and Records. History, ethnography, ethnobiology, linguistics. Sunday, 14 October 2012. FLYING FROM DAR TO ZANZIBAR AGAIN. I can't resist posting a few more photos taken on a flight from Dar. Adding to those I put up earlier this year under the heading Flying from Dar to Zanzibar. The following shots were taken on a Coastal Aviation. Mlimani: the University of Dar es Salaam. Coastline north of Dar es Salaam. The sea, mid-channel. Submerged island and reef. Chumbe island and lighthouse.
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East African Notes and Records: THE ZANZIBAR LEOPARD BETWEEN SCIENCE AND CRYPTOZOOLOGY
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East African Notes and Records. History, ethnography, ethnobiology, linguistics. Tuesday, 31 March 2009. THE ZANZIBAR LEOPARD BETWEEN SCIENCE AND CRYPTOZOOLOGY. By Martin Walsh and Helle Goldman. Text (with updated references) of an article originally published in 2003 in Nature East Africa. 33 (1/2): 14-16. An abridged version, 'The Zanzibar Leopard – Dead or Alive? Was published in 2004 in Tanzanian Affairs. The Zanzibar Leopard, Panthera pardus adersi. Goldman, H. V. and Walsh, M. T. 1...Goldman, H...
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East African Notes and Records: September 2011
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East African Notes and Records. History, ethnography, ethnobiology, linguistics. Saturday, 10 September 2011. But a large number are still missing. Some of the boat's passengers were travelling back to Pemba after Ramadhan and the Eid festival, and it's feared that whole families have been lost. We're praying for them, and for everyone affected by this disaster. MV Spice Islander in happier times (photographed on 20 July 2011 from the Tembo Hotel in Zanzibar town). Posted by Martin Walsh. Prendergast, Ma...
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