Indian Farmers Occupy Highways as Police Arrest Protesters in Kundli

VOA News – Feb 6, 2021

Aerial images show farmers stopping cars and trucks on a highway near New Delhi. Tens of thousands of police officers have been deployed across the country in a bid to smother new protests against the government’s agriculture reforms.

Thousands of Indian farmers blocked highways in the country Saturday as they escalated their 10-week-protest to demand the repeal of three farm laws.

In some places they used tractors and boulders to block roads, in others they chanted slogans and waved flags or squatted along highways for three hours in what is seen as a “symbolic” protest.

Nearly 50,000 security personnel were deployed in the Indian capital, which the government has blocked from the farmers with concrete and steel barriers and concertina wire outside three main sites where protesters have camped since late November.

The protesters had, however, said they will not enforce the road blockade in the capital, which witnessed violence and clashes when some farmers broke through police barricades during a farmers’ rally on January 26.

Although the protests were widely expected to wind down, they gained fresh momentum in recent days with thousands more pouring into protest sites on New Delhi’s borders and vowing not to return until the contentious laws are scrapped.

Food-matters,

How Geography Turned the Sahara Green

Atlas Pro– Sep 27, 2019

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Why Egypt’s lifeline is drying up | Nile Conflict

Terra Mater

Jan 17, 2020

The River Nile. One of the world’s most ancient and legendary waterways, bringing life to otherwise inhospitable regions of Egypt.​
But the Nile is slowly dying, its tributaries and channels drying up and threatening the livelihoods of millions who depend on its nourishing waters. Some of this is the natural cycle of the river – parts of the Nile have dried up before, making entire cities like ancient Meroe vanish. But a major construction project upriver is further endangering the life of the river. We explore what’s happening and look at the possible solutions to this impending tragedy.

 

Food-matters,

Teaching The World |

Teaching the World is a collection of Title VI National Resource Centers (NRCs), which are higher education area or international studies centers partially funded by the U.S. Department of Education.

NRCs are mandated to provide outreach to K-14 educators and students through training andprogramming.

NRC resources are available locally and nationally and include virtual classroom visits, training workshops and seminars, multimedia materials, lesson plans, and more.

See related:

• Learning and Teaching World History in a Time of Global Crisis

Smithsonian National Museum of African Art

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West Africa:

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Sailors and Daughters exhibit launch

Smithsonian National Museum of African Art – Apr 24, 2015

For the Sailors and Daughters exhibit launch on April 18th, Dr. Johnnetta Betsch Cole, Director of the National Museum of African Art, prepared a welcome video to commemorate the occasion.

Globalization & The Political Ecology of Extractive Agriculture: The Recent History and Tragic Trajectory of African Agriculture

Presentation and online course discussion in:

BU MET ML 720
“Food Systems and Policy”

Tues. Feb. 9, 2021 – 7:00 PM, EST

Background material:

• Final Report – The Economics of Biodiversity: The Dasgupta Review – GOV.UK

• The Fatal Consequences of a Misplaced Metaphor: The “Agricultural Industry” & The Delusion of Infinite Growth in A Finite Ecosystem
• BBC World Service – The Climate Question, Can we feed the world without using chemical fertilisers?
• Mapping Foodways in African and American History
• Soils, Agriculture, Carbon Sequestration and Human Survival
• “Just Take the Case of Agriculture…”
• The “Green Revolution:” Its Essence, Achievements & Aftermath
• Agents of Empire: Steps Toward an Ecology of Imperialism
• Learning and Teaching World History in a Time of Global Crisis
• The Historical Origins, Evolution and Future Dimensions of Africa’s Recurrent Food Crises
  and
  
• “Building Back Better?” vs “Building Back Badly?” – Restorative Ecology vs Resurgent “Growthism:” The Ethical Choice for Human Survival

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Food-matters,

Coast and Conquest – History Of Africa with Zeinab Badawi Episode 12

BBC News Africa

Apr 10, 2020

In this episode Zeinab Badawi starts with a visit to some of the most sensational historic sites in Africa: the Swahili coastal settlements of Kenya, Tanzania and Mozambique on Africa’s Indian Ocean coast. Zeinab then relates the tragic history of how the arrival of the Arabs in this part of Africa marked the start of an international trade in many millions of enslaved Africans. The Arabs and their Swahili partners were the first outsiders to trade in humans on the continent from as early as the 7th century. She highlights how this trade differed from the much later trans-Atlantic slave trade, and how some Africans today view this painful period in their history.

See mix of full series:

The Swahili Culture – 0 to 1500 CE – African History Documentary

Stefan Milo – Oct 26, 2019

The medieval city states of East Africa formed the southernmost tip of a huge global trade network. Nice one, lets talk about that!

This is part of a huge collab on African history. Check it out!
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list…​

Sources:
1 – Connah, Graham. African Civilizations: an Archaeological Perspective. Cambridge University Press, 2016.

2 – Ray, Daren. “Defining the Swahili.” The Swahili World, by Stephanie Wynne-Jones and Adria Jean LaViolette, Routledge, 2018, pp. 67–80.

3 – Horton, Mark, and Felix Chami. “Swahili Origins.” The Swahili World, by Stephanie Wynne-Jones and Adria Jean LaViolette, Routledge, 2018, pp. 135–146.

4 – Juma, Abdurahman M. “The Swahili and the Mediterranean Worlds: Pottery of the Late Roman Period from Zanzibar.” Antiquity, vol. 70, no. 267, 1996, pp. 148–154., doi:10.1017/s0003598x00083009.

5 – Scarre, Christopher. The Human Past World Prehistory and the Development of Human Societies. Thames and Hudson, 2018.

6 – Beaujard, Phillipe. “The Progressive Integration of Eastern Africa into an Afro-Eurasian World-System, First to Fifteenth Centuries CE.” The Swahili World, by Stephanie Wynne-Jones and Adria Jean LaViolette, Routledge, 2018.

7 – Zhao, Bing, and Dashu Qin. “The Swahili World.” The Swahili World, by Stephanie Wynne-Jones and Adria Jean LaViolette, Routledge, 2018.

8 – Kusimba, Chapurukha Makokha. The Rise and Fall of Swahili States. AltaMira Press, 1999.

9 – Wynne-Jones, Stephanie. “The Social Composition of Swahili Society.” The Swahili World, by Stephanie Wynne-Jones and Adria Jean LaViolette, Routledge, 2018.

10 – Horton, Mark. “Shanga.” The Swahili World, by Stephanie Wynne-Jones and Adria Jean LaViolette, Routledge, 2018.

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12 – Wynne-Jones, Stephanie. “Kilwa Kisiwani And Songo Mnara.” The Swahili World, by Stephanie Wynne-Jones and Adria Jean LaViolette, Routledge, 2018.

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14 – Pollard, Edward, et al. “Beyond the Stone Town: Maritime Architecture at Fourteenth–Fifteenth Century Songo Mnara, Tanzania.” Journal of Maritime Archaeology, vol. 7, no. 1, 2012, pp. 43–62., doi:10.1007/s11457-012-9094-9.

SWAHILI CITY STATES

Robert Burris

A little brief history of Swahili City States