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Umoja Project
Umoja, the Swahili word for "unity", may refer to: *Umoja, the first of The Seven Principles (Nguzo Saba), celebrated and highlighted each day of the Kwanzaa holiday celebration *Umoja, Kenya, an all-female village founded on the principles of women's rights *'' Umoja: The Village Where Men Are Forbidden,'' a 2008 French documentary about Umoja, Kenya *Umoja, Nairobi, a suburb of Nairobi, the capital of Kenya *, a Lake Victoria ferry in East Africa *''Umoja'', a 60 class locomotive of the East African Railways *Operation Umoja Wetu, the name for the 2009 Eastern Congo offensive *Umoja Village, a former shanty town in the Liberty City neighborhood of Miami, Florida * ''Umoja'', a music album released in 2006 by Dutch pop band Bløf *Umoja Party, a political party active in Washington, D.C. from 1994 to 2000 *Akinyele Umoja (born 1954), American educator and author * Umoja (software), enterprise resource planning Enterprise resource planning (ERP) is the integrated management ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swahili Language
Swahili, also known by its local name , is the native language of the Swahili people, who are found primarily in Tanzania, Kenya and Mozambique (along the East African coast and adjacent litoral islands). It is a Bantu language, though Swahili has borrowed a number of words from foreign languages, particularly Arabic, but also words from Portuguese, English and German. Around forty percent of Swahili vocabulary consists of Arabic loanwords, including the name of the language ( , a plural adjectival form of an Arabic word meaning 'of the coast'). The loanwords date from the era of contact between Arab slave traders and the Bantu inhabitants of the east coast of Africa, which was also the time period when Swahili emerged as a lingua franca in the region. The number of Swahili speakers, be they native or second-language speakers, is estimated to be approximately 200 million. Due to concerted efforts by the government of Tanzania, Swahili is one of three official lang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Unity
Unity may refer to: Buildings * Unity Building, Oregon, Illinois, US; a historic building * Unity Building (Chicago), Illinois, US; a skyscraper * Unity Buildings, Liverpool, UK; two buildings in England * Unity Chapel, Wyoming, Wisconsin, US; a historic building * Unity Church (Mattoon, Illinois), US; a historic church * Unity Temple, Oak Park, Illinois, US; a Unitarian Universalist church Education * Unity Academy (other) * Unity College (other) * Unity School District (Wisconsin), an American school district * Unity University, an Ethiopian privately owned institute of higher learning Media and entertainment * Classical unities, three rules for drama described by Aristotle * ''Assassin's Creed Unity'', a 2014 action-adventure video game * "Unity" (comics), a crossover story line in the Valiant universe * ''Unity'' (film), a 2015 documentary * ''Unity 1918'', a 2001 play by Kevin Kerr * "Unity" (''Star Trek: Voyager''), a 1997 episode of the Amer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kwanzaa
Kwanzaa () is an annual celebration of African-American culture from December 26 to January 1, culminating in a communal feast called '' Karamu'', usually on the sixth day. It was created by activist Maulana Karenga, based on African harvest festival traditions from various parts of West and Southeast Africa. Kwanzaa was first celebrated in 1966. History and etymology American Maulana Karenga created Kwanzaa in 1966 during the aftermath of the Watts riots as a specifically African-American holiday. Karenga said his goal was to "give blacks an alternative to the existing holiday of Christmas and give blacks an opportunity to celebrate themselves and their history, rather than simply imitate the practice of the dominant society." For Karenga, a major figure in the Black Power movement of the 1960s and 1970s, the creation of such holidays also underscored the essential premise that "you must have a cultural revolution before the violent revolution. The cultural revolution give ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Umoja, Kenya
Umoja Uaso ("unity" in Swahili, the Uaso Nyiro is a nearby river), is a village in Kenya. The village, founded in 1990, is an all-female matriarch village located near the town of Archers Post in Samburu County, from the capital, Nairobi. It was founded by Rebecca Lolosoli, a Samburu woman, as a sanctuary for homeless survivors of violence against women, and young girls running from forced marriages. The women of the Samburu people do not agree with violence and the traditional subordinate position of women. They run a primary school, cultural center and camping site for tourists visiting the adjacent Samburu National Reserve. They create and sell jewellery to benefit the village. History Samburu women have a subordinate position in their society. They are not allowed to own land or other types of property, such as livestock. Women themselves are considered property of their husbands. They can be subject to female genital mutilation, forced marriage with the elders, ra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Village Where Men Are Forbidden
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things already mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with pronouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of pronoun ''thee'') when followed by a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Umoja, Nairobi
Umoja is a residential suburb in the city of Nairobi. Located within the larger sub-county of Embakasi and the Eastlands area of Nairobi. It is approximately east of Nairobi's central business district. Umoja consists of three smaller neighbourhoods: Umoja I, Umoja II and Umoja Innercore. Location Umoja is located approximately east of Nairobi's central business district, within the Eastlands area in Embakasi. It neighbours other low middle-income to low-income suburbs such as Buruburu, Donholm, Kariobangi and Tena. Overview Umoja was commission by Nairobi City Commission to provide housing to the growing urban population. However, with the scarcity of funds, the council allowed residents to put up their own houses provided they are pay annual land rates. This saw Umoja and other neighbourhoods in Nairobi defying the initial urban planning, building on open spaces, a consequence of the corruption and impunity within the city council. Umoja is now a high-density hou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
EAR 60 Class
The EAR 60 class, also known as the Governor class, was a class of gauge Garratt-type articulated steam locomotives built for the East African Railways as a development of the EAR's existing 56 class. History The 29 members of the 60 class were ordered by the EAR from Beyer, Peacock & Co. The first 12 of them were built by sub-contractors Société Franco-Belge in Raismes ( Valenciennes), France, and the rest were built by Beyer, Peacock in Gorton, Manchester, England. The class entered service in 1953-54. Initially, all members of the class carried the name of a Governor (or equivalent) of Kenya, Tanganyika or Uganda, but later all of the Governor nameplates were removed. Class list The builder's and fleet numbers, and initial names, of each member of the class were as follows: See also *List of colonial governors of Kenya *List of Governors of Tanganyika The colony of German East Africa (german: Deutsch-Ostafrika) was founded in the 1880s, after the Ger ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2009 Eastern Congo Offensive
The 2009 Eastern Congo offensive was a joint Congo-Rwanda military offensive against the Hutu FDLR rebel group descended from those groups that carried out the 1994 Rwanda genocide. Two operations were carried out, 'Kimia II' and 'Umoja Wetu.' 'Kimia' can be translated as 'calm.' "Umoja Wetu" is Swahili for "Our Unity". Timeline Rwanda and the DRC made an agreement to rout out elements of the FDLR from eastern Congo. On 20 January 2009, 1,000 Rwandan soldiers poured over the border into eastern Congo near Goma and were working, according to United Nations officials, as advisers for the Congolese troops. On 23 January 2009, some rebels had started to surrender to Rwandan and Congolese troops. First reports of fighting came on 24 January 2009, when the Congolese army reported they killed nine FDLR militiamen. In response the rebels claimed they didn't lose any men and that the Congolese military itself suffered nine soldiers killed and one wounded in a clash with a group of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Umoja Village
The Umoja Village shantytown was founded on October 23, 2006, in the Liberty City section of Miami, Florida, in response to gentrification and a lack of low-income housing in Miami. The name '' Umoja'' is Swahili for "unity", hence "Unity Village". After months of planning, a group calling itself Take Back the Land seized control of a vacant lot on the corner of 62nd St. and NW 17th Ave. The lot had been vacant for about eight years after low-income housing there was demolished by the City of Miami. Take Back the Land erected several tents and then built wood-frame shanties in order to provide housing for otherwise homeless people in the area. Police, City of Miami and Miami-Dade County officials were unable to evict the residents or organizers due to the landmark 1996 Pottinger Settlement. After years of arresting homeless people, the city of Miami was sued by the Miami ACLU; they eventually settled. In the settlement, the city agreed that homeless people could not be a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Umoja (album)
''Umoja'' is the seventh album by Dutch band BLØF, released on 3 March 2006. It was produced with the help of numerous international artists. 50,000 copies of the album were pre-sold before it was released, and it became the number-one album sold in the Netherlands in the month after its release date. The title of the album is Swahili for "unity". A documentary about the album was made in September 2007. Track listing Personnel BLØF * Paskal Jakobsen – vocals, guitar, mandolin * Bas Kennis – keyboards, accordion, backing vocals * Peter Slager – bass guitar * Norman Bonink – drums, percussion, backing vocals Additional musicians ''Binnenstebuiten (Yele)'' * Harry Kimani – vocals * George Odero Achieng – orutu * Ongeri "Magao" Magati – percussion * Charles Obuya "Charlotti" Owino – percussion * Wicyllffe Chagala "Kaboge" Idah – percussion * Urvin Magarita – percussion Lyrics translated by Harry Kimani ''Mens'' * Omar Faruk Tekbilek – zurna, bağ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Umoja Party
The Umoja Party was a far-left political party in the District of Columbia. History Founding and 1994 general election Kemry Hughes helped found the Umoja Party in December 1993, and the District of Columbia Board of Elections and Ethics approved its name on February 2, 1994. A 27-year-old student activist in favor of statehood, Hughes said the Umoja Party would focus on the specific needs of communities of people of color. Umoja is the Swahili word for unity. Two individuals successfully petitioned to appear on the 1994 election ballot under the Umoja Party. Mark A. Thompson ran for chair of the Council of the District of Columbia, and Hughes ran for an at-large seat on the Council. Thompson was a student activist and radio host. In 1990, Thompson led a protest that shut down the University of the District of Columbia for eleven days that resulted in the resignation of several members of the Board of Trustees. Hughes said he was running for office to help the disenfranchi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akinyele Umoja
Akinyele Umoja (born 1954) is an American educator and author who specializes in African-American studies. As an activist, he is a founding member of the New Afrikan People's Organization and the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement.Professor Akinyele K. Umoja ''gsu.edu'' In April 2013, New York University Press published Umoja's book '' We Will Shoot Back: Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement''. Currently, he is a Professor and Department Chair of the Department of African-American Studies at |
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