Dr. Wangari Maathai: Nobel Laureate African Environmentalist

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> </div> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgy62QhxsN8JntJ01FQKRUFChnqkqOUIjrXsloUR2q5epb73u_f9aEsjH2zmmKq9LhyOIODw7Gr6MBQu_Ci7dOR2ZRljASNZrIanIiu02kAc_uOrd7lURQTQV5ed9jxWo87RkFG22D9E50/s1600/Photo+by+Wangari+Maathai.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgy62QhxsN8JntJ01FQKRUFChnqkqOUIjrXsloUR2q5epb73u_f9aEsjH2zmmKq9LhyOIODw7Gr6MBQu_Ci7dOR2ZRljASNZrIanIiu02kAc_uOrd7lURQTQV5ed9jxWo87RkFG22D9E50/s1600/Photo+by+Wangari+Maathai.jpg" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">Photo: Nobel Laureate MD Wangari Maathai (4/1/1940 - 9/25/2011) </span></td></tr> </tbody></table> </div> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> MD Wangari Muta Maathai was the showtime African adult woman as well as environmentalist bestowed alongside the Nobel Peace Prize. Dr. Maathai mobilized women to flora to a greater extent than than xl ane M k trees inwards Africa. She championed environmental sustainability equally a at ane time link to human sustainability as well as a tool against poverty. She was described past times Archbishop Desmond Tutu equally a leading vocalism inwards Africa.<br /> <br /> "Professor Maathai introduced the stance of women planting trees inwards Republic of Kenya to trim back poverty as well as conserve the environment," said Archbishop Tutu. Founder of the <a href="http://www.greenbeltmovement.org/">Green Belt Movement</a>. </div> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <br /></div> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> "[Maathai] volition live remembered equally a committed champion of the environment, sustainable development, womens' rights, as well as democracy," stated old U.N. Secretary General Kofi Atta Annan after her decease inwards September 2011. "Her contribution to all these causes volition forever live celebrated as well as honored."</div> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <br /></div> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <b>Early Life inwards Republic of Kenya inwards East Africa</b></div> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <br /></div> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> On Apr 1, 1940, Wangari Muta was born to Muta Njugi, her father, and Wanjiru Kibicho, her woman bring upward -- a  Kikuyu farming family from the Nyeri District of Kenya, inwards the hamlet of Ihithe. She is noted equally proverb that her parents gave her an early on observe for the soil as well as its bounty. Her showtime formal studies inwards Republic of Kenya began at the historic menstruation of 8 at the Ihithe Primary School as well as later on at St. Cecilia's Intermediate Primary School inwards Nyeri as well as Loreto High School Limuru.</div> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <br /></div> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> In 1959, at the destination of British dominion inwards East Africa, a immature Wangari left Republic of Kenya to written report inwards the United States of America at Benedictine College (then Mount St. Scholastica College) inwards the nation of Kansas. She earned a Bachelors of Science inwards 1964 as well as would hap to earn a Master's of Science inwards Biological Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh. She would hap of scientific discipline as well as environmental studies at academy inwards Germany.</div> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <br /></div> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> In 1966, Maathai returned to Republic of Kenya where she was appointed question assistant to a zoology professor at University College of Nairobi as well as opened a family-run full general store inwards Nairobi. In Kenya, she would wed Mwangi Mathai as well as accept 3 children: Bangari Maathai, Sangari Maathai as well as Mangari Maathai. After an embattled divorce from Mathai, she succeeded inwards retaining the delineate solid unit of measurement advert past times adding an "a": Maathai.</div> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <br /></div> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> In 1971, Maathai became the showtime Eastern African adult woman to earn a Ph.D. when she was awarded a Doctorate of Anatomy. She became a senior lecturer, associate professor as well as chair of the Department of Veterinary Anatomy at the University of Nairobi. It was at the academy that Wangari Maathai began campaigning for equal benefits for women working at the university.</div> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <br /></div> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <b>Green Belt Movement</b></div> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <br /></div> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> To honor Nairobi's community leaders, the showtime "Green Belt" tree was planted inwards the city's Kamukunji common inwards 1977. Maathai encouraged Kenyan women to flora native tree nurseries throughout Kenya, agreeing to pay them stipends for each seedling flora inwards a native wood as well as planted elsewhere.</div> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <br /></div> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> Maathai became an active environmentalist, vocalism for women as well as for African self-sufficiency. In 2009, she authored the majority "The Challenge for Africa." In the epilogue to her book, "Unbound: Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Memoir", MD Maathai writes:</div> <blockquote dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: center;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <i>Trees accept been an essential business office of my life as well as have </i><i>provided me alongside many lessons. Trees are living </i><i>symbols of peace as well as hope. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 tree has roots inwards the soil </i><i>yet reaches to the sky. It tells us that inwards social club to aspire </i><i>we require to live grounded, as well as that no thing how high </i><i>we locomote it is from our roots that nosotros clitoris sustenance. It is </i><i>a reminder to all of us who accept had success that we </i><i>cannot forget where nosotros came from. It signifies that no thing how powerful nosotros locomote inwards authorities or how </i><i>many awards nosotros receive, our mightiness as well as forcefulness and </i><i>our mightiness to achieve our goals depend on the people, </i><i>those whose function remains unseen, who are the soil out </i><i>of which nosotros grow, the shoulders on which nosotros stand. </i></div> </div> </blockquote> <br /> <div style="text-align: center;"> <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/IGMW6YWjMxw" width="560"></iframe> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> </div> <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /> <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /> </div>

Dr. Wangari Maathai: Nobel Laureate African Environmentalist

Photo: Nobel Laureate MD Wangari Maathai (4/1/1940 - 9/25/2011)  MD Wangari Muta Maathai was the showtime African adult woman as well as environmentalist bestowed alongside the Nobel Peac…

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Ancient Egypt Remembered Inward Photographs | Excursions Along The Nile

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /> </div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihkF33QxXApUTQvOW-_Zyxuz8_zdePo4L9H4xIInCdrh3WZ4TxLJkgLfjIFkvq80sj6aPep-EsMVCsqy-U-t5upN40QWWrRQp3ZgdCcS-GT6n1wTJYzgEqVLqMsSFrB07CAhiZP6z9gOU/s1600/Cairo+Street+Sellers.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihkF33QxXApUTQvOW-_Zyxuz8_zdePo4L9H4xIInCdrh3WZ4TxLJkgLfjIFkvq80sj6aPep-EsMVCsqy-U-t5upN40QWWrRQp3ZgdCcS-GT6n1wTJYzgEqVLqMsSFrB07CAhiZP6z9gOU/s640/Cairo+Street+Sellers.jpg" width="486" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Photo: Street vendors, Cairo, Arab Republic of Egypt 1870's, albumen impress from drinking glass negative.</span></td></tr> </tbody></table><span style="font-size: small; text-align: justify;">I constitute myself at a library mass sell during the weekend of May 8, 2012, rummaging through the left behind collection of a collector of books inwards San Fernando Valley, Edgar Hermann, who late passed. First the mass sale attendant handed me a box, noticing my arms weighed alongside books. Then ii boxes...</span><span style="font-size: small; text-align: justify;">I knew it was going to last a cracking weekend for this armchair historian. </span><br /> <span style="font-size: small; text-align: justify;"><br /> </span><br /> <span style="font-size: small; text-align: justify;">At this early on review of my finds, I am most excited close acquiring the mass "Excursions Along the Nile: The Photographic Discovery of Ancient Egypt," a 1993 fine art exhibition catalog of photographs of the <a href="https://conaircurlingiron.blogspot.com//search?q=things-you-should-know-about-nile-river?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed" target="_blank">Nile</a> published yesteryear the Santa Barbara Museum of Art inwards California. The 100+ twelvemonth quondam photographs of Cairo from the exhibition catalog are astonishing. I could non aid but percentage a few of my favorites hither alongside BHH readers. </span><br /> <br /> V. Cross<br /> <br /> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0wMqu521Ga_jycQQIJU6osm7bdpsUy9BMAnHVPZ_Oyg6GnyqHGlmqLHZItuHx3EpS-SeAILkq8oDKkb7pqpIIgwg68tNLIVRSEB-yvAHVlHDEOm0ROxSdw-FCPNoRH9Z6DBwI6JJb21U/s1600/Great+Pyramid+and+Spinx+1873.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="294" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0wMqu521Ga_jycQQIJU6osm7bdpsUy9BMAnHVPZ_Oyg6GnyqHGlmqLHZItuHx3EpS-SeAILkq8oDKkb7pqpIIgwg68tNLIVRSEB-yvAHVlHDEOm0ROxSdw-FCPNoRH9Z6DBwI6JJb21U/s400/Great+Pyramid+and+Spinx+1873.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Photo: Great Pyramid in addition to Sphinx, Egypt, 1873.</span></td></tr> </tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJONTuMtnZEs_akt_FbUs7ijJmlqEoYndwNj0LCA_Eg6iDwNJJPaRp3W9TYVfQxJrYeFEdlAkmhk_rXNhyExQcdX-bxggY5Bx9jzhSF7VTAPPuhg-qW9yt0fTFeZhj7qFYm9H0R1UrGbE/s1600/Scottish+Soldiers+Visit+Spinx+1880.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="291" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJONTuMtnZEs_akt_FbUs7ijJmlqEoYndwNj0LCA_Eg6iDwNJJPaRp3W9TYVfQxJrYeFEdlAkmhk_rXNhyExQcdX-bxggY5Bx9jzhSF7VTAPPuhg-qW9yt0fTFeZhj7qFYm9H0R1UrGbE/s400/Scottish+Soldiers+Visit+Spinx+1880.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Photo: Scottish soldiers see Sphinx inwards Egypt, 1880</span></td></tr> </tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyw2orvRD5fZr_ADR6Py00Um6HpHDu7SVqJ6nMKbMN4a_KGfwM0ESrSjxZE9dOSmGg9YzikKdeGUtF-luODz1hVOGgRtn8oLK3e1fYEq4URCMzl_awTIB2xWgvmPxO3GPA5C9KJSb1ZdE/s1600/crocodile+on+sand+bank+1858.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="256" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyw2orvRD5fZr_ADR6Py00Um6HpHDu7SVqJ6nMKbMN4a_KGfwM0ESrSjxZE9dOSmGg9YzikKdeGUtF-luODz1hVOGgRtn8oLK3e1fYEq4URCMzl_awTIB2xWgvmPxO3GPA5C9KJSb1ZdE/s400/crocodile+on+sand+bank+1858.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Photo: Crocodile on sand banking concern of the Nile River, 1858.</span></td></tr> </tbody></table><br /> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxRwW1lfd5BJideEeoNCD7Vt9IuqElPpkWVZQVZghkD1l-Z1x5He09H83qwQUDHXMOkTtsobKjZsNiXP3rObktmFEe3Nk0sb9oy6yRs7n2aw9vnWXNKkamWjy7Uwc_OwPY4v4s74wk0sk/s1600/Mosque+at+Cairo+1857.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxRwW1lfd5BJideEeoNCD7Vt9IuqElPpkWVZQVZghkD1l-Z1x5He09H83qwQUDHXMOkTtsobKjZsNiXP3rObktmFEe3Nk0sb9oy6yRs7n2aw9vnWXNKkamWjy7Uwc_OwPY4v4s74wk0sk/s640/Mosque+at+Cairo+1857.jpg" width="508" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">Photo: Mosque at Cairo, Arab Republic of Egypt 1857, albumen impress from drinking glass negative.</td></tr> </tbody></table><br /> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5XImn0IUVKaVvg4rxFLLqeR5f39Tg80HejO585HpjzLPVtmEdN2S5Fk8LyPpaf64Ewbm3SS4CywQZTTX5a-z3Xrhyrn8MVX3XPq21aGll9cffRvCvpFr9-FfkNydi8mrjxEJe1MHhm6M/s1600/street+in+cairo+1850s.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5XImn0IUVKaVvg4rxFLLqeR5f39Tg80HejO585HpjzLPVtmEdN2S5Fk8LyPpaf64Ewbm3SS4CywQZTTX5a-z3Xrhyrn8MVX3XPq21aGll9cffRvCvpFr9-FfkNydi8mrjxEJe1MHhm6M/s640/street+in+cairo+1850s.jpg" width="510" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Photo: Street inwards Cairo, Arab Republic of Egypt 1850's, tabular array salt impress from newspaper negative</span></td></tr> </tbody></table>.<br /> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjd3oksogU-90_NiQec7yhwm8R5eGtHpZY5UCKEee5jEEc4ZJsBE9NMhkt-EEg_u4tzj4ZQfiyYy8wSA3cXHOsV5pR-qe1_3clXTOwM8fsCWjN4dfT4Hks7ewxhSmhmrcRRZfBsdou_DT0/s1600/street+view+of+cairo+1858.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjd3oksogU-90_NiQec7yhwm8R5eGtHpZY5UCKEee5jEEc4ZJsBE9NMhkt-EEg_u4tzj4ZQfiyYy8wSA3cXHOsV5pR-qe1_3clXTOwM8fsCWjN4dfT4Hks7ewxhSmhmrcRRZfBsdou_DT0/s640/street+view+of+cairo+1858.jpg" width="508" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Photo: Street of the Citadel, Cairo, c. 1858, stereo albumen impress from drinking glass negative.</span></td></tr> </tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5J5mN1cOe39ET0S1DdsdR1RsplYHjg8EYhD2f7OFWcSX11GgQEh0TmdrWo6RZUOl00O5cmeVkUcHjGsA1128vPA2M5NpzJW2iiir8suB5cewjvu8OU9wVe_VxziC7M0mTZNlmtUByl6o/s1600/Boys+swimming+in+the+Nile,+1873.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="448" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5J5mN1cOe39ET0S1DdsdR1RsplYHjg8EYhD2f7OFWcSX11GgQEh0TmdrWo6RZUOl00O5cmeVkUcHjGsA1128vPA2M5NpzJW2iiir8suB5cewjvu8OU9wVe_VxziC7M0mTZNlmtUByl6o/s640/Boys+swimming+in+the+Nile,+1873.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Photo: boys swimming inwards the Nile River, 1873, albumen impress from drinking glass negative.</span></td></tr> </tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdp6S_F_3TIWX2x5zxQJluQz5maQCcwEej6mZagZ2Yv9MwZYKabE9ZcGz29shD10ofZz0JFMGiBAi1NpT2x43rbpeUa07l1R3b_znBmyk8rs_LTN1eZ6JjUsWzpzI0SHYxKnQt-ppRBto/s1600/Cairo+from+the+citadel+1858.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="440" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdp6S_F_3TIWX2x5zxQJluQz5maQCcwEej6mZagZ2Yv9MwZYKabE9ZcGz29shD10ofZz0JFMGiBAi1NpT2x43rbpeUa07l1R3b_znBmyk8rs_LTN1eZ6JjUsWzpzI0SHYxKnQt-ppRBto/s640/Cairo+from+the+citadel+1858.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">Photo: Cairo, Arab Republic of Egypt from the Citadel, 1858.</td></tr> </tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyJLDC3oy7twjGFIpsbfYwYBnpmLKbHGlKkAYywC4U-350Pp5Po_W10ssn-7pZb6-2Bi7vxxqOLnmmMGEY8Tmeze5XGVhn4PxrxHb2vFGr7HfHwXub68Pchr9ZRv0bR1dnNYXnG58vPRo/s1600/view+from+summit+of+mount+serbal+looking+northeast+1868.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="393" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyJLDC3oy7twjGFIpsbfYwYBnpmLKbHGlKkAYywC4U-350Pp5Po_W10ssn-7pZb6-2Bi7vxxqOLnmmMGEY8Tmeze5XGVhn4PxrxHb2vFGr7HfHwXub68Pchr9ZRv0bR1dnNYXnG58vPRo/s640/view+from+summit+of+mount+serbal+looking+northeast+1868.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Photo: sentiment from the Summit of Mount Serbal, Arab Republic of Egypt looking northeast, 1868, albumen impress from drinking glass negative.</span><br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Ancient Egypt Remembered Inward Photographs | Excursions Along The Nile

Photo: Street vendors, Cairo, Arab Republic of Egypt 1870's, albumen impress from drinking glass negative. I constitute myself at a library mass sell during the weekend of May 8, 2012, rummaging th…

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The Linguistic Communication Of Symbols Inwards Africa

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjojMk6qhhmHYS2ddxRavIsqsE4ZmtOu5Y0c5V0q8wUO_t5HHXLuIws94WtQhSEFs_xMwwBnrN7IUEOoEPDs6rMi_aBzQGrkwBf4HD_lGIHWzw-8ke38ETebuo2UgBuZDma9KVgMz6K6Ds/s1600/ANANSE+NTONTAN+spider+web+symbol+of+wisdom,+creativity+and+the+complexities+of+life+Ananse.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="186" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjojMk6qhhmHYS2ddxRavIsqsE4ZmtOu5Y0c5V0q8wUO_t5HHXLuIws94WtQhSEFs_xMwwBnrN7IUEOoEPDs6rMi_aBzQGrkwBf4HD_lGIHWzw-8ke38ETebuo2UgBuZDma9KVgMz6K6Ds/s1600/ANANSE+NTONTAN+spider+web+symbol+of+wisdom,+creativity+and+the+complexities+of+life+Ananse.gif" width="200" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Spider spider web symbol for wisdom inwards West Africa, <a href="https://conaircurlingiron.blogspot.com/p/african-folktales.html" target="_blank">Ananse</a></td></tr> </tbody></table> Symbols are visual keys that accept pregnant to people amongst a mutual heritage around a given symbol. The Gospel of Saint Philip states that "truth did non come upwards into the Earth naked, only it came inwards types too images. One volition non have the truth inwards whatever other way."<br /> <br /> Important iconic symbols arose inwards many human groups across the globe. The symbol was designed to communicate too exactly remind its viewer of concepts inwards the world. They may serve equally roadsigns, maps or instructionals for the viewer. Not surprisingly, symbols accept had a deep behavior upon on human psychology too spiritual life, relaying the intuitive wisdom of the ancients.<br /> <br /> In Africa, where tape of the oldest human communities lie, in that location are many tribal families that locomote symbols to tell stories too supply information, reminders too lessons. These symbols are considered sacred, too were primarily used inwards ceremonial too religious contexts. <br /> <br /> <b>EAST AFRICAN SYMBOLS </b><br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9JXeQfAXA4COgABGMnA2sZS4eJH5_GdXfUb6q2xrzBG9nZk9oDM5LYyzOeAKYvVtp0kfxadMNCggvGRGxmsq97OSBhogkRykWrrXQzMM0r8NwxZdj7LzPD7tMhTgRjJV6xh4oPwdEzes/s1600/Isis+featured+on+ankh.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9JXeQfAXA4COgABGMnA2sZS4eJH5_GdXfUb6q2xrzBG9nZk9oDM5LYyzOeAKYvVtp0kfxadMNCggvGRGxmsq97OSBhogkRykWrrXQzMM0r8NwxZdj7LzPD7tMhTgRjJV6xh4oPwdEzes/s1600/Isis+featured+on+ankh.jpg" width="113" /></a></div> Among the oldest cast of surviving written script is a symbolic ane -- hieroglyphics, a mixture of symbols too signs. Some pictures inside a hieroglyphic may easily live recognizable to a viewer equally acts of humans or human-made objects. Some symbols select really specific pregnant that volition live unknown to an outsider who has non studied the pregnant of the epitome inside the context it was initially relayed. Other symbols inside hieroglyphic writing accept phonetic value. <br /> <br /> An of import symbol inwards ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics is the ankh, represented here. The ankh combines the symbols of Osiris (the T cross) too Isis (the oval) to symbolize immortality. Osiris too Isis -- blood brother too sister-- were the 2 earliest God too Goddess inwards <a href="https://conaircurlingiron.blogspot.com//search?q=queen-tiye" target="_blank">ancient Egyptian</a> tradition. Isis is the start ancient Egyptian goddess to look inwards surviving East African cultural history. Isis represents the divine woman nurture too protector. She is equally good depicted inwards ancient Egyptian symbols equally a kite, a cast assumed to search for the dismembered trunk of her blood brother Osiris.  <br /> <br /> The patriarchal Christian cross borrowed it's iconography from the older ankh symbol, removing the woman individual Isis representation. The ancient Egyptian ceremonies often line gods ceremonially carrying the ankh, much similar the Ethiopian Orthodox Christians locomote the cross symbol inwards its processionals.<br /> <br /> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXuiwN2sIyclrkV_e_Zktk105UDqDOIV2SIOS1X19-_aYDhDY1B9vETJjJdX6YVoXSbxw__VLdvyXWXBLzhnY6_YDKi-WRhGaCOuGe2uH6cERwC9BQzxkO-B1oMqCA7rxg1uYr5yRY51E/s1600/The+goddess+Isis+gives+pharaoh+Seti+I+breath+of+life,+in+the+form+of+an+ankh.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXuiwN2sIyclrkV_e_Zktk105UDqDOIV2SIOS1X19-_aYDhDY1B9vETJjJdX6YVoXSbxw__VLdvyXWXBLzhnY6_YDKi-WRhGaCOuGe2uH6cERwC9BQzxkO-B1oMqCA7rxg1uYr5yRY51E/s1600/The+goddess+Isis+gives+pharaoh+Seti+I+breath+of+life,+in+the+form+of+an+ankh.jpg" width="266" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The goddess Isis gives pharaoh Seti I breath of life, inwards the cast of an ankh </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> Other Nile Valley symbols were the Sun disk too the pyramid. The winged-sun disk symbol represents the Sun god Ra. Ra rules the Sun too the skies, equally the creator of the world. The pharaohs (kings) honored Ra equally sons (suns) inwards their iconography. Ra is said to accept resided inwards Heliopolis, an ancient Egyptian city. The symbol for Ra too his attributes is the obelisk too the Sun rays. The pyramid represents some other of import East African symbol. The ancient Egyptians used the pyramids for initiations into the mystery schools, equally good equally homes for those who transcended through <a href="https://conaircurlingiron.blogspot.com//search?q=queen-tiye" target="_blank">the duat</a>. It symbolizes the highest score of spiritual attainment, an ascent of the hierarchy of enlightenment. <br /> <br /> <b>WEST AFRICAN SYMBOLS</b><br /> <br /> There were equally good many symbols used inwards West Africa to select messages too values inside community. The Akan too the <a href="https://conaircurlingiron.blogspot.com//search?q=queen-tiye" target="_blank">Asante</a> tribes of West Africa both locomote Adinkra symbols. The symbols are constitute ofttimes inwards the West African Earth of Ghana. The symbols are incorporated into fabrics too on interior wall designs, or on pottery. <br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixiK0YWuo0Td7cD5ptGSWFBpR39Vd5ypoWjWpMFid7_6j-kSPjBdOTfcRc8tr5Ah8TIUiEAUE9_TzzmKdSBQLFdxGuJdxpo1HfugRxScDVNeD1RLfRNwlySdibXvShIsVkMV9n4xhGgLo/s1600/Adinkra.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixiK0YWuo0Td7cD5ptGSWFBpR39Vd5ypoWjWpMFid7_6j-kSPjBdOTfcRc8tr5Ah8TIUiEAUE9_TzzmKdSBQLFdxGuJdxpo1HfugRxScDVNeD1RLfRNwlySdibXvShIsVkMV9n4xhGgLo/s1600/Adinkra.jpg" width="492" /></a></div> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdvY-j4635HUUPgbjKa1l_ehzTbZLnseokS3pZ98_Nur3O7sXM0Q9bKRn-ilXAVrO2PZSEti5mi5W3bJTiOm9HGGgC9hyphenhyphen3MK1bOHPDy7xwybDRDofPdS6_at67NovfyB9ZmvrianYI0i8/s1600/fern+adinkra+symbol.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdvY-j4635HUUPgbjKa1l_ehzTbZLnseokS3pZ98_Nur3O7sXM0Q9bKRn-ilXAVrO2PZSEti5mi5W3bJTiOm9HGGgC9hyphenhyphen3MK1bOHPDy7xwybDRDofPdS6_at67NovfyB9ZmvrianYI0i8/s1600/fern+adinkra+symbol.jpg" width="118" /></a></div> Used ofttimes past times pre-colonial Ghanaian people, the Adinkra stamps were made from gourds too used to select of import concepts. These symbols may exhibit upwards inwards jewelry designs to select pregnant to those inside the civilization equally clearly equally phonetic text represents meaningful words to those who are native to European languages, such equally English. <br /> <br /> For example, inwards Republic of Ghana the aya or "fern" adinkra symbol represents endurance too resourcefulness. "An private who wears this symbol suggests that he has endured many adversities too outlasted much difficulty," states W. Bruce Willis inwards his mass <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0966153219/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0966153219&linkCode=as2&tag=crosswriting-20&linkId=PXONJAD6SMPEL3VZ" target="_blank">The Adinkra Dictionary</a>. The aya represents a known West African works life that tin grow inwards hard places. It tin withstand dry out reason too various weather condition conditions too shortly came to correspond human perseverance inwards life. Among the Ghanaians, this is a symbol of hardiness, endurance too defiance.<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRJmZ5O7UJhr-oDbe_V5BwOAUkDokJMxMeshrBsZcAeI3CHFSXj7imErdQVQ4K8GcKUQS_8Rrz_NWUWE7rb3qNr9aMV3G2o8O0eg_MEEBM1KNiriRfuvtgT3_RY-NUJvJQa5ts6T6hghY/s1600/Adinkira+stamps+made+from+gourds+West+African+symbols+were+a+form+of+thought+or+conveyance+used+by+pre-colonial+Ghanaian+people+symbol+has+a+discrete+but+abstractive+meaning.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="262" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRJmZ5O7UJhr-oDbe_V5BwOAUkDokJMxMeshrBsZcAeI3CHFSXj7imErdQVQ4K8GcKUQS_8Rrz_NWUWE7rb3qNr9aMV3G2o8O0eg_MEEBM1KNiriRfuvtgT3_RY-NUJvJQa5ts6T6hghY/s1600/Adinkira+stamps+made+from+gourds+West+African+symbols+were+a+form+of+thought+or+conveyance+used+by+pre-colonial+Ghanaian+people+symbol+has+a+discrete+but+abstractive+meaning.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <br /> Africa’s rich too various artistic traditions vividly limited a spiritual sentiment of the world. The position out of symbolic systems inwards Africa is beyond this writer's capacity to fathom, based on the important cultural variety inside the African continent. Symbols may arise on masks too ornaments, inside architectural designs or inwards hairpieces too clothing. From East Africa to West Africa -- Southern Africa to Northern Africa -- the people of Africa accept a broad array of symbols waiting to live examined past times those interested inwards learning to a greater extent than well-nigh African history too its ancient, various cultural heritage.  </div>

The Linguistic Communication Of Symbols Inwards Africa

Spider spider web symbol for wisdom inwards West Africa, Ananse Symbols are visual keys that accept pregnant to people amongst a mutual heritage around a given symbol. The Gospel of Saint Philip s…

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