Two Fine

Katya Elise Henry by Aris Jerome

Kenya Moore on Puerto Rican beach.

Old Strength of Beauty

Newafricancultures


Turkana woman, Kenya
Femme turkana, Kenya
Mulher Turkana, Quenia credit(o)s : Flores-Jan @ overlandsphere.com

November 21, 2013 

Angolan woman - Femme mumuila
 November 20, 2013 

the Mature sounds of....

I held a dream a long time of marrying into the Turkana tribe in Kenya. It was one of a few I was aching to become a part of in my search for a wife years ago.

Turkana woman

Senegalese man in 1882

I have the nostalgia for the powers of the old days in Africa. I don't have the romance of Africa within me having lived there. What I feel is the land, and the land, the touch and the stories of the land and how they feel coursing up through the feet is beyond words. The histories of various parts of the continent, like Senegal, and the struggles of the time the old pictures were taken were wrought with turmoil as the colonial powers tore through the countries. 

What that was like is on this elder's face. Is it not? How could those emotions have not been upon his face if there was a white man taking his picture? - Dawn Wolf 2.24.13

model

model Stacey Leigh
by Frank Lanigan Photographer

Kenya in the tropics

MARRIED LOVERS ...

mother - model Elisabetta Gregoraci touches her husband's head in Kenya !!!!

A KISS

poster - a kiss



mother - model Elisabetta Gregoraci & son Falco Nathan on Kenyan beach 3



UNITED NATIONS DECLARATION ON THE RIGHTS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES

symbol of United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

UNITED NATIONS DECLARATION ON

THE RIGHTS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES
Adopted by the General Assembly 13 September 2007

The Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples was adopted by the General Assembly on Thursday September 13, by a majority of 144 states in favour, 4 votes against (Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States) and 11 abstentions (Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Burundi, Colombia, Georgia, Kenya, Nigeria, Russian Federation, Samoa and Ukraine).


Since its adoption, Australia has reversed its position and now endorses the Declaration. Colombia and Samoa have also reversed their positions and indicated their support for the Declaration


During the Durban Review Conference in April 2009, 182 States from all regions of the world reached consensus on an outcome document in which they “ Welcome[d] the adoption of the UN Declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples which has a positive impact on the protection of victims and, in this context, urge[d] States to take all necessary measures to implement the rights of indigenous peoples in accordance with international human rights instruments without discrimination…” (UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Outcome document of the Durban Review Conference , 24 April 2009, para. 73).


Source & Declaration in different languages:
http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/unpfii/en/declaration.html

KENYA'S FREEDOM FIGHTER

BBC World Service Africa

Mandela: Twenty years free 1990 - 2010

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/africa/2010/02/100205_kimathi_mandela20.shtml

When South Africa's last apartheid government announced the release from prison of Nelson Mandela and his fellow activists, the news was welcomed with great fanfare around the world. Earlier generations of Africa's independence activists never received that kind of recognition. Kenya's Dedan Kimathi, a legendary Mau Mau freedom fighter, was labelled a terrorist by the British colonial administration and eventually convicted and hanged in Nairobi. Dedan Kimathi was among those who inspired Nelson Mandela and his fight against apartheid but their experiences were vastly different.

BBC's Ruth Nesoba reports from Nairobi.