UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI MA IN ARMED CONFLICT AND PEACE STUDIES CHS 560: DIPLOMACY WAR AND WARFARE IN EASTERN AFRICA TERM PAPER: MAJI MAJI REBELLION ODHIAMBO PAULINE ADHIAMBO: C50/72182/2008 FEBRUARY 2009 Introduction East Africa today is made up of Kenya‚ Uganda‚ Tanzania‚ Rwanda and Burundi. Kenya‚ Uganda and Tanzania consist of about 636‚707 square miles of land surface and roughly 42‚207 square miles of water or swamps. Tanzania (Tanganyika merged with Zanzibar in 1964) forms
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IKO-MAJI (A Safe Water Initiative for Communities and Schools) ECOTACT LIMITED 2012 P.O. Box 24045‚ 00100 GPO Nairobi‚ Kenya Menelik Road‚ off Ngong Road Tel: +254 020 2459130 Cell: +254 733 759 888 www.ecotact.org Introduction "There is a water crisis today. But the crisis is not about having too little water to satisfy our needs. It is a crisis of managing water so badly that billions of people - and the environment - suffer badly." World Water Vision Report. The water sector
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Rebellion of 1837-1838 Causes and consequences There were many causes and consequences of the rebellions of 1837. There was so much wrong with Canada at the time socially‚ politically‚ and economically. There were long-term and short-term problems between the French and British in lower and upper Canada at the time. The British ruling a country with a majority of the population being French‚ a rebellion was bound to happen. These are the main causes of the rebellion and the consequences.
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Rebellion: The Most Self-Destructive Effect of Authoritarian Parenting Style Discipline is the backbone of characters; without it‚ nothing greater can be achieved in life. It is a form of punishment or instruction which corrects‚ molds‚ or perfects the moral character of mental faculties of a person or child. With discipline‚ values are also learned by the child in order for him or her to become a better person as he or she grows up. Parents may use various types of disciplinary measures to guide
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The Rebellion Old Major‚ the old boar on the Manor Farm‚ calls the animals on the farm for a meeting‚ where he compares the humans to parasites and teaches the animals a revolutionary song‚ ’Beasts of England’. When Major dies‚ two young pigs‚ Snowball and Napoleon‚ assume command and consider it a duty to prepare for the Rebellion. The animals revolt and drive the drunken and irresponsible Mr Jones from the farm‚ renaming it "Animal Farm". They adopt Seven Commandments of Animalism‚ the most
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Shay Rebellion-Alexander Hamilton The lackluster response to the Annapolis meeting might have been repeated the following spring‚ but for the violence that erupted in Massachusetts over the fall and winter. To Hamilton‚ Shays’ Rebellion was the direct and inevitable result of the weak national government. The attempt by Massachusetts to pay off its war debts on its own had resulted in a crushing tax burden‚ especially for farmers unable to produce the required gold or silver currency. The consequence
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The Sepoy Rebellion versus the Taiping Rebellion Although India and China are different when it comes to religion and culture‚ the Taiping Rebellion in China and the Sepoy Rebellion in India had their similarities and their differences‚ which allowed them to succeed in some parts of their rebellions and fail in other. However‚ neither of these rebellions were truly successful in the sense that neither of them achieved their main goals. Even though the leaders of the Sepoy Rebellion and the Taiping
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Teenage rebellion is not a new issue in society and every generation has had this conflict. Teenage years are not always a nightmare for parents‚ and most adults enjoy watching their children grow into young adults. The biggest thing about teenage rebellion‚ is that young people go through a period of wanting to reject everything their parents stand for. This leads us to ask the question‚ is this normal and is it healthy? Some may say it is‚ and some may say it is not. The key task of rebellion is
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what became known as the Stono Rebellion‚ was led by Jemmy‚ an Angolan literate slave. He was most likely owned by the Cato family‚ who lived just north of the Stono River‚ so he was also known as Cato. 20 other enslaved Africans congregated and made a plan to go to Spanish Florida where they sought the freedom offered in Saint Augustine for slaves who managed to successfully escape the British colonies. But escape for slaves was no easy feat‚ and the Stono Rebellion was no exception. The rebels chanted
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A STUDENTS REBELLION (http://socialistworker.org/2009/02/24/student-rebellion-catches-on) A student rebellion catches on Before anyone writes off today’s students as apathetic‚ they should consider what the new wave of student occupations has begun to accomplish. February 24‚ 2009 ONE OF the many upsetting aspects to being in your forties‚ is hearing people your own age grumbling about "young people" the way we were grumbled about ourselves. Old friends will complain‚ "Youngsters today have
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