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Umoja (network)
Umoja, the Swahili word for "unity", is the first of the Seven Principles (Nguzo Saba) celebrated each day during Kwanzaa. It may also refer to: Places * Umoja, Kenya, an all-female village founded on the principles of women's rights * Umoja, Nairobi, a suburb of Nairobi, the capital of Kenya * Umoja Village, a former shanty town in the Liberty City neighborhood of Miami, Florida People * Akinyele Umoja (born 1954), American educator and author Arts * '' Umoja: The Village Where Men Are Forbidden,'' a 2008 French documentary about Umoja, Kenya * ''Umoja'', a music album released in 2006 by Dutch pop band BLØF * ''Umoja: Anthem for Unity'', an instrumental work by Valerie Coleman * Umoja, the Ancient Name of Mualani, a character in 2020 video game ''Genshin Impact'' Politics * Umoja Party, a political party active in Washington, D.C., from 1994 to 2000 Transport * , a ferry used on Lake Victoria, East Africa * ''Umoja'', an East African Railways locomotive Other * Opera ...
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Swahili Language
Swahili, also known as as it is referred to endonym and exonym, in the Swahili language, is a Bantu languages, Bantu language originally spoken by the Swahili people, who are found primarily in Tanzania, Kenya, and Mozambique (along the East African coast and adjacent littoral islands). Estimates of the number of Swahili speakers, including both native and second-language speakers, vary widely. They generally range from 150 million to 200 million; with most of its native speakers residing in Tanzania and Kenya. Swahili has a significant number of loanwords from other languages, mainly Arabic, as well as from Portuguese language, Portuguese, English language, English and German language, German. Around 40% of Swahili vocabulary consists of Arabic loanwords, including the name of the language ( , a plural adjectival form of an Arabic word meaning 'of the coasts'). The loanwords date from the era of contact between Arab slave trade, Arab traders and the Northeast Bantu languages, B ...
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Unity
Unity is the state of being as one (either literally or figuratively). It may also 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 * ''Assassin's Creed Unity'', a 2014 action-adventure video game * Classical unities, three rules for drama described by Aristotle * "Unity", a 2006 episode of '' I Pity the Fool'' * "Unity" (comics), a crossover story line in the Valiant universe * ''Unity'' (film), a 2015 doc ...
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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, East, as well as Southeast Africa. Kwanzaa was first celebrated in 1966. Twenty-first-century estimates place the number of Americans who celebrate Kwanzaa between 500,000 and 2,000,000. History and etymology American black separatist Maulana Karenga created Kwanzaa in 1966 during the aftermath of the Watts riots as a non-Christian, specifically African-American holiday. Karenga said his goal was to "give black people an alternative to the existing holiday of Christmas and give black people an opportunity to celebrate themselves and their history, rather than simply imitate the practice of the dominant society." For Karenga, a figure in the Black Power movement of the 1960s and 1970s, the cre ...
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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 or female genital mutilation. 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 ...
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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 Urban planning (also called city planning in some contexts) is the process of developing and designing land use and the built ...
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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 arr ...
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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
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In April 2013, 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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The Village Where Men Are Forbidden
''The'' is a grammatical article in English, denoting nouns that are already or about to be 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 nouns 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 the archaic pronoun ''thee'' ...
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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, bağlama ...
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BLØF
BLØF is a Dutch rock band founded in Vlissingen, Zeeland, by bassist Peter Slager. It currently consists of Slager, Paskal Jakobsen (lead vocals and guitar), Bas Kennis (keyboards), and Norman Bonink (drums). Former members are drummers Henk Tjoonk and Chris Götte. The band's four members write the music together, but Slager is solely responsible for lyrics. BLØF has been recognised as "by far the most successful Dutch-speaking group of all time" and "the most successful Zeeland group". They were the fourth Dutch band to attain 40 hit singles on the Dutch Top 40, and they have two number-one songs: " Holiday in Spain" with American band Counting Crows (five weeks, 2004) and "Zoutelande" with Belgian singer Geike Arnaert (ten weeks, 2018). The band's first hit was "Liefs uit Londen", in 1998. Drummer Chris Götte was killed in a motorcycle accident in 2001 and succeeded by Bonink. In 2006, they became the first rock band to play in Bhutan, and their concert was the biggest ...
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Valerie Coleman
Valerie Coleman is an American composer and flutist as well as the creator of the wind quintet Imani Winds. Coleman is a distinguished artist of the century who was named Performance Today's 2020 Classical Woman of the year and was listed as “one of the Top 35 Women Composers” in the Washington Post. In 2019, Coleman's orchestral work, ''Umoja, Anthem for Unity,'' was commissioned and premiered by the Philadelphia Orchestra. Coleman's ''Umoja'' is the first classical work by a living African American woman that the Philadelphia Orchestra has performed. Coleman is known for her many contributions to wind chamber music and with Imani Winds, she released a number of studio albums with the group, one of which was nominated for Grammy Award for Best Classical Crossover Album in 2005. A graduate of Mannes College of Music and taught by musicians such as Julius Baker, her compositions frequently incorporate diverse styles such as jazz with classical music and often incorporate p ...
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List Of Genshin Impact Characters
The cast of characters in HoYoverse's '' Genshin Impact'' hails from the continent of Teyvat, which has seven nations: Mondstadt, Liyue, Inazuma, Sumeru, Fontaine, Natlan, and Snezhnaya. Each nation is ruled by one of seven Archons, or gods. The seven Archons stand for seven different elements: Anemo ( air), Geo (earth), Pyro (fire), Hydro (water), Cryo (ice), Electro (electricity), and Dendro (plant). Nearly all playable characters control one of these elements with help from a Vision, a device Celestia grants to those with great ambitions, with the exception of some characters who control the elements through their own supernatural powers, such as the Archons, Dainsleif, Skirk, Neuvillette, and the Traveler ( Aether/ Lumine). Creation and design Some of ''Genshin Impacts characters were first introduced in an official manga released prior to the game's launch. ''Genshin Impact'' producer Cai Haoyu said that characters are one of the most important components of t ...
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