scholarly journals Modern African Missionaries. A Reassessment of Their Impact in Uganda 1890s–1920s

Exchange ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 50 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 270-288
Author(s):  
Emma Wild-Wood
Keyword(s):  
Great Lakes ◽  
Ethnic Group ◽  
Great Lakes Region ◽  
World Religion ◽  
Historical Processes ◽  
Modern Era

Abstract Using examples from Anglican missions in the Great Lakes region of Africa this article explores the roles of African Protestant missionaries in the modern era. It argues that many committed African Christians understood themselves to be missionaries and examines the nature of their missionary activity. Those who called themselves missionaries evangelised outside their own ethnic group. They were engaged in regional and transnational developments. The article attends to local and regional historical processes to show how African missionary activities were infused with transnational notions of belonging to a world religion.

We Are What We Eat: Ancient Agriculture Between the Great Lakes

1993 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
David L. Schoenbrun
Keyword(s):  
Great Lakes ◽  
Food Systems ◽  
Food System ◽  
Lake Victoria ◽  
Great Lakes Region ◽  
Ancient Agriculture ◽  
Historical Processes ◽  
History Of ◽  
Iron Working ◽  
Eastern Highlands

A history of food systems in Africa's Great Lakes region is presented using mostly historical linguistic sources, with help from archaeology and paleoecology. The paper moves beyond understanding the causes and consequences of iron-working as the most important feature of the period betweenc. 1000b.c.andc.a.d.500. I argue that a history of agriculture both gives context to changes in technology and introduces powerful new explanations for historical processes of settlement and occupational specialization that took place.Between 1000b.c.and 500b.c., in the Great Lakes region, speakers of three of Africa's four major language families practiced distinguishable food-producing systems. Two groups, Central Sudanian and Sog Eastern Sudanian, depended mainly on growing cereals and raising livestock for their sustenance. The third group, the Tale Southern Cushites, gave decidedly greater emphasis to cattle but probably also grew grains. A fourth group, the Great Lakes Bantu, grew root crops, fished and raised cattle and grain. They inherited much of their knowledge of these techniques, other than cattle-raising, from earlier Eastern Highlands Bantu-speakers. But they incorporated cattle and some grains through longstanding contacts with the two Sudanian and the Southern Cushitic communities. The eclectic food system they thus created allowed them to carry their unified, complex food-producing system throughout the wide variety of environments that they encountered in the Lakes region. Afterc.a.d.200 descendants of the Great Lakes Bantu refined this synthesis; they emphasized livestock raising inland from Lake Victoria, and mixed farmers spread throughout the Kivu Rift. Technological, demographic, ecological and sociological explanations of the technological evidence are offered.

scholarly journals Lake-to-Lake Cloud Bands: Frequencies and Locations

2007 ◽  
Vol 135 (12) ◽  
pp. 4202-4213 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yarice Rodriguez ◽  
David A. R. Kristovich ◽  
Mark R. Hjelmfelt
Keyword(s):  
High Resolution ◽  
Great Lakes ◽  
Satellite Imagery ◽  
Lake Superior ◽  
Great Lakes Region ◽  
Lake Effect ◽  
Time Period ◽  
High Resolution Satellite Imagery

Abstract Premodification of the atmosphere by upwind lakes is known to influence lake-effect snowstorm intensity and locations over downwind lakes. This study highlights perhaps the most visible manifestation of the link between convection over two or more of the Great Lakes lake-to-lake (L2L) cloud bands. Emphasis is placed on L2L cloud bands observed in high-resolution satellite imagery on 2 December 2003. These L2L cloud bands developed over Lake Superior and were modified as they passed over Lakes Michigan and Erie and intervening land areas. This event is put into a longer-term context through documentation of the frequency with which lake-effect and, particularly, L2L cloud bands occurred over a 5-yr time period over different areas of the Great Lakes region.

scholarly journals A Review of Factors Affecting Productivity of Bald Eagles in the Great Lakes Region: Implications for Recovery

1995 ◽  
Vol 103 ◽  
pp. 51 ◽  
Author(s):  
William W. Bowerman ◽  
John P. Giesy ◽  
David A. Best ◽  
Vincent J. Kramer
Keyword(s):  
Great Lakes ◽  
Great Lakes Region ◽  
Bald Eagles ◽  
Factors Affecting
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