misstourismlagos2016 unveil

Misstourismlagos  unveil the top contestant for the grand finale. the event took place on friday at rands and naira lounge and sport bar.the grand finale is set to take place  17th April, 2016 at Sheraton Hotel and Tower .Celebrity appearances: Adekunle Gold, Korede Bello and Oritsefemi  .For more info visit www.misstourismlagos.com or whatsapp - 08077777818
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WIN AN OFFICIAL CAR,A TRIP TO DUBAI:MISSTOURISMLAGOS SECOND AUDITION

After the success of the first phase of the audition that was held at  W hotel, GRA, Ikeja on 27th January 2016,    the sales of forms has been extended till 25th February 2016 Due to the increased demand by the populace the second phase of the audition is scheduled to take place at silver cafe,ozone cinema, yaba on 18th of February 2016 by 9:00 am. While the final phase of the audition is scheduled to take place at  lekki on the 25th of February 2016. The winner(miss tourism) will get Branded new official car . 2nd(miss culture) Trip to dubia,3rd(miss Art) 100k cash ,and winners and runner-ups will represent lagos  in international contest and advertisement contacts endorsement from govt and sponsors, others will get sponsors gift items and consolation prize and all grand finale contestants will get skill acquisition trainingFor more details log on to
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SIGNIFICANT ROLE OF SUNDAITA

 An African King Sundiata Keita, also known as Mari Diata,
Keita was the founder and ruler of the Mali Empire in West Africa. Keita was the son of Nare Maghan, the ruler of Kangaba, a small state located on an offshoot of the upper Niger River. Sundiata left Kangaba, but the reason is unknown: he may have gone into voluntary exile to avoid a jealous half brother, or he may have been exiled by Sumanguru Kante, king of the Soso, who killed Keita's

father and took over his kingdom.
Keita responded to the requests of his people to return to Kangaba to help them regain their independence. He assembled a coalition of Malinke chiefdom's and in 1235 led them to victory in the Battle of Kirina. According to popular tradition, he triumphed because he was a stronger magician than his opponent. This victory marked the beginning of the Mali Empire. After defeating the Soso, Keita merged his authority among the Malinke people and established a strong centralized monarchy. Ibn Khaldun and other fourteenth century North African historians indicate that Sundiata Keita ruled Mali for 25 years.
He expanded the state by incorporating the Ghana Empire and the West African gold fields. Keitta built his capital at Niani, which was in his home region. Mali gained economic strength by controlling the region's trade routes and gold fields. Although he was Muslim, he allowed the people to practice their own religions. When Keita died, his son Uli became the mansa, or king, of Mali. The Malinke people of West Africa continue to regard Sundiata Keita as a national hero. His death is estimated to have taken place around 1260.
Reference:
Africana The Encyclopedia of the African and
African American Experience
Editors: Kwame Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Copyright 1999

CONTRIBUTIONS OF MANSA MUSA

Mansa Musa is mostly remembered for his extravagant hajj, or pilgrimage, to Mecca with, according to the Arab historian al-Umari, 100 camel-loads of gold, each weighing 300 lbs.; 500 slaves, each carrying a 4 lb. gold staff; thousands of his subjects; as well as his senior wife, with her 500 attendants. With his lavish spending and generosity in Cairo and Mecca, he ran out of money and had to borrow at usurious rates of interest for the return trip. Al-Umari also states that Mansa Musa and his retinue "gave out so much gold that they depressed its value in Egypt and caused its value to fall."

However, attention should be focused on the effects of the hajj, rather than the pilgrimage itself.

The hajj planted Mali in men's minds and its riches fired up the imagination as El Dorado did later. In 1339, Mali appeared on a "Map of the World". In 1367, another map of the world showed a road leading from North Africa through the Atlas Mountains into the Western Sudan. In 1375 a third map of the world showed a richly attired monarch holding a large gold nugget in the area south of the Sahara. Also, trade between Egypt and Mali flourished.

Mansa Musa brought back with him an Arabic library, religious scholars, and most importantly the

Mansa Musa strengthened Islam and promoted education, trade, and commerce in Mali. The foundations were laid for Walata, Jenne, and Timbuktu becoming the cultural and commercial centers of the Western Sudan, eclipsing those of North Africa and producing Arabic-language black literature in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Diplomatic relations were established and ambassadors were exchanged between Mali and Morocco, and Malinke students were sent to study in Morocco.

For the forty-seven years between the time of the death of his grandfather's brother, Sundiata, and Mansa Musa's accession to the throne, Mali endured a period of political instability. Mansa Musa ruled for 25 years, bringing prosperity and stability to Mali and expanding the empire he inherited.

Mali achieved the apex of its territorial expansion under Mansa Musa. The Mali Empire extended from the Atlantic coast in the west to Songhai far down the Niger bend to the east: from the salt mines of Taghaza in the north to the legendary gold mines of Wangara in the south.

Mansa Musa died in 1337. He had brought stability and good government to Mali, spreading its fame abroad and making it truly "remarkable both for its extent and for its wealth and a striking example of the capacity of the Negro for political organization" (E.W. Bovill, 1958, The Golden Trade of the Moors).

MANSAMUSA

Muslim architect al-Sahili, who built the great mosques at Gao and Timbuktu and a royal palace. Al-Sahili's most famous work was the chamber at Niani. It is said that his style influenced architecture in the Sudan where, in the absence of stone, the beaten earth is often reinforced with wood which bristles out of the buildings.

MALI EMPIRE

Mali,  trading empire that flourished in West Africa from the 13th to the 16th century. The mali empire developed from the state of kangaba, on the Upper niger river east of the fouta djallon, and is said to have been founded before ad 1000. The malinke inhabitants of Kangaba acted as middlemen in the gold trade during the later period of ancient ghanasundaita, the brother of Kangaba’s fugitive ruler, won a decisive victory against the Susu chief. (The name Mali absorbed the name Kangaba at about this time.)
In extending Mali’s rule beyond Kangaba’s narrow confines, sundaita set a precedent for successive emperors. Imperial armies secured the gold-bearing lands of Bondu and Bambuk to the south, subdued the Diara in the northwest, and pushed along the Niger as far north as Lac Débo. Under Mansa musa (1307–32?) Mali rose to the apogee of its power. He controlled the lands of the Middle Niger, absorbed into his empire the trading cities of timbuktu and gao, and imposed his rule on such south Saharan cities as Walata and on the Taghaza region of salt deposits to the north. He extended the eastern boundaries of his empire as far as the Hausa people, and to the west he invaded Takrur and the lands of the fulani and tukulor peoples. In morocco Egypt, and elsewhere he sent ambassadors and imperial agents and on his return from a pilgrimage to Mecca (1324) established Egyptian scholars in both Timbuktu and Gao.

. Their dislike of the Susu chief Sumanguru’s harsh but ineffective rule provoked the malinketo revolt, and in 1230

In the early thirteenth century, the exiled prince Sundiata Keita  led a Mande revolt against the powerful Soso king Sumanguru Kante that marked the ascension of the Mali empire. Both a real historical personage and a cultural hero, Sundiata’s rise to power. After Sundiata, the most famous ruler of the Mali empire is Mansa Kankan Musa I, who came to power several decades after the death of his legendary predecessor. Musa was not the first emperor of Mali to embrace Islam; unlike the Soninke and the Soso, Mande royalty adopted the religion relatively early. However, Musa’s hajj (pilgrimage to Mecca) of 1324–25 drew the attention of both the Islamic world and Europeans, who were unprepared for the lavish wealth and generosity that the Malian king displayed during his stopover in Egypt. Accompanied by an enormous entourage, Musa apparently dispensed so much gold in Cairo that the precious metal’s value plummeted and did not recover for several years thereafter. The Mali empire, previously little known beyond the western Sudan, now became legendary in the Islamic world and Europe. The image of Mansa Musa bearing nuggets of gold was subsequently commemorated in maps of the African continent.
The fourteenth-century traveler Ibn Battuta visited ancient Mali a few decades after Musa’s death and was much impressed by the peace and lawfulness he found strictly enforced there. The Mali empire extended over an area larger than western Europe and consisted of numerous vassal kingdoms and provinces. Following Mansa Musa’s death, Mali went into a long decline, shrinking to the size of its original territory by 1645.

Lagos State Polytechnic certificate is awarded base on academics and moral standard.

Culture is the way of life. They say it is the moral, ethics, mores, custom, tradition of a society. Many believe it is only the parent that teach the children the way of life meanwhile, higher institutions are not left out because that is were the children spend most of their time because lecturers  teach the student the way of life.
Last Friday, Department of Mass Communication, Lagos State Polytechnic holds orientation for new intake of the department where Steven Anu Adesemoye made it known to the new students that the Lagos State Polytechnic certificate is awarded base  on academics and moral standard.
He said Lagos State Polytechnic trains the students to reduce unemployment, train the students on entrepreneur education to make them independent after graduation..

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Lagos state polytechnic certificate award is base on academics and moral ethics standard,

Culture is the way of life. They say it is the moral, ethics, mores, custom, tradition of a society. Many believe it is only the parent that teach the children the way of life meanwhile, higher institutions are not left out because that is were the children spend most of their time , lecturers  are also mentors,coach .they teach the student  way of life.

Last Friday, Department of Mass Communication, Lagos State Polytechnic  holds orientation for new intake,where Steve' Anu Adesemoye orient  the new students during his speech he said  Lagos State Polytechnic certificate is awarded base  on academics and moral standard.

He further buttress that  Lagos State Polytechnic trains the students to reduce unemployment, train the students on entrepreneur education and practical classes to make them independent after graduation.

Foreigners across the world will come for arts exhibition in Nigeria,

we are looking at the creative industry, we are going to revive the craft centre at the National Theatre, we are going to create an auction centre where people will come from all over the world for arts exhibition in Nigeria,”) In

line with the PMB administration’s to diverse from oil as the only source of government revenue,  Minister of information and culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said this during his inspection/tour of facilities at the National Arts Theatre, Lagos on Monday.
He also unveiled the Federal government’s plan to collaborate with State governments to promote the cultural festivals in each State.
He added that  all the arts councils in each state should give at least ten festivals, such that in each day of the year one  will have at least one festival, so that we have a compendium of festivals such that any tourist coming into Nigeria will know where to visit at any time of the year.

watch this video..This young boy is really talented and can do better if he is encourage ,manage and modernise.this video was cut from a yoruba film in nigeria.

:: The use of African drums
:: The instruments of the tribes in Gambia
:: A drum called Djembe
:: How to learn to play a drum called Djembe

:: The use of African drums

Drums are wonderful instrument, and they have beautiful sound. In Gambia drums are very important in peoples daily life. We use drums in many different ways, we have drums, which are used for sending massages to the people in town or some time to send massage to the next village, and there are drums for ceremonies like weddings or naming ceremonies and there are also drums for healing people who are sick.

Drums are instrument that when you hear them you feel something inside your body, because they have this supper natural power, which goes into the body and touches our soul and wake our spirit. You see a drum beat, is the same as heartbeat they have the same pulse, so that way when we hear the spirit of the drum sound. We response immediately, and we responded in different ways.

There are some people when they hear sound of a drums, they cannot stand still, their whole body starts to move and in a few seconds they began to dance to the drum. Because the person spirit and the drummer and drum spirit comes together as one spirit, and that person will also have a very high spiritual communication with drum and the drummer, which any drummer or musician will love to when he/she is giving a concert to see people dancing to your music, the person is telling the drummer that he/she understand the spiritual drum language. So those kinds of people know how to use their spirit, because drums rhythm is an international language, in any culture or traditions they have drum rhythm in their society.

And there are other kind of people when they hear a drum they will immediately put their fingers into their ears, because they cannot stand the drum spirit, it makes them uncomfortable. They are afraid of their own spirit and energy they have, so the sound that comes out of the drum remain them their spirit. Which goes into the body very strongly and he/she cannot control it. So the only thing the person can do is to confront this sound of the drum, and how can you confront drum spirit. The only way to do it is to try and enjoy drum spirit and relax your own spirit when you are listening to drum and the drummer spirit.


There is also other kind of people, when they hear a drum sound, it makes them completely relax all over there body and they will come down to the earth. And let their body surrenders to the sound of the drum that they hear and they let the sound of the drum get into their body very deeply. It is a another way of drum healing, and the best way to get drum healing is, you have to lay down and close your eyes and let only the drum spirit go in to your body. But there are many ways to do drum healings. In Gambia some times you can see a person go into a trance, because he/she will let the spirit of the drum control he/her spirit the drummer and drum spirit.mariambabs@yahoo.com

TOP TEN REASON WHY YOU SHOULD DATE AFRICAN MEN.
Do you know the 10 reasons why a lot of girls
date African men? If you’re not African and has
never dated an African Man before, dating an
African man can be experience of life time,
before you can make a success out of dating an
African man, you first have to understand him.
A typical or quintessential African man is gentle
yet powerful, an African man understands what
the needs of a woman are
Dating African men will give you the pleasure
of having security. They are very aware of what
the needs of a woman are, most African men
would not allow the lady to pay the bills
particularly on their first date for instance, a
committed African man will try as much as
possible to make sure that you are happy in
that relationship , he will try as much as possible
to give it his all, listed below are a reasons why
you need to date African men.

1. Love
If you and he should fall in love, then why not
date him? We can’t control who we fall in love
with and if it is with an African male, that would
be just as wonderful. You would date him
because of who he is and because you love him,
not for any other reason. No matter what color
you are or he is, love is color blind and all that
would matter is that you love him for him.

2. Manners
We meet so many people and when it comes
time for the man to be a gentleman and open a
door for you, not many will do it. If you are out
on a date with an African Man, he is going to
treat you like a woman and open doors for you,
pay for the meal and make sure you get home
safely. You can’t say that about a lot of the men
today. Just because you are on a date will not
guarantee that the man is going to have
manners and be courteous.. join me here,am Gonna continue from where I stop..enjoy!

HAVE YOU READ THESE BOOKS ? IF NO.... YOU NEED TO GET ONE   .......

The Worlds of a Maasai Warrior : An Autobiography
(amazon.com) - USA   (amazon.co.uk) - Europe
by Tepilit Ole Saitoti
An excellent resource for learning about true Maasai culture I am a high school social studies teacher and I am currently teaching a course on world cultures. For the course I have decided to teach about the Maasai culture. I found the book to be an outstanding resource that depicts what true Maasai culture really is. T (Brad Klitzke from Wisconsin, USA , October 1, 1998)


Maasai
Maasai (Hardcover) : by Tepilit Ole Saitoti, Carol Beckwith
(amazon.com) - USA   (amazon.co.uk) - Europe
This is a (not surprisingly) beautiful and very accurate portrayal of Maasai life. It was written by Teplit Ole Saitoti, himself a Maasai straddling a modern lifestyle, with that of an elder in his home village. Carol Beckwith is one of the most sensitive and talented "human anthropology" photographers the world has ever known. She gets photos no one else can, by living the villagers' lifestyles. The result of the collaboration is the view of Maasai life from within. (Reviewer: A reader)


The Africans
The Africans
(amazon.com) - USA   (amazon.co.uk) - Europe
by David Lamb
An Excellent Book This book is full of information about The African. The writing is superb and the reader is brought into the everyday lives of these people. Africa is a vast wasteland. Maybe things will change, but this book allows one to see why it probably won't.  A reader from Colorado , May 6, 1999


African Ceremonies  African Ceremonies
(amazon.com) - USA   (amazon.co.uk) - Europe
This text brings together a decade of travel and research, in a two-volume exploration of African rites and rituals, including baby namings, initiations and weddings - In addition to the more than 800 arresting color photographs.

Faces of Africa Faces of Africa
(amazon.com) - USA   (amazon.co.uk) - Europe
by Carol Beckwith, Angela Fisher
This striking coffee table study offers rare visages of Africa—that vast continent most often examined only through news reports of insurrection, plague and famine. Rather than view African cultures as an indistinguishable whole, seasoned photographers Beckwith and Fisher carefully focus on the varied life journeys and rituals of the peoples they have encountered over three decades of travel in 36 countries.

 African Elegance
(amazon.com) - USA   (amazon.co.uk) - Europe
by Ettagale Blauer
"African Elegance" delves into the ways in which such traditional objects as masks, jewelry, and wooden vessels are used in contemporary African society.

Dogon - Africa's People of the Cliffs
Dogon : Africa's People of the Cliffs   (amazon.com) - USA    (amazon.co.uk) - Europe
by Stephenie Hollyman (Photographer), Walter E. A. Van Beek
In Mali, the Dogon people still live a traditional existence. This photographic portrait shows a tightly knit, co-operative society engaging in daily activities and sacred rituals: planting and harvesting crops, creating crafts, and performing varied religious ceremonies.


Once upon a Time in Africa
Once Upon a Time in Africa: Stories of Wisdom and Joy
(amazon.com) - USA     (amazon.co.uk) - Europe
by by Joseph G. Healey
This rich collection of nearly a hundred stories from every part of Africa—legends and folktales, myths and parables, poems, prayers and proverbs—probes deeply into the heart, the mystery of being, and our relationships with God and one another.

WOAH!
AFRICAN HAIRSTYLE THAT COULD GET YOU SOPHISTICATED
Braids are an easy and so pleasant way to forget about hair styling for months, give your hair some rest and protect it from harsh environmental factors. Besides, with the awesome hairstyles listed below you will attract attention, admiring glances and sincere smiles.

Hello mummy and daddy! Culture is the most important element of people's identity, there is a gradual erosion of our culture in the way our children are being raised in urban area with no connection of. Our cultural values, The adventure ot turtle taido a 2D animated cartoon series produced in a 4k resolution highest standard available in the world today can connect your child(3-11yrs)  with the cultural values,,makes them know more about the ir country nigeria and its culture, Turtle Taido is a cute. bubbly turtle who is on an adventure to all the cities in Nigeria.

• He travels around the country and learns a lot about the country, the people, the culture and animals on his journeys.

• He has a special power which he uses to help people and other animals.
It endorse by the federal ministry of tourism, culture and national orientation. muyiwa kayode is the creator ,and executive producer

Do you know about mlk event? They are the organisers of misstourismlagosnigeria2016 ...visit  www.misstourismlagos.com for further info

The maiden edition of miss tourism lagos audition comes up on the 27th of january 2016