Poésie sous l’arbre à palabres d’Afrique (French Edition)
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A significant proportion of Vakunta's scholarly work is devoted to the production of Open Educational Resources OER , notably didactic videos made available as open resources on YouTube as follows: The Life and Times of a Cameroonian Icon: Indigenization of Language in the African Francophone Novel: Cry My Beloved Africa: Amazon Digital Services, From Pidgin to Camfranglais: The Making of a New Language in Cameroon.
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Both greater and lesser flamingos, and even white pelicans, may then breed at Etosha. The pan formed in Pliocene times when the upper Cunene River and possibly the Cubango River currently part of the Okavango system terminated as an interior lake and swamp system, similar to the Okavango Delta in Botswana today. The Etosha Pan is a remnant of that endorrheic lake system. Wind erosion removed most of the river-end deposits and deepened the depression.
During the drying and deflation process, the soil of the pan became mineral-rich and brackish. The pH is high 8. The soils surrounding the pan are shallow, brackish and alkaline, mostly cemented by calcrete. The pan margin is fringed with halophytic vegetation consisting principally of various grasses and shrubs. Open grasslands rise gradually away from the pan and sustain a wide variety of perennial and annual grasses and shrubs.
The grasslands and shrubland surrounding the pan are renowned for supporting vast herds of giraffes, zebras, blue wildebeest, oryxes, springbok, ostriches and their accompanying large predators, as well as one of the largest and healthiest populations of black rhino in the world. The area also supports a considerable diversity of smaller mammals, birds, snakes, lizards, invertebrates, etc. The majestic scenes of elephant herds refreshing themselves at the natural springs along the margins of the pan, backdropped against the shimmering-white expanses of the pan itself and the spectacular diversity of other large mammals, makes it one of the most popular game parks in Africa.
Kavango East and Zambezi Regions. This delta system in Kalahari Desert comprises permanent marshlands and seasonally flooded plains. It is one of the very few major interior delta systems that do not flow into a sea or ocean, with a wetland system that is almost intact.
One of the unique characteristics of the property is the progressive annual flooding from the River Okavango that progress through the system to reach its peak in Botswana during the dry season, with the result that the native plants and animals have synchronized their biological cycles with these seasonal rains and floods. The biota has uniquely adapted their growth and reproductive behaviour, particularly the flooded grassland biota, to be timed with the arrival of floodwater. It is an exceptional example of the interaction between climatic, hydrological and biological processes.
This situation changed rapidly from the 18th century onwards with the expansion of European colonizers and ensuing conflicts over land. These groups themselves are sub-divided into several distinct language groups and self-identifying communities, e. Kung, the Naro, the Khwe and the! The Succulent Karoo biome is an internationally recognized biodiversity hotspot, and is the world's only arid hotspot.
The km 2 biome extends from the south-west through the north-western areas of South Africa and into southern Namibia. N15 17 W23 46 Date de soumission: N14 49 - N14 54 W - W24 44 Date de soumission: Brava, ville de Nova Sintra. N14 55 15 W23 31 30 Date de soumission: Santiago, ville de Praia. N16 86 - N16 51 W24 85 - W24 51 Date de soumission: La superficie totale du complexe est de ,6 km2, couvrant la superficie des terres, la zone marine et la zone tampon. N15 03 - N14 48 W24 16 W24 30 Date de soumission: Sao Filipe ha: Ceci explique le fait qu'une grande partie de la population a une couleur de peau claire, les yeux bleus et les cheveux blonds.
S18 55 20 E47 31 58 Date de soumission: N13 44 31 W15 31 01 Date de soumission: Janjangbureh Island, Central River Region. The historic quarter of the Island of Janjangbureh, Historic Georgetown, is being proposed for inclusion in the tentative list as an extension of the Kunta Kinteh Island and Related Sites inscription. The area continues to evoke the spirit of the island in its heydays. Some of the buildings in the historic quarter which was the European settlement are in a reasonable state of conservation,especially those that were acquired by the local inhabitants and have been converted to new uses such as accommodation and bar and restaurant facilities to serve the growing tourist industry.
Others have been converted to government offices. Many are rapidly decaying or are merely ruins with upstanding walls. The area around the Regional Governor's house was the British settlement and seat of government with several period buildings still standing in their original glory.
The building has been renovated to enable it to continue its function as the residence and office of the most important government official in the region. In close proximity are two colonial relics, the Post Office which also doubled as telephone exchange facility and the Deputy Governor's house. Both building are well preserved, maintained and continue to be in use. The street was mainly occupied by the trading firms of the colonial period. Most of their houses which doubled as shops can still be identified but are in various stages of decay.
The streetscape remains virtually unchanged and continues to evoke the spirit of the time when trading was vibrant in this community. A wooden house on this street testifies to the presence of the community of Liberated Africans who were sent in from Freetown in to plug the skills gap that was apparent in the new British settlement. On the same street is the Methodist Church which in its early life served both as church and school,and is regarded as the longest surviving Methodist church that continues to be in use.
One of these buildings,of which only walls remain, appears to be a warehouse with an adjoining wharf inscribed at the bottom with the date still extant. Both buildings are in various stages of decay and remain unused,but continue to gain immense attraction as relics of Georgetown's past. To the west of the settlement is a Christian cemetery where headstones and tombs attest to the numerous colonial administrators, traders, missionaries and liberated Africans who lived and passed away in Georgetown.
At the junction of Jackson and Mercer Street is the last remaining colonial metal lamppost on which gas lamps were hung to provide light for the tiny British settlement. N13 41 24 W14 52 39 Date de soumission: Nianija District,Central River Region. The quarry site is located on a laterite ridge to the east of the Wassu stone circles site. Other shallow cuts and stepped platforms also indicate quarry activity but may also imply natural erosion features. Some partially dressed stones remain in situ but are fractured;which probably led to their abandonment.
Another quarry lies to the ESE. From the visible remains in situ,the stones appear to have been removed in blocks, as it occurs naturally and it is then dressed, presumably at the quarry site. The ridge is littered with broken fragments of stone. The number of quarries does not reflect the magnitude of the Wassu circles and its outliers although present plant growth cover prohibits an accurate assessment of the extent of the quarries.
S 34 01 51 69 E 18 25 07 92 Date de soumission: The Cape Winelands is situated in the extreme south-western corner of the African continent in the immediate vicinity of Cape Town, the capital of the Western Cape Province, one of nine provinces of the Republic of South Africa. Overview of the early development of agriculture and interest in the botanical richness of the Cape of Good Hope: At the onset of globalisation, the Cape of Good Hope was established in as a victualling station for the Dutch East India Company to supply its fleets sailing to and from the East Indies.
Fresh water and meat supplies as well as vegetables and fruit were essential to sustain the trading ventures and gardens were laid on. Soon, however, the interest in the botanical and medicinal qualities of the Cape botanical richness triggered interests in the Netherlands and plants, seeds, bulbs and cuttings were regularly supplied to the botanical and medical gardens of cities and private collectors. The earliest agricultural calendar to guide farming activities at the Cape was compiled early in the 18th century by WA van der Stel, owner of Vergelegen. Overview of the development of the wine industry in the Cape: Together with three soil types - granite, shale and sandstone - the mediterranean climate of the Western Cape, influenced by maritime conditions and mountainous terroir, is viticulturally ideal for growing good grapes.
After the small land grants along the Amsel now the Liesbeeck River on the slopes of Table Mountain were made to the first nine Free Burghers in , more vines were planted. Barely two years later, on 2 February , the first wine was produced at the Cape. By governor Simon van der Stel planted more than , vines in the Constantia valley. These Protestant refugees brought with them the knowledge of viticulture, which helped to promote and advance the economic prosperity of the Cape.
From , Constantia regularly exported red and white wines to Europe. When the British took control of the Cape in , the wine trade and brandy production boomed and a dramatic rise in wine export occurred during the first half of the 19th century. However, by Great Britain and France entered into a trade agreement and the subsequent lowered import tariffs on French wine imported into Britain negatively impacted on Cape wine exports. To make things worse, the phylloxera louse Phylloxera vastatrix created havoc in the Cape winelands from after decimating vineyards in Europe.
After the end of the Second South African War , vineyards were re-established with vines grafted onto imported phylloxera-resistant rootstocks. In , the first South African wine co-operatives were formed in response to the depression in the wine and spirit industry. Regulations for cultivation and prices were established, followed by a quota system to curb over-production.
In an American doctor, Jack Winshaw, and a local farmer began producing natural wine. In the Stellenbosch Farmers' Wineries was registered as a public company, followed in by the establishment of the Distillers Corporation. The dawn of a democratic South African society at the end of the 20th century also heralded the abolishment of the over-controlled wine industry and the introduction of black empowerment initiatives in the wine industry. Development of the Cape vernacular architecture: From the outset, and following the example of the indigenous San hunters and Khoekhoe gatherers , the settlement at the Cape were dependent on the availability of local materials to build shelter.
A limited amount of building materials, such as hard timber and floor tiles, were imported from Madagascar, Mauritius, the East Indies and the Netherlands. Stone was quarried and sun-dried bricks were made to build walls. Indigenous trees in the forests on the slopes of the Cape mountains were felled and hand-sawed into beams, rafters, doors and window frames, while the readily-available reeds restio of the Cape fynbos were used as thatching material for roofs.
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The Cape limekilns were stacked with seashells from the beaches or, further into the interior, with local limestone to produce lime for building purposes. Exotic tree species, such as the oak Quercus rubur , bamboo and poplar, were planted on the farms to supplement the shortage of timber for construction purposes. Some of the characteristic elements of the Cape vernacular architecture were established during the visit to the Cape in of a High Commissioner of the DEIC who gave instructions to the then Governor that all new buildings of the Company at the Cape had to be constructed with local stone at least up to window-sill height, had to be plastered and then limewashed to protect it from the notorious Cape winter weather there was not enough timber available at the Cape to produce hard-baked bricks and low walls were to be built to connect buildings and structures to create an enclosed farmstead that resembled a Dutch " hofstede ".
Even the Governor applied these instructions and he added to them the latest mathematical and scientific principles from Europe to personally set out his own estate, Constantia, and at least one outpost of the Company, Vergelegen. It was also here that a wide variety of exotic fruits and vegetables, sourced from all over the globe, were planted as experiments that laid the basis of the commercial agricultural development in South Africa. By more land grants were allocated to Free Burghers and freed black slaves.
Following the prosperity that the 18th century brought to the Cape, farmsteads, originally simple and basic utilitarian, acquired gables - the earliest dated from the midth century. These gables, both front and back gables as well as end gables, were usually decorated with plaster elements. However, two farmsteads stood out as the idealised farmsteads, i. During the latter part of the 18th century, Cape Town was known as "Little Paris". At the same time sailors, soldiers, craftsmen, labourers and Company officials originating from Europe also set foot at the Cape. Many were skilled craftsmen and women and were instrumental in the development, interpretation and the decorations found on the Cape's vernacular architecture, reflecting the cultural diversity of the artisans, the owners and the stylistic influences assembled from Africa, Europe and Asia.
Some farmers had teams of slave artisans specialising in crafts related to the building trade, such as plasterers, thatchers, ironmongers and carpenters. Others were talented cabinetmakers or silversmiths who crafted furniture and utensils that filled the homesteads.
Only a few of these talents are known by name, in most cases Cape vernacular architecture has the anonymous yet individual signatures of individuals who meticulously worked on the elements that make up the whole - sometimes sophisticated, sometimes naive. The Cape vernacular architecture even triggered a Revival Cape Dutch movement during the 20th century throughout Southern Africa. Much of the documentation related to both the history of the viticulture, the development of a vernacular architecture and slave history is included in the holdings of the Western Cape Archives, which is included in the VOC Archives inscribed in the UNESCO Memory of the World.
One of the defining aspects of the dialogue and conflict of civilisations in South Africa and globally is missionary education. They are located on landscape that had been ravaged by years of wars of dispossession. They produced Southern African leaders who presented a synthesis of Western and African values. The University of Fort Hare is regarded as the melting pot of the African nationalism influencing other African countries in the liberation of the continent.
Governmental buildings, designed by Sir Herbert Baker, with towers and gardens, completed in Apartheid policy of racial separation; forced removal creates area for whites , defiance campaign, efforts of working class, role of youths, reconciliation rainbow nation.
These sites demonstrate a particularly brutal form of town planning, and a way of living that has since been overthrown, but whose impact lingers on long after it is gone. This site draws attention to the Non-Racial Fight for Human Rights and Freedom, draws attention to the values contained in the SA Freedom Charter, a document that draws very strongly from global founding documents on Human Rights, which has a very strong emphasis on reconciliation and inclusion.
The values of universal freedom, dialogue continue in this site. Chief Albert Luthuli was probably the first ANC and liberation leader to gain the kind of international stature he gained and is acknowledged as the first African leader to become a Nobel Peace Laureate.
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His leadership inspired generations of liberation activists and yet he spent most of his later life under house arrest. His home and now memorial museum houses authentic collections of his times and role in the liberation struggle. His arrest was the catalyst for a series of trials, culminating in the Rivonia Treason Trial that would ultimately see him spend 27 years in prison. Manaye Hall in Pietermaritzburg was the site of the first major attempt to bring together all South African political role players to find a peaceful reconciliation to the conflict.
From the s to mids itbecame the epicentre of low intensity conflict that was aimed to delay the advent of human rights and liberation. This conflict was resolved through negotiation and reconciliation, testified to by diverse sites in the Pietermaritzburg area.
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This place tells the story of Nelson Mandela and the values that he represented. It hosts documents speeches and photographs that reveal authenticity and integrity to the many events that unfolded in the liberation struggle for South Africa. One of the sites of the subversion of justice in the service of violating human rights. It became a terrain of struggle where various political trialists indicted the colonial situation, and demonstrated links to the global human rights struggle.
Massacre Sites associated with passive resistance and search for human rights and justice. The events at these sites accentuated international attention, accelerated the emergence of UN Resolutions, consolidated the internationalisation of the South African question.
These events were clear examples of the violation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. While they are evidence of the brutality of the oppressor, courage of the oppressed — they are also reminders of the value of peace, reconciliation and human rights. Defiance; Liberation movement and ideals; human rights — produced 2 Nobel Laureates Tutu and Mandela, and Chief Luthuli once had ties to the same street ;.
Reconciliation; Memorial to Youth Activism and struggle for equal rights and access to education, memorial to youth victims of the state violence. Ideals of human rights and constitutional democracy; principle of restorative justices and reconciliation. Chronicles the journey of evolution of the struggle for human rights, freedom and justice; Celebrating democracy, human rights and reconciliation — the encompassing symbol of the story of South Africa. Freedom Park is situated on Salvokop in Pretoria.
Waaihoek site is an important representative of the domestication of international tools of political engagement, the transition to modern political movements with the formation of a National Liberation Movement that sought participation of the excluded in a united South Africa, rather than a reclamation of previous polities. These sites collectively illustrate the role of traditional African values in democratic and participatory governance. The associated context shaped a leader like Nelson Mandela. They also signify the role of youth in achieving positive change. These sites collectively are a powerful symbol of the complex interaction between rural and urban in situations of a migratory labour system.
They are one of the metaphors for the relationship of the urban and rural in the evolution of the modern political setup. These are associated with the Black Consciousness movement which emerged in the s to fight the repressive Apartheid regime after political formations were banned. The killing of Biko drew global attention, consolidated international solidarity and changed the tone, emphasis and focus of the SA human rights and liberation struggle in a big way. They are sites at which new and alternative engagements with the universal idea of Blackness were developed and demonstrated.
S 34 06 29 E 24 23 24 Date de soumission: Debates around the origin of these anatomically modern humans and the modernity of their behaviour are crucial to understanding the history of all modern people. The South African sites; Blombos, Border Cave, Diepkloof, Klasies River, Pinnacle Point and Sibudu Cave have contributed outstanding evidence for palaeoenvironmental conditions via the rich mid to Late Pleistocene African mammal fauna with a number of species now extinct, as well as extensive other palaeoenvironmental data from well-dated stratigraphic horizons.
Evidence in artefacts such as stone tools, in indications of pigment use and hearths has been interpreted as showing the occupants made significant social, behavioral and technical innovations. Blombos has some of the earliest evidence for symbolic behaviour. Klasies River main site, Blombos, Pinnacle Point and other sites provide some of the earliest evidence for the systematic use of marine resources in the last Interglacial.
Border Cave and Klasies River have remains of early anatomically modern humans. As a group, these sites have been vital to our understanding of the origin of anatomically modern humans and their modern cognitive abilities. A recent hypothesis around modern cognitive behaviour has posited these fatty acids as being the primary trigger for the enhanced cognitive development of modern humans, resulting in the unique ability of modern humans to understand and utilise symbols.
This unique characteristic of modern human behaviour is responsible for language, art and religion. The origins of this ability to think symbolically therefore have global relevance to each of the 7 billion people that currently occupy our planet. The South African coastal record tells the story of how the human species became intertwined with the marine environment and it gives a time depth and clarity unique in the world.
The sites were eroded probably in Pliocene times, more than 2 million years ago, by wave action in the cliff face at 18m and 6m above the present sea level. Unusual geological conditions have allowed the preservation of bone and shell. The extensive shell midden is the largest well preserved evidence for shell fish exploitation in South Africa, if not the world at the Last Interglacial. The bones include skull and post-cranial remains of among the oldest well-dated anatomically modern people, Homo sapiens. These finds demonstrate that modern humans were living at the southern end and probably elsewhere in the African continent at a period considerably earlier than comparable fossils are recorded in other parts of the world.
Border Cave is a very large solution cavern overlooking a spectacular drop into Swaziland. They include a morphologically very significant partial cranium, more modern than the remains from Klasies River. Sibudu has a comprehensive Middle Stone Age record well dated by Optically Stimulated Luminescence dating to between 77, and 38, years ago.
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This period is seldom represented in such detail in other South African sites and it is therefore a model for the national Middle Stone Age sequence during a significant stage marked by a florescence of material culture that seems to imply complex human cognition. As a result of the calcretes formed on the cliff top and their alkaline buffering action, all the PP sites have excellent fossil bone preservation, unlike many caves along the Cape coast. Research is based upon finds discovered in a trench that is 16 m across and 3.
D rucker -B rown , S. L abouret , H. A rnaud , R. In this area at dry season one can see warthogs, kudus, impalas, zebras, wildebeests and elephants. The Gedeo indigenous agro forestry is located along the eastern escarpment of the rift valley system of Ethiopia.
The deposits consist of burnt and nonburnt organic residues and ash from hearths, ash dumps and burnt bedding. It is estimated that fragments from 25 containers have been found. Eggshell fragments have been found throughout the period of occupation of the cave but those with engraving are found only in several layers within the Howiesons Poort period.
Blombos Cave is situated in a steep cliff, m from the Indian Ocean and The sediments of the cave were well protected as the cave elevation sheltered it from erosion by the high sea level stands during Marine Isotope Stage 5e and Marine Isotope Stage 1. The cave is situated in the calcified sediments of the Tertiary Wankoe Formation, which contributes to the good preservation of faunal and human remains recovered from the site. The Blombos Cave site preserves an extensive record of archaeological evidence in the Middle Stone Age, integral to research on the oldest evidence for modern humans in sub-Saharan Africa and bears a unique or at least exceptional testimony to a cultural tradition which has disappeared.
The symbolic significance of the marine-shell beads and the engraved ochre pieces, taken with the regular manufacture and use of bone tools, finely made bifacial points, and the probable ability to fish, suggests a cognitive-behavioural package not previously associated with Middle Stone Age people and may be directly or tangibly associated with events or living traditions, with ideas or with beliefs, of outstanding universal significance. The conceptual ability to source, combine and store substances that enhance technology or social practices represents ability for long-term planning and suggests conceptual and cognitive abilities previously unknown for this time.
This may be considered to be an outstanding example of a technological ensemble which illustrates a significant stage in human history. N11 23 13 E42 46 53 Date de soumission: N11 01 48 E42 51 71 Date de soumission: Elle est de la famille des Bovidae. N 11 10 45 18 E41 47 36 26 Date de soumission: On trouve les gazelles de Pelzeln Gazella dorcas pelzelni autour du lac.
N11 41 00 E42 25 00 Date de soumission: N11 48 00 E42 41 00 Date de soumission: N11 36 E43 10 Date de soumission: Commune de Boulaos, Djibouti ville. En , Djibouti devient le chef-lieu de la colonie. Il est le plus important du pays. N11 13 00 E43 11 00 Date de soumission: N11 24 E42 82 Date de soumission: Sans Soucis, Port Glaud. It is served by the public road Victoria-Sans Souci-Port Glaud which traverses the central mountain chain running from east to west.
The site lies 6 km from the town and it can be reached by vehicle in 20 minutes. The general topography consists of a ridge with a flat summit, which is bordered by steep slopes above the road. The flat zone, is the only one which is equipped covering an area of 0, 75 ha.
Its longest dimension is meters from the entrance signpost until the viewing lodge. This zone is occupied by Venn's Town ruins and by the viewing lodge which are clearly demarcated by the natural change in the topography and by the dense forest vegetation which are found on the steep slopes. The ruins consist mainly of traces of foundations of the 5 buildings which cover a total area of square meters. Certain of the wall elevators are still in place together with the window recess. The buildings were apparently built in lime. It is one of the most historically and culturally meaningful site in Seychelles.
Its importance lies not only in the fact that its ruins bear testimony to an important phase in Seychelles history but its location itself, the landscape within which it exists, decidedly well-chosen by the missionaries to set up Venn's Town, is a heritage worth noting. Venn's Town is a place of unique historical, cultural, aesthetic and ecological value.
It is a mystical place nested amongst the dense and unique vegetations of the Morne Seychellois National Park. Venn's Town exudes a kind of mysticthat can be felt immediately as one step on the site. This probably due to its rich history in excluded location. It was set up as an industrious school by the Church Missionary society, a philanthropic group in to accommodate children of liberated slaves.
The site is located on top of a mountain in a national park, far from the main town area, a place unique in biodiversity and history. Originally Venn's Town covered an area of 50 acres of which a large percentage was used for vanilla and cocoa cultivation. The main buildings consisted of two dormitories measuring feet by 25 feet, one for the boys and one for the girls.
A number of houses, washrooms, kitchens, huts for labourers, a workshop and storeroom and a mission cottage for the schoolmaster and his family made up the settlement. Since the last batch of liberated Africans landed in Seychelles in , the Institution eventually took in children born of African parents who worked as labourers on various plantations. The site has a diversity of endemic plants and animals found nowhere else in the world. Apart from a diversity of native and exotic plants, the Morne Seychellois National Park is also home to a diversity of animal species, many of which are found nowhere else in the world.
It contains the smallest frog Sooglosus species which is related to an ancestral species which was recently discovered in the mountains of India. There are also a number of endemic birds such as the Seychelles scoops owl Otus insultis , an endemic found only in Seychelles. The species is so rare that it has been listed as critically endangered. Hence the biodiversity of the area is of paramount importance. Silhouette was the first island of the group to be seen when the islands were discovered in but was not settled until the early 19th century.
From attempts were made to develop parts of the island for agriculture or forestry. A wide range of plants was introduced for crops of timber, fruit, spices and oils. These are all abandoned now but the plants can still be found growing in the most unlikely places. In the s a small grove of Coco-de-Mer trees Lodoicea maldivica was planted high in the mountains. This thriving population of this rare palm provided an occupation for part of the strong labour force on the island, some of whom had to climb up to the trees to water them daily. The dramatic legacy of the island's history; a cast-iron neo-classical mausoleum, is the most remarkable piece of eccentricity in all Seychelles.
Silhouette is the third largest island in Seychelles archipelago and also rated as one of the most physically attractive island in the granites group. Five Kilometres long and wide, Silhouette which is about one hour boat ride from Mahe, boasts the meter high Mount Dauban and its surrounding thick virgin forests, which is a haven for ecologists and environmentalists. Blessed by this luxuriant evergreen vegetation, the island is surrounded with a rich marine life kingdom whose reefs contains a multitude of all types of fish and shells, whilst green turtles breed on some of its un spoilt beaches.
Silhouette which got its name from that of an 18th century French Minister is also known to have been the home to one of the most notorious pirates, Jean Francois Hodoul and the legend has it that his fortune still lies buried there. Surrounded by a national marine park extending a mile from its coastline, Silhouette lies near one of the fishing banks found between the island and one of the most beautiful beach the Beau Vallon beach.
N5 7 E38 40 Date de soumission: The Gedeo Zone lies between 5 0 and 7 0 North latitude and 38 0 and 40 0 East longitude, in the escarpments of the southeastern Ethiopian highlands overlooking the Rift Valley, in the narrow strip of land running from North Sidama zone to South Oromiya region. It shares the largest boundary with Oromiya regional state and only in the north-east with Sidama Zone. The Gedeo Mixed Cultural and Natural Landscape is the combination and the presence of a harmony of combination between nature and cultural civilization.
Gedeo is the place where one can see great and magnificent ancient megalithic stones dispersed in the breadth and width of the natural heritage i. Chelba Tuttiti Megalithic Site. The height of these stelae measured from 0. It is far about 8 km south west of the town of Yerga Cheffe. Sede is located 6km from the main international road that connects Ethiopia with Nairobi. An altitude of a. It is found at the top of a hill. It is a protected area which has thirty five meters of length and 30 meters of width.
Though it is a protected area, it does not have a fence and currently, the area is covered with bushes and trees. No one knows when and who erected the stelae at Sede Mercato. More than stelae, associated with tumulus and the majority of them are found still standing. Sede Mercato is a cairn roughly oriented north-south. The site contains numerous stelae of various size with cylindrical shaft or quadrangular ones, with or without the Tuttofella type decoration or Tutti type.
The height of the cairn seems to be about one or two meter in its central part. Some of the occupation are likely recent and especially in the outer and northern part of the cairn, marked by roughly hewn monolithic stelae made from basaltic prism. The height of the stelae measures 2. The strong possibility in this was a funerary cairn whose tombs were built successively by acceleration, quite like Tuttofella cairn. Phallic stelae are numerous, some were shaped using hammer stone and others have been obviously been worked with metal tools. Tuttofella Megalithic Site is located in Wonago Woreda.
Joussaume discovered seven megalithic sites in three woredas of Gedeo. His intensive excavation in Wonago in Tutu Fela from resulted in the discovery of human remains buried in different layers. More than one dead body was buried in one tomb in different periods Metasebia, Joussaume , the top layer constituted corpses that are dated from 12th - 13th century A. The bottom layer is dated to the 10th century A. Thus, he assumed that two different generations used the same site for burial in different periods. In Tuttofella, The stelae are carved from ryolites of various kind and basaltic prism columnar basalt.
Sakaro Sodo Megalithic Site. Sakaro Sodo megalithic site contains an alignment of 27 standing stelae and seven stelae that lay in the ground. All of these stelae are found encircling a big indigenous Dokema tree. From these stelae only ten of them are standing or intact. The longest stelae measures 3.
Odola Gelma Rock Engravings Site. It is located on a river named Hanshi Malcho.