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Statistics – Africans living in Norway

Statistics (A) As per May 2006

	 Total	Older generation with no Norwegian backgroundÂ	Born in Norway: Both parents AfricansÂ	 Total: With mixed parents	 Mixed: One parent is African
 All Africans	 47532	 36768	10764Â	11702	8987Â
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Origin	Â	Â	Â	Â	Â
Algeria	 1214	943Â	271Â	546Â	531Â
Angola	261	248Â	13Â	102Â	90Â
Botswana	64Â	62Â	2Â	67Â	21Â
St Helena	3Â	3Â	-Â	18Â	16Â
British by Indian Ocean	 1	1Â	-	2Â	2Â
Burundi	751Â	706Â	45Â	17Â	17Â
Comoro Islands	6Â	5Â	1Â	2Â	2Â
Benin	12Â	11Â	1Â	4Â	2Â
Equatorial Guinea	3Â	3Â	-Â	-Â	-Â
Ivory Coast	162Â	144Â	18Â	130Â	92Â
Eritrea	2663Â	1947Â	706Â	386Â	207Â
Ethiopia	3186Â	2670Â	515Â	959Â	307Â
Egypt	580Â	505Â	75Â	595Â	358Â
DjiboutiÂ	27Â	14Â	13Â	5Â	5Â
GabonÂ	4Â	4Â	-Â	4Â	3Â
GambiaÂ	1220Â	908Â	312Â	596Â	590Â
GhanaÂ	1661Â	1256Â	405Â	364Â	342Â
Guinea BÂ	81Â	69Â	12Â	17Â	17Â
Guinea GÂ	 14	11	3Â	18Â	17Â
Cameroon	288Â	265Â	23Â	227Â	87Â
Cape VerdeÂ	349Â	278Â	71Â	152Â	147Â
KenyaÂ	992Â	837Â	156Â	673Â	394Â
Congo BraÂ	197Â	177Â	20Â	26Â	14Â
Congo Dem	1046Â	940Â	106Â	208Â	129Â
LesothoÂ	6Â	6Â	-Â	8Â	6Â
LiberiaÂ	932Â	877Â	55Â	104Â	56Â
LibyaÂ	218Â	190Â	28Â	54Â	44Â

MadacascarÂ	176Â	 162	 14	690Â	427Â
Malawi	 57	 57	 -	8Â	5Â
MaliÂ	 28	 20	 8	21Â	10
MoroccoÂ	 7031	 4418	 2613	1698	1652Â
West SaharaÂ	 5	 5	 -	5Â	5
MauritaniaÂ	 11	 11	 -	5	4
MauritiusÂ	 196	 149	 47	141	135
NamibiaÂ	 62	 61	 1	36Â	24Â
NigerÂ	 30	 27	 3	12Â	12Â
NigeriaÂ	 780	 598	 182	399Â	367Â
MozambiqueÂ	 90	 86	 4	 72	56
ReunionÂ	 3	 3	 -	 1	 -
ZimbabweÂ	 155	 143	 12	 129	 75
RwandaÂ	 429	 369	 60	 33	 26
SenegalÂ	 127	 100	 27	 55	 46
Central Africa repÂ	 4	 3	 1	 -	 -
SeychellesÂ	 11	 11	 -	 18	 16
Sierra LeoneÂ	 450	 392	 58	 140	 135
 Somalia	 18015	 13712	 4303	 518	 511
SudanÂ	 867	 700	 167	 78	 66
SwazilandÂ	 6	 6	 -	25Â	15Â
South AfricaÂ	 571	 540	 31	1094Â	764
TanzaniaÂ	 584	 501	 83	375	218Â
ChadÂ	 17	 17	 -	3Â	2Â
TogoÂ	 96	 71	 25	16Â	15Â

TunisiaÂ	861Â	672	189Â	616Â	595Â
UgandaÂ	714Â	636Â	78Â	249Â	216Â
ZambiaÂ	212	204Â	8Â	173Â	85Â
Burkina FasoÂ	14Â	14Â	-Â	8Â	8Â
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Cholmondeley: White settler turned-murderer in Africa?

We have decided to bring you this story from the Standard Newspaper, Kenya. The story was carried on the standard on the 13th of may 2006.
The trial of Mr Cholmondeley is on in Kenya where he is being tried for killing a man. Cholmondeley had earlier killed another man in the same style and was lucky not to stand trial.

This time around, the case is very serious.
The story reminds us Africans about Karen Blixen the Danish woman who lived in Kenya. The story reveals alot of things that the Kenyans never knew of a woman they thought was great, yet she was a racist inside her skin. She had top love for animals than she had for her black African cook. Read the story and analyse if you wish!

Cholmondeley: we live in a white man’s world
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By Barrack Muluka

This modern day English settler in Kenya, Mr Thomas Cholmondeley, reminds you of the tragic story of Monsieur Mersault in Algeria’s, Albert Camus’ story, L’Etranger.

You are reminded of the place where Monsieur Mersault, a White French man, having just shot dead an Arab gentleman on the Mediterranean beaches, goes on to relate the subsequent few moments, “I knew that I had destroyed the equilibrium of the day, the placid silence of the beach, where I had once been happy. Then I shot four more times into the dead body. I watched as the bullets lodged themselves into the dead flesh.”

Tom has done it again. About this time last year he shot a game warden on his sprawling one hundred thousand acre farm in Kenya’s former White Highlands. The Attorney General, Amos Wako, moved with exemplary speed and spice to discontinue legal proceedings against Tom. And now Tom has killed another man. He has crowned the killing with two dead dogs.

The space I write in is not the place to judge Tom. The courts are there and, hopefully, they will try him. But if this may not be the place to try him, it is at least the place to ask some disturbing questions about this gentleman. Are there similarities of a psychoanalytical nature between the lodging of four bullets into a dead man on the salubrious Mediterranean beaches, on the one hand, and the killing of a man and his two dogs by a man who killed another man a year ago? Is it possible that there could be guns out there in the hands of misanthropes and assorted social monsters?

That aside, I am reminded of the European lady who once wrote these words, “I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills.” The truth of the matter is that this farm — the Karen Blixen farm — was a mammoth swathe of Kenyan land, stretching over hundreds of thousands of prime acres. It was on this farm that she thought of Africans in the same idiom as she thought of beasts. For, this regal lady wrote thus of the people of Kenya, “The discovery of the dark races was to me a magnificent enlargement of all my world. If a person with an inborn sympathy for animals had grown up in a milieu where there were no animals, and had come into contact with animals late in life, their case might have been similar to mine.”

But that was not all. She went on to write, “It was not easy to know the Natives. They were quick of hearing, and evanescent; if you frightened them, they could withdraw into a world of their own, in a second, like the wild animals which at an abrupt movement from you are gone.” Sometimes she would also contradict herself, in terms that lacked any redeeming value, “When you have caught the rhythm of Africa, you find it is the same in all her music. What I learned from the game of the country, was useful in my dealings with the Native people.”

And how does she deal with “the Native people”? Take the case of her houseboy and cook whom she lavishes with praise, “He had a great memory for recipes. Nothing, I thought, could be more mysterious than this natural instinct in a savage for our culinary art.” And of the savage’s own food she says, “He stuck to the maize cobs of his fathers. Here even his intelligence sometimes failed him, and he came and offered me a Kikuyu delicacy — a roasted potato or lump of sheep’s fat — even as a civilized dog that has lived for a long time with people will place a bone on the floor before you, as a present.”

It was not that Karen Blixen, for whom a whole estate in up market Nairobi has been named, hated animals as such. Is this not how she writes of some wild beast: “In the Ngong Forest, I have also seen the Giant Forest Hogg, a rare person to meet. He came suddenly past me, with his wife and three young pigs, the whole family looking like uniform….”? The picture should be fairly clear — her cook is a “civilized dog” that has learnt to live with people. The forest hog is “a person” with a “wife and family”.

You can read about this and much more in the story Out of Africa, by Isak Dinisen, aka Karen Blixen, if you have the patience. Or you can watch the world famous film by the same name. Meanwhile the Americans are busy sponsoring the Somali to slaughter one another like goats. The dinosaur called the United Nations has elected to play the coward, in their usual fashion. First they do not recognise the ongoing genocide in Somalia for what it is. Second, they can only say it has been sponsored by a “foreign government”. Why can’t Kofi Anan call a spade by its rightful name for once?

At any rate, the UN has degenerated into a bastion of corruption, nepotism, cronyism, cowardice and amnesia. Even as the Americans sponsor Somalis to decimate themselves while at the same time they rehearse to begin pounding Iran Iraq-style, the UN has forgotten that the war in Iraq is an illegal war. It is a war being fought in defiance of the Security Council of the UN. One wonders why the US would move motions before the UN on Somalia and on Sudan, seeing that they have no respect for this dead institution.

Nobody wants to whip up race related sentiments but, come on, what’s wrong with facing the facts squarely in the eye and admitting that we live in the white man’s world?