AFRICA
(See also lands by name)
(Note centered heading below: Jehovah’s Witnesses)
after World War II: g95 9/8 7
agriculture: g 8/14 7; g 7/12 20; g05 1/8 6
why not helped by green revolution: g04 1/22 28; g87 3/8 6; g86 11/22 30
why not self-sufficient: g87 3/8 5-8
ancient:
belief about support of earth: ol 6
city of Timgad: w14 12/1 8-10; w14 12/15 16
Ethiopian city of Meroë: it-2 885; g90 6/22 24-26
animals: yb92 69-70; g87 9/22 2-11
Africans’ view: g93 11/8 3-4
along Chobe River: g90 7/22 15-18
conservation: g 8/08 22-24; g93 11/8 3-10
decrease: g93 11/8 6-8, 10
Great Rift Valley: g97 7/22 16
herds culled: g86 5/8 30-31
reserves: g93 11/8 5-7
Taï National Park: g04 9/8 15-17
trackers: g92 7/8 29
animals by name:
camel: g92 6/8 22-24
Cape buffalo: g05 2/22 14-15; g93 6/8 23-25; g93 11/8 8
cheetah: g97 9/22 15-17; g87 9/22 4, 7-8
chimpanzee: g 4/10 13-15
crocodile: g95 3/22 16-18
eland: g05 2/22 14-15; g88 9/8 26
elephant: g 9/13 3; g98 3/22 15-19; g97 5/8 29; g95 3/8 28; g93 6/22 29; g91 6/22 24-26; g91 7/8 28; g90 1/22 28-29; g90 7/22 15-16, 18; g89 11/8 28; g89 11/22 16-18; g87 9/22 2-4, 9
gerenuk: g88 6/22 14-15
giraffe: g88 1/22 31; g87 9/22 6; g87 11/8 24-25
hippopotamus: it-1 280; g93 11/8 7-8; g90 7/22 16-17; g87 9/22 9-10
hyena: g90 6/22 27
impala: g02 4/8 17; g87 9/22 5
kudu: g91 2/22 16-17; g86 11/8 13
leopard: g95 4/8 24-27; g87 9/22 11
lion: g02 10/22 28-29; g87 7/22 15-17; g87 9/22 6-7, 11
meerkat: g01 9/8 26-27
mountain gorilla: g01 7/22 16; g98 1/22 16-18; g87 9/22 4; g87 11/8 29
primates endangered: g 8/08 22-24
rhinoceros: g 3/15 7; g 1/13 3; g98 7/22 12-13; g95 3/8 28; g95 8/8 25-27; g93 11/8 8-10; g92 12/8 31; g91 7/8 28; g89 11/22 28; g87 9/22 3-4, 6; g86 10/8 30
rock badger (dassie): g90 9/8 15-16
warthog: g93 11/22 18-19
waterbuck: g93 11/8 8
white lion: g86 12/22 29
wildebeest: g02 4/8 16-17; g87 9/22 10-11
zebra: g93 11/8 8; g87 9/22 5-6
art:
beads made from bottles: g95 11/8 26-27
Tingatinga art: g 11/11 14-15
wood carving: g97 9/22 18-20
birds: g04 9/8 16-17; yb92 69
bee-eater: g89 7/8 31
fish eagle: g90 7/22 15-16
flamingo: g03 1/22 16-19; g87 9/22 10
ground hornbill: g98 1/8 24-25
honey guide: g03 9/22 8; g93 11/8 3
lilac-breasted roller: g90 10/22 16
marabou: g01 8/8 16-19
ostrich: g87 1/8 16-17; g87 9/22 6
sunbirds: g98 8/8 16-17
bushfires: g93 10/8 31
Carthage: g01 11/8 14-18
children: g88 9/22 4-13
attitude toward having: w00 8/1 20-21
carrying baby on mother’s back: g95 12/8 21
customary treatment: w91 10/1 29-30
customs at death of: g90 4/22 20
“lending,” to relatives: w88 9/1 28-30
malnutrition: g93 5/8 28
mortality rate: g90 6/22 29; tp 19
names: g92 3/22 31
number having birth certificate: g 1/14 7
schooling: g00 1/22 29; w96 10/1 30-31; g96 5/8 30; g95 9/22 24-27
toys: g93 3/22 16-19
clothing:
chitenge: g98 1/22 22-23
kaba (lappa, genwu): g97 9/8 24-25
kente cloth: g01 9/22 15-17
colonizing of: g90 10/8 21
by Roman Empire (city of Timgad): w14 12/1 8-10
role of Christendom’s missionaries: g90 10/8 21-22
crime: g96 10/8 4
bribery: g 3/15 7
sex crimes: g94 10/22 29
customs: jv 531
after childbirth: w05 1/1 27-29
after miscarriage: w95 8/15 30
after stillbirth: w95 8/15 30
bride-price: w89 1/15 21-23
burials: w94 3/15 21-23
eating without cutlery: g03 4/8 23-25
family of deceased: w98 1/15 19-22
female “circumcision”: w06 1/1 27-28; g05 2/22 8; g97 10/8 28; g97 12/8 29
funerals: w09 2/15 29-31; w05 1/1 29; g99 7/8 28-29; w98 7/15 20-24; w95 8/15 28-29; g92 7/22 4-5
head-toting: g87 8/8 25-27
regarding the dead: w19.04 16-18; w05 1/1 27-30; sp 20; yb04 188; w98 1/15 20; g96 8/8 18-19; w95 8/15 28-30; w94 11/15 3-4, 6-7; yb92 137; w90 9/1 3; g90 4/22 20
sex education: w98 2/15 8-9
Dark Continent: g94 11/22 24
death:
babies: g90 6/22 29
children: tp 19
from disease: g 2/14 3
from drought: yb91 64
from famine: w88 10/1 6; g87 3/8 3; w86 1/15 5
missionaries: g93 6/8 29
description: yb06 163
East Africa: yb92 67-70, 72
drought: yb91 64; g88 5/8 29; g87 3/8 5; g87 6/8 26-27
southern Africa (1992-1993): g94 8/8 11; g92 11/8 29
drugs: g92 11/22 28-29
drums:
djembe: g03 5/8 31
talking drums: g97 7/22 21-23
ecology:
deforestation: g05 1/8 5
dust enriches distant places: g93 5/8 28-29
endangered species: g93 11/8 7-8; g90 1/22 28-29; g89 11/8 28; g89 11/22 16-18; g87 9/22 3-5; g87 11/8 29; g86 10/8 30
Pan-African project to halt Sahara growth (2007- ): g 12/12 28
soil: g05 1/8 6
economics:
crisis: g95 4/22 31
effect of AIDS: g00 3/22 28-29
effect of supermarkets: g04 7/22 29
foreign aid: g93 5/8 28
poverty: w17.11 24; w97 9/15 4
education: g00 1/22 29
employment:
creating jobs: g94 10/22 16-18
sharpening implements on special bicycle: g 2/09 17
families:
care for elderly: w97 9/1 3-5
challenge of cleanliness: g88 9/22 8-11
effect of industrialization: g86 4/8 15-17
“extended” family: g00 1/8 28; w88 9/1 28-30; w87 6/15 24
health measures: g88 9/22 4-11
naming babies: w09 2/1 13; w05 1/1 27-29; g92 3/22 31
providing for: w96 10/1 29-31
reluctance to limit size: w96 10/1 31; g88 9/22 4-5
famine: g92 8/22 29; g90 5/8 28; w88 10/1 6; g88 4/8 9; g87 3/8 2-8; g87 6/8 26-27; w86 1/15 5; w86 2/15 15; g86 3/22 29; g86 6/22 17
renewed threat (1991): g91 10/22 28; g91 12/22 28
Somalia (1992): w93 10/1 21
first subway system: g88 3/22 30
fish:
Nile perch: g86 8/8 29
flowers:
desert rose: g00 3/22 31
rose: g 10/07 24-26
tropical roselle: g02 5/8 31
food:
bissap drink: g02 5/8 31
cassava: g98 3/8 28; g97 4/22 30; g96 7/8 20-21; g93 11/8 25-27
development aid: g87 3/8 6
milk: g87 10/22 28
mopane caterpillar: g 5/07 26-27; g98 6/22 29
peanut butter: g99 8/22 26-27
production decline: g86 9/22 11
geography:
Chobe River: g90 7/22 15-18
Great Rift Valley: g97 7/22 14-17
Kilimanjaro: g05 3/22 8; g97 9/8 14-17; yb92 67-68, 112
Lake Chad: g 1/09 4
Lake Victoria: g00 7/22 28; g98 11/22 15-18
Mt. Kenya: g05 8/22 16-19
mystery circles: g05 10/22 27
Namibia: g87 9/8 16-18
Ngorongoro Crater: g05 1/8 15-17
Okavango Delta: g91 11/22 24-26
Ruwenzoris (Mountains of the Moon): g98 2/8 16-17
Sahara: g88 2/8 30; g86 3/22 9-11; g86 6/22 19
Serengeti plains: g03 2/22 15-16; g97 7/22 15; g87 7/22 15-17; g87 9/22 10-11
Taï National Park (Côte d’Ivoire): g04 9/8 14-17
health and disease:
AIDS: g04 11/22 3; g02 11/8 3-5, 7-8; g01 1/8 28-29; g00 5/8 31; g00 6/22 28; g00 7/8 29; g99 7/22 29; yb96 44-45; g96 4/22 19-22; g95 1/8 29; g94 7/8 28; g93 2/8 29; g93 10/22 28; g92 8/8 3-11; g91 12/22 28; g90 5/22 29; g89 4/22 28-29; g88 4/22 29; g88 10/8 5-6, 10-11, 13; g86 12/8 30
cholera: g99 9/8 28; g98 6/8 28; g92 1/22 28; g91 5/22 20-22; g91 12/22 28; g86 1/22 30
Ebola virus: g 10/06 30; g96 5/8 23-25
family health measures: g88 9/22 4-11
guinea worm: g93 2/8 26-27
improvements in sanitation and water supply: g88 9/22 12
malaria: g 6/07 30; g04 2/22 29; g92 4/8 31; g89 8/8 28
meningitis: g96 12/22 28
mental illness: g00 1/8 28
prevalence of disease: g00 2/8 28; g96 5/8 25
river blindness: g95 10/8 24-27; g86 11/8 29
sleeping sickness: g02 3/22 28
snail fever: g97 2/22 14-16
homeless people: g90 10/8 28; g88 3/8 11
houses:
rurals: g05 9/22 8
insects:
cricket: g94 9/8 29
honeybee: g02 2/22 28
locust: it-2 261; w96 7/15 23; g94 4/22 28; w89 3/15 30; g89 2/22 30; g86 11/8 29
mite: g98 3/8 28
painted lady butterfly: g 12/13 14
Internet: g 3/15 7
languages: w12 9/1 26; yb98 49; yb92 68
Bantu languages: w20.05 24
Bible translations: w20.05 24
Livingstone, Dr. David: g05 2/8 22-24
maps: g99 10/22 22-23
East Africa: jv 435
flow of truth across borders: jv 477
game reserves: g93 11/8 7
Great Rift Valley: g97 7/22 14
Lake Chad: g 1/09 4
Lake Victoria: g98 11/22 15
migration of painted lady butterfly: g 12/13 14
Phoenicians circumnavigate: w10 3/1 26-27
West Africa: w23.11 27
markets: g 1/10 23-24; g04 7/22 29
marriage:
bride-price: w89 1/15 21-24
“customary marriage” (Ghana): g96 12/8 20-23
economic obstacles: w95 6/15 28
medicine:
doctor shortage: g88 4/8 30
traditional (muti): w06 3/1 25; w93 9/1 3, 6; w87 4/15 26-29; g86 7/22 31
name: g01 11/8 16; g94 11/22 24
older people: g91 3/22 8
peoples:
Akan: g03 3/22 19-21; g96 5/8 30; g95 9/22 24-27
Lobi: g01 5/8 16-17
Masai: g03 7/8 28; g02 2/22 24-27
Pygmies: g04 8/22 24; g03 11/8 18-20; g97 12/8 20-23
Phoenicians circumnavigate: w10 3/1 27
polygamy:
African bishops defend: w87 10/15 21; g86 2/22 29-30
reason many women work: g86 5/22 10
population: yb09 43; yb08 43; yb07 48; yb06 47; yb05 43; yb04 61; g93 11/8 6; yb92 68; g91 11/8 8
birthrate: g89 9/22 22
cities of over a million: g88 3/8 8
demography: yb92 68
effect on daily life: g91 11/8 8-9
growth: g87 3/8 5; g86 3/8 30
migration to cities for money: g88 4/22 3-4
proverbs: g03 3/22 19-21; g03 11/22 30
religion: w94 5/1 4-5; yb92 70, 72
ancestor worship: ol 12-14; w99 7/15 28; g96 11/22 3, 6
belief in metamorphosis from man to animal: g98 6/8 13-15
Bible translations: w12 9/1 27-29; w07 1/15 12-13; w98 4/1 13; ba 11; w92 9/1 4
Catholic bishops admit failure: g94 10/22 5-6; g94 12/22 18-19; g92 7/8 28
Christendom’s missionaries: w12 9/1 27-28; ba 11; g96 4/22 20-21; g94 11/22 24-27; g94 12/22 22-23; w92 9/1 3-9
effect of World War I on attitude toward Christendom: w92 9/1 7, 9; w87 5/15 31
elements in Catholicism (Brazil): g05 2/22 12-13
faith healing: w87 12/1 3, 6-7
immortality of the soul: sh 56
independent churches: yb04 166; w92 9/1 5
masks: g95 8/8 21-24
media expose clerical misconduct: g98 10/8 28
messiahs Simon Kimbangu and Andre “Jesus” Matswa: w92 10/1 6
names for God: ol 8
Ngoni rain ritual: sh 79
number of religions: g94 11/22 25
spiritism: sp 2-3, 16-17; ol 15-18; g96 11/22 3-10; w87 4/15 27-29
traditional religions: ol 7-8; w87 5/1 3; w87 6/15 3
view of ancestors: ol 12; w95 5/15 3-4
shantytowns: g92 10/8 10-13
slave trade: wp17.2 11; g 5/11 22-24; g02 6/22 5-6; g95 6/8 3-8; g93 8/22 5-6; w92 4/1 4; g92 3/8 8, 10; w91 8/15 8; g90 12/8 6-7
Brazil: g02 9/8 12-15; g97 7/22 28
Christendom’s role: g95 6/8 7-8; w92 9/1 8
Dahomey (now Benin): g 5/11 22-24; yb97 68
duration: g 5/11 22, 24; g01 12/8 30
Île de Gorée (Senegal): g99 2/22 31
Pope John Paul II apologizes for: g92 11/22 29
solar eclipse (2006): g 3/08 28-29
superstitions: w02 8/1 3-5
tobacco promotion: g95 5/22 5; g92 4/22 28; g91 1/22 14
trees:
acacia: g99 3/8 21; g88 1/22 31
baobab: g95 3/22 24-26; g90 8/22 20
clove: g95 2/22 17
coconut palm: g93 10/22 26-27
neem: g98 2/22 22-23
oil palm: g92 6/22 20-21
quiver tree: g92 4/22 24
universities:
decline: g95 7/8 29
war:
cost: g 9/08 29
fatalities in 1980’s: g90 10/8 28
homelessness due to: g90 10/8 28
World War II: g87 4/22 17-18
weaving: g90 2/22 12-13
fiber preparation: g90 2/22 13
witchcraft: w19.04 21; ol 15-18; w88 9/1 5; g86 6/22 30
Witness view: w94 4/1 30
women:
superior load-bearers: g96 4/8 29; g86 9/8 30
treatment: w95 6/15 32
work: g98 4/8 6
working: g86 5/22 9-11
youths:
sex education: w98 2/15 10-11
teenage mothers: g94 11/22 28
Jehovah’s Witnesses
annual report: yb17 48; yb16 46; yb15 46; yb14 46; yb13 44; yb12 57; yb11 52; yb10 43; yb09 43; yb08 43; yb07 48; yb06 47; yb05 43; yb04 61; yb03 56; yb00 50; yb99 43; yb98 49; yb95 42; yb93 64
1975: jv 501
betrayal backfires: yb87 62-63
branch offices: jv 385-392
cemetery noted for modesty: yb87 64
children:
refuse ceremony to worship national symbol: w14 12/15 18
refuses to smoke: yb87 62
six-year-old defends stand to school headmaster: w95 5/1 27
circuit overseers: w88 10/1 25
clergy criticism of, fails: w87 10/1 21
commendation:
Dr. Wilson of Oxford University: w87 1/15 9
Paramount Chief: w87 10/1 21
village chief: w91 7/1 31
construction for growth: km 8/96 3-4
early witnessing: jv 414, 418, 433-436, 475-477
encouragement from local officials: w89 3/1 18
false “Watchtower (Watch Tower) movements” (Kitawala): w19.07 28; w03 4/1 29; yb99 151-152, 154, 156-157; yb96 119; jv 434, 481-483; yb92 115-116, 121, 184; w90 2/1 28
families cope with industrialization: g86 4/8 16-17
film showings: jv 480-481
growth: yb14 96; yb00 50; yb99 43; yb98 30; jv 433, 435-436, 475, 488, 509-510, 518; w92 9/1 19, 32; w88 5/15 19; w87 6/1 29
JW satellite channel: hdu article 11
Kingdom Halls: yb07 141, 143; yb04 23-24; km 9/02 3-6
harvesting rainwater: hdu article 33
lands reached: jv 518
lands where work is restricted: yb93 64; yb92 64; yb91 64; yb90 63-64; w89 3/1 18; yb89 63-64; yb88 7-8, 61-63, 253; w87 1/1 4, 7; yb87 61-64
legal recognition: jv 510; w92 11/1 23-26
literacy program: jv 480
missionaries: w17.01 6; jv 476, 531, 534; w92 6/15 24; w88 10/1 20-25; w87 11/15 16-17
modern history: jv 475-488
East Africa: yb92 66-207
number: yb11 52; yb10 43; yb09 43; yb08 43; yb07 48; yb06 47; yb05 43; yb95 42
opposition: w03 4/1 29
backfires: yb04 231-232; yb87 63
persecution: w07 3/15 24; jv 10; yb90 63-64; w89 3/1 18; yb89 63-64; w88 2/15 17; yb88 61-63, 253; yb87 64; w86 1/1 27
mother and daughter refuse political card: w06 8/1 28
youths face soldiers to save printing operation: w99 2/1 12
youth’s integrity wins family over: w95 1/1 7-8
persons:
Brown, William R. and Antonia: w23.10 4; w19.02 28; yb14 95-96, 100-101; w95 9/1 22; jv 433-434, 487-488, 549; w92 9/1 32
Cormican, Hugh: jv 534
Crudass, Paul and Anne: w24.11 26-30
Danyleyko, Maxim and Happy: w18.08 13-17
Davis, Willie and Lois: w94 9/1 22-25
Fraese, Vito and Fern: w10 12/15 28-29
Königer, Margarita: lff lesson 21
McLuckie, Bill: yb99 156-157, 161; jv 434-435
McLuckie, Robert A. (Bert): yb99 154-156; jv 434-435; w90 2/1 26-31
Miles, John and Val: w88 10/1 20-25
Mills, Woodworth: w19.02 29
Nisbet, George: yb10 69, 71, 85; jv 487
Nisbet, Robert: yb10 68-69, 71, 85, 108; w03 4/1 26-30; jv 435, 487
Nisbet, William: yb10 85; jv 487
Norman, David: yb10 68-69, 108; jv 435
Okoka, Ekumba: w90 12/1 26-29
Pandachuk, Ernest: g03 10/22 21-23
Smith, Frank and Mary: yb10 75-76; w95 8/1 20-24
Smith, Frank W.: yb10 75; w95 8/1 20; jv 435
Smith, Gray and Olga: yb10 69-71; jv 435
polygamy corrected (1947): w95 9/1 25-26; jv 176-177
printing: jv 593
publications:
Bible New World Translation: w07 1/15 12-13
brochure The Road to Everlasting Life—Have You Found It?: ol 1-32
languages: yb98 49
perilous trips to deliver: w07 10/15 8-11
shipping: yb07 152
video Jehovah’s Witnesses—The Organization Behind the Name: w07 10/1 21
rape resisted: yb87 61-62
relief from abroad:
European Witnesses assist: kr 218; g05 11/8 8; w98 1/15 3-7; w98 12/1 11
relief work: yb07 153; w01 1/1 16; yb96 64; yb94 11-12; jv 312; w91 5/1 24; yb91 64; w89 3/1 7; yb89 63-64
drought relief in land where work is banned: w91 1/1 6
during Ebola outbreaks: g24.1 9
service experiences: w92 1/1 26; w91 10/1 19; w89 3/1 18
former opposing soldiers embrace: w91 1/1 6
missionary persuades child to give up toy gun: w06 5/1 32
where work is restricted: yb93 64; yb92 64; w91 7/1 31
Witness youths: w95 5/1 27
serving where need is greater: w14 1/15 3-6
elders from abroad: jv 510
singing: g91 11/22 27
special pioneer on crutches or in wheelchair: w90 12/1 26-29; yb89 13