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Currently based in the Limpopo province, northern province of South Africa.

Ga-Mampa Valley
Ga-Mampa valley is a rural area located in the Mafefe tribal area of the Lepelle-Nkumpi Local Municipality of the Republic of South Africa. The Ga-Mampa valley covers a land area of about 5km2. Ga-Mampa wetland is a riverine wetland of the Mohlapitsi River, a tributary of the Olifants River. It is approximately 1km2 with a catchment of 3 approximately 40,000 hectares (Kotze, 2005) (see Figure 1). There are two main villages in the valley: Ga-Mampa and Mantlhane. Each main village has a headman (Induna, traditional head of the people), who is responsible for allocation of communal land among the community members and gives authorization for harvesting natural resources within the wetland. The people of Ga-Mampa have also formed for themselves a development forum (Ga-Mampa Community Development Forum - GCDF) responsible to formulate programmes for the development of the area and bring them to the local municipality. Population of the valley, mainly composed of Pedi speaking people was estimated at 2758 inhabitants in 394 households as at October 2006. Ga-Mampa valley experiences a semi-arid climate with seasonal rainfall that largely occurs during the summer months, from October to April (mean annual rainfall of 570mm), and long dry periods from May to September. Average temperature is highest between January and December, and lowest between June and July. The Ga-Mampa wetland supports a range of different vegetation types, which vary according to particular site characteristics including wetness of area, location relative to river channel. Reed (Phragmites mauritianus) is the most widely occurring plant species in the wetland, with small isolated strands of sedges (Cyperus latifolis and Cyperus sexangularis) (Kotze, 2005). Both species are used by the local population for building and crafting purposes. The valley is surrounded by nature reserves of which the local population uses natural resources for their livelihoods (fuel wood, grazing lands, hunting area, wild plant collection), although it is not legally authorized. Three small-scale irrigation schemes built in 1959 by the former homeland government used to contribute to a large part of the local food production. After the withdrawal of government support in the midnineties and the 1995 and 2000 floods, the infrastructure has deteriorated and large parts of the schemes are no longer in use. Following the collapse of irrigation schemes, and attracted by wetland wetness and rich soils, farmers have converted half of its area to agriculture over the last decade.

African Continental Links
Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) links

Pitshou Mampa is a comic artist from Congo, who has studied in Canada. In South-Africa, he was the chief illustrator of the 8-issue 'The Madiba Legacy Series', a comic book innitiative of the Nelson Mandela Foundation.

Liberia

Mampa, Liberia, West Africa

Media links
Online eMagazine called covering issues from lifestyle to family.

Language Links
Sherbro language spoken in Sierra Leone region coast of Sierra Leone and Sherbro Island Total speakers 135,000 Language family Niger-Congo, Atlantic-Congo. The Sherbro language (also known as Southern Bullom, Shiba, Amampa, Mampa, and Mampwa) is an endangered language of Sierra Leone. It belongs to the Atlantic branch of the Niger-Congo language family. While Sherbro has more speakers than the other Bullom languages, its use is declining among the Sherbro people, in favor of English and Krio.