Browsing: Culture

Our continent is poised to integrate more closely with the diaspora. Nigeria and Jamaica have begun discussions on establishing direct flights between the two countries. This…

Decades of indoctrination by school history books spinning a narrative that has the West as the origin of all things good and civilised means many Westerners…

Europeans long portrayed Africans as lacking culture. And yet they couldn’t resist stealing our cultural treasures in their thousands and putting them in museums around the…

This week’s Facts of the Week centre on our missing artefacts – missing, that is, from Africa. We know where many of them are: in European…

North Africa is a diverse region home to a multitude of identities, cultures and traditions. One of the significant indigenous ethnic groups living in North Africa…

Many people first think of China when they hear ‘Great Wall…’. Our Facts of the Week explain why Benin and its Great Walls should also be…

The Oyo Empire represents a powerful chapter in African history. This week’s Facts of the Week not only demonstrate its political sophistication, economic prosperity and cultural…

Western versions of history tend to overlook many significant kingdoms in pre-colonial Africa. This week’s Facts of the Week highlight the Zulu people’s powerful cultural, social…

140 years ago today, on the 15th of November 1884, European powers came together and carved up Africa with not a single African in the room…

Fela Anikulapo Kuti and his musical family have done much to shape Nigerian arts, culture and politics. His mother Funmilayo Kuti was a revolutionary who organised…