Browsing: Culture

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…