Culture & Heritage The Niger River as a Tourism Corridor: What 4,200km Means for Multi-Country Travel by Oluwafemi Kehinde 2 days ago by Oluwafemi Kehinde 2 days ago 97 views Encyclopedia Britannica notes that the Niger River rises 240km from the Atlantic Ocean, then walks away from it. It heads towards the Sahara, bends south-east through Niger and drops into … 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedinTelegramEmail
Culture & Heritage The Endangered Architectural Heritage of Sub-Saharan Africa: Earthen Cities Under Threat by Familugba Victor 2 days ago by Familugba Victor 2 days ago 80 views A mud building keeps one rule: maintain it or lose it. That rule has governed the Sahel for centuries, and it now decides the fate of Africa’s earthen cities. On … 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedinTelegramEmail
Culture & Heritage East African Contemporary Art: How Nairobi and Kampala Galleries Attract International Buyers by Oluwafemi Kehinde 3 days ago by Oluwafemi Kehinde 3 days ago 109 views HEIN News reported in 2025 that Michael Armitage’s most expensive painting sold in New York, not in Nairobi, where he was born. On 15 May 2025, Mpeketoni fetched $2.37m at … 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedinTelegramEmail
Culture & Heritage Eswatini: Africa’s Last Absolute Monarchy and Its Surprisingly Compelling Tourism by Oluwafemi Kehinde 2 weeks ago by Oluwafemi Kehinde 2 weeks ago 231 views Every year, up to 40,000 unmarried girls and women walk to Ludzidzini Royal Village, present cut reeds and dance for the king. The national tourism authority promotes the event to … 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedinTelegramEmail
Culture & Heritage The Timbuktu Manuscripts: A Library Tourism Potential Nobody Is Developing by Oluwafemi Kehinde 3 weeks ago by Oluwafemi Kehinde 3 weeks ago 281 views The crates landed in Timbuktu by plane on 11 August 2025, as the Associated Press reported. More than 200 of them, weighing some 5.5 tonnes, carried the city’s manuscripts home … 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedinTelegramEmail
Culture & Heritage The Kingdom of Mutapa: Zimbabwe’s Pre-Colonial Trading Empire and Its Tourism Potential by Familugba Victor 3 weeks ago by Familugba Victor 3 weeks ago 233 views The story of the Mutapa Kingdom begins with a shift in power across the Zimbabwean plateau. As Great Zimbabwe’s influence declined, a new political centre emerged to the north, extending … 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedinTelegramEmail
Culture & Heritage Tunisia’s Medinas Beyond Tunis: The Interior Cities International Tourism Has Ignored by Familugba Victor 3 weeks ago by Familugba Victor 3 weeks ago 223 views Sections of Kairouan’s medina wall have collapsed. UNESCO sent expert missions in May 2024 and January 2025 to plan their restoration. The wall warns of Tunisia’s medinas outside the capital: … 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedinTelegramEmail
Culture & Heritage The Egungun Festival: How Yoruba Ancestral Masquerades Are Driving Cultural Tourism in West Africa by Familugba Victor 4 weeks ago by Familugba Victor 4 weeks ago 321 views At times during an Egungun Festival, the line between performance and presence becomes hard to maintain. Drums accelerate, a costumed figure spins through the crowd, layers of cloth lift and … 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedinTelegramEmail
Culture & Heritage East Africa’s Migration Festival Market Is Selling Culture on Someone Else’s Terms by Oluwafemi Kehinde 4 weeks ago by Oluwafemi Kehinde 4 weeks ago 273 views Fifty thousand people were expected at Sekenani Gate on 9 and 10 June 2023, the weekend Narok County picked to launch its first Maasai cultural festival, two days of drumming, … 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedinTelegramEmail
Culture & Heritage The Global Rise of Ankara: How West African Fabric Is Driving Fashion Tourism from Lagos to London by Familugba Victor 1 month ago by Familugba Victor 1 month ago 242 views Ankara never started in Africa. It began as a Dutch attempt to mass-produce Indonesian batik, and it failed in the market it was built for before it found the one … 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedinTelegramEmail