Traditional Festivals Ethiopia’s Majestic Calendar: A Journey Through Its Most Celebrated National Holidays by Meseret Zeleke 18 hours ago by Meseret Zeleke 18 hours ago 47 views Ethiopia is a country where tradition is lived every day. Its national holidays are not just dates on a calendar; they are communal experiences that fill streets with music, colour, … 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedinTelegramEmail
Culture & Heritage UNESCO’s Growing African Heritage List: The Sites Positioned for 2027–2030 Inscription by Oluwafemi Kehinde 1 week ago by Oluwafemi Kehinde 1 week ago 141 views Djibouti has never had a single site on UNESCO’s World Heritage List. Not one. Yet the country sits astride the Bab-el-Mandeb strait, one of the busiest shipping corridors on the … 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedinTelegramEmail
Royalty & Kingdoms How Traditional African Kingdoms Are Becoming Major Heritage Tourism Destinations by Familugba Victor 2 weeks ago by Familugba Victor 2 weeks ago 175 views In November 2025, Nigeria switched on a $25 million museum built in Benin City specifically to house the Benin Bronzes, and had no bronzes ready to put inside it. Years … 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedinTelegramEmail
Culture & Heritage The Royal Splendour of Gondar, Ethiopia by Meseret Zeleke 3 weeks ago by Meseret Zeleke 3 weeks ago 185 views To emerge from the rugged, sun-bleached expanse of the Ethiopian highlands and find oneself staring at a cluster of crenellated stone towers, soaring battlements, and baroque stone arches is one … 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedinTelegramEmail
Culture & Heritage How AI and Cloud Archives Are Securing Africa’s Oral Past by Familugba Victor 3 weeks ago by Familugba Victor 3 weeks ago 160 views A recording only survives as long as something can still play it back. Staff interviewed for a 2024 study of South Africa’s National Film, Video and Sound Archives named outdated … 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedinTelegramEmail
Culture & Heritage The Maasai People of Kenya and Tanzania: Culture, Land Rights and Community Tourism Today by Oluwafemi Kehinde 3 months ago by Oluwafemi Kehinde 3 months ago 1.6K views They live among lions, raise their children on cattle blood and milk, and have held the same ground for centuries under the most dramatic sky on earth. The Maasai people … 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedinTelegramEmail
Culture & Heritage The Swahili Coast: A Cultural Travel Guide from Mombasa to the Comoros by Rex Clarke 3 months ago by Rex Clarke 3 months ago 756 views The door is not the first thing you see when you arrive at a Swahili stone house. The door is the first thing you are meant to see. In Lamu, … 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedinTelegramEmail
Culture & Heritage Benin’s Vodoun Temples and the Case for Serious Religious Cultural Tourism by Adams Moses 3 months ago by Adams Moses 3 months ago 811 views Before dawn on 10 January, the sound of drums reaches the beach at Ouidah from several directions at once. By the time the light comes up, the town has been … 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedinTelegramEmail
Culture & Heritage 10 Greatest Ancient Kingdoms in African History by Rex Clarke 4 months ago by Rex Clarke 4 months ago 832 views Europe was not the beginning of civilisation. It was not even close. While European scholars spent centuries constructing a narrative in which human progress flowed from Greece to Rome to … 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedinTelegramEmail
Cultural Festivals Top Traditional Ceremonies in Zambia You Should Know by Rex Clarke 4 months ago by Rex Clarke 4 months ago 2.3K views At 21:00 the night before, the Maoma royal drums begin. Their sound crosses the floodplain in the dark, carrying for up to fifteen kilometres across the Zambezi’s risen waters. It … 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedinTelegramEmail