Culture & Heritage

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 …

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, …

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 …

Ouidah’s beach ends at a door that opens onto nothing. Cross beneath it, and there is only sand, then surf, then open water, the same stretch of the Atlantic that …

Egypt wants 30 million annual visitors by 2028, more than double the 15.78 million recorded in 2024. Reaching that figure means persuading tourists to stay longer and travel further south …

Fassi families do not introduce the Chouara Tannery as a tourist attraction. They call it work passed down through the same hands, using the same stone pits and the same …

A traveller can spend hours driving into Ethiopia’s Lower Omo, arrive at a village, take photographs of people wearing traditional dress, hand over a few birr and leave within minutes. …

A royal throne left Paris in a padded crate in November 2021. It travelled with three totemic statues, four carved palace doors and a set of warrior dance staffs – …

Some cities live in the imagination long before they make it onto the itinerary. You hear about them through music, fashion, food, business and the people who return with stories …

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, …