Culture & Heritage

Rwanda has submitted a bid to list Imigongo and Umuganura on UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage register. Imigongo is a centuries-old geometric art form painted with cow dung, while Umuganura is …

African fabrics do more than just cover bodies. They carry stories, values, history, resilience, and identity. In communities where oral history weaves meaning into cloth, each fabric becomes a visible …

Some belief systems do not fade even when people are uprooted; they simply travel quietly within memory, within language, and within ritual. Among the Yoruba people, Ile-Ife is regarded as …

Cultural tourism in Africa isn’t something you schedule neatly into a travel plan. It happens naturally. It happens when someone invites you to sit with them. When you taste food …

Before highways, airports, and shipping containers arrived in Africa, they already had a system for transporting goods globally. They moved goods, ideas, and flavours slowly but intentionally across vast distances. …

In a significant stride for international cultural diplomacy, the Republic of Turkey has identified 76 historical artefacts, crafted from wood and metal and believed to have originated in Nigeria. This …

In the shadow of Nigeria’s ancient hills and sacred groves lies a tapestry of history woven from centuries of human ingenuity, spiritual depth, and cultural resilience. Sites like the Sukur …

The Benin Bronzes are among the rare treasures and artefacts that carry heavy stories and hold memories of a powerful kingdom, the skill of master craftsmen, and the pain of …

There is a kind of strength that African traditional religions have. One that does not announce itself loudly nor sit in grand buildings nor depend on written laws, but lives …

There are moments in West Africa when history does not sit quietly in books or museums but rides through the streets on horseback, dressed in colour, rhythm, and pride. Drums …