Culture & Heritage

On 5 August 2025, New Era reported that about 70 residents of Ohungumure, a village 20 kilometres outside Opuwo in north-western Namibia, sat in silence around one food hamper. Tourists …

Seventy years ago today, on 21 October 1956, two colonial policemen shot and captured Dedan Kimathi at Tetu, in Nyeri. Kimathi was the most hunted commander of the Mau Mau …

Oral tradition remembers the fourth king of Oyo as a ruler whose voice sounded like thunder and whose mouth spewed fire when he spoke. His subjects turned against him. He …

The Ukuthwasa ceremony in Zimbabwe does not begin with drums or dancing. It begins with illness. People who receive the calling often try modern medicine first and fail, according to …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …