Culture & Heritage East Africa’s Migration Festival Market Is Selling Culture on Someone Else’s Terms by Oluwafemi Kehinde 4 days ago by Oluwafemi Kehinde 4 days ago 85 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 5 days ago by Familugba Victor 5 days ago 87 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
Culture & Heritage Walking the Slave Route in Benin: West Africa’s Most Important Heritage Walk by Oluwafemi Kehinde 6 days ago by Oluwafemi Kehinde 6 days ago 119 views 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 … 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedinTelegramEmail
Culture & Heritage Nubian Identity and the Tourism Imperative: Egypt’s Southern Monuments Beyond the Pyramids by Familugba Victor 6 days ago by Familugba Victor 6 days ago 98 views 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 … 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedinTelegramEmail
Culture & Heritage The Medina of Fez: How Morocco’s Living Heritage City Handles 1.5m Visitors by Oluwafemi Kehinde 2 weeks ago by Oluwafemi Kehinde 2 weeks ago 143 views 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 … 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedinTelegramEmail
Culture & Heritage Omo Valley Tribes, Territory and the Fight for Ethical Tourism by Oluwafemi Kehinde 3 weeks ago by Oluwafemi Kehinde 3 weeks ago 166 views 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. … 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedinTelegramEmail
Culture & Heritage The Palaces of Abomey: Benin’s Royal Complex and What It Tells the World About African Statehood by Familugba Victor 3 weeks ago by Familugba Victor 3 weeks ago 147 views 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 – … 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedinTelegramEmail
Culture & Heritage Abidjan Is Calling — AFAA 2026 Offers a New Way In by Rex Clarke 3 weeks ago by Rex Clarke 3 weeks ago 171 views 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 … 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedinTelegramEmail
Traditional Festivals Ethiopia’s Majestic Calendar: A Journey Through Its Most Celebrated National Holidays by Meseret Zeleke 1 month ago by Meseret Zeleke 1 month ago 251 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 2 months ago by Oluwafemi Kehinde 2 months ago 307 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