Culture & Heritage Eswatini: Africa’s Last Absolute Monarchy and Its Surprisingly Compelling Tourism by Oluwafemi Kehinde 1 week ago by Oluwafemi Kehinde 1 week ago 188 views 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 … 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedinTelegramEmail
Culture & Heritage The Timbuktu Manuscripts: A Library Tourism Potential Nobody Is Developing by Oluwafemi Kehinde 2 weeks ago by Oluwafemi Kehinde 2 weeks ago 218 views 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 … 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedinTelegramEmail
Culture & Heritage The Kingdom of Mutapa: Zimbabwe’s Pre-Colonial Trading Empire and Its Tourism Potential by Familugba Victor 2 weeks ago by Familugba Victor 2 weeks ago 189 views 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 … 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedinTelegramEmail
Culture & Heritage Tunisia’s Medinas Beyond Tunis: The Interior Cities International Tourism Has Ignored by Familugba Victor 2 weeks ago by Familugba Victor 2 weeks ago 188 views Sections of Kairouan’s medina wall have collapsed. UNESCO sent expert missions in May 2024 and January 2025 to plan their restoration. The wall warns of Tunisia’s medinas outside the capital: … 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedinTelegramEmail
Culture & Heritage The Egungun Festival: How Yoruba Ancestral Masquerades Are Driving Cultural Tourism in West Africa by Familugba Victor 3 weeks ago by Familugba Victor 3 weeks ago 267 views 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 … 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedinTelegramEmail
Culture & Heritage East Africa’s Migration Festival Market Is Selling Culture on Someone Else’s Terms by Oluwafemi Kehinde 3 weeks ago by Oluwafemi Kehinde 3 weeks ago 240 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 4 weeks ago by Familugba Victor 4 weeks ago 207 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 4 weeks ago by Oluwafemi Kehinde 4 weeks ago 231 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 4 weeks ago by Familugba Victor 4 weeks ago 194 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 1 month ago by Oluwafemi Kehinde 1 month ago 234 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