Wearing a mask is essential when faced with a virus like Covid-19. The notion of…
01 Sep 2020
Evocative music, blending ancestral melodies and pop rhythms. "I hear our ancestors encouraging us to…
01 Sep 2020
The masks of the Americas, despite the differences in styles of the ethnic groups in…
01 Sep 2020
The Raramuri or Tarahumara are an indigenous group of the Sierra Tarahumara in the State…
01 Sep 2020
The Dream Catchers Academy is an organisation that helps street children. To give them some…
01 Aug 2020
Vital in traditional medicine for the treatment and management of various disease conditions. The ash…
01 Aug 2020
His name is Steven Umoh but in the world of music, he is known by…
01 Aug 2020
A visual Mexican artist collects arms used during violent times in his country and transforms…
01 Aug 2020
Increasingly established designers, ever more inspired collections, ever more lavish fashion shows. The fashion world…
01 Jul 2020
Elderly people are the preservers of the historical memory of a community and the carriers…
01 Jul 2020
His eighties hit Yeke Yeke made him one of the prime artists of nascent world…
01 Jul 2020
It is used to treat different allergies and help various antioxidant-associated health benefits. Globally, a…
01 Jul 2020
A victim of the Coronavirus, in Paris, on 24 March 2020. The Cameroonian saxophonist and…
01 Jun 2020
The Andean calendar is based on the observation of the sky. It is a luni-solar…
01 Jun 2020
Sangomas, the South African traditional healers, mainly work in the rural areas of the country.…
01 Jun 2020
The ancient pre-Hispanic city of Uxmal and its three surrounding sites: Kabhá, Labná and Sayil…
01 Jun 2020
A mixture of Anatolian pop and oriental folk, gypsy resonances and western sounds. A committed…
01 May 2020
Grand Zimbabwe is one of Africa's largest and most complex archaeological sites. Its origins and…
01 May 2020
The plant is often harvested from the wild for local use, especially for medicinal purposes…
01 May 2020
Quechuas perform a special ritual to ask for rain to the God of life. According…
01 May 2020
The root in the form of a powder, a decoction, or an infusion, is taken…
01 Apr 2020
Andeans believe that everything in the universe has a complementary half, and at every level,…
01 Apr 2020
The legacy of the time of the Pharaohs of the Twenty-Fifth Dynasty is being ransomed…
01 Apr 2020
Omar Sosa and Gustavo Ovalles. Two great musicians, two different stories often merging in a…
01 Apr 2020
Sara Raymi is the feast of corn celebrated by the Andean people. A blessing from…
01 Mar 2020
It is used to treat backache and brittle bones. The decoction from the leaves…
01 Mar 2020
With the Ankole people in the Western part of Uganda, the bride’s parents hand her…
01 Mar 2020
A school of dance for the blind, the only one of its kind in the…
01 Mar 2020
The Aymara wedding ceremony is a social ritual in which all the community takes part. …
01 Feb 2020
Carnival is celebrated by dancing in the streets, in many Mexican towns. It is a…
01 Feb 2020
In the Karimojong group living in north-east Uganda, the number of cows determined readiness for…
01 Feb 2020
If the samba is the sound of Rio de Janeiro, the frevo is that of…
01 Feb 2020
Boj, which originates from the northern region of Alta Verapaz, has a cultural and spiritual…
01 Jan 2020
Its name means "The Place of Adjacent Mounds." This site was contemporary with Tikal and…
01 Jan 2020
Afro-Maghrebian percussion, ngoni, chants and choreography, driven by infallible and colorful arrangements make it possible…
01 Jan 2020
The Gabbra are a nomadic people who live in the north-west of Kenya and the…
01 Jan 2020
According to indigenous wisdoms, life on Pacha (earth) originated from water and water is vital…
01 Dec 2019
In the Nahuatl language, spoken in the central region of Mexico, Machincuepa means somersaults or…
01 Dec 2019
Deeply rooted in the land and culture of his ancestors, Achinoam Nini, known in the…
01 Dec 2019
The Banyankole are a Ugandan tribe found in South-western Uganda. They are popularly known for…
01 Dec 2019
The Butbut people of the larger Kalinga ethnic group live in the Cordillera region in…
01 Nov 2019
The Bari, a South Sudan ethnic group who live on the Savannah along the White…
01 Nov 2019
For the Quechua, death does not mark an end but a transition from this life…
01 Nov 2019
There is no place in Mexico where the cult of the dead is not celebrated…
01 Nov 2019
The slums of Katwe have seen the birth of a new circus where the jugglers,…
01 Oct 2019
Every town and city has its own tales, myths, and legends that make up part…
01 Oct 2019
The Asmat people are a tribe in Papua new Guinea. They draw inspiration for their…
01 Oct 2019
At the famous Parc des Princes studio in Paris on 7 June of this year,…
01 Oct 2019
He is considered one of the best living blues guitarists. He has succeeded in combining…
01 Sep 2019
The people from Tapac are referred to as the tapeth. They live in the mountain…
01 Sep 2019
Indigenous to North Africa, the Amazigh people, sometimes known as Berbers, have spent decades fighting…
01 Sep 2019
Kenyan writer Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o was imprisoned and exiled for his political beliefs. As he…
01 Sep 2019
The Maori of New Zealand have a sacred vision of nature. Traditional patterns used in…
01 Aug 2019
The wise man of the Andean communities, who has the task to pass down the…
01 Aug 2019
In Buganda, an ethnic group lives in the Central Region of Uganda; twins are imagined…
01 Aug 2019
Lake Malawi, a unique habitat. One of the deepest water deposits in the world. Distinctive…
01 Aug 2019
Before planting, Quechua farmers ask Pachamama (mother-earth) for permission. Pachamama is the fertility goddess who…
01 Jul 2019
From the Maghreb to Southern Africa, a myriad of flavours, aromas and colours. A journey…
01 Jul 2019
It is a plant used as a medicine for several therapeutic treatments. The leaf decoction…
01 Jul 2019
In a remote village in Buscalan, Tinglayan Kalinga in northern Luzon, Whang-ud, a 90-year-old tattoo…
01 Jul 2019
The Panama’s sombrero pintao (painted hat) is worn during dances, parties and by farmers working…
01 Jun 2019
The concept of Ubuntu is deeply rooted in Africa and refers to human reality. It…
01 Jun 2019
Highly valued in traditional medicine for treatment and management of a number of diseases and…
01 Jun 2019
A voice that radiates all the moods and colours of Africa. She is one of…
01 May 2019
The Tapeth are a small ethnic group living with the Karamojong in North Eastern Uganda.…
01 May 2019
It possesses great nutritional and medicinal values. The plant is used in the treatment of…
01 May 2019
The ceremony of the offering to the Pachamama to restore balance in the family. A…
01 May 2019
“With her powerful voice and unique style she succeeded in bringing together the treasures of…
01 Apr 2019
The Museum of Africa aspires to be an open space for discussion of the sad…
01 Apr 2019
It is used as medicine, source of fibre, and wood. But also in the treatment…
01 Apr 2019
The Museum of African Civilisation was founded in Dakar: it contains African art from its…
01 Apr 2019
His songs criticise the government and corrupt politics. Young people listen to him and have…
01 Mar 2019
Financed by Istanbul, it also contains other structures: a congress hall, administration offices and a…
01 Mar 2019
It is an important plant for medical use. But it is also used to make…
01 Mar 2019
The original handcrafted clothes made with sheep, llama, alpaca, vicuña and other animals’ wool are…
01 Mar 2019
When most people think of Mexican food, the first thing that comes to mind may…
01 Feb 2019
A moment of exuberant celebrations, which are traditionally associated with thrilling music that leads to…
01 Feb 2019
“Her songs speak of love, altruism and courage; they are messages against intolerance and of…
01 Feb 2019
Calypso is a genre of Afro-Caribbean music that comes primarily from the island of Trinidad.…
01 Feb 2019
Kitty Phetla, ballerina and choreographer with Joburg Ballet, grew up among the tin-roofed rows of…
01 Jan 2019
With the catchy rhythms of Afro-Pop, African artists are increasingly singing about young Africans’ frustrations.…
01 Jan 2019
Marriage involves a series of rituals, and four essential stages among the Quechua people of…
01 Jan 2019
Music and dance in Latin America has much of what is African. An example: the…
01 Jan 2019
Now popular in many countries, African wax cloth owes its creative and commercial success to…
01 Dec 2018
The ancestral rituals that accompany the birth of a Quechua and Aymara child. The role…
01 Dec 2018
Of African descent, with a voice that is elegant, smooth, sensually melancholic. Imany overpowers and…
01 Dec 2018
They are seers and traditional healers with a vast knowledge of medicinal plants, spells and…
01 Dec 2018
A pre-Islamic instrument. Three brothers. Music that is a poetry, the heart and the patrimony…
01 Nov 2018
The desert is not a no man’s land but the land of nomads. The best…
01 Nov 2018
In the south of Madagascar live the Bara, a cluster of 18 ethnic groups that…
01 Nov 2018
It is an herbaceous food legume belonging to the plant family Fabaceae. It can either…
01 Nov 2018
A beauty now, the patrimony of humanity. Most of all a place of relations and…
01 Oct 2018
The Sidama people are a deeply religious ethnic group that lives in southern Ethiopia. They…
01 Oct 2018
The indigenous created the quitapenas many generations ago as a remedy for worrying and sadness. Guatemalan…
01 Oct 2018
Vitex doniana (Family Verbenaceae) is a useful, multi-purpose tree providing food, medicines and timber to…
01 Oct 2018
In his Easter Urbi et Orbi message, Pope Francis urged all nations to “meet the greatest needs of the moment through the reduction, if not…
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0nce upon a time the chimpanzee and the crocodile were good friends. At midday, the chimpanzee would always go to the riverbank and call the crocodile:…
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Starting afresh from children to build a peaceful future in Africa. Rely on their energies to transform the continent into a better place. This is the sense…
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