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
The Teso (or Iteso, people of Teso) are an ethnic group in eastern Uganda and…
01 Sep 2018
Young Senegalese artist Ina Tiam takes fashion shoots in places covered with rubbish and plastic…
01 Sep 2018
Exact rites mark the passage to an age group or becoming a member of a…
01 Sep 2018
It is a medicinal plant whose therapeutic values undoubtedly have a folkloric background as it…
01 Sep 2018
Commonly known as bitter melon or bitter gourd, it is a climbing vine whose leaves…
01 Aug 2018
'The Black Panther’ by Ryan Coogler, the first superhero movie, is the greatest cultural moment…
01 Aug 2018
The Kakwa people are a small minority group living in north-western Uganda. The bride-price for…
01 Aug 2018
The arts of crocheting and fishing narrate the stories of the beaches of northern Peru. Peru…
01 Aug 2018
The history of these indigenous people of Mexico, who have survived modernity and changes, is…
01 Jul 2018
Garifuna music relies heavily on their drums. We look at how they are made. The…
01 Jul 2018
This plant plays important role in various communities for the treatment of numerous diseases and…
01 Jul 2018
African cuisine offers a wide range of dishes of great flavour and variety. Food is…
01 Jul 2018
Pharmacist, botanist and missionary, the Moravian Jesuit Brother Josef Kamel (1661-1706) left the Hapsburg Empire…
01 Jun 2018
It is one of the well-known popular plants which is often used in traditional medicine.…
01 Jun 2018
A young Frenchman of African descent has invented a new type of rap to set…
01 Jun 2018
When a child is born among the Lugbara people in the north-western part of Uganda…
01 Jun 2018
In Africa, there are thousands of myths to explain what reason cannot explain. In a…
01 May 2018
In the north of Togo and the north-east of Benin in the Atacora Range live…
01 May 2018
This ethnic group of agro-pastoral herders live in arid or semi-arid territories where they graze…
01 May 2018
It is commonly known as Jamun or Jambul. It is a multipurpose tree which is…
01 May 2018
Amulets are an important part of an African's life, from birth to death. They are…
01 Apr 2018
The plant is commonly found distributed in the Sub-Saharan Africa. It is widely gathered from the…
01 Apr 2018
It took almost four decades for the people of Nigeria to rediscover one of three…
01 Apr 2018
This singer from the South Pacific of Colombia has liberated from ostracism the lullabies of…
01 Apr 2018
The roots of puppet shows in Africa are as old as the myths and legends.…
01 Mar 2018
Along the centuries, food and plants coming from America, and in particular from Mexico have…
01 Mar 2018
Ancient Mayan cuisine was varied and extensive. Mayan raised-field systems and the fertilization techniques of…
01 Mar 2018
The Tharaka are one of the nine ethnic groups that make up the Meru of…
01 Mar 2018
An indigenous group proud of its craft tradition. They have survived through preserving their language…
01 Feb 2018
The Baganda or Ganda are the largest single ethnic group in Uganda representing approximately 20%…
01 Feb 2018
The Mossi are the most numerous ethnic group in Burkina Faso with 6.2 million members…
01 Feb 2018
Celebrations vary depending on the local indigenous cultures. A journey through the several carnivals of…
01 Feb 2018
Dance and healing are strongly linked to the culture of the Tarahumara, an ethnic group…
01 Jan 2018
Pelargonium sidoides is a small geranium-like plant which is commonly referred to as 'South African…
01 Jan 2018
When we visited the Anthropological Museum of Luanda we were fascinated by a small statue…
01 Jan 2018
Among the many cultural dances of the Acholi people, who live in the northern region…
01 Jan 2018
Africans have a big and rich diversity of cultures, beliefs, languages and ways of life.…
01 Dec 2017
It belongs to the Pedaliaceae plant family and is commonly referred to as devil’s…
01 Dec 2017
The people of Jalq'a and Tarabuco narrate their legends through their clothes that speak of…
01 Dec 2017
Gubissa, the naming ceremony for the eldest son, is an important moment of the social…
01 Dec 2017
Among the Borana, an ethnic group that lives in northern Kenya, there are three funeral…
01 Nov 2017
The Dance of the Devils is performed on the occasion of Mexico’s most traditional festivities…
01 Nov 2017
Last funeral rites in many Ugandan tribes and cultures is marked as a way of…
01 Nov 2017
It is a multi-purpose tree that has been used for more than 4,000 years as…
01 Nov 2017
The Nuer are a tribe of South Sudan numbering about two million people. It comprises…
01 Oct 2017
It is one of the well-known medicinal plants that has its origin from the continent…
01 Oct 2017
Alpacas, vicuñas, guanacos and llamas are essential to life for Andean peoples. These animals are…
01 Oct 2017
Tooro Kingdom which is one of the four traditional Kingdoms in Uganda is located in…
01 Oct 2017
Marriage among the Borana people, an ethnic group living in northern Kenya, requires a long…
01 Sep 2017
It is one of the unique medicinal plants that has been in used since prehistoric…
01 Sep 2017
The Huicholese ethnic group lives in the Sierra Madre Occidental range in the Mexican states…
01 Sep 2017
The millennial experience of indigenous peoples can help to give concrete answers to the current…
01 Sep 2017
Chibok is perhaps the poorest and most neglected of all the twenty-seven local government areas…
01 Aug 2017
Marriage is one of the important aspects in the life of Buganda. The role of…
01 Aug 2017
African music is strictly linked to the cultural, economic, social, and magical-religious aspects of the…
01 Aug 2017
Kigelia africana (Lam), Benth (Bignoniaceae family), is a highly valuable medicinal plant that is native…
01 Aug 2017
The 'toquilla' straw hat is a fine example of the history, skill and identity of…
01 Jul 2017
There are two types of enkipaata, a ceremony before circumcision, one for boys and one…
01 Jul 2017
Archaeologists have identified more than 1,500 ball courts to date. These prehistoric buildings that were…
01 Jul 2017
Tikal, Guatemala’s archaeological heart, was home to the Mayans for 1700 years. It was as…
01 Jul 2017
A very comic-dramatic dance and festival, particularly in Northern Brazil, Bumba-Meu-Boi tells the story of…
01 Jun 2017
The plant plays a fundamental role in treatment and management of numerous kinds of diseases.…
01 Jun 2017
Every June, La Villa de los Santos celebrates the traditional Feast of Corpus Christi, mixing…
01 Jun 2017
Q’eswachaka is the last surviving example of an Inca suspension woven rope bridge in the…
01 Jun 2017
The purple, carmín (deep red) and blue were very popular colours among ancient inhabitants of…
01 May 2017
Each year, around May, the Gonjas people of Ghana's Northern Region celebrate the Damba festival,…
01 May 2017
This municipality of Maya heritage, which is located 140 km northwest of Guatemala city, is…
01 May 2017
Balanites aegyptiaca is commonly known as desert date or Egyptian balsam. It is a small…
01 May 2017
Jade was the cornerstone of the Mesoamerican people. Its economic, political and, above all, ritual…
01 Apr 2017
It is used for the treatment of a number of diseases and disorders. In African…
01 Apr 2017
Kathmandu is the capital and largest municipality of Nepal. There are a lot informal markets…
01 Apr 2017
In Colombia, indigenous people are but a small 2%, minority, subdivided into about a hundred…
01 Apr 2017
Inscriptions on trucks offer a key to understanding the popular view on the ground and…
01 Mar 2017
Acholi is a Luo Nilotic ethnic group from Northern Uganda. They are approximately 1.2 million…
01 Mar 2017
The use of medicinal plants as a fundamental component of the African traditional healthcare system…
01 Mar 2017
The textiles of Guatemala are known throughout the world. Among their vivid colours, that of…
01 Mar 2017
Jatropha curcas (Linnaeus); commonly referred to as Barbados nut, it is a perennial shrub or…
01 Feb 2017
Formed by two green volcanoes; sanctuary of flora and fauna species. Ometepe is the largest…
01 Feb 2017
The Ngoni people are one of the many ethnic groups living in Zambia. Just before…
01 Feb 2017
Carnival in the state of Tlaxcala, in central Mexico, includes different dances whose names and…
01 Feb 2017
Money is what hurts the most. Popovic, the founder of Otpor (Enough), a student movement that played a key role in toppling Serbian dictator Slobodan…
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A long time ago, both thunder and lightning lived on this earth, among all the people. Thunder was an old mother sheep and Lightning was her…
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A faith-based youth apostolate movement, committed to the principles and values of evangelisation, formation, social justice and advocacy, wants to expand in Africa In Africa, the YCS…
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