The Sami have always lived in the far north of the continent. Historically oppressed and…
01 Jan 2021
Medicinal plants continue to play vital roles in primary health systems globally. A number of…
01 Jan 2021
The Guji are an ethnic group of southern Ethiopia. They belong to the great family…
01 Jan 2021
The Andean peoples preserve their ancient wisdoms with great care in order to lead a…
01 Jan 2021
The New York music house Ostinato Records recently released a Groupe RTD album – a…
01 Dec 2020
Piliostigma thonningii, common name 'camel’s foot', is a leguminous, deciduous tree with a single stem,…
01 Dec 2020
Aimed at Africans and the diaspora, the Pan-African Museum of Heritage and Culture in Accra…
01 Dec 2020
In the African context, Ubuntu is a religious belief which concerns the need for humans…
01 Dec 2020
On the Madagascar plateau the bodies of the dead are exhumed from their tombs and…
01 Nov 2020
The wars in Syria and Iraq are (mostly) over, but the region’s rich cultural heritage…
01 Nov 2020
Syria is the Arab country that has best preserved the physical evidence of its pre-Islamic…
01 Nov 2020
The head of a musical movement that is both cultural and profitable, Michael Kwesi Owusu…
01 Nov 2020
The Qhapaq Ñan is an extraordinary set of roads constructed by the Incas. This network…
01 Oct 2020
Plants have been a source of effective therapeutic agents for various diseases. Globally, there is…
01 Oct 2020
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 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
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 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
The root in the form of a powder, a decoction, or an infusion, is taken…
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
It is used to treat backache and brittle bones. The decoction from the leaves…
01 Mar 2020
A school of dance for the blind, the only one of its kind in the…
01 Mar 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
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 Bari, a South Sudan ethnic group who live on the Savannah along the White…
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
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
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
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
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
It possesses great nutritional and medicinal values. The plant is used in the treatment of…
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
When most people think of Mexican food, the first thing that comes to mind may…
01 Feb 2019
“Her songs speak of love, altruism and courage; they are messages against intolerance and of…
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
Music and dance in Latin America has much of what is African. An example: the…
01 Jan 2019
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
It is an herbaceous food legume belonging to the plant family Fabaceae. It can either…
01 Nov 2018
Vitex doniana (Family Verbenaceae) is a useful, multi-purpose tree providing food, medicines and timber to…
01 Oct 2018
Young Senegalese artist Ina Tiam takes fashion shoots in places covered with rubbish and plastic…
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
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
It is commonly known as Jamun or Jambul. It is a multipurpose tree which is…
01 May 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
The Mossi are the most numerous ethnic group in Burkina Faso with 6.2 million members…
01 Feb 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
International organisms during this pandemic are under scrutiny and surely for many and good reasons. However, even in the weed fields some good wheat can…
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Once upon a time when the world had just been made and there was only one kind of banana, but very many kinds of monkeys, there…
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From Bangkok to Lagos, from Harare to Hong Kong, from Lima to Santiago, young people are fighting for Democracy and Human Rights. Despite the COVID-19 pandemic…
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