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
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
Concluding the Special Synod of Bishops on the Amazon, Pope Francis in his homily said with a witty remark that the final document speaking of…
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0ne day, a long time ago when there was a famine in a certain part of Africa, Hare met Hyena. “How thin you are looking,” said…
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During the Synod for Amazonia, we heard stories of young Indios who struggle against environmental exploitation, in recognition of their own identity, and they want to…
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