At this sacred Cameroonian festival, people disappear into a river for about an hour and return unwet
A ritual from the Ngondo festival — trip down memory lane The Ngondo festival, which is a water-centred festival by the Sawa, that is, coastal […]
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At this St. Lucian festival, Creoles celebrate age-old African culture that survived slavery and colonisation
Known as the only country in the world to be named after a historical female figure, St Lucia’s population is about 90 per cent African […]
The incredible South Sudanese culture of auctioning girls for marriage
South Sudan girl auctioned for 500 cows, 3 V8 cars weds — Maravi Post This October, a picture of Nyalong Ngong Deng, a 17-year-old South […]
Meet the Kenyan environmentalist on a grueling mission to save Africa’s elephants
Jim Nyamu, a Kenyan environmentalist, has been on a gruelling 4 200 kilometres walk from Kenya to South Africa dubbed East-Southern Africa Elephant Walk Elephants […]
The first dollar bill to ever feature a black woman will go into circulation this month
Viola Desmond Described as Canada’s Rosa Parks, Viola Desmond was arrested and jailed for sitting in the whites-only section of a local cinema in 1946 […]
After 41 years of bad blood, direct flights between Ethiopia and Somalia resume
For 41 years, there has not been a direct flight between Somalia and Ethiopia. But history is already changing. Early Friday, the first flight from […]
For banning pregnant girls from school, Tanzania is stripped of $300m World Bank loan
Tanzania has lost out on a $300 million educational loan over its policy to ban pregnant girls from school. The funding was to help the […]
Ruby Bridges became the first black child to attend an all-white school on this day in 1960 [Photos]
At a time when America was starting to break down the segregation policies in its institutions, a young girl would face the brunt of being […]
Nnamdi Azikiwe, from stowaway to Nigeria’s first president and African nationalist
Nnamdi Azikiwe — Daily Post Nigeria His parents gave him the name Benjamin but he later changed it to Nnamdi. Popularly known as “Zik” or […]
How African courts glorify colonialism with wigs and gowns
The tradition of wearing horsehair wigs, perukes, ‘a term derived from the French word perruque (weaving wig)’ and gowns by the judiciary predates the 15th […]