How The Mokomokai Heads Of The Maori Tribesmen Became Valuable Trade Items During The 19th Century
The brain and eyes were removed from the severed heads, with all orifices sealed with flax fibre and gum. The head was then boiled...
African Tribe: The Daasanach People of Eastern Africa
The Daasanach are a semi-nomadic tribe numbering approximately 50,000 whose clans stretch across Sudan, Kenya and Southern Ethiopia.
The Daasanach are a primarily agropastoral people;...
Mali Swears In Bah Ndaw As New Civilian Leader
Mali's new president Bah Ndaw has been sworn into office, five weeks after the overthrow of Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta.
Former Defence Minister Bah Ndaw, 70,...
Troublesome South African Baboon Evicted For Organizing Gang To Raid Homes
Kataza is an urban baboon who was captured and put in a local prison for organizing a band of baboons to join him in raiding 15 homes in Kommetjie, on Cape Town's southern peninsula in South Africa.
A Leading University In China Now Teaches Ethiopia’s Amharic Language As A Full Course
A leading university in China — Beijing Foreign Studies University (BFSU) — has started to offer Ethiopia's widely spoken Amharic language as a full...
TIME 100: Tony Elumelu, Three Other Nigerians Makes Time’s list of 100 Most Influential People Of 2020
Tony Elumelu, is among four Nigerians named by the Time Magazine International in their 2020 list of 100 most influential people in the world...
Zambia’s Namwali Serpell Wins UK’s Top Prize For Science Fiction
Zambia's Namwali Serpell has won the UK’s top prize for science fiction, the Arthur C Clarke award, for her first novel "The Old Drift".
The...
African Tribe: The Artistic Ndebeles of Southern Africa
The Ndebeles are an African ethnic group living in South Africa and Zimbabwe known for their artistic talent, especially with regard to their painted houses and colorful beadwork. Not much is known about these people except that they originated from the larger Nguni tribes who make up almost two thirds of the black population in South Africa.
Culture
African Tribe: The Daasanach People of Eastern Africa
The Daasanach are a semi-nomadic tribe numbering approximately 50,000 whose clans stretch across Sudan, Kenya and Southern Ethiopia.
The Daasanach...
Society & Culture
African Tribe: The Artistic Ndebeles of Southern Africa
The Ndebeles are an African ethnic group living in South Africa and Zimbabwe known for their artistic talent, especially with regard to their painted houses and colorful beadwork. Not much is known about these people except that they originated from the larger Nguni tribes who make up almost two thirds of the black population in South Africa.
Society & Culture
Matriarchal Communities in Africa: African Communities Where Women Reign Supreme
From the Umoja community in Northern Kenya to the small rural community of Arnado Debbo in Niger state, Nigeria. These here are three African communities with long-standing traditions where to be a woman is superior.
Society & Culture
African Tribe: The Dinka People Of South Sudan
The Dinka are a pastoral-agricultural people that make up the largest ethnic group in South Sudan. They vary their lifestyle by season – in the rainy season they live in permanent savannah settlements and raise grain crops like millet,
Society & Culture
For The First Time, Married Women In Botswana Can Own Land Alongside Their Husbands
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Married women in Botswana can for the first time be allocated state land even if their husbands already have an allocation of their own, President Mokgweetsi Masisi has said.
Society & Culture
6 Most Extreme Cultural Body Modifications in Africa
Body Modification has always been an integral part of African culture. It is widely performed for a variety of reasons in many African societies, and a plethora of historical and current forms of modifications exists
Society & Culture
Gadawan Kura: The Hyena Handlers of Nigeria In Pictures
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The Gadawan Kuras are an exotic group of travelling performers in Nigeria who use wild animals such as Hyenas, Snakes, etc to entertain crowds and sell traditional medicines.
History
Georgia City Votes To Remove Market House Where Slaves Were Sold
After 225 years, a former slave market in Georgia will be removed.
Officials in a small city in rural Georgia have voted to remove a...
History
Fighting Slavery With Suicide: The Fascinating Story of Africa’s Kru People
The Kru or Kroo are a West African ethnic group who are indigenous to eastern Liberia. During the Slave trade era, they were also infamous amongst early European slave raiders as being especially averse to capture
History
Slavery Abolition Act 1833: Slavery Was Abolished Throughout The British Empire On This Day
The Slavery Abolition Act of 1833 that abolished slavery in most British colonies, freeing more than 800,000 enslaved Africans in the Caribbean and South Africa and making the purchase or ownership of slaves illegal
History
Scramble for Africa — The Berlin Conference To Divide Africa Ended On This Day In 1885
Berlin Conference of 1884–1885 was a Meeting at which the major European powers negotiated and claimed territories in Africa; The conference lasted 104 days, and ended on this day (26th) in February, 1885.
History
Benin City, One Of The Most Advanced Cities Of The Ancient World Now Lost Without Trace
When the Portuguese first “discovered” the city in 1485, they were stunned to find this vast kingdom made of hundreds of interlocked cities and...
Rankings
Misery Index: South Africa Has The Third Most ‘Miserable Economy’ In The World
South Africa has been ranked as the world's most miserable economy after Venezuela and Argentina.
Bloomberg's Misery Index, which ranks...
Africa Ranking
Misery Index: South Africa Has The Third Most ‘Miserable Economy’ In The World
South Africa has been ranked as the world's most miserable economy after Venezuela and Argentina.
Bloomberg's Misery Index, which ranks major economies by inflation and...
Africa Ranking
According To Reputation Poll International (PI), These Are The 100 Most Reputable Africans In 2020
Reputation Poll International, a leading global reputation-management firm, has released the 2020 list of 100 Most Reputable Africans.
The list features 47 women and 53...
Africa Ranking
Egypt, South Africa and Kenya Are The Most Powerful Countries in Africa, 2020
Egypt, South Africa and Kenya are currently the most powerful country in Africa, according to US News and World Report.
The US News and World...
Africa Ranking
Global Peace Index: Nigeria Ranked Among ‘World’s Most Dangerous Countries’
The 2020 Global Peace Index (GPI) released by the Institute for Economics Peace (IEP) has ranked Nigeria 147 out of 163..
The report tracks and...
Africa Ranking
Conflicts in Cameroon, Nigeria Rated Among ‘World’s Most Neglected Crisis’
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Cameroon, DR Congo, Burkina Faso, Nigeria are among the most neglected displacement crises in the world, according to the Norwegian Refugee Council’s annual list...
Africa Ranking
Nigeria Ranked Low On Corruption Fight, Security in Global Rule of Law Index
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The World Justice Project has ranked Africa’s giant Nigeria 108th out of 128 countries surveyed in its 2020 Rule of Law Index.
WJP, which works...
