African folktales teach important lessons about using water positively for the environment. The Enchanted Drop of African ...

Informative content about the African diaspora and African global culture, African food recipes, art, history, people, land, ...

In Southern African society, the Sangoma acts as a therapist for issues of health, luck, love, dream interpretation, sexual problems, or business. Nyanga’s seek the nature of the illness and its cure ...

Native Labor Code of 1878 vagrancy clause was used as an economic tool of manipulation, branding African people as vagrants ...

Pronounced ah-gay-gay agege bread is century old sweet tasting bread very popular with Hausa people in the West African country of Nigeria. Agege is a district in the Ikeja Division of Lagos State, ...

Groundnuts and peanuts are used interchangeably but are not the same. The groundnut taste like chickpeas with a very mild flavor. Arachis hypogaea is the scientific name for groundnuts and peanuts are ...

As with most aspects of African culture, the specifics of basket weaving and the woven baskets themselves embody spiritual as well as aesthetic and practical qualities. Although basketry materials, ...

African traditions are passed on through generations, but Africans gradually lose many indigenous traditions and rituals. On the one hand, globalization has opened up new avenues for cultural exchange ...

As Martin Luther King, Jr. said “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” The African proverb teaches ...

In the olden days thunder and lightning lived on the earth amongst all the other people, but the king made them live at the far end of the town, as far as possible from other people's houses. African ...

In the book Long Walk to Freedom, written by Nelson Mandela mentions how he hurriedly left his hideout at a white friend’s apartment when he was on the run from the South African Apartheid government ...