The name Asante means “because of war”. The word is derived from the two (2) Twi words “ɛsa” meaning “war”…
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The International African American Museum will soon open in Charleston, South Carolina, at one of the country’s most historically significant…
Holding a bamboo ink pen, Ethiopian Orthodox priest Zelalem Mola carefully copies text in the ancient Ge’ez language from a…
These traditions are not religious principles but a cultural identity that is passed on through stories, myths and tales, from…
The lighthouse, the library, Alexander the Great, Cleopatra…: in Marseille, the Mucem intends to “remove the varnish” of the myth…
On 31st January,1935 the British Governor Sir Arnold Wienholt Hodson proclaimed the ‘the Restoration of the Ashanti Confederacy’ Otumfuo Sir.…
Agyapong was born on 6 March 1962, in Kumasi, Capital of the Ashanti Region of Ghana. He was the son of Justice Kwadwo Agyei Agyepong,…
The Ghriba Synagogue on the Tunisian island of Djerba is hosting the annual Jewish pilgrimage for the first time after…
A leading Nigerian artist tells writer Molara Woods why his new installation at London’s St Paul’s Cathedral is important, as…
The Massai, a noble ethnic group whose pastoral communities are mainly found in East Africa — in Kenya and Tanzania,…
