6:48:19 PM Tue, May 21st 2013
CULTURE
Africans on the 2013 TIME Magazine ..
The TIME 100 issue represents TIME magazine’s choices for the 100 most influential people in the world. It’s their 10th year of doing this list.
A photographic portrait of the Scot..
Interesting take on how the adornments of colonialism has become the uniform of the Nazareth Baptist Church, a church founded in 1910 in South Africa
Artist Cyrus Kabiru gains global at..
Kenyan artist and TEDGlobal fellow, Cyrus Kabiru talked about his C-Stunners work – wearable eyewear sculptures made from found materials in Nairobi to CNN this
Remarking on the Silent Majority Pr..
Makoko, one of Nigeria’s slums has been on our minds recently. We wrote about its awesome floating school not too long ago. Today, Makoko is
Ivory Coast: Celebrating traditiona..
Traditional costumes of the Ivory Coast expresses an identity which is usually associated with West Africa and a period of time in Ivorian history, but it also indicates social, marital and/or religious
Photo of the Week: “My writin..
“My writing is nothing my boxing is every thing” -Hemingway in a conversation with Josephine Herbst This from a man who is reputed to have
Re-emerging Jews: The Jews of Nigeria
This is a short preview of Jeff Lieberman’s first feature length documentary Re-Emerging: The Jews of Nigeria. There is also an interesting article on the
Chinua Achebe “An Image of Af..
Achebe, Chinua. “An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad’s ‘Heart of Darkness’” Massachusetts Review. 18. 1977. Rpt. in Heart of Darkness, An Authoritative Text, background
Senegal style beauty treatments: Wo..
A Moroccan proverb goes – Three things cause sorrow to flee; water, green trees, and a beautiful face. In this case we might substitute the
Could a floating school built in Ma..
Nigerian Architect Kunle Adeyemi has designed a pretty cool three-storey floating school in Makoko a poor shanty town in his native Lagos, Nigeria. The concept is
‘Imagine Accra’ street art empo..
In Ghana the non-profit Nima Muhinmanchi Art (NMA), is a grassroots initiative started by a group of artists in Nima, a suburb of Accra. The aim of the
Some famous quotes by Chinua Achebe..
As an author Chinua Achebe was amongst the very best Africa produced, perhaps the very first name that one would pen down in any consideration
Why is it so strange that a white p..
This popular and timeless article was first published in January 2010 on MyWeku. When you think about the word “Rastafarian”, you probably imagine a Jamaican
An Ottoman map of Africa drawn in t..
This African map is a rare piece of artifact that should impress not only the geographers and cartographers amongst us. My feeling is that on
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