Culture & Literature

Kirdi, a collective name for many cultures and ethnic groups who inhabit Cameroon, Nigeria, and Chad. The group makes up...

A Bantu ethnic group, Mongo people comprise the second largest ethnic group in the Democratic Republic of Congo with a...

The Imbangala probably originated in the central highlands of present-day Angola. Imbangala presence in Angola as early as 1563, this...

The Nilotes constitute the majority of the population in South Sudan, an area that is believed to be their original...

Cape Verde's President Jose Maria Neves said the rise of right-wing populism has made it difficult to hold a serious...

In Sierra Leone today, the Mende are one of the two largest ethnic groups; their neighbours, the Temne people, have...

At the International Literature Festival Dublin (ILFD), held in Ireland in May, Nigerian-German writer Olumide Popoola and literary agent Bibi...

The annual re-plastering of Mali’s Great Mosque of Djenne was held on Sunday, an important step in maintaining the integrity...

There are obvious similarities between the British pillaging of Kumasi and another notorious episode in West African colonial history -...

In Cameroon's western city of Foumban, sits the newly inaugurated Royal Museum of the Bamoun. The building architecture pays homage...