Society & Culture

From a reinterpreted Heart of Darkness to a barstool in Congo, this is a list of Africa’s best contemporary novels in 2012, as compiled by Ellah Wakatama Allfrey, deputy editor of Granta. Enjoy.From a reinterpreted Heart of Darkness to...

Herodotus (Greek historian c. 484–425 BC) called them the ‘wisemen occupying the Upper Nile, men of long life, whose manners and customs pertain to the Golden Age, those virtuous mortals whose feasts and banquets are honoured by Jupiter himself’. Greek...

Mary Sibande is one of South Africa’s most talented young artists who employs the human form as a vehicle to explore the construction of identity in post-colonial South Africa. Her celebrated series ‘long live the dead queen’  attempts to critique...

Fusing African and Western culture in her menswear collection has earned Abisola Akanni a coveted catwalk space at a global platform for African-inspired designers.Abisola, a Fashion Design graduate from De Montfort University Leicester (DMU) showed her designs at Africa...

Blogger Mark Wiens, a food and travel writer who’s online musings have garnered plenty of worldwide attention, gives us a taste of one of his favourite cities in Africa. Nairobi is the capital and largest city of Kenya. It’s an...

Nigeria– over 95% of the children on the streets of Akwa Ibom State, have been stigmatised as “witches” by pastors and abandoned to live on the streets by their parents. Most children living on the street in Lusaka, Zambia are...

Although the white wedding has becoming popular in western culture, around the world, people celebrate their nuptials in their own traditional ways... 1. Kidnap the bae, Sudan In the Latuka tribe of Sudan, when a man intends to marry a woman,...

1. Mekhi Alante The story has been told of how one young man went from being a dangerous felon to being a professional fashion model.Last year, 20-year-old Mekhi Alante Lucky got himself arrested in North Carolina for speeding and driving...

Popular African traditions are slowly being replaced with strange western cultures. Although Africa often appears disadvantaged in many aspects, it is king when it comes to preservation of cultures. In fact, different African traditions have over the years influenced many...

Bountiful Safaris we believe tourism can effectively provide the incentive for promoting wildlife conservation. Through visiting some of these isolated habitats, economic incentive is provided for their protection and revenue can be used to continue supporting conservation efforts.Here we...