Explore Africa's rich cultural heritage: traditional ceremonies, festivals, indigenous practices, ethnic groups, diaspora identity, and the living traditions that define African peoples.
Africa was never the continent without writing. It was the continent where writing took forms — woven, dyed, embroidered, carved — that the Western definition of literacy failed to count.
Still being woven
Fanon argues that racism is not just a social condition but a psychological wound, warping the self-perception of the colonized and the colonizer alike.
For three thousand years, sculptors in what is now Nigeria have been modelling the human face in clay, casting bronze, and carving copper portraits as refined as anything produced in the medieval world.
Modern advice assumes difficult relationships improve through openness and constant communication. Many African societies approached the problem differently. Some relationships, they believed, needed boundaries first.
From vaccination to caesarean sections, the medical breakthroughs credited to Europe were practiced across Africa centuries earlier. Here is the history they left out of the textbooks.
Long before colonialism, African secret societies like the Poro, Sande, Ogboni, and Ekpe ran courts, trained leaders, regulated trade, and held power accountable. Then colonial rulers dismantled them — and Africa is still paying the price.
Traditionally, Africans do not choose names just because they are popular or sound cool. Instead, they use names as tools for storytelling by narrating the circumstances around one’s birth, and connecting the individual with their family and destiny.
