The demise of sacred mugumo tree (Ficus natalensis) in Kikuyu culture is symbolic that foretells incoming tragedy, end or beginning of an era. Mugumo tree grows upward, others are strangler figs that grows from seeds that falls on others. Mugumo trees offers a lifeline habitats for birds, fruit bats and monkeys. The roots (aerial roots) […]
The Khoikhoi and San are two different people, they are both called Khoisan because of their distinct click sound language. As opposed to San, Khoikhoi were both hunter-gatherers and pastoralists, the first pastoralists in Southern Africa. The San were hunter-gatherers. San people are the oldest ethnic group in the world. Their territories span Botswana, Namibia, […]
For the last 100 years around 500 species have completely disappeared from the space of earth probably due to human. These are some of the select few that today are mystery; Bubal Hartebeest. Extinction Date: 1923 These animals roamed freely north of Sahara, specifically from Morocco to Egypt. When French came during partition and scrambling […]
Ethiopians do joke about other countries in Africa that, “while you celebrate liberation or Independence Day, we Ethiopians celebrate victory day. ” During the wake of scrambling and partition of Africa, sections of communites and kingdoms resisted the occupation and eventual colonisation by European powers. With knowledge of superior weapons the Europeans possessed, and need […]
Jumba la Mtwana is a Kiswahili word meaning “the large house of the slaves .” The site is located on the Indian Ocean coast of Kenya, close to Mtwapa Creek, at Malindi in Kilifi county 15 kilometres north of Mombasa. There are four mosques and four houses in the area that have survived the test […]
Though Madagascar is among the poorest countries in the world, the people are among the most friendly people in the world. Madagascar is the world’s fourth largest island. It’s 587,712 square kilometres in size. A person from Madagascar is called a Malagasy. Madagascar is home to 70 species of lemurs found nowhere else on Earth. […]
5,000 years old brewery have been discovered in Egypt by archaeologists, that could produce thousands of litres of beer in the Abydos, an ancient Egyptian city. The site, in Egypt’s Sohag Governorate likely dates back to the reign of King Narmer around 3,100 BC, Reuters reported. Dr. Matthew Adams, one of the leaders of the […]
The Great Zimbabwe is an ancient City that flourished around 12th to mid 15th centuries in Zimbabwe near Lake Mutirikwe and the town of Masvingo. The Kingdom which the city served as headquarter is subject to controversy. The city is believed to have served as Royal Palace for the local monarch. The city was constructed […]
AFP An Egyptian-Dominican archaeological mission working near Alexandria has discovered mummies from around 2,000 years ago bearing golden-tongued amulets, the Egyptian authorities said on Wednesday. “The mission discovered 16 tombs cut into the rock… in the temple of Taposiris Magna, west of Alexandria” in northern Egypt, the antiquities ministry said in a statement, adding that […]
Ntaganda was born in Rwanda in Virunga mountains range in the Musanze District. He fled to Ngugu-Masisi in eastern DRC when attacks on his fellow ethnic Tutsi started in Rwanda. He joined Rwandan Patriotic Front rebels based in Uganda at the age of 17. Ntaganda acquired Congolese citizenship at some point. In the early 1990s […]
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