Arts + Culture
Lalibela: the rock-hewn churches carved downward into Ethiopian stone
The eleven rock-hewn churches of Lalibela in northern Ethiopia were carved out of solid volcanic rock, tradition says…
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Arts + Culture
The Timbuktu manuscripts: how librarians smuggled a city’s books away from jihadists
Timbuktu holds hundreds of thousands of manuscripts, some centuries old, on subjects from law and astronomy to medicine.…
Arts + Culture
Great Zimbabwe: the stone city that gave a nation its name
Great Zimbabwe, a vast stone city near Masvingo built between roughly the 11th and 15th centuries, was the…
Arts + Culture
The Osun-Osogbo Sacred Grove: the forest shrine and sculptures of Susanne Wenger
The Osun-Osogbo Sacred Grove, a forest on the banks of the Osun River in Osogbo, is dedicated to…
Music
Kollington Ayinla: the fuji star whose rivalry with Barrister defined a genre
General Kollington Ayinla, one of the pioneers of fuji music, became famous in the 1970s and 1980s for…
Arts + Culture
Les Ballets Africains: the Guinean troupe that brought West African dance to the world’s stages
Les Ballets Africains, founded by Fodéba Keïta in Paris in the early 1950s, became Guinea's national ballet after…
Music
Super Rail Band: the Bamako railway hotel band that launched Salif Keita and Mory Kanté
The Rail Band, formed in 1970 at the station hotel in Bamako, mixed Mande griot music with Cuban,…
Music
The Grammy for Best African Music Performance: how African pop got its own category
In 2023, the Recording Academy announced a new Grammy category, Best African Music Performance. At the first presentation…
Music
Made Kuti: Fela’s grandson and the third generation of Afrobeat
Made Kuti, son of Femi Kuti and grandson of Fela Kuti, released his debut album For(e)ward in 2021…
Arts + Culture
Ben Enwonwu’s “Tutu”: the lost portrait of a Yoruba princess that sold for £1.2 million
Ben Enwonwu painted Tutu, a portrait of Ile-Ife princess Adetutu Ademiluyi, in 1974. The painting disappeared for decades…