“What’s for breakfast this morning, I just woke up and I’m hungry.” One may get away with this statement early in the morning after waking up from bed in just about any home, but not African.
New Orleans is the jazz mecca of the world. Since the 1800s when jazz music originated in gatherings by enslaved Blacks in Congo Square, an outdoor space in New Orleans, the art form has spread through every aspect of culture in the city.
One of the respected traditional symbols of the Mende people of the West African nation, Sierra Leone, in initiation ceremonies, is the helmet or sowei mask.
On this day in 2018, Odolaye Bàá Waki wrote: Aláwàdà Baba Sala. Baba Sala was one of the very few giants that laid the foundation for present-day Nollywood - literally with their own blood, sweat and tears.
One of the most influential Afrikan Scholar Cheikh Anta Diop, was the first person to scientifically prove not only that ancient Egyptians were descendants of black Afrikans, (that Egypt was a black society) but that the cultural achievements of that society predated and directly influenced the cultures of Greece and Rome, and consequently, modern Western civilization.
A 115-year-old American-born Spaniard has become the world's oldest person following the death of French nun Lucile Randon at the age of 118. Maria Branyas, who survived Covid two years ago, became the oldest person ever to recover from the killer virus in May 2020.