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The Kingdom of Netherlands officially presented a smuggled Ife Terracotta antiquity dated to be at least 600 years old to Nigeria. The repatriated antiquity was presented to the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed at a ceremony held in Abuja. The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyema, Netherlands Ambassador to Nigeria, Harry Van Dijk, Nigeria Charge de Affairs …

The Beja people of north east Sudan and southern Egypt are living descendants of Ancient Egyptians. If you ever wondered from all the controversy what the Ancient Egyptians look like, take a good look. They are a true representation of ancient egyptians. Note most of the people of modern Egypt are descended from Arabs who invaded in the 7th centuary …

Many of us may not believe this tribe is actually from India because they look Africans. Yes, because you were not told. The Jarawas are the indigenous tribe of India. They live on South Andaman and Middle Andaman Islands and they are estimated to be between 250 and 400 people today. Their contact with externals was generally disregarded, and much …

The discovery by Professor Fred Wendorf of barley, capers, chickpeas, dates, legumes and wheat cultivated in the west of Egypt. Old African tools have also been recovered. Grindstones, cooking stones and knives, scrubbers, burins, mortiers and pestles were mounted. There were graving chips. Before the Sahara became the arid and uninhibited desert, people thrived there today-according to new research, even …

You may think that it is 2020 worldwide. But not the same thing for Ethiopia as they recently entered their new year (2013) in September. With a specific calendar seven or eight years behind the rest of the world, there are massive celebrations going on around the country or celebrate the New Year. A calendar similar to the ancient Julian …

Katrina Esau work so hard to ensure her childhood language survives. She put much efforts to save her childhood language from dying and to make sure that her grandchildren speak it. At the age of 84 (2017), Mrs Esau is one of N|uu last three fluent speakers, one of the San languages of South Africa. N|uu is considered the original …

No European power ever colonized Ethiopia. The country of Ethiopia is the oldest sovereign state in Africa, and one of two African countries that avoided colonial rule. Cultures of The Hamar People remained unchanged because the country has not been colonized before despite the occupation of Italians in 1936. The Italians were later chased away. The Hamar (alternatively spelled as Hamer) …

Today, Christianity and Islam are religions practiced by the majority of people living in Africa. But before those two religions arrived, there were several traditional religions practiced. About 10 per cent of the African population is still practicing some form of traditional religion today. There are common beliefs in Africa although the continent is a large with many different cultures …

The Dinka people are a Nilotic tribe from South Sudan, but they do have a significant community in the diaspora. They live mostly along the Nile, from Mangalla to Renk, in Bahr el Ghazal, Upper Nile (formerly two out of three Sudanese Southern Provinces) and Dinka Ngok of Abyei Area in South Sudan. The Dinka originated from the Gezira, in …

Hair has played an important role in the history of ancient African lifeforms. Their family, social class, beliefs, tribe, and marital status symbolized their context. Various tribes used hair as early as the 15th century to show one’s social hierarchy. Royal members wore elaborate hairstyles symbolizing their prestige. Hair was also a prosperity symbol. If a person’s hair was thick, …